![]() Scientists, theologians, performers, mediums, lovers, poets, working class families, and con men all share the same stage. Blum, however, leaves no one out of her narrative. ![]() The cast of characters in Ghost Hunters reads like a who’s who of late nineteenth and early twentieth century luminaries. Along with Raymond Moody’s The Last Laugh, this book should be required reading for any aspiring investigator of the paranormal. Deborah Blum artfully retells this story. ![]() In her groundbreaking book, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Deborah Blum has masterfully retold the story of the birth of spiritualism and the scientific pursuit of “psychical research.” In the late nineteenth century, William James, renowned philosopher and psychologist, and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. ![]()
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