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    A Child's Eye View of Ghosts and Hauntings
    A Child's Eye View of Ghosts and Hauntings
    A Child's Eye View of Ghosts and Hauntings
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    A Child's Eye View of Ghosts and Hauntings

    By Alan Leddon

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    People all over the world have long believed that the dead can come back to visit the living. Worldwide, people envision see-through, airy, frightening beings who return to point out killers, complete unfinished work, visit loved ones, or seek vindication. Why does everyone imagine the same thing? Maybe it is not imagination...
    In this latest Child's Eye View Book, Alan Leddon presents information on 60 types of Ghosts from world mythology, as well as thirty-eight mythological figures associated with ghosts and their journeys. A long vocabulary list of terms related to ghost studies and a list of fifteen fairly well known hauntings round out the superb research of this excellent book. The author discusses why funerals are important (it is not why you think!) and explains why different cultures have a similar view of the restless dead.
    This work is complete, accurate, and informative without speaking down to its target audience of 8 to 13 year olds. It is written to be palatable for adults and is just the right length for an easy read after work. This is not a collection of almost spooky stories...this is a textbook of real world beliefs and practices.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpero Publishing
    Release dateSep 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311139306
    A Child's Eye View of Ghosts and Hauntings
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    Alan Leddon

    Alan is the owner of Spero Publishing, based out of Madison, WI. Alan is originally from Western New York, having arrived in Madison by way of a brief US Navy career and stints in Falls Church, VA and St Petersburg, Fl. Alan is the father of Raven, an incredibly intelligent young girl, and husband of Bekki, who is teaching how to use technology. In addition to operating Spero Publishing, Alan is also a licensed nurse.

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      A Child's Eye View of Ghosts and Hauntings - Alan Leddon

      A Child’s Eye View of Ghosts and Hauntings

      By Alan Leddon

      Cover and art by Bekki Leddon

      Spero Publishing

      Madison, WI

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Spero Publishing

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      Acknowledgements

      In writing this book, I have made extensive use of Wikipedia.org, mainly to track down names (and sometimes the spelling of names that I already knew) of different types/species of Ghosts. Once I had the names, I sought out other sources. My thanks to everyone who has posted on Wikipedia regarding Ghosts, and to the creators of Wikipedia.

      Parental Advisory

      This book deals with death. Death is discussed as a reality, as the source of Ghosts, as a personified figure in various mythologies, and more. Parents should consider their feelings and beliefs on this matter. The author recommends frank and explicit discussion about death with children, with frank answers to their questions. The author would also like to offer the one piece of advice his grandfather had regarding death: Leave it alone, and, when the time comes, it will take care of itself.

      Note

      This work is a part of Spero’s Child’s Eye View Series. It is also a companion of four other works in that series, A Child’s Eye View of Fair Folk, A Child’s Eye View of Dragons, A Child’s Eye View of Vampires, and A Child’s Eye View of Totems and Tutelary Spirits. These four works share some entries; some information is duplicated. Many entities from mythology defy easy classification, and some of our unseen neighbors clearly fit into multiple classifications. With the exception of the entry for the word Skepticism, every duplication was made after considerable soul-searching. No piece of information appears in two of these books unless it was deemed important to both books. However, these four books contain mostly unique information, and nothing is wasted by possessing all five books.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter One: The Basics

      Chapter Two: The Varieties

      Chapter Three: What you’re supposed to do

      Chapter Four: What do other People do?

      Bibliography

      Appendix: The Negative Confessions of the Egyptian/Khemetic Soul

      Ordsall Hall ghost cam

      Introduction

      A good many years ago, stationed at Naval Hospital Portsmouth, in Portsmouth, Virginia, I grew tired of barracks life. My room was small, the base fire department had this really annoying habit of calling fire drills at one o’clock AM, and my glass of water had a tendency to freeze on my desk in the mild Virginia winter. So, I answered an ad in the newspaper from a man seeking a housemate.

      The house was perfect. It was modern, having been built less than twelve years before. It was a five minute ride by bicycle to the base, the room offered was huge, and the house had been cleaned by someone obsessed with doing a thorough job. The price was reasonable, and I would be roomies with Chuck, a Navy veteran. Chuck would only agree to two month leases, but they were renewable. I jumped at it.

      Not so fast, Chuck told me. One more detail...this house is haunted.

      I laughed…until he made me sign a type written paper stating that he had warned me about the Ghost, and that I was ok with it. To a Sailor, signing stuff is serious business.

      I moved in and tried not to worry too much that I was living with a crackpot.

      About a week after I moved in, this certain Sailor that I had dated on and off – Mandy was her name – told me she would like to see the house. I readily agreed, and, after dinner that day, we rode up to the place. She refused to go inside, and made me escort her back to base. I felt that my life was suddenly filling up with crackpots.

      Another two weeks went by. Mandy refused to go off-base with me – dates were now confined to the Enlisted club and the Recreation Building. I began to practice for the inevitable breakup.

      At the end of my third week in my new home, a little past one AM, I got a bit hungry and decided to spend some quality time with my personal supply of ramen noodles. I got out of bed and went downstairs in my pajamas. The living room and kitchen were dark. I came off the stairs and turned into the living room, to see a woman in the kitchen near the refrigerator. My first thought was that Chuck had an overnight guest, but I quickly realized that that was…unlikely. My second thought was that I could see the stove and the handle on the refrigerator through her; I remember thinking that she really should eat more.

      The woman moved away from the refrigerator, toward the dining room table. Although the refrigerator had not opened, I could see that she now had a plate of meat and…rice? I also had an unexplainable chill that raised goose bumps on both of my arms and stood the hairs on the back of my neck up like the bristles of a hair brush.

      I was 19, a member of the US Armed Forces, and a Pagan man…and I wasn’t going to show any fear. So I countered my natural instinct to go outside and try to run a 3 minute mile, and I walked toward her…one slow, halting step at a time. I took a moment to look for smoke, mirrors, and video cameras – surely this was an elaborate prank by Chuck. Sailors do stuff like that. There was nothing.

      Our guest had reached the dining room table and affected a position of sitting in a chair. The four chairs that Chuck kept under the spotless table, placed in their correct locations with military precision, never moved. She simply sat down at the table as though upon an invisible chair. She put her plate on the table, bowed her head, and folded her hands. I stepped closer…very slowly. I looked her over. She was dressed in sweat pants and a sweat shirt, leg warmers, sneakers. Her brown hair was in a ponytail, and she had makeup on. All the colors were correct, it was just that they were a faint overlay on the objects beyond them. She used an unseen fork to move vaguely visible food to her mouth – with her left hand. I cleared my throat. Excuse me, ma’am? I think I may have sounded like a

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