A Haunting Place: Bizarre, eerie and mysterious... the world?s most haunted places

A Haunting Place is a book that explores both the mysteriousand ghostly encounters in locations in Australia & around theworld.

“We talk to the people who swear they have been visited bythe dead; We visit the places of these confrontations withthe supernatural to uncover the story of the ‘ghosts’ and thepeople and places they haunt. We talk to teams of ghostbusters using technology to solve the mystery of ghosts.

We talk to film makers who can’t leave the theme of ghostsalone.”

From houses to hotels, schools, castles, hospitals, cellars,sheds, stables and all manner of buildings – ghostly contiguityruns rampant in the seemingly normal everyday.

Breathtaking locations – such as old mills, windsweptQuarantine Stations, run-down and abandoned mentalhospitals, derelict pubs, lonely roads and silent houses –disguise their eerie history.

Why is it that people are so fascinated with the unknown?

The mysterious? The supernatural? Our captivationwith the paranormal and the unexplained is neverending.

The thought of ghosts floating about within our existencearouses fear, a sense of wonder and the longing for logicalexplanations that never quite make sense.

A 2005 Gallup survey revealed three out of four Americansprofess at least one paranormal belief. The most popularbelief is extrasensory perception (ESP) mentioned by 41%,followed closely by belief in haunted houses (37%) and thatghosts/spirits of dead people can come back in certain places/situations (32%).

Supernatural ideology exist in many different cultures anda belief in ghosts is one of the most common; this, in part,relates to a belief, or hope in the afterlife, a tenet of mostmajor religions. Believing in the supernatural has its roots inour desire to have control over our lives and our world.