Most people with an interest in the paranormal find themselves looking for more information on topics of interest.  When an interest turns to a passion and/or when you just can't resist becoming a ghost hunter yourself,  you will be looking for knowledge and equipment essential to any field investigator.  Below is information on books  recommended or used by members of the CPPRA.

Hauntings and Poltergeist, a companion to the author's how-to manual Ghost Hunting, offers in-depth background for ghost hunters and anyone interested in psychic phenomena and experience, with spotlights on apparitions (ghosts), hauntings, and poltergeists. Written by a respected and renowned expert and featuring black and white photos and illustrations throughout, the book covers the concepts and theories behind ghostly phenomena through a detailed look at parapsychology; mediumship, near-death experiences, and reincarnation; how psychic abilities manifest themselves; parapsychological lab research; how investigators can recognize and enhance their psychic abilities; and more.

GHOST HUNTING tells what apparitions, hauntings and poltergeists really are. Ghostbuster Loyd Auerbach describes the many forms ghostly phenomena can take and the methods parapsychologists use to study them. He explains the technology used by ghost hunters and when equipment is and is not helpful. If you’ve encountered a ghost yourself, this book will show you how to investigate your experiences—a step-by-step and how to use the ghost busters methods to make you home "ghost-free"

In GHOST HUNTING you will discover

How to tell paranormal events from coincidence.
What’s really going on with poltergeists.
How to investigate ghost sightings.
What to do if you have a close encounter with a ghost.
How to befriend your ghost.
How to get rid of unwanted spirits.
All this and more.

 The Atlantic Paranormal Society, also known as T.A.P.S., is the brainchild of two plumbers by day, paranormal investigators by night: Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. Their hair-raising investigations, fueled by their unique abilities and a healthy dose of scientific method, have made them the subject of a hit TV show: the SCI FI Channel's Ghost Hunters.

Now their experiences are in print for the first time, as Jason and Grant recount for us, with the help of veteran author Michael Jan Friedman, the stories of some of their most memorable investigations. The men and women of T.A.P.S. pursue ghosts and other supernatural phenomena with the most sophisticated scientific equipment available -- from thermal-imaging cameras to electromagnetic-field recorders to digital thermometers -- and the results may surprise you. Featuring both cases depicted on Ghost Hunters and earlier T.A.P.S. adventures never told before now, this funny, fascinating, frightening collection will challenge everything you thought you knew about the spirit world.

Do you Believe in Ghosts? Want to Know How to Find them? Author, ghost researcher and American Ghost Society founder Troy Taylor's 10th Anniversary Edition of his bestselling guide to investigating ghosts and hauntings expands on all of the original material from past volumes and  adds new information on investigation techniques, detection equipment, spirit communication, cameras and photo analysis, historical research and more! This essential manual offers step-by-step methods for investigating homes, buildings and graveyards; authentic methods of taking and analyzing paranormal photos, video and Electronic Voice Phenomenal; real-life case files of ghostly activity; best uses for 35mm and digital cameras; spirit communications and ghost watches --- and just about anything else that a ghost hunter needs to know! The acclaimed guide explores step-by-step methods of investigating homes, buildings and graveyards; ghost detection equipment; authentic methods of spirit photography; secrets of Electronic Voice Phenomena; real-life stories from ghost hunting case files; and much more! Don't just read about haunted houses --- go out and find your own!

 Author and ghost researcher Troy Taylor once again delves into the supernatural with a guide to the history and mystery of spirit photography. In this latest installment in the popular series, the author takes an in-depth look at the controversial and mysterious history of spirit photography, including a look at the mediums and scientists who pioneered the field and the most famous pictures that allege to be ghosts captured on film.

"The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, Third Edition" includes more than 600 fascinating entries about ghosts, hauntings, related paranormal phenomenon, the people who investigate them, and the key theories about what causes them. Widely regarded as the definitive reference in the field, this encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage written in an engaging style. Paranormal expert Rosemary Ellen Guiley has compiled extensive research on the most current theories about what causes ghosts and the many new haunting cases documented since publication of the second edition. The third edition has been substantially updated with the addition of more than 130 new entries, more than 20 new black-and-white photographs, and an updated foreword by Troy Taylor, author and founder of the American Ghost Society. Many entries include bibliographical listings for further reading. The new and revised entries include: Amityville case; Apparition; Black Aggie; Eastern State Penitentiary; Electronic voice phenomena; Haunting; Lizzie Borden House; Myrtles Plantation; Possession; Shadow people; and more.

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Ghosts of the Molly Maguires? is co-authored by the current owner of the Old Jail Musuem, Betty Lou McBride, along with Kathleen McBride Sisack, take you through claims of paranormal experiences related by unsuspecting visitors to the Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe, PA.   

As noted on their website, "Ghosts of the Molly Maguires? is a compilation of these first-hand reports.  Through these
accounts readers can wander the Old Jail’s cold hallways, past Cell 17 with its mysterious handprint on the wall, under the gallows on which seven of the accused Molly Maguires
were put to death, and down into the eerie dungeon where even the jail’s guides won’t venture after dark." 

The book also provides readers with historical information on the Old Jail and its most famous inmates: the Molly Maguires.  Click HERE for more information on the book including a link to an excerpt from it!