Real Ghosts

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Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1992 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 128 pages
Young adults are fascinated by the mysterious happenings in this world--and others. This fascinating book covers ghosts for which there are no earthly explanations--leaving the very real possibility that spirits may be walking among us every day. Illustrated.

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Contents

MEET THE GHOSTS
11
THE BEST GHOST STORY
17
THE GHOST AND THE JUDGE
33
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Real Ghosts
Daniel Cohen
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Daniel Cohen
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About the author (1992)

Daniel Cohen was born Daniel Edward Reba in Chicago, Illinois on March 12, 1936. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois. He worked at Time magazine and Science Digest before he began writing books. His books for children and teenagers dealt with ghosts, U.F.O.s, the occult, ESP, vampires, werewolves, conspiracies, cloning, weather, and the human genome. He also wrote biographies of the astronomer Carl Sagan and Jesse Ventura. His only child, Theodora Cohen, was killed in the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. He and his wife Susan Cohen exhaustively sought justice for their daughter and the 269 other victims of the bombing. They wrote several books together including When Someone You Know Is Gay and Pan Am 103: The Bombing, the Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice. He died from sepsis on May 6, 2018 at the age of 82.

Bibliographic information

TitleReal Ghosts
AuthorsDaniel Cohen, John Philip Maclean
PublisherSimon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1992
ISBN0671786229, 9780671786229
Length128 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / Paranormal & Supernatural
  
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