Product Description: When it comes to spirits and specters, knowledge is power and fear is the enemy How to Clear Your Home of Ghosts & Spirits is a guide to everything you need to know to get rid of ghosts. Providing a brief history of haunts and delving into her own personal experiences, paranormal researcher Debi Chestnut sheds light on the different types of ghosts―from harmless spirits to destructive entities―and gives tips and techniques for clearing them...read more

Product Description: "Engaging images accompany information about haunted houses. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--

The smell of laundry wafting through the East Room. The sounds of cursing or laughter in the Rose Room. The ghostly figure of Abraham Lincoln standing before a fireplace. These and many more spooky stories about the White House await readers! Reported to be haunted as far back as the 1800s, the White House harbors mysteries like a beastly cat that foretells of national disasters. Eerie photographs of the best known home in America accompany ghost stories that engage readers with several US presidents and important events in the nations history. With sidebars to add historical and paranormal context, these tales will provide thrills and chills that even the Obamas believe!

Guided by tween "ghostorian" Virgil, readers will discover fascinating facts about calamitous events throughout history as they explore castles, palaces and dungeons and those infamous figures associated with each. For instance, did you know that many castles were made out of wood painted to look like stone? Or that wealthy prisoners in the Tower of London could keep servants? The book is chock-full of details that kids will find intriguing--dungeon life for prisoners, methods of turture, and even the most popular methods of poisoning enemies. So join Virgil and the other ghostly inhabitants for an historical adventure on the dark side.

Product Description: Presents famous haunted houses such as the Borley Rectory, the White House, and the Amityville horror, and briefly examines the claims, some of which have no scientific explanation and some of which were hoaxes.

Spooky sounds wander through an empty house. A strange ghostly shadow floats down a hallway. Are the strange happenings in haunted houses caused by ghosts? No one knows for sure. Explore this unsolved mystery, and learn why some people believe and others don't.

Product Description: Do you prefer tricks instead of treats at Halloween? Build a hair-raising haunted house with just a few simple supplies. Turn your bathroom into a vampire's hangout. Create a surgery gone wrong in the kitchen. Scare your friends with a backyard filled with zombies...read more

Product Description: Crashing noises and disembodied voices, coming from nowhere and everywhere at once. Invisible tormentors slapping and pinching and pulling hair. Fires starting spontaneously, pools of water materializing out of thin air, pots and pans and knives and knick-knacks flying through the room...read more

Product Description: Footsteps echo down empty hallways. Ghostly shadows float across rooms. Are ghosts real? Do they haunt houses and other places? Find out about haunted houses and how science is trying to solve this mystery.

Readers will get a lesson in history in this series of titles that looks at what happened in various historical places and how these happenings are tied to tales of ghosts, poltergeists, and other unexplainable phenomena.

Discusses different kinds of ghosts who haunt houses, specific haunted houses, what happens in such houses, and how ghosthunters work.

'This book offers dozens of imaginative ways to haunt a house for Halloween. Readers will find generously illustrated instructions for creating a barbecued skull, devil eyes, bonehead tableware, a glowing brain and other projects. The book details ways to enhance an eerie ambiance with effects like blacklights and music. Props use many common household items and tools'--Provided by publisher.

Presents eyewitness accounts of paranormal encounters, describes what investigators do, and provides alternative explanations for seemingly unexplainable events.

Examines the phenomenon of haunted houses and their ghosts, citing specific examples, and discusses the various theories that seek to explain them, including how they may be faked.

Looks at the possible causes of haunted houses and explores their history and the experiences of people who have lived in them.

Presents an account of paranormal events at the home where a twenty-two-year-old Whaley daughter killed herself with a pistol in 1885.

Presents evidence and arguments for and against the belief in haunted houses, leaving the topic open for the formulation of an independent opinion.