"A popular history of ghosts and haunted sites around the world, featuring photographs and black-and-white illustrations"--

"Ghosts Aghast! explores another true and spine-chilling topic that kids are sure to love: ghosts! Packed with facts but light in tone, award-winning author Kerrie Logan Hollihan takes a humorous but meticulously researched, well-balanced look at ghost appearances, unsolved mysteries, and eerie hauntings around the world-from the perennial Vanishing Hitchhiker, the child-nabbing La Llorona, and Korean water ghosts to school hauntings and wraiths in...

The dark-eyed woman in the long black gown was first seen in the 1970s standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas fireplaces turned off and on without anyone touching a switch. Glasses flew off shelves. And in one second-floor suite with a canopy bed and arched windows looking out to the mountains, guests reported alarming events....

High atop Widows' Hill, off the stormy Maine coast, sits the foreboding Collinwood estate, home for centuries to the wealthy and mysterious Collins family. The menacing ghost of Quentin Collins, who lived in the 1800s, begins haunting the mansion and possesses young David Collins and Amy Jennings. An exorcism is held to save the children and the Collins family is faced with abandoning their ancient home.

This terrifically terrifying field guide to ghosts dares readers to step into the unknown where they will hear scary ghost stories, meet a couple of Shakespearean ghosts, learn about weird science and take a globe-trotting tour of haunted spots.