Haunted History - Softcover

Marie, Ali

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798235572645

Verlag: Ali Marie, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The world is haunted because the world has a history-and some of that history refuses to stay buried. Every civilization has stories of the dead returning. They walk through palace corridors, wander abandoned prisons, march across old battlefields, and linger beneath modern cities built over forgotten graves. They appear wherever suffering was never properly mourned, injustice was never acknowledged, or the truth was deliberately erased. But what if ghost stories are more than supernatural entertainment? From the restless spirits of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to the hungry ghosts of China, the vengeful dead of Japan, the executed queens of the Tower of London, and the victims whose names disappeared from official records, Haunted History explores the real events beneath some of the world's most enduring hauntings. Travel through cursed royal courts, plague-ravaged cities, blood-soaked battlefields, prisons, asylums, shipwrecks, colonial landscapes, disaster zones, abandoned settlements, and modern destinations shaped by dark tourism. Along the way, discover why the same conditions repeatedly produce tales of supernatural presence: violent death, improper burial, unresolved mourning, suppressed truth, and justice denied. This book does not demand that readers believe in ghosts. Instead, it asks a more unsettling question: Why do societies become haunted in the exact places where history remains unfinished? Blending global history, folklore, cultural analysis, and compelling accounts of haunted locations, Haunted History reveals ghost stories as a form of counter-history-one that remembers the people official records neglected, exposes the violence hidden beneath celebrated landmarks, and gives the forgotten dead a final way to speak. Because sometimes the most frightening part of a haunting is not the ghost. It is what happened there

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ali Marie
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798235572645
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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