I Never Believed In Ghosts Until . . . [Paperback]

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Book Description

ISBN-10: 0809238403 | ISBN-13: 978-0809238408 | Publication Date: September 1, 1992 | Edition: 1

100 of the most spine-tingling ghost stories collected from USA WEEKEND readers across America.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809238403
• ISBN-13: 978-0809238408
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #880,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Suprisingly Good Ghost Stories, April 22, 2002

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Natalie Kilpatrick (Omaha, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Never Believed In Ghosts Until . . . (Paperback)

I finally decided to try this book out after months of passing it up. I'm disappointed in myself for doing so, it turned out better than expected.

So I expected some really bad "not-scary" ghost stories. Okay, so a lot of 'em aren't scary, but they're still good.

USA Weekend's editor's had readers write in with their personal experiences with ghosts. After receiving over five hundred stories, and publishing only six for their Halloween Special, they came up with this book, including the top one hundred stories.

Stories range from throughout many types of ghosts. A lot of the stories are one-time encounters, while a few lasted as long as a family was in a home. There are the scary, midnight stories with entity attacks, but then there are the sad, heartfelt stories of entities who can't find their way out because they are looking for something.

This did turn out to be better than expected. Just a lot of "real" ghost stories for you to read while going to sleep, having a slumber party, or working that third shift in a huge building all by yourself (like me!).

~Natalie Kilpatrick

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fluffy but fun., January 9, 2004

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Dennis Phillips "The Book Friar" (Bulls Gap, Tennessee USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Never Believed In Ghosts Until . . . (Paperback)

If you are looking for ghost investigations, haunted sites to inspect, stories with a lot of depth, or just some really frightening ghost stories, this is not the book for you. These are stories submitted to USA Today by its readers and they have crammed 100 stories into a little over 200 pages so it is obvious that most of these stories are less than two pages long. For the most part these are "When I was a little girl..." or, "One night when I was alone in the house..." stories. In other words, the stories are short and sweet and straight to the point. A few of these writers had indeed done some research and found out just why the ghost might have been there or who it might have been, but not many.

On the other hand this is a fun book and I enjoyed it immensely. The stories generally come straight from the eyewitnesses and have the definite sound of truth. Most of the stories try to be scary, but aren't really, except for the story of the secret door. That one was indeed rather eerie and the best chapter by far is the one titled Hauntings, which contained the secret door story. Some of the stories never tried to be scary but were quite touching. They say love never dies and some of these stories bring that to mind. You really won't learn much from this book but you will have a blast reading it. For the serious student of the paranormal this book will be a let down but for the rest of us who like good ghost stories it's a winner.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars scary fun: leave the lights on for this one!!!, March 2, 2005

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Sparks (United States) - See all my reviews

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This is a wonderful book. Very easy to read. The stories are scary because they really happened to ordinary people. IMO these stories are much spookier than anything you'll find by Stephen King, etc. When you're reading King, you kind of know it would never happen in real life, but the incidents in this book could happen to //you// ... or me or anyone walking down the street.

I don't buy that many books, but this is well worth the money. Wish they'd publish a sequel.