Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night
- ISBN13: 9781585428199
- Condition: New
- Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
In this extraordinary true story, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town's past.
Growing up in Rockville Centre, Long Island, Gary Jansen never believed in ghosts. His mother - a devoutly Catholic woman with a keen sense for the uncanny - claimed that their family house was haunted. But Jansen never found anything inexplicable in how their doorbell would sometimes ring of its own accord; or in the mysterious sounds of footsteps or breaking glass that occasionally would fill their home; or even in his mother's sometimes unnervingly accurate visions of future events and tragedies. Though he once experienced a supernatural encounter in a Prague church as a young man, Jansen grew up into a rationalist, as well as a noted writer and editor.
In 2001, Jansen moved back into the very same house where he had once grown up, to raise a family with his wife. One day in 2007 he encountered a weird physical sensation in his toddler son's bedroom - "like an electric hand rubbing the length of my back. I stopped and couldn't move, not because I was stuck but for the simple reason that the feeling was so strange. What the hell is that? Then the pressure seemed to break apart and for a brief moment I felt like I had a million little bugs crawling all over my back and neck."
This became the first step in uncovering a frightening, full-blown haunting in his home-a phenomenon which lasted a full year and eventually included unveiling the identities of the spirits who occupied his house; reliving a tragic murder in his hometown; encountering mind-boggling coincidences between local history and episodes in his household; and finally, with the help of Mary Ann Winkowski, the real-life inspiration for TV's The Ghost Whisperer, ridding his house of these uninvited visitors. The events of that year, in which Jansen's family was terrified by ghosts in their own home, would forever change how he viewed the mysteries of life and death.
Holy Ghosts is not only a gripping true-life ghost story but a wry and touching memoir, as well as a meditation on the relationship between religion and the paranormal, which are often considered at odds with each other, but which the author shows are intimately linked.
Rating:
(out of 18 reviews)
List Price: $ 23.95
Price: $ 15.14
Other posts like this, by keyword:
Ghosts:
Effective Ski Coaching ...
Masters: Glass Beads: Major Works by Leading Artists Reviews ...
A Fish-eye Praise The Lord! ...
Pretty young girl wading in the water in Morro Bay, CA ...
The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective (Terrorism and Global Justice) ...
Ghosts and Femmes Fatales: A Collection of Supernatural Tales Reviews ...
Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions (Numen Book Series) ...
How can I get ghosts to appear in Sims 2? ...
What is the Islamic Teaching on the Existence or Non Existence of Ghosts? ...
“Escaping The Cauldron” Ghosts And The Paranormal ...
Holy:
Holy Bible, Personal Compact NLT (New Life Bible) ...
Global Revival – Worldwide Outpourings, Forty-Three Visitations of the Holy Spirit – The Great Commission – Revivals in As ...
The Holy Place: Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia ...
Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) ...
Life in the Spirit: Including How to Be Filled With the Holy Spirit and the Counselor (Hendrickson Christian Classics) ...
10-12 Bsktbll HS – Whitinsville Christian School Crusaders vs Holy Name Naps – 176 ...
The Mystery of the Holy Trinity in Oldest Judaism ...
The Fitness of Holy Scripture, for Unfolding the Spiritual Life of Men (Ii) Christ the Desire of All Nations Or the Unconscious Prophecies o ...
A Holy Bloody Day: Prologue to the Unholy Fire of Blood Trilogy ...
Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit [Unabridged] (AUDIO CD/AUDIO BOOK) ...
good:
What is a good way to watch MLB baseball games live through the network in good quality ? ...
The town and country jester: or, a new fund of genuine wit and good humour Containing the most complete, rational, merry, diverting, and hum ...
Can someone give me a good baseball workout during the winter? ...
What is a good photography site that shows how to recreate certain pics? ...
Good Sky maps and atlases for beginners with Black/ Dark Blue background? ...
The Juneau attraction: enjoy fine arts, good food, fantastic hiking trails and beautiful scenery.: An article from: Alaska Business Monthly ...
Q&A: What is a good horror movie that also has a good story? ...
Q&A: What are some good horror movies that involve viruses? ...
Q&A: Can anyone recommend a good website to teach me the basics of investing my 401K? ...
Good news Badlands.(Hiking)(Explore a lava landscape that’s now officially a wilderness area): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eu ...
Things:
God Knows Parenting Is a Wild Ride: 9 Things to Hold on to ...
SCIENCE WORKSHOP SERIES:BIOLOGY/SURVEY OF LIVING THINGS STUDENT EDITION 2000C (GLOBE SCIENCE WORKSHOP SERIES) Reviews ...
How Occult Virtues Are Infused Into Things By Ideas Through The Help Of The Soul – Pamphlet ...
Parenting Without Guilt: AVOIDING 7 Things Parents Do To Screw-up Their Kids ...
10 Smart Things Women Can Do to Build a Better Life ...
How Occult Virtues Are Infused Into The Several Kinds Of Things By Ideas Through The Help Of The Soul Of The World And The Rays Of The Stars ...
Christ in All Things: Exploring Spirituality with Teilhard De Chardin ...
101 TIPS & TECHNIQUES FOR COOKING LIKE A CHEF! Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Cooking Right Away (Chef Cooking Techniques) ...
Peeps into the psychic world; the occult influence of jewels and many other things ...
Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Routledge Classics) ...
Catholic:
Catholic app helps sinners confess ...
Catholicism & multiculturalism.(AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER SHANNON)(Interview): An article from: Catholic Insight ...
The Public Order and the Sacred Order: Contemporary Issues, Catholic Social Thought, and the Western and American Traditions ...
Her journey to Catholicism.(Letter to the editor): An article from: Catholic Insight ...
John T McGreevy. Catholicism and American Freedom: a History.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical S ...
Mass and the Sacraments Book II (A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies Ser.) ...
Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney & American Catholicism.(Parish Priest Father Michael McGivney & American Catholicism)(Book re ...
New American Bible: Revised New Testament Catholic Edition ...
A History of Christian Education: Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Perspectives ...
The Catholic crisis.(The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful Are Shaping a New American Catholicism)(A People Adrift: The Crisis of the ...
Night:
NICK AT NITE’S CLASSIC TV COMPANION: The All Night, Every Night Guide to Better Living Through Television ...
Eternal Kiss of Darkness (Night Huntress World, Book 2) ...
Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected Stories (Library of Americ ...
The Magic of Disney’s Main Street at Night ...
In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood (St. Martin’s True Crime Library) ...
The Fantastic Vampire: Studies in the Children of the Night Selected Essays from the Eighteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in ...
I-15 closure Sunday night near Lindon ...
An I Can Read Set of 6 Books (Harry and the Lady Next Door ~ Arthur’s Honey Bear ~ Minnie and Moo The Night Before Christmas ~ Minnie ...
Tender Is the Night (G.K. Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection) ...
Cirque Du Freak #8: Allies of the Night: Book 8 in the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan) ...
Became:
Everything You Will Ever Need To Know To Start Driving A Big Truck Or How I Became A Professional Tourist ...
The New Testament Period and Its Leaders: How Christianity Was Prepared For, Inaugurated, Emancipated from Judaism, and Became Universal Rev ...
How My Private Personal Journal Became a Bestseller ...
Believer:
Bump:
Postcards from the Bump: A Chick’s Guide to Getting to Know the Baby in Your Belly (Lifelong Books) ...
Love Your Bump: 52 Brilliant Little Ideas for a Blooming Pregnancy Reviews ...
Mariah Carey paints baby bump on birthday ...
NotSo:
No comments:
Post a Comment