CHAPTER I. What Is a Ghost? 13

What is a Ghost? 13 The Terror of the Dark 14 What is a Ghost? 18 Historic Investigations 20 Death Coincidences 21 Are They Due to Chance? 24 The Explanation 26 Experimental Apparitions 27 Telepathic Hallucinations 32 Ghosts Which Move Material Objects 37 Photographs of Ghosts 38 The "Double" and the Spiritual Body 40 What Happens at the Moment of Death 43 How the Soul May Leave the Body 47 Theories of Haunted Houses 51 The Ghosts of Animals 53 The Clothes of Ghosts 55 Telepathy from the Dead 57 The Psychic Atmosphere 59 Forms Created by Will 60 Physical Manifestations 62 Can Haunted Houses be "Cured"? 63