Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters

by Leslie Rule

Book Overview

Do you believe in ghosts? Whether you are a believer or a skeptic, the stories of the supernatural in Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters will keep you riveted. Macabre and fascinating,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740747177
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Meh.

I am a book hoarder and never give away books, but I’m going to donate this one. There were some stories in there that was okay, but overall I’m happy I bought it for a cheap price on here to read the few stories that were decent. Authors writing style also didn’t keep me interested.

Good Ghost Stories

I like this book a lot! There are stories in here that will make you a believer. If you just want a fright, this is it! If you want to know how to communicate with ghosts, tell them to go home, or the difference between ghosts, spirits or energy tracings and what they are, this is not the book for that. It depends on what you want, just reading for curiosity, or to be involved as a helper in the spirit world, then read Tiffany Snow's book "Psychic Gifts tools to connect." Oh, Ghosts among us has very good photos in it too - definitely worth having on your shelf even after you read it. It just depends on what you want to do.

True-life haunting experiences and paranormal encounters

Enthusiasts of the supernatural will find a winning presentation in Ghosts Among Us: True Stories Of Spirit Encounters, a survey of true-life haunting experiences and paranormal encounters blended with black and white photos of haunted sites. Ghosts Among Us is no mere re-iteration of legend but presents personal first-hand reports and stories chart events from across the U.S. Author Leslie Rule is also the daughter of true-crime author Ann Rule, which helped foster her interest in mysteries of the supernatural.

Rule Number Two

I was well pleased with Leslie Rule's first collection of ghost stories and in this her second collection of paranormal stories she has again hit the mark. Once again she is aided by her very pleasing writing style and her convictions about her subject. Her stories are crisp, clear and very believable however some of her stories are still a little bit short on details. The little snippets about "Ghosts in the News" are entertaining but I would rather have done without them and had a few more details in her other stories. I also ran across a few typos but these are the editor's fault rather than the author's. On the positive side, Ms. Rule again visited the places she wrote about and included some wonderful photographs she had made during her visit. There are also numerous recent eyewitness accounts to be found in this book which also helps to lend a great deal of credibility to the book. I was also very impressed with the range of stories in this book. All too often writers in this area tend to use only secondary sources and just basically re-tell the same old stories over and over again. One ghost book author I have run into tends to tell his stories almost word for word like previous authors and gets by with it by crediting the previous author in his bibliography. There is none of that with Leslie Rule and very few of her stories deal with the famous and well-worn haunts that tend to show up in book after book. I was particularly impressed with the stories emanating from the Ted Bundy killings. These stories were a little skimpy on haunting details but extremely interesting nonetheless. Given that the author's mother was a friend of Ted Bundy, Leslie would seem to be the perfect instrument to research and maybe publish an entire book dealing with any hauntings left by Bundy's rampage. No matter if it deals with Bundy or not, I am looking forward to future ghost books by Leslie Rule. She has the talent and zeal to become one of the foremost writers in this field.

A Fascinating Topic Thoroughly Explored

Leslie Rule is the daughter of bestselling true crime author Ann Rule. Her definitive research and crisply written prose revealed in "Ghosts Among Us" are characteristics of her mother's exhaustive efforts in comprehensively covering the true crime scene by communicating her information in a manner both folksy and readable. "Ghosts Among Us" marks the author as an important pioneer in a fascinating and rapidly evolving field of parapsychology. The numbers of skeptics, some of whom sought to ridicule the topic of ghosts, have sharply diminished through the efforts of authors such as Leslie Rule, who have demonstrated that many credible people have had encounters with beings in situations that cannot be explained through traditional human analysis. Having been born and raised in Seattle, it is fitting for Rule to launch her exploration at the colorful Pike Place Outdoor Market. Located in downtown Seattle, the market attracts not only scores of people from the Pacific Northwest and throughout the rest of the world; explorations reveal that ghosts have been known to visit as well. Numerous reports of such visits by scores of individuals from disparate walks of life have been related about such appearances. Rule's extensive research effort took her to all parts of America from Washington to upstate New York and into Canada. As well as reporting on numerous cases, she provides photos of some of the more interesting hotels, restaurants, and mansions where apparitions were seen. An element of her effort that readers should greatly appreciate is that, in addition to researching the cases thoroughly, she invites interested individuals to follow up on their own. She provides address and website information, as well as mentioning names of individuals involved at the various locations discussed. While conceding that she had never encountered an experience like the individuals she interviewed, who reported clear views of ghostly apparitions; she reports that at one site she received a tug on the shoulder. The two women who were accompanying Leslie were too far away to have touched her. The contact was and remains unexplained. In another instance she heard sounds of laughter while traversing stairs in the darkness of a hotel at a late hour. Leslie later learned that there was no apparent human activity at that time and that the laughter was a common occurrence during late hours. A common thread of Rule's efforts revealed that the appearances of the beings observed frequently lived at the locations where the sightings occurred. The belief is that their spirits extend beyond their human lives. In one instance a short, jolly, white-haired woman, greeted a man at a bed and breakfast. When she offered to make him breakfast he declined, feeling somewhat eerie about the meeting. Shortly afterward he encountered the woman who ran the establishment, who told him calmly that the woman he met was her deceased mother, who made frequent appearances to g

Leslie Has Out Done Herself!

What a fascinating book about ghost and haunted locations! If you read Coast to Coast Ghosts, you have to have to get this one too...if you haven't then you'd better pick up both, because this writer really knows her stuff! I am a big fan of Leslie Rule and feel she is one of the most talented writers out there...and I look forward to many more of her writings! This book is filled with spine chilling stories ranging from a haunted clown doll (Vincent) to a heart touching story about a cat (Lil' Joe) who fulfilled it's owner's last wishes and gave them some comfort and closure!! I absolutely loved this book and recommend it and other writings by Leslie Rule to anyone wishing to buy a good ghost story book! Great job and hope to see more books by this writer in the future!!!