Guest Post by Scott Nicholson & Kindle Giveaway!
Please welcome Scott Nicholson, author of the new suspense novel, The Skull Ring!
Author Scott Nicholson and Amazon are also giving away two Kindles as part of his fall book blog tour from September through November! A Kindle DX will be given away through the participating blogs, and a Kindle 3 will be given away through the tour newsletter. (more details at the bottom of this post)
How to Catch a Ghost, by Scott Nicholson
http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/
I know some people who like nothing better than to go to creepy places by themselves, spend the night with lots of equipment running, and inviting whatever spirits might be around to show themselves. Some even say things like “You can touch me if you want” or “You can draw power from me.”
And maybe that’s the point where I get uncomfortable with ghost hunting. I understand a scientific curiosity about our fate and the composition of our spirits, and while I don’t hang around dark, spooky places as a vacation getaway, I will go anywhere that has a history. But my favorite ghost hunters approach the field with a healthy respect for what they might be manifesting.
Whether the ghost is an intelligent haunt (one that responds to people and events), a residential haunt (an impression that seems more like a recurring loop on a film), or demonic activity (actual intent to disturb the balance and harmony of the living world), I believe the best investigators remove themselves from the mix as much as they can. They act more as observers and recorders. In true science, you can’t measure something without affecting it by the act of measuring, and there’s always the subjective impression of the observer.
Ghost hunters routinely measure electromagnetic fluctuations as evidence of supernatural activity, but what if truth is the opposite? Instead of ghosts disturbing EMF with their presence, what if it’s the fluctuating EMF that attracts ghosts in the first place?
That’s a concept used in my novel The Home (out in the UK as Troubled), where experiments at a group home for troubled children summon the spirits of the facility’s former inmates, from back when it was an insane asylum.
[amazonify]1907190902[/amazonify]One of the more controversial tactics used by investigators is “provoking,” when you shout at ghosts and disturb them into action. That feels too much like “Dance for me or I’ll shoot you in the foot.” I also think people who invite a spirit to enter them or otherwise take energy is meddling in forces they don’t know anything about, and whether it’s merely psychological weakness or arrogance, the result is uncomfortable.
Group hunts, especially when randomly put together for a conference, can be risky because hunters have their own personalities and approaches, and what offends one person may seem like a perfectly legitimate research tactic. I’ve been in a group of hunters where one will say, “You can take power from us,” and I say, “No, I don’t grant that permission.” I explored those dynamics a little in Speed Dating with the Dead, where characters have varying ideas of the nature of inexplicable phenomena.
Then there’s the “sensitive,” a person who relies less on science and more on perception. A sensitive is likely to stop in the middle of a conversation and start talking to an invisible presence. And you can never be sure if the person is schizophrenic, especially when they are so certain of the existence of spirits. When someone says, “I’ve seen them all my life,” how can you prove otherwise?
I use a sensitive in The Manor (out in the revised UK edition as Creative Spirit), where Anna Galloway has a terminal illness and the closer she gets to her own death, the more vivid her connection with the spirit world.
In college, my roommate’s cousin was visiting and I was talking about Led Zeppelin and said something casual like “Satanism might be pretty cool,” one of those offhand things you say when you are seeking and wishing you could be a guitar hero. His eyebrows arched and truly evil features slid over his face, sending a chill up my spine. He said, “You don’t want to mess with that.”
Now, I happen to know he practiced his “evil face” in a mirror, had a little coven of nubile groupies while in high school, and liked to “hex” his stepmother, but still, what is evil but willingness? What is evil but choice? That’s not a choice I want to invite.
I’ve worked with serious hunters like Paranormal Scene Investigators and Barry Fitzgerald of Ghost Hunters International, and I’ve met a number of small, localized groups that mix researching and socializing. I’ve also seen groups short on the science and long on the hype, hoping to get their own television shows. While the fad has died down a little, I’ve been amazed at how many people will report some kind of mysterious encounter if you bring up the subject.
So I still don’t know whether ghosts exist or not, but I’m pretty confident there’s a lot more going on than we can see or measure or put in a book. Do you really want to find a ghost? What would you do with one if you had it?
And, as I like to say, possession works two ways.
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Scott Nicholson is author of Drummer Boy and 11 other novels, five story collections, four comics series, and six screenplays. A journalist and freelance editor in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, he often uses local legends in his work. This tour is sponsored by Amazon, Kindle Nation Daily, and Dellaster Design.
To be eligible for the Kindle DX, simply post a comment below with contact info. Feel free to debate and discuss the topic, but you will only be entered once per blog. Visit all the blogs on the tour and increase your odds. I’m also giving away a Kindle 3 through the tour newsletter and a Pandora’s Box of free e-books to a follower of “hauntedcomputer” on Twitter. And, hey, buy The Red Church and put me in the Top 100 and I’ll throw in another random Kindle 3 giveaway.
Thanks for playing! Complete details at http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/blogtour.htm
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Like most people I too have had my share of creepy experiences. I never let them get to me though!
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I’ve wanted a Kindle for quite some time to help clear out the clutter and save some trees.
Been a long time since I’ve read ghost stories. Read very little now that I’ve got three toddlers. I used to be a reading teacher too!
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One of my new reading obsessions is Ghost Hunting I now have a new item on my Amazon Book wish list. Reading it on a Kindle would be even better of course
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Fascinating post! I definitely don’t agree with ghost hunting tactics that intentionally provoke or disturb the spirits, so I’m not a huge fan of the current crop of reality shows that seem to do just that. Look forward to reading Scott’s book, perhaps on a Kindle — thanks for the chance to enter!
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I work in a former jail that is now a theatre, and we recently had a paranormal group rent the building to do some ghost hunts. I believe that things exist outside the realm of science and understanding, but I’m not convinced that everything the celebrity ghost hunters “found” was real. In a way, I would like to see one of our resident ghosts and know that the stories are true; my husband says everyone who claims to have seen a ghost in the building must be making it up, but I’m not so sure. It’s interesting to see someone taking the techniques and equipment of the 21st century ghost hunter and developing stories from it.
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Thanks for the giveaway. I love a scary story.
I love ghost type shows but am so chicken that I wouldn’t TRY to put myself in way of a ghost!!
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I love a spooky story!!!
Hmmm, I entering this on Halloween night…is that lucky?
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Ghost stories are great for fall evenings – and to read it on a Kindle would be cool! thanks!
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I’d like to enter.
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Hubby has one, but doesnt share with me!! I would love my own.
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i would love to win! thank you scott!
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Forgot to put my contact info. Nickieisis3@gmail.com. I think I have felt ghosts in my first home and my husband has some really cool tales of ghost in a cemetary near is hometown. creepy stuff
I would love a Kindle.
This book sounds spooky and delicious!
Thank you so much for such a wonderful and generous giveaway.
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I keep hoping to win a Kindle, since I am very unlikely to receive one as a gift, and I cannot justify buying one when I have a huge number of books in the house that I have yet to read!
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I enjoy your books very much and look forward to all your new ones! Thank you for this great giveaway; maybe I’ll get to read your next on on a Kindle
Happy Halloween!
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Love ghost books, its something about being scared thats awesome.
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I am not sure if ghosts do or do not exist but as you have said, I am certain that many things go on that we do not yet understand. Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean they are not real.
I love ghost stories. The spookier the better.
I’ve never seen a ghost but I’m not saying they aren’t out there. I’m just not sure. I would like to think no, when we die, it’s done. And while I’m alive I would love to win a Kindle. Thanks for the chance.
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What a great prize. Thanks for the contest.
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This sounds like a great book!
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Sonds like a great read. I would love to win and download it
I love to find some good scary stories around this time of year, it’s hard to find anything that isn’t cheesy though. Your book sounds interesting though, I’ll definitely check it out though!
I like ghost stories, but only if they are fiction. Otherwise, I get a bit too scared.
I love to read ghost stories especially around this time of year!
Thanks!
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Sounds like an interesting tale. I do admit that around this time of year, I love a good ghost story.
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never seen a ghost so don’t believe (until i do!)
I love a ghost story, and there are too many unexplainable things in this world for their not to exist some kind of supernatural element around us. I’m not a fan of shows like Ghost Hunters, which has more to do with the bickering of the cast then paranormal investigations, but this sounds like a good story. Thank you for the chance to win.
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Ghost stories have always facsinated me so I found the article extremely interesting.
I would love to win a Kindle. I don’t really like Ghost stories, I have horrible nightmares.
I’d also love to win a kindle! Good luck with the book, too!
I love a good ghost story but I don’t know how I would feel if I ever seen one! I would love to see a brand new Kindle though! LOL!
Thanks for the chance!
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Great contest–I would love to be able to read a lot without having to have stacks of books around the house.
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I love to read
Your roommate’s cousin was correct.
Awesome giveaway. Unfortunately, don’t have a ghost story of my own
This is a very interesting topic.
Thank you for the opportunity!
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I love a good ghost story, especially reading them on a Kindle.
I would love a kindle, but ghost stories aren’t exactly my favorite things to read
I don’t believe in ghosts. I do, however, enjoy ghost stories
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I love to read scary books and I don’t have a Kindle, so I would love to win!
Perfect giveaway for the season– scary stories and books!
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This is one of my favorite genres of books. Not just for Halloween!! And I would love to be able to carry around a ton of books when I travel without taking up so much room!
This would be nice to have, I could clear out my bookshelf!
Well I loved the comments above. I take it that you write mostly fiction, which I’d love to read, but you should consider writing something about your real life ghost hunting and other related experiences, I’d read it judging from what I read above.
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I don’t believe in ghosts in the sense that we are constantly presented with. I believe only in what the Bible addresses it as; that God would never allow such things, and ghosts/apparitions are evil spirits taking the form of a loved one or someone else deceased to trick and deceive us.
I would love to win the Kindle!
I do believe in ghosts but have not seen any yet.
I’m not really sure what I think about this but I sure would love to win!
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thank you for the chance! would love to win!
I know I wouldn’t want to meet a ghost! But I would love to win a Kindle.
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I’ve seen ghosts. I don’t fear them, just wish they’d hang around for a while so I could ask a few questions! Thanks for this fantastic giveaway. Hope I win.
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I would love to win the kindle to give to my daughterin law for CHristmas
Ghosts are hot topics this weekend!
The book sounds interesting.
I WANT ONE OF THESE TO GIVE TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER AT CHRISTMAS
no such things as ghosts imho.
Wow, great giveaway. Thanks so much for the chance to win.
I would love a Kindle DX. Have a fine weekend.
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Awesome!
Exactly what I asked Santa to bring me ‘this Christmas!
Thanks for the chance to WIN and GOOD LUCK to ALL!
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Note to family – this is on my christmas list.
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I do believe anything is possible…this leaves me wide open to occult experience and ghostly sightings.
Thank you.
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I am so intrigued by ghost hunting. I love to watch the shows and read books about it. My daughter went to college in Kentucky for a while and she went to Waiverly Hills for Halloween in 2007. TAPS was there that night as well filming live. Waiverly has a haunted house there every year. My daughter took her camera and tooks some pictures with friends just outside the sanatorium. The pictures were amazing. Their were magnetic fields everywhere in the pictures but one photo had a spirt actually possing with the friend that my daughter was taking the photo of. I cant belive that my daughters hard drive crashed and now the photos are lost. I kept the hard drive just in case someday I can find away to retrieve them.
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Thank You!
A Kindle will make a wonderful Christmas present.
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I would really love to win a Kindle, have never won anything…and I love to read.
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As for ghosts, hmmm…
I’ve never seen a ghost,
but I’d rather see than be one!
I need a kindle
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I’m a book addict. I’m sure my husband would love a Kindle so that our shelves aren’t overflowing.
Enter me please…
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We have ghosts in our house and we coexist very well. Why would I want to disturb the balance by trying to interact with them? One was a very malevolent entity that threatened our daughter. We certainly don’t want to interact with it again.
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I would love to be entered! Thank you!
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What a great giveaway! Thank you for the opportunity to win. I love ghost hunting. I watch different shows on TV. I find them very interesting and possible!
Great giveaway! Please enter me.
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I keep an opne mind about the supernatural…so long as this Kindle isn’t haunted. (-:
Nice giveaway!
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Wonderful idea!
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Thanks for another great post, I always look forward to reading each day
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Looks like a spine tingling book! Would love to win a Kindle!
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This book looks interesting, but I’d definitely have to read it when I wasn’t home by myself! Thanks for the opportunity to win a Kindle…that’s the first item on my Christmas list this year!
I’m currently reading The Red Church and enjoying every word.
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In RL, (real life), I’m too grounded in science, I just can’t believe in ghosts. The whole life-after-death thing seems like arrogance: “I’m too important to die.”
Then again, this is fiction. Anthing goes. It’s the ride the author takes the reader on that counts.
Sounds like an interesting drawing to enter. I have always enjoyed a good ghost story.
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Would love to be included in the giveaway-
Thanks for the opportunity! Since I got my Kindle 2-I have been addicted, much to my family’s dismay! I have found so many authors and books that I probably wouldn’t have bought in paper, loving this e-revolution.
I don’t know if I’d really like to find a ghost, but I do believe in them… It’d be kind of scary to run into one unexpectedly though…
Thanks for the post!
Dottie
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We have our own little ghost hunting group here in this area. Actually next door to you here in NE TN. They spent the night in the library where I worked. It is a 1925 train station which is now a county library. They set up their equipment, filmed , and took readings. They informed us we have at least 16 spirits. Nice to know when you are working alone in the basement.
We live in an 1898 farmhouse. There have been ghosts seen by previous residents and my son saw one. Our middle daughter had a very unpleasant experience with a rather evil entity – our dog reacted to it too, so it wasn’t just her imagination. I have felt a presence in the house but not seen anything nor is it threatening. I grew up in an 1860′s farm house and we had a resident ghost there too.
I have no desire to have the ghost hunters come to my house or to have the spirits called. Who knows what you would unleash.
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Hi Scott, I am still following you..
I would love to win a Kindle and your newest release.
I do believe in the unknown, ghost, spirits, etc but have not had an experience myself.
I have seen many weird things. I used to think I had witnessed the activities of ghosts and a lot of other entities. Now, while I’m still sure things actually happened to me, I’m less sure of what the cause truly was in any of those cases.
The simple fact is that I have no way to know for certain which of the possible explanations is the correct one in any instance. I think we all have a long way to go before we know anything definite about about these sorts of occurrences. I hope we do make the trip though because very strange events take place in this world, and sometimes, for better or for worse, those events can be life-changing as well.
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My family is always on the hunt for a ghost. My wife believes she grew up with one in her parents house and we enjoy reading a good ghost story.
I would love to win a kindle!
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I seriously considered taking up ghost hunting once…or paranormal investigations. I think I was inspired by that show Freaky Links. I even checked out books on the subject. My aunt and I were really big into Halloween at one time and we were going to do it together. I don’t know why I never did. Yes, I would like to find/see a ghost and I really don’t know what I’d do if I really saw one. Probably run away screaming…LOL! I do believe there are ghosts. It would just be nice to have actual confirmation.
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not sure that i believe in ghosts, however, i do have a fascination of the paranormal – i watch the tv shows/documentaries all the time
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Thanks Scott! Keep up the quality posts!
Tom
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I am obsessed with anything ghosts and paranormal and I’m one of those people who would willingly go into a alleged haunted house or place to pick up evp’s, emf’s….or physical activity.
I have encountered spirits, but nothing too remarkable. Just shadows and actually being touched, seeing objects move, but I’d like more than that. I welcome it…which probably isn’t too smart!
I can’t wait to read your books. I haven’t heard of them before!!
Enter me!!!
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Love to win this giveaway…thanks..
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I believe ghosts exist and enjoy reading about them and seeing them in movies, but really don’t think I want to meet one.
I would love to win!
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Books and movies with ghosts are fine, but I don’t care to ever meet one.
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I Love Ghost Hunters and allmost all the Shows that are Paranormal.Ghost hunters are DVRed to Record all the New Ones so I do not Miss one.
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Scary stuff, Scott. Y’know, I’ve actually heard Stairway to Heaven played backwards. Yikes. Not something I wanna mess around with for all the gold records in the world.
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I’ve never heard of Scott Nicholson before but this is a great way to get your name out there and get some publicity to your books! I’ll definitely check him out (on my new Kindle!
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I have always wanted to participate in a paranormal outing.
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Very interesting article. It feels kinda creepy following someone around the web! Luvin this blog tour.
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I had a dream just the other night that our house had a ghost…I think it would be cool, as long as the ghost was friendly and not malevolent!
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Ghosts are an intriguing subject. When I was young, I lived in a haunted house. Lots of stuff went on and we even had a minister to the house to do a cleansing of sorts. Didn’t help, but it did make us feel better at the time. It is interesting how one can become used to strange things when they are happening all the time.
What a ramble! Another great article. Thanks!
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One of things I love about ghost stories, both as a writer and folklorist, is the stories about the stories. And the range of beliefs, and what they tell us about what we make of this bizarre reality.
Barry Fitzgerald was fun to work with, very cool and experienced. We didn’t do any “serious” hunting because of the nature of the conference and the fact I had to hang out in a haunted WWII hospital all night.
The Home, The Manor, The Farm and They Hunger can only be sold by me in the UK and overseas right now as ebooks (I renamed them Troubled, Creative Spirit, Solom, and The Gorge). They are all in the UK Kindle store and I can also sell them directly but not in US. Some of those used copies are too high!
Scott
There was a persion listed in the city directory with my address and phone number. It was just me in my apartment with two cats. And Tinky was neither name. Crazy! She was there for several years. My husband and I often wonder if my cat was communicating with her.
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Hey Scott,
For the longest time I scoffed at the notion that a ghost story would be effectively scary. C’mon, what is a ghost going to do — boo me to death?
The I read City of Masks by Daniel Hecht and I spent several nights leaving the lamp light on. It was the first book to creep me out in over a decade.
Since then I’ve encountered several powerful ghost stories that came close to scaring me. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so cavalier about them, eh?
Letting a ghost power itself off of you seems like a bad idea . . . but a great idea for a horror story.
Thank you,
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Very interesting. I believe in ghosts. That’s all I’ll say on that so I don’t creep anyone out.
Hope I can enter.
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Great giveaway and this books sounds very interesting.
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Do you really want to find a ghost? No, I’m a wimp.
What would you do with one if you had it? RUN! I’m a wimp!
Count me in. I would love a kindle!
I’d love to enter!
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Great post! I definitely believe in ghosts!
Count me in! It is really nice to know there is someone out there that loves to read and also shares great books with other people by giving them the chance to win. Thanks for all you do!
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I’ve sometimes wondered what would happen when you put different types of personalities together on a ghost hunt. Looks like a book I’m going to need to pick up soon!
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Another interesting post!
Thanks for the great giveaway. Please enter me in contest. Tore923@aol.com
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I’ve never been a blogger or followed blogs, but I must say, this is a new form of entertainment for me. I look forward to your daily email telling me where to go.
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I have never seen or heard a ghost, but I do believe! Great giveaway, thanks.
I do love those ghost hunting shows
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I absolutely love those ghost hunting shows and stories about the paranormal. And I’m so jealous that you got to work with Barry – he’s one of my favorites.
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Apparently The Home is out of print. When do the rights revert to you so you can issue it electronically? Until then I guess I’ll have to search used book stores… although I prefer the ebook format.
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I would love to win!
Lots of great opinions here that make you think of things that preveiously never crossed your mind.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
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My wife and I both heard a ghostly voice when we staying at our friends’ house (this was an old house rented to students in Athens, GA, so God knows how many people have lived in that house or what’s happened there over the years). We were both lying in bed and heard a deep, clear male voice say something like “Shoo, shoo, shoo!” right in our ears. We both opened our eyes expecting somebody to be standing right over us, but nobody was there.
We didn’t tell our friends about it until after they moved out of that house!
No ghosts for me!! LOL I’m a huge fan of Ghost Whisperer and Medium but that’s as far as I need to go.
Thanks!
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I would probably faint if I seen a ghost.
A kindle would be AWESOME! Please enter me, thanks.
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I’ve experienced some strange things, not sure what it is.
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I don’t think I would like to actually find a ghost. Reading about them is one thing … seeing them another. I would probably just freak out and run. Or pass out. lol.
Thanks for the chance to win!
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Interesting article. As someone who lives in a society where there is a lot of belief in ghosts and other supernatural phenomena, I am always curious to see what people from other areas of the world have to say about the phenomenon.
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“Don’t want to mess with that stuff.”
I had a friend who used the Necronomicon and did one of the rituals in there. The result? Glowing, haunting faces on his bedroom walls. This was before he became a Christian.
Yeah, don’t want to mess with that stuff indeed.
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I’ve been wanting a Kindle for some time now. Is this my lucky entry?
I would LOVE a Kindle DX. Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
Interesting discussion. Love to win a Kindle. Thanks for the chance.
Loved Drummer Boy. My son let me borrow his Kindle during the summer and yes, I would love to read The Skull Ring via Kindle.
I’d luv to win this kindle and give it to my most-deserving hubby Howie.
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I sure hope I win!
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i’m still happy with books but i’m pretty sure if i won a kindle i would be converted… everyone i know seems to convert pretty quickly!
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The Kindle is the new thing. I’m still happy with books but I’d love to win this for my daughter. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway
I would love a Kindle!
I love books about the paranormal because I believe there is more here on this earth than meets the eye.
Please count me in!
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I once lived in an end apartment of a row of townhouses. There was something really bad about that apartment. There would be really loud noises at night. It wasn’t mice, because I had really good cats. It got so bad the elderly woman who lived next door to me had to have her son sleep over. I apologized to her about it, and she was the one that suggested it was haunted.One morning I talked to her son, he was a reformed drug dealer, who had spent time in federal prisons. The color was completely gone from his face, he was shaken. He said something was there. He moved his mom out the following month. My son would tell me he would see people. I began to be concerned about our safety. After we moved nothing like that happened again. I am a very skeptical person, but that was a very bad experience.
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Great post! It’s a very interesting topic. I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s thoughts.
Please enter me in the giveaway for the Kindle.
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We have a strange presence in our one bedroom where my wife claims she woke up to something tickling her
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Hm… I agree that we shouldn’t mess with unknown, paranormal stuff. It is not meant for us to do things with it. Anyway, thanks for the lovely post!
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I once pretended to be a ghost, leaving signs and messages. It did not work out very well.
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I’m really enjoying the tour. Thanks for another great post!
Being stalker-ish..
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I can see that it must be my destiny to own the entire Scott Nicholson collection. I don’t have The Home, but now I need it. Was Barry Fitzgerald fun to work with? varbonoff22 at cox dot net
i would like to meet a ghost from a time before my mom (91) who could talk to me about their time…would that be a ghost story?
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I would love a kindle!! =D
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Awesome, count me in!
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Another entry!
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Another great blog for me to follow due to your tour to introduce me to yet another one. Thanks!
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Great post! Thanks so much!
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“The Home” sounds interesting. Will it be out for kindle?
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thanks for the opportunity to win…
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Love the post! And the tour is great.
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Well, there are so few things that we know to be complete truths in this world, without exception. It is certainly possible. I entertain the idea, but also entertain many others about the supernatural. I think it truly allows me to have a great spattering of writing concepts and prompts, but my mind is getting cluttered and a bit too crowded. I hate it when imaginary characters get pushy and start imaginary brawls up there. Got any Tylenol?
As far as ghosts go in particular, I’ll just say I’m open to the possibility, but require solid evidence before I follow blindly with any certainty.
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Great post. I totally agree with you. While I would love to try out a ghost hunting expedition. Inviting someone or something in is just a little too crazy, since really you never know whats going to happen or what they will do to you. I have to admit GH and GHI are 2 of my favorite shows and while I love when they find something spooky I also just love finding out the history of the cool places they visit.
I used to really be into the whole ghost hunting thing. I’ve gotten out of it over the past year or so, but I would still describe myself as a wanting-to-believe skeptic. I’ll believe it when I see it.
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Fabulous post, Scott, great info here to think about. I actually do believe in the possibility of ghosts, and felt the presence of my grandmother for years following her death.
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I honestly don’t care what anyone says, I don’t believe Ghosts exist. I love seeing movies where they do, but I doubt that carries over to real life
I may change my mind if I am haunted one day!
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As I mentioned in another post on the tour, I’ve been “visited” a few times. And it’s not as cool as it is in the movies. It’s pretty freakin creepy. I don’t like it at all. Maybe in a controlled setting the experience would be better. But the tendency they have to pop up when I least expect it makes me dislike the visitations.
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I love to read about ghosts, but don’t want to have one.
If I had a ghost I would be calling Ghostbusters, ASAP!
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I’d rather just read about ghosts than try to find any.
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Now if I don’t believe in ghosts can I still win a Kindle?
Please enter me in this great giveaway.
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Hi Scott!
It’s just me. Following behind you once again (carefully avoiding the goat droppings) and commenting on your posts. Let’s see what insight I can shed on your words today. Shall we?
“I know some people who like nothing better than to go to creepy places by themselves”
There you go transferring your habits on others — “I know some people who…” Hello? You are the one who likes to go to creepy places by yourself. Far be it from me to expose the sort of disgusting shenanigans (shenannygoats?) that go on in those “creepy places” when you are there. I’ll leave all of that to PETA!
“Some even say things like ‘You can touch me if you want’”
Jeepers, Scott! How many times have you been cited–or just hauled off to jail– for saying that? And I’m NOT talking about while on a ghost hunt, either. I’m talking about just walking down the street and telling people they can touch you if they want–EEW! Especially when you are out wearing nothing but a thong and tube top. Just STOP IT, Scott! It’s sooo unseemly. NO ONE wants to touch you…whether they are DEAD OR ALIVE!!!
“I was talking about Led Zeppelin and said something casual like ‘Satanism might be pretty cool,’”
Just because Satan is often represented by a cloven-footed goat, don’t get your panties all in a bunch! And just because Satan might be a cloven-footed goat, doesn’t mean he’d have a bevy of cloven-footed devil goat girls in his harem for you frolic and have your way with. Hello? Just like the living and the dead—they don’t want to touch you either!!! (Although I must say that new Brimstone cologne you are wearing lately is quite dashing…)
But, really Scott, you should be promoting your books—not revealing all of these sordid secrets about yourself. Save them for your next appointment with your psychiatrist (have you found one that will agree to see you a second time yet?)! Psychiatry is awfully expensive—so push the books! Good luck!
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Love this post! The first thing that drew my eye was the picture at the top, with Barry Fitzgerald from Ghost Hunters International. I love that show, as well as the original, Ghost Hunters! My husband and I watch it every Wednesday when it comes on. I don’t know if I believe in ghosts are not, but I think there is plenty out there that cannot be just explained away. I love spooky places and going on “ghost walks”, but I would never give permission for a spirit to use my energy or anything like that. I am not brave enough for that
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Holy cow! Another KIndle giveaway? How generous of you! Please count me in.
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I’d like to add that while I don’t necessarily believe in “ghosts” as they are presented in most media (hauntings, chains, weird noises, etc.), I am certain that spirits do not vanish when physical bodies expire.
Interesting post Scott. Many of your books revolve around ghosts and the hereafter, so I was always curious about where you stood on the subject. Thanks for enlightening me.
By the way — really enjoying your tour and the diverse posts.
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Thanks again!
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Right now, don’t believe in ghosts. The only way I will is if I see/hear/feel for myself. Would I want to….I don’t know. I would if ghosts were happy. The idea that after death a person could still be hanging around and unhappy isn’t very comforting. If it is a choice then what would be the point if you couldn’t communicate or affect what is going on in the world. If a ghost is just an like an echo then I would love to experience that.
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I’m too much of a skeptic to believe in ghosts, religion, or anything paranormal. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t make for a good story.
I remember that in elementary school, several friends and I pretended to be a witch’s coven to curse other girls who were mean to us. We wrote spells and everything. But that was just wishful thinking along the lines of wishing to have a Harry Potter wand (wouldn’t that be great for housework?) or fairy dust. We knew it wasn’t true or real.
So paranormal is out for me, but I do enjoy mystery, history, and suspense.
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I enjoy your posts about ghost hunting and I agree, I would not want to give anything permission to take power from me! I believe there is much more around us than we may ever know and therefor can not dismiss that there may be spirits or ghosts. Therefor I take it seriously and would never intentionally offer something that could be harmful.
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I love reading and hearing about ghosts, but although interesting, I don’t like the evil ones, and think everyone needs to be careful what they mess with.
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Love the post!
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I love the movie GhostTown with Ricky Gervais. It has as plausible a tilt on the seeing of ghosts as I’ve ever heard. They discuss the “rules” about ghosts that exist and the decisions they made for the film. Many laugh-out-loud moments and, I think, an excellent, redeeming conclusion!
As for The Home (or The Manor), I’ll have to get it when you can make it available on the Kindle. It’s forty bucks new and a reasonable three something used with Amazon in paperback form, which would require shipping, etc. The Manor is a better price (five something) but is still a physical book which requires shipping and shelf space!
I’ve never seen or been touched by a “ghost.” But since we lost our son, I’ve thought more about them, the idea of spirits or souls. Where do they go? Are they still here? There are times I wish I had been touched by him in some way… but I haven’t felt it. I know some people have “signs” they look for (ladybugs or butterflies etc) but that doesn’t feel real to me either. I wish it did!
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Thank you for sharing Inanna. I read your blog posts and am very sorry for your loss.
I’ve never been ghost hunting. Attended a seance once. Got bit on the arm during the ceremony by a damned spider or something–left a huge welt of a bite mark on me for a week at any rate. I don’t think the creepy crawler was possessed, though.
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I have never personally seen a ghost, however I certainly have felt a presence of something that could not be explained more that a few times. You know that spine tingling feeling when there is no one there? You know what they call gut reaction? What if all that were ghosts guiding us through our lives instead of our intuition? What if all that was our long lost relatives guideing us along? Hummmmm, soudns like a story to me…….
I love ghost stories and really enjoy reading aobut paranormal experiences. Another great post Scott.
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I’ve had my own share of encounters that could not be explained. I’d have to say from what I’ve experienced, I believe there is something else out there for sure.
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Orphans summoning spirits of a former insane asylum? Sold.
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Sounds awesome…..I will believe in ghost when I see one for myself until then….??????
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“There are more things to heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
I agree but I don’t think you find them by chasing around “haunted” places. Ghosts may exist, but if they do and if they want something from me, they’ll come and visit me and so far that hasn’t happened yet. I do love a good ghost story though and “Speed Dating with the Dead” is definitely one of them.
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If I really found a ghost I’d be running for the hills while dialing the Ghostbusters!! LOL
Great post
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That is so generous! I can’t believe he’s giving away two Kindles! I love my Kindle 3 so good luck to everyone!
Sounds like a good book. Would love to win.
“Do you really want to find a ghost? What would you do with one if you had it?”
THAT is a very good question!
Personally, I like to watch the series type shows ~ Ghost Whisperer and Medium and the like ~ but I don’t watch the “serious” ones. I prefer to keep my interactions scripted thankyouverymuch.
I’ll have to read The Skull Ring, though, it sounds like I’d enjoy it.
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Book sounds fascinating!
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I would love to win, thanks for the contest!
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I don’t know if I already entered if so please delete duplicate. I would love to win a kindle
Great giveaway!