Ghost: Investigating the Other Side
Although not marketed as containing this info, this 2002 book by Katherine Ramsland, includes a section on her staying at the Lizzie Borden B&B. Might be worth a looksee.
Ghost: Investigating the Other Side, St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
From Publisher’s Weekly
Ramsland (author of numerous books on Anne Rice, vampirism and other ghoulish subjects) is just the sort of person you’d want to tell you a ghost story: credible, smart, sane and funny, neither a believer nor a skeptic. Cast as an adventure in “participatory journalism,” the book begins with Ramsland’s chance acquisition of a haunted silver ring. Determined to extract its secrets, she sets out on a quest that gradually turns into a full-blown investigation of psychic aberration in America. She plunges into the vast culture of ghost detection, sleeping in haunted bed-and-breakfasts from Salem to Sedona, familiarizing herself with the latest technology while also consulting conventional occult modes tarot, palm, Ouija. Charmingly understated at all times (“I never quite know how to talk to someone who lives simultaneously in two time periods”), Ramsland admits to being impervious to the spirit world; while psychics and sensitives of every description reel and recoil at the mere sight of her ring, she at first feels and sees nothing. Her gradual conviction, as she delves deeper and deeper into the realm of the unseen, that “something is out there” is all the more spine-tingling. Ramsland is a master of foreboding, and as her tale unravels, an explosive climax seems inevitable. What results more a creepy certainty than a frightful resolution may disappoint some readers. But whatever its payoff, the book will find avid fans among X-Files watchers, amateur ghost hunters, and the vast majority of those who feel that things that go bump in the night should be heard rather than seen. Agent, Lori Perkins.
October 26, 2006 at 4:43 pm
My local library has this at a satellite branch. My request should be filled by tomorrow or Saturday. I’ll read and file a report. I’m fascinated by what the psychics and ghosthunters have to say.
October 31, 2006 at 6:07 pm
I read what she wrote about staying Chez Borden– about six pages. The brave soul slept in the guest room with no other visitors in attendance in the other rooms, said she left her tape recorder on all night, and dreamed vividly that a woman was speaking to her, through the machine. When she woke up, she discovered it had been shut off! And, she could not remember what the woman told her. She flipped the recorder on in the basement and picked up a gruff male voice that scared her so much that she fled. So, there you have it– sort of like the TV show clips above– interesting, but nothing “revelatory.”