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 \nCHAPTER 14 Dressing for Yesterday  \nCHAPTER15 Misadventure  \nPART FOUR Reappraisal  \nCHAPTER 16 Back to the Fold  \nCHAPTER17 One Man's Nightmare  \nCHAPTER 18 Tales of the Serpent  \nCHAPTER 19 The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts  \nCHAPTER 20 The Challenge of Consciousness  \nCHAPTER 21Epilogue  \nAcknowledgments  \nSelect Bibliography  \n# Foreword\n\nB  \nefore 1 was halfway through this book,I realized that The SirenCall of Hungry Ghosts is one of those permanent classics of theparanormal,like Tyrrell's Apparitions and Myers'Human Personalityand Its Survival of Bodily Death.And before I had finished it,Ibecame aware that it is also one of the most disturbing books aboutghosts ever written.  \nTo understand just why The Siren Call of Hungiy Ghosts is soimportant,it is necessary to speak briefly about the history ofpsychical research.  \nUntil around the middle of the nineteenth century,the wholesubject of ghosts was regarded as highly dubious.Most educatedpeople accepted unconditionally that ghosts were superstitiousnonsense which had been unmasked by the great scientific revolutionof Galileo and Newton.England had two famous hauntings in theI7th and 18th centuries:the “Phantom Drummer of Tedworth”—apoltergeist that made loud drumming noises and threw objectsaround—and the \"Cock Lane Ghost,\"which restricted itself toknocks.Both were denounced as frauds—although first-hand accountsnow make it obvious that both were genuine—and the unfortunatetenants of the house in Cock Lane were even sentenced to prison.The Age of Reason was quite determined that ghosts did not exist,  \nAll that began to change halfway through the nineteenthcentury—or.to be quite precise,on March 31,1848,in the house ofa farmer named Fox,at Hydesville,New York.The Foxes had beenkept awake for several nights by loud rapping noises,which theyassumed to be the shutters banging in the wind.But as James Fox  \nwent around shaking the shutters,to make sure they were tight,hisdaughters observed that banging noises seemed to reply like an echo.So,when the noises began again in the middle of the night,12-year-old Kate said cheekily:“Mr.Splitfoot (i.e.Mr.Devil),do as 1do.\"And as she snapped her fingers,the rapping sounds imitated her.  \nMrs.Fox then asked the unseen knocker whether,if it was aspirit,it would make two raps;two thunderous bangs were heard inr","cbCaibzuKMace16P","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibzuKMace16P","pdf",46599040,376,"English","# Foreword\n## Preface\n# PART ONE. Mysterious Voices\n## CHAPTER 1 An Excitable Young Lady From Greece\n## CHAPTER 2 Stern Warnings\n## CHAPTER 3 First Contact\n## CHAPTER 4 Guides Will Assist You\n## CHAPTER 5 A Cast of Characters\n## CHAPTER 6 'I Can See in Your Mind'\n# PART TWO: The Channeling Saga\n## CHAPTER 7 A Sense of Presence—The Long Tradition\n## CHAPTER 8 Guides, Channels and the New Age\n# PART THREE Sleuthing Far From Home\n## CHAPTER 9 Ernest the Elusive\n## CHAPTER 10 An Exercise in Reincarnation\n## CHAPTER 11 The Changing of the Guard\n## CHAPTER 12 A Surfeit of Spooks\n## CHAPTER 13 Can We Trust You, Dr. Pinkerton?\n## CHAPTER 14 Dressing for Yesterday\n## CHAPTER 15 Misadventure\n# PART FOUR Reappraisal\n## CHAPTER 16 Back to the Fold\n## CHAPTER 17 One Man's Nightmare\n## CHAPTER 18 Tales of the Serpent\n## CHAPTER 19 The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts\n## CHAPTER 20 The Challenge of Consciousness\n## CHAPTER 21 Epilogue","[{\"question\":\"What does the Foreword say about the book’s place in paranormal literature?\",\"answer\":\"The Foreword describes The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts as a permanent classic of the paranormal, comparable to other well-known works, while also calling it one of the most disturbing books about ghosts ever written.\"},{\"question\":\"How did psychical research shift from early skepticism to wider belief?\",\"answer\":\"The Foreword explains that before the mid-nineteenth century, ghosts were widely treated as dubious superstition, but attitudes changed after events in the nineteenth century reignited interest and investigation.\"},{\"question\":\"What is highlighted as a turning point in the rise of Spiritualism?\",\"answer\":\"It points to the Hydesville incident around March 31, 1848, where rapping noises were interpreted as responsive, leading to witnesses, coded answers, and ultimately the spread of Spiritualist services across America.\"}]","The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts - Foreword and Contents | PDF",1791289432,948]