101 Ways to Find a Ghost
Essential Tools, Tips, and Techniques to Uncover Paranormal Activity

Whether you're a skeptic or a believer in paranormal activity, this is the guide to ghost hunting that you need. Including 101 short tips, interspersed with trivia, resource information, and portraits of prominent ghost hunters, it shows you how to prepare for your expedition, what equipment you'll need, what to expect, and more.

Whether you're a skeptic or a believer in paranormal activity, this is the quick-and-easy guide to ghost hunting that you need. In 101 short tips, interspersed with trivia, resource information, and portraits of prominent ghost hunters, expert Melissa Martin Ellis shows you how to prepare for your expedition, what equipment you'll need, what to expect, and how to organise and evaluate the data you collect. She tells you the best kind of cameras to purchase, how to keep systematic records, how to organise your team of ghost hunters, and what sort of permission you need to investigate a potentially haunted site. If you buy only one book about the practical side of ghost hunting, this should be it.

1: Be Prepared (starting out, attitude, basic things to keep in mind)
2: Ghosts, Spirits, and Entities (listings and classifications)
3: Haunts and Hotspots (characteristics of sites with paranormal activity)
4: In the Field (practical skills, dos and don'ts, how to handle work on location)
5: Psychic Skills and Application (explanations, exercises, techniques, and tips)
6: Self-Defense and Protection (physical and psychic)
7: Detective Work (research, gathering eyewitness accounts, fieldwork, legalities)
8: Gear and Technology (a look at specific tools and how to use them)
9: Teamwork (people of various callings with whom you might work, their specialties and uses)
10: Ghost Hunting as a Hobby or Profession? (tips, legalities, pros and cons)
11. History and Inspiration (famous cases, established haunted sites, locations with paranormal activity).