Phone Call from a Ghost: Strange Tales from Modern America

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Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1990 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 110 pages
Meet the famous actress who received a phone call from someone she knew was dead. Follow the ghost of a naval academy cadet who returned from the dead to catch the killer. See the automatic writing that warned of a murderer about to take place. Follow the ghosts of two airline pilots who returned to haunt the aircraft rebuilt with parts from their own crashed plane. And meet the most famous ghost of all, movie actor John Wayne, as he prowls his beloved yacht, making sure everything is still shipshape. They're all-American ghosts, and they're all here - and more - in the book that will haunt you to the very last page!

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Contents

Introduction Where Do You Get Your Stories?
11
Phone Call from a Ghost
12
A Hitch in Time
22
Copyright

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About the author (1990)

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.

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