Billy Roberts - Ghostly Tales: Poltergeists, Haunted Houses, and Messages from Beyond

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

Contents

: The Unexplained

: Love

: Ghosts

: Poltergeists

: Hauntings

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Ghostly Tales: Poltergeists, Haunted Houses, and Messages from Beyond 2014 by Billy Roberts.

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Introduction

I think its safe to say that everybody loves a good ghost story or spine-chilling tale. Theres nothing quite like curling up on the settee in front of the fire, or sitting up in bed on a cold winters night reading a book crammed full of spooky tales. There is something in human na ture that makes us actually enjoy being frightened. Even when the book is closed, the characters still menacingly play out their roles inside our heads, keeping us awake with one eye tiredly watching the shadows in the corner of the bedroom, just in case! Even the sceptic who dismisses the whole thing as rubbish has a story to tell, often announcing but there was this one time when

There is always this one time in everybodys life when we thought we had seen a ghostly figure out of the corner of our eye, but when we swung our head round to take a look, there was nobody there! At least, nobody we could see! There is something in the human psyche that makes us prefer to listen to someone else recounting a ghostly yarn rather than experiencing it for ourselves. But that said, personal experience is far more reliable and much more intriguing than hearing anecdotal accounts that happened to someone else. I have personally been involved in thousands of paranormal cases, and have been fortunate to make detailed analyses of both haunted people as well as haunted locations. Although many cases have proven to be a waste of time, a minority have been really intriguing and left me in no doubt that the occurring phenomena were produced by a disembodied source.

I have been mediumistically inclined since I was a child; my mother, her mother, and my mothers sister were mediums, and so as a child, seeing so-called dead people was commonplace to me.

My life as a medium and paranormal investigator has never been dull, and no two paranormal cases are ever the same. I am now far too long in the tooth to take my career for granted, and today I see the paranormal as a sort of calling rather than a job, unlike the hundreds of paranormal groups that have suddenly appeared all over the UK and America over the last ten years or so. Although the paranormal has become an extremely fashionable business, for me personally it is like embarking upon an exciting journey into unknown terrain.

I have been a professional medium for over thirty years now and have appeared on television worldwide. As well as presenting my own thirty-six-week television series Secrets of the Paranormal , I also spent twelve months on the popular television series Most Haunted. I founded the Thought Workshop, the UKs first Centre for Psychic and Spiritual Studies and Alternative Therapies, visited by students from all over the world. Although this closed in the early 1990s, in 2001 I established the Billy Roberts Paranormal Study Centre in the famous Penny Lane (of Beatles fames) in Liverpool, England, where I ran courses and workshops on a wide range of esoteric and metaphysical subjects.

As well as my own experiences, people are always eager to contact my office to relate their own spooky tales, the majority of which have never ceased to fascinate and intrigue me. As I have already explained, even the sceptic has a spooky tale to tell. Over the years I have collected thousands of stories, and these have culminated into an ideal book with which to curl up on the settee on a cold and blustery winters night.

Some of the spine-chilling stories included in this book are quite gruesome, and others reflect the frailties of human emotions. I have done my best to present an eclectic collection of balanced stories; including spooky tales, tongue-in-cheek stories, and stories to bring a tear to your eye and cause your heart to leap. Even the urban myths the majority of us have grown up with cannot be dismissed, as the mysterious world of the unknown is full of surprises, and tales that transcend the bounds of the imagination can occur at any time.

The spooky tales contained in this book suit every human emotion and need. Allow me to now take you into the mysterious land of the unknown. Do you think you are in the house alone while reading this book? If so, then think again. There is always somebody or something watching you from the shadows.

One

The Unexplained

Some things simply defy human understanding and cannot be explained no matter how hard we try. There is no end of stories of people attending their own funerals, phone calls from the dead, or ordinary individuals who find themselves confronted by the devil. Why these things happen to us mortals God alone knows, but they do. And all those tales that take us one step closer to the veil that separates this world from the next will always fascinate and intrigue usuntil that day when we too reside beyond earthly shadows and are able to discover the secrets of the dead.

The Invitation

This is what transpired when a distraught woman came to me for a private consultation after her husband had died while she was out shopping. The information gleaned during the session revealed to the grieving wife exactly what happened to her husband, and as a result helped her to come to terms with her loss.