The Haunted: True Stories for the Ghost Lover's Soul

This is another fairly typical ghost book. It centers on the city of Tupelo and birthplace of Elvis Presley. The single most interesting thing in the entire book is the story about a hobo that was trying to find someone who would give him food. Person after person turned him down until he came to one house where a woman helped him out.

He told her that in a year the houses of those who refused to help him would be destroyed but hers would be save. A year later a F5 tornado did exactly that.

What was most interesting to me was the history of the area. It was the site of a Civil War battle that was rather bloody. Is it possible that the energies given off by all the dying and suffering people somehow set up some kind of mechanism where present-day people would see the ghosts of those wo fought and died?

Consider old churches. When you go into one, especially if you are sensitive to energies, the church will very probably have a calming effect on you. That could be from what we are taught about the purposes of churches and thus have an effect on what we feel when we go into one or, and I think this is just as likely, it could be that all the many years of people being in the church and, at least for a short time, feeling at peace could actually sort of 'settle' into the very structure of the church itself. A person sensitive to such energies would then feel their effect. (The opposite being a place of terrible suffering where the negative energies stay and a person who is sensitive going there would feel upset, perhaps even frightened.)

I wish the author had gone into that aspect of the hauntings.

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