Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Patrick Burke, co-author of the new Ghost Soldiers of Gettysburg. As an expert on battlefield and historical haunting, I am mostly asked questions when doing a lecture or presentation specific to that genre. But once in a while, I get the surprise question that almost always leads me into a new direction of exploring my own Psi abilities and going off the beaten path of paranormal or spiritual world. I was at a conference doing my presentation called, "History with a Twist" and, as is the norm, most of the questions were about the various photos and videos of apparitions or the EVP I captured at various battlefields and historic locations.

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rich Newman, author of The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide, Ghost Hunting for Beginners, and the new Devil in the Delta. Thomas Edison, perhaps the most well-known American inventor of all time, invented a device for talking to the dead. A device that was never actually created, that nobody can find any notes or blueprints for, or was ever referenced by Edison without the use of tongue-in-cheek humor. So, where is it? Is the device something to be taken seriously or an elaborate joke played on the media by the inventor? At first glance, the latter would seem to be the case. Edison was known for his dry sense of humor, and playing a joke on a

Check out a fascinating interview with Haunted Route 66 author Richard Southall on Examiner.com, detailing his new book and the research he conducted while writing it (as well as a peek behind the scenes of his earlier book, How to Be a Ghost Hunter). Examiner.com launched in April 2008, providing informative and entertaining content with over 100,000 contributors. Examiner.com is a top 100 website, reaching over 37 million unique visitors a month. Visit Examiner.com to read the full interview and check out a cool slide show of Richard and his haunted travels.

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Deonna Kelli Sayed, author of Paranormal Obsession and So You Want to Hunt Ghosts?. Ghost hunting has undergone a tremendous shift over the past decade. In the past, parapsychology and the metaphysical dominated various discussions around hauntings. Today, the influx of ghost shows has changed the way everyone talks about the spirit realm. This is particularly true in the way paranormal investigators approach their fieldwork. In So You Want to Hunt Ghosts? A Down-to-Earth Guide, I identify four main “approaches” to amateur paranormal investigation, although many teams and investigators embody a little bit of each one. However, most