Chapter 10: Ghosts and Phantoms

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Chapter 10
Ghosts and Phantoms


There is not a single culture on planet Earth that does not have its ghost stories. Paleolithic cave paintings depicting the human body surviving physical death indicate that this belief is many thousands of years old. In this chapter the universality of accounts of the manifestation of ghostly entities is explored.

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