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Journeys into the Unknown: Mysterious Canadian Encounters with the Paranormal | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Palmisano
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 212
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 1550026208
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.10971
EAN: 9781550026207
ASIN: 1550026208
Publication Date: April 1, 2006
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Product Description
This fascinating and bloodcurdling book takes the reader through a collection of amazing ghost stories and paranormal investigations across Ontario that have never before been reported. The circumstances behind fifteen unusual cases of hauntings and ghostly manifestations are explored together with the detailed sagas of full-scale investigations into six further spooky inexplicables occurring in or near Toronto. The book concludes with a look into a complete investigation of a haunting, including a guide that explains the techniques used to conduct a paranormal investigation. The final section that explains the theories behind what a ghost is, how they manifest, and where they hide - challenging the classic theories of life-after-death research. So turn on all the lights, keep your back to the wall, and be prepared to take a journey into the reality of the unexplained.
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Mysteries Magazine review October 28, 2007
With over 25 years' experience in paranormal investigations throughout Ontario, Canada, Richard Palmisano has many a spooky story to tell. In Journeys into the Unknown, he shares a few with us.
Ontario has many picturesque old buildings, and just as many ghosts. An 1840s house in Oakville harbors a ghostly woman who occasionally scares the daylights out of touring schoolchildren! Still another house, built in 1898 in Toronto's Bloor-Dufferin neighborhood, comes with a whole host of spiritual occupants, including something "black, crouching, not human, not animal ... watching."
But not all haunted houses are old, as a couple named Ed and June discovered. Soon after moving into a detached late-1960s bungalow, they were tormented by unexplained knockings, disappearing objects and, ultimately, a menacing shadowy black figure who drove them out of their home.
Rather than driving out spirits, Palmisano seeks wherever possible to create peace between a home's corporeal and noncorporeal residents. For instance, he was able to appease a troubled ghost by putting a doormat outside her house and making sure that nobody smoked in her former bedroom, for she disliked the smell of tobacco in death as much as in life. In other cases, he and his team of researchers discovered that destructive ghosts were kept in check by benevolent "protector" spirits.
Aspiring researchers will find the final section of Palmisano's book, particularly interesting. In it, he suggests that spirits live in a "memory bubble" that causes them to re-enact events from their previous lives, and that they use emotional energy combined with water and static electricity to power manifestation. And the final few pages, which provide protocols for examinations of haunted areas and interviews with witnesses, are invaluable for beginning and even advanced scholars of the paranormal.
Although Palmisano's focus is on hauntings in Canada, Journeys into the Unknown will be useful to scholars of the paranormal. Not only does it offer theories and techniques that are globally usable; it also provides detailed anecdotes of ghostly occurrences in an area which many researchers may have overlooked.
Mysteries Magazine
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