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True Ghost Stories

Hereward Carrington

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .This is the normal process of sight.

Now, if the eye, or the optic nerves, or the sight-centers themselves become diseased, we still have the sensation of seeing, though there[34] is no material object there; we have ordinary hallucinations of all kinds—delirium tremens, etc. If the sight-centers are stimulated as much as they would be by the incoming nerve stimuli from the eye, we have “full-blown hallucinations.”

Now, it is obvious that one method of stimulating the sight-centers into activity is for a nervous current to come downwards, along the nerves running from C to B. It is probable that something of this sort takes place when we experience “memory pictures.” If you shut your eyes and picture the face of some dear friend, you will be able to see it before you more or less clearly. The higher psychical centers of the brain have excited the sight-centers into a certain activity; and these have given us the sensati. . . Read More

Community Reviews

The approach here attempts to be more scientific, but it still uses a lot of the old ghost stories you'll come across in many of these collections of "true" ghost stories from the turn-of-the-century and earlier. This one, though, has many new ones, including some about reports of a ghostly St. Geor

If you like your ghost stories dry and sterile, this is for you.

Some good stories

3/5

Very interesting book

Interesting book. I liked how this information was presented. It was easy to read and understand. It was well written and very interesting.

Dozens of new insights and knowledge from the book. I'm still fascinated by the stories.

Sadly tho, the way the book explains certain aspects of a theory, in bahasa indonesia it is "susah dicerna".

And looking back to the stories, which is the key point, on what is this book selling it on. Sometimes,

True Ghost Stories

The explanations in this book often are identical to the ones ghost hunters currently taught. The stories are familiar yet well categorized. The tales reflect well in today's world. All said that makes a usefully book for advancing the understanding of paranormal activity.