A Paranormal Casebook

This is a very interesting book by Loyd Auerbach. Although it does describe various investigations into the paranormal, including ghosts, it does so in a somewhat different way. Auerbach attempts to find suitable explanations first, even if it means revealing that there were no ghosts or no strange events at all. Sometimes the explanation turns out to be very believable, such as a squirrel in an attic.

There are still, though, a good number of cases in which strange things do happen and cannot be disproven. Attempts are made to identify any apparitions, in some cases helping them to the other side and in other cases finding out that the apparition actually prefers to stay where he or she is.

One of the cases is the Blue Lady of the Moss Beach Distillery, which was one of the episodes in Unsolved Mysteries, and he presents much more information than was actually in the episode.

The book starts off with Auerbach answering some questions about what ghosts are, and are not, and this is a good way to introduce the reader to the material in the book and to help the reader see for himself or herself that the investigation of ghostly phenomena is more complicated than it might seem.

This is a very good book for anyone wanting to see an open-minded approach to ghost hunting, involving both skepticism and belief.