The only practical travel guide on the subject ever published, this book provides useful and current information on haunted places--complete with addresses, instructions for finding sites, historical background on the place and region, what to look for when you get there, and what to expect once you've had an encounter.

In these pages Professor Hans Holzer documents more than 50 locations where he has personally investigated ghosts, often with the assistance of a psychic. Complete with photos and details about each spectral phenomenon as well as the stories of the ghosts themselves, this book tells who they were and why they are found in each location.

Join paranormal expert and storyteller extraordinaire Hans Holzer as he explores ghostly manifestations of every variety and delves into the true nature of "the other side." In this groundbreaking book--featuring eye-opening photographs of ghostly apparitions and visitations--Holzer presents hundreds of case histories, tips on interpreting sounds and other signals from the beyond, and more.

Father of Paranormal Investigation and inspiration for The Holzer Files and Ghostbusters takes his readers through more than fifty famously haunted and chilling locations in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. He recounts his personal investigations of the ghosts as a renowned parapsychologist in eerily fascinating stories that will haunt readers long after they have finished. “Hans Holzer understands the rules of ghostly behavior perhaps better than anyone else. It is his business to investigate hauntings.” —Leonard Nimoy “I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That’s when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born." —Dan Aykroyd Complete with photos and details about each spectral phenomenon as he has researched and discovered it as well as the stories of the ghosts themselves, this book tells who they were and why they are found in each location. Where the Ghosts Are explores both famous and little-known sites such as: • The California Whaley House • New Jersey’s “Spy House” • The Octagon in Washington, D.C. • Canada’s Most Haunted Locations • The U.S. Constellation in Baltimore Harbor • St. Marks-in-the-Bowery and the Merchant’s House in New York City • Longleat Palace, Bath, England INCLUDES DOZENS OF HAUNTING PHOTOS AND A FOREWORD BY SECOND GENERATION GHOSTHUNTER ALEXANDRA HOLZER “Hans Holzer is a marvelous ghost hunter, who has added countless discoveries to the paranormal fields.” —Ghost Hunting Reviews

DIVJoin paranormal expert and ghost hunter Hans Holzer as he investigates the most famous haunted locations around the world/divDIV Ghosts have been known to haunt not only houses but other locations as well—such as dark forests, trains, ships, and even airplanes. Professor Hans Holzer looks at several of the most menacing of these cases, from the ghost bride of Nob Hill in San Francisco to the “gray man” of Pawley’s Island in South Carolina and the haunted organ at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut./div

DIVJoin paranormal expert and storyteller extraordinaire Hans Holzer as he investigates the most famous, and infamous, real-life haunted houses/divDIV Perhaps no other paranormal situation captures our imagination more than a haunted house. The idea of sharing a home with the dead is unsettling for the current inhabitants, but according to professor Hans Holzer, it can be equally as upsetting to the ghost. In The House Is Haunted, Holzer explores more than eighty haunted houses—all over the United States and abroad—dissects their history, and speculates on the reasons the otherworldly inhabitants continue to stay in their earthly abodes. /div

Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle, a land of history and mystery, beauty and enchantment. But there's much more to this jewel of the North Atlantic than meets the eye. Hans Holzer is a renowned ghost hunter who has traveled the world trailing the elusive spirits of souls anxious to be sent beyond the Veil. Here he recounts his fascinating journey across this island in search of its soul...and its spirits. There is an 18th-century swordsman who defends the hidden treasure of Ballyheigue Castle, a proud house now gutted by fire; Princess Orloff, originally known as Angelica Parrott, who returned home to haunt a jealous sister; Lilith, a young inhabitant of eerie Skryne Castle, who was strangled with foxglove fronds in 1740; Mary Masters, a young girl who refuses to forget her horrible death and continues to haunt Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel; the ghost at Number 118 Summerhill, Dublin who sends workmen into a panic; and many more.