Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser ? Ghosts of the World:
True Tales of Ghostly Hauntings
Susan Smitten
No matter where you go in the world, you may just run into a ghost.
Smitten explores the favourite haunts of spooks the world over with the latest in the Ghost House book series from Lone Pine Publishing in Edmonton.
From Australia to Russia to South Africa, ghosts seem to be marking their presence known to humans -- interested or not.
The hot spot for ghost activity in Smitten?s book is definitely the United Kingdom with stories pouring in from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England.
But there are some interesting out-of-the-way ghosts wandering the world as well. For instance, the presidential house in Niger seems to be haunted. The last president didn?t stay too long although he officially denies a ghost sent him packing.
A whole family of ghosts are enjoying a long-term stay at a hotel in Vancouver, but the woman of the family, in red, is the most visible.
In Sao Paulo city hall in Brazil has a whole slew of ghosts from a time when the area was a hospital and rumour has it, an ancient burial ground before that.
Smitten tells the tales of the ghosts she has researched and in many cases paranormal teams have even come in to investigate the haunts. She includes possible explanations -- if there are any -- of what the ghost might actually be, but she also gives the story -- if there is one -- of who the ghost might be and why it has decided to spend the rest of its life on earth.
It?s interesting to see that ghosts, while normally thought of as more of an English and possibly European thing, is not. Reports range with ghosts from all cultures and traditions.
The hard old guard of the Kremlin in Russia have even had to put up with otherworldly goings-on during the cold war.
Even China has one at its Yun Shan Fan Dian Hotel in Chengde.
Can you say boo in Chinese?
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