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Han Holzer's Haunted America

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I received this as a gift a while back. Found it to be a fun read. Short stories sometimes by state. Some chapters are just a page or two. Great read for teens to adult. Would be good for a camping trip to read around the campfire.

These are ghost "stories". There is little or no background or investigative info. If you are looking for an indepth account of true hauntings...this isn't it. The stories are short and boring. I gave three stars out of respect for Holzer not the book.

...then you could do a lot better AND a lot worse. At a hefty four hundred and sixty pages long, Hans Holzer's Haunted America offers enough allegedly true ghost stories to spice up any number of campfire yarns. The tales range from heartwarming to horrifying, yet not one story achieves a feeling of verisimilitude. They're just good material for spooky stories to tell. Save for one tale that relates how a family in Tyler, Texas suffered the attentions of a supposed poltergeist. Holzer's clear bias towards a there having to be supernatural explanation undermines what little objectivity he claims to have. Other than that one story, the book is entertaining if taken in small enough doses.