A review by pyreghost
A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof by Roger Clarke

challenging informative lighthearted reflective slow-paced

4.5

if you are at all like me (in possession of an insatiable special interest in ghosts, and ghost hunting, and its history) then this book is more or less everything it says on the tin: an utter must-read. a book of healthy skepticism written by a genuine and passionate believer, a man whose own immense interest in ghosts had him following around his predecessors at the age of 14 (dude, if that could have been me, me too). what i would give to meet him and just ask him questions. thank you mr. roger clarke for making this passion project of a book that i otherwise would have wanted to will into existence myself. 

this book won’t change your mind on any matter of ghost belief, but i do not believe it tries to, or claims to try to. it is a record of history wherein our author readily recognises our own predisposed biases to finding our own conclusions. this is a gathering of information on a topic that is historically shunned from being taken seriously enough for such a compendium. for these reasons, i found this read to be so very valuable! 
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