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    Psychic Investigations in Early America: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    Psychic Investigations in Early America: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
    Psychic Investigations in Early America: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Psychic Investigations in Early America: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection

    By E. Katherine Bates and Varla Ventura

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    Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.

    Pioneering paranormal investigator and adventurer E. Katherine Bates traveled the world coducitng psychic investigations. Join her in Early America, for her Victorian adventures with the Other Side.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateFeb 10, 2012
    ISBN9781619400412
    Psychic Investigations in Early America: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection
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    E. Katherine Bates

    E. Katherine Bates was an English gentlewoman of independent means. She traveled the world—America, Australia, Hong Kong, Alaska, etc.—pursuing her developing interest in psychic events in the 1880s and documenting it in a series of publications.

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      Psychic Investigations in Early America - E. Katherine Bates

      I Looked at the Trap

      When there is something weird in your neighborhood, you now have many options of whom to call. Back in the ’80s it was the Ghostbusters! Today you can rely on any number of local paranormal investigation teams—such as T.A.P.S. from Ghost Hunters, or Zak from Ghost Adventures. Nearly every town and region in the world has its own ghost hunting society, and often more than one.

      My own ghost adventures have taken me all over the country. I have had the pleasure of strolling through cemeteries and churches, theaters and bars, all on the lookout for something paranormal. I have even spent an entire night in what is believed to be one of the most haunted places in California—Preston Castle. This is a defunct boys' home in Ione, a giant brownstone whose roof is falling apart and hosts nesting screech owls and bats. After a night of ghostly encounters and no sleep, we were all exhausted but buzzing from the activity. The feeling of exhaustion after a true paranormal experience—once the high has faded—can leave you like a shell of your former self.

      In the beginning of this piece by E. Katherine Bates, the author refers to a seven-year hiatus between paranormal investigations. She was an Englishwoman of independent means who traveled the world—America, Australia, Hong Kong, Alaska, etc.—pursuing her developing interest in psychic events in the 1880s. Perhaps she took some time off to rest her mind or her senses—or to prepare herself for the untamed North American continent.

      The early America of her visits was an unbridled place teeming behind a veil of structure, like a wild vine overtaking a perfectly trimmed hedge. The Victorian buildings held brothels and opium dens just as easily as elegant drawing rooms and expensive imported furniture; perfectly hemmed dressed were smeared in the sludge of the streets. Chaos was confined neatly into certain neighborhoods, such as San Francisco's Chinatown and Vancouver's Red Light District. For a proper lady of her stature, Ms. Bates must have been decidedly open-minded, for her adventures did not always take her to the finest establishments. Nonetheless she was completely dedicated to her psychic investigations and was, without a doubt, one of the first Ghostbusters in history.

      Join this pioneer of the paranormal on her cross-country trip with stops in Boston, New York, Denver, Victoria B.C., and my own beloved San Francisco! Meet the ghosts of old hotels and Catholic schoolyards, parlor rooms and pool halls. Be adventurous, and be brave, as Ms. Bates was.

      IN FREAKITUDE,

      VARLA VENTURA

      SAN FRANCISCO, 2012

      INVESTIGATIONS IN AMERICA, 1885-1886

      An interval of seven years occurs between the events recorded in the last chapter and my first visit to America, which took place in the autumn of 1885.

      During these years no abnormal experiences came to me, nor had I the smallest wish for any.

      The table turnings with Morton Freer were a thing of the past, and were looked back upon by me in the light of a childish amusement rather than anything else.

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