True Ghost Stories: Real Accounts of Death and Dying, Grief and Bereavement, Soulmates and Heaven, Near Death Experiences, and Other Paranormal Mysteries (The Supernatural Book Series: Volume 2) by Unknown

True Ghost Stories – an Introduction
     
It’s safe to say that encountering a ghost is probably the main paranormal experience that most people report. It’s also the paranormal encounter that excites the most people, and captures our imagination!
     
     
These ghostly experiences are not confined to sightings only. It seems ghosts have developed a broad range of rather ingenious ways of contacting us, and these embrace our five senses, our sixth sense, and modern and olden-day technology.
     
     
In each of the books in The Real Paranormal Psychic Series you’ll read first-hand accounts by those who’ve been touched by the dead, have smelt the presence of a departed loved one, have heard comforting words from beyond the grave, and have received welcome and unwelcomed visitations from the deceased. You’ll also read how technology seems to be playing an ever-growing role in this inter-world communication.
     
     
The experiences you’re about to read have not been hyped to make them sensational! They are written by paranormal experients, and I have only given their accounts a light edit. In my opinion, it is the ‘moderate’ tone in which almost all of these stories have been written that lends weight to their authenticity and the genuineness of their authors.
     
     
To reiterate: I have not altered these accounts to make them more spooky, hair-raising, spine-chilling or blood-curdling. I’m sorry if that disappoints you! These are not the ghost stories of old; the ones we read before bed to keep us up all night or the eerie tales we told around the campfire as the death hour approached. Such stories are wonderful, and they do have a place in the literary world; it’s called fiction.
     
     
As you read these eyewitness accounts of the paranormal at work in the world, rather than scare you, I hope they’ll make you think.
     
     
Who are we? What are we? Why are we here? What happens when we die? And, how paranormal is the paranormal, really?
     
     
For some, myself included, living with the paranormal is not ‘on the edge’. It is our normal way of life!
     
     
Two Personal Invitations
     
     
First, the stories in The Supernatural Book Series are from completed questionnaires collected by my online paranormal survey. The survey is still open and it’s open to all; it’s free and I invite you to participate here:
     
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ParanormalPhenomena
     
     
Second, I invite you to join my online community at Psychic Revolution and sign up for regular email updates at http://PsychicRevolution.com
     
     
My Dissertation
     
     
Over the years I've had many requests from people around the world asking to read my thesis. It's always been my intention to spread the word as widely as I can about my own parapsychological research and that of others in academia; hence this series of books and my website, http://PsychicRevolution.com
     
     
If you're interested in reading part of my dissertation, at the back of this book there is an extract, and a link and password that will give you access to the second chapter.

The Sixth Sense Revisited
     
I realised at a very young age I was able to see the ghosts of people who had died. I also realised that not everyone else could see the same things, although some people could.
     
     
At about 7 years of age I saw old men in the hallway of the house I grew up in. I was very frightened and didn't understand why my parents allowed them in the house. That is, I felt this way until I began to understand that they couldn't see them. Only I could.
     
     
I grew up in a haunted house and my parents and many others eventually came to have experiences of their own in that house. However, my experiences were typically distressing for the first seven years or so.
     
     
Haint
     
The first ghost (haint) I ever met was my Granny's brother. He'd died in a house fire along with two of his children some fifty years prior and, since then, he had appeared to my