The concept of the paranormal can be defined in many ways—from encompassing any strange experience that can't be defined by science to psychic phenomena to monsters and weird creatures and things that go bump in the night. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Paranormal, the focus is on the most interesting and bone-chilling aspects—the ones that have kept people up all night reading for hundreds of years (often because they're afraid to go to sleep!), including:
* Ghosts and spirits—lost souls, hauntings, poltergeists, and revenging spirits that reach from beyond the grave to torment the living.
* Angels, demons, and spellcasters—including necromancy and voodoo.
* Monsters and creatures—vampires, zombies, werewolves and shapeshifters, the New Jersey devil, the Loch Ness Monster, and more.
* Unexplained phenomena—crop circles, the Bermuda Triangle and the Mystery Cloud of Gallipoli (in which an entire army disappeared), doppelgangers, and the 2012 'conspiracy,' to name just a few.
* Comprehensive listings of monsters, creatures, and phenomena, and a further reading appendix for those who just can't get enough of the paranormal.
