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I wish this book had chapters, so then a chapter could be for a specific country that the ghost stories that are associated with that country (including urban legends and folklore) instead of a random order of ghost stories. I really like the ghost stories from Europe about historical ghosts, and sightings of apparitions because I love history and I believe that different types of spirits entities, beings exist.
Unfortunately some stories are very dull and boring to read, whereas others are interesting and disturbing but intriguing to read.
It would be nice if there were images of the buildings when they were built or from the eras people were living or temporarily staying at the building to get an idea of why it was haunted.
It would be nice to read more books that are similar to this, since European ghost stories are not mentioned much so I look forward to reading more books about European history, mythology/folklore, legends, lore, ghost stories or about European places are haunted.
One of the saddest stories in the book was about Clark Gable and his wife Carol Lombard, his must of felt guilty after having a vision of his wife's death and having a argument with her, the last time he spoke to her was when they argued, which he never got over and died of a broken heart.
I would of preferred stories of encounters people have had with spirits written by believers, not sure what the point of sceptics writing about their paranormal encounters are if they don't even believe that the spirit realm/the paranormal is real or even possible in their opinion.
Some of the titles of the stories were misleading for example the story about a haunted house in ocean avenue, I assumed it might be about the Amityville hauntings before the second family lived in the house after the Butch Defeo murders.
I also assumed that the story about the Hudson river/Hudson Valley (which is known to be haunted) might be about the Irish legend of the Dullahan (a spectral, headless horseman that is a omen of death/a soul collector)
I'm not sure if the Germans believed in a Hessian (German soldier) headless horseman.
Overall this book was interesting and fun to read but a lot of stories stood out more than others, if the book was a bit more organised at least into category of county or similar types of paranormal encounters then it might have been more enjoyable to read but some stories I didn't care about at all.
My favourite stories are: The castle at 658 Wayne streetThe Romanian temple built with the aid of a spiritThe ghosts of the AlamoThe ghosts of ascension islandAttacked by a bodiless handBaltarzarini's ghostThe bellman helps outLove from beyond the graveGhosts, goblins & apparitions of the California gold countrySummoning the chevalierA ghost with a bad conscienceGhost of the crystal rose InnCuernavaca's house of terrorThe death of a popeLegend of the devil monksThe price of disobedienceThe strange case of Elenore ZugunA ghost at Relais De L'empereurFrontier phantomsFootsteps to nowhereGhostly fishermanThe ghost that smokedGhostly lovers: Love that pierces the veil of timeThe ghosts and the dragons of ScotlandThe ghosts of GermanyHaunted HollywoodHaunted in JapanSleeping in a house of horrorsIceland's farm poltergeistLost souls of the Isle of ShoalsJapanese spiritsLa Llorona (The real legend of “The Wailing woman”)The haunted Lemp houseThe possession of Magdalene GrombachI marched with German soldiersMischievous skeletonThe elusive Mr EdisonMurder by a ghostMy dead aunt is aliveHaunted New OrleansThe haunting on ocean avenuePablo and the pugot (poltergeist)