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Strange Books: Haunted DeLand and the Ghosts of West Volusia County (Haunted America)

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Haunted DeLand and the Ghosts of West Volusia County (Haunted America)Author and Haunted DeLand tour guide Dusty Smith recounts a century of ghostly history in the bustling historic community of DeLand, the Athens of Florida in Haunted DeLand and the Ghosts of West Volusia County.

Specters include those of Jeannette Barnhill, whose ghost drove her real estate mogul widower mad by standing behind him to keep a constant watch on his accounting books, and of the guest killed in the 1917 Putnam Hotel fire who leaves the smell of burnt wood and flesh in the air.

Forlorn lovers Ruby and Joshua, a freed slave and a plantation foreman, and Suzanna Brown, who jumped to her death with unrequited love for a Stetson professor, are included, as well as the ghostly horse-drawn hearse that has been seen parked alongside what was once the Old Casket Company.

From steamboat captains to Spiritualist camp residents, DeLand’s ghosts are sure to delight visitors and residents alike in this stirring account of the area’s historic haunts.

Dusty Smith is the president of the Daytona Beach Paranormal Research Group, Inc. which has been working cases all over the south east since 1997. She is the president of The International Association of Cemetery Preservationists, Inc. a 501 © 3 nonprofit corporation that adopts, restores & preserves abandoned and neglected cemeteries.

She is the owner & chief tour guide for Haunts of the World’s Most Famous Beach ghost tours and has authored over 40 titles on the paranormal and cemetery preservation. She is the editor for Raven’s Loch Publishing House, owner of Sacred Raven Magickal Supplies and Ankou: The Official Digest of The IACP, Inc. and owns Grave Appeal; the first grave site maintenance company in Florida.

Her newest books, Haunted Daytona Beach: A Ghostly Tour of the World’s Most Famous Beach & Haunted DeLand and the Ghosts of West Volusia County are the first ever written about the area.

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True Horrors Behind Hollywood’s Scary Movies

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Reel Horror True Horrors Behind Hollywood s Scary MoviesThe book “Reel Horror: True Horrors Behind Hollywood’s Scary Movies”  by John W. Law,  try to takes readers on a frightening tour behind the scenes of some of Hollywood’s best known and most frightening films.

Whether it was death and tragedy on the set, or real terror behind a true story that lead to the film, “Reel Horror” promises to offer readers the story that wasn’t told on the big screen.

Inluding in  this book as the stories of:

Stories that have, in some cases, outlived the movies themselves, find out the full details behind Brandon Lee’s harrowing days on the set of “The Crow” and the truly tragic consequences dangerous special effects can play in feature like the “Twilight Zone“. Read about the making of Psycho and see rare photographs of Joan Crawford and her final film Trog.

Reel Horror: True Horrors Behind Hollywood’s Scary Movies” is 125 pages, illustrated in an unusual 8 1/2 x 11 inches size.

John W. Law is also the author of Curse of the Silver Screen – Tragedy & Disaster Behind the Movies  and The Bates Motel Trivia Challenge.

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Who is Marie D. Jones?

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Marie D. JonesMarie D. Jones is the best selling author of “Name Your Link,” “2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012,” “PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena” and “Looking for God in All the Wrong Places.” Marie co-authored with her father, geophysicist Dr. John Savino, “Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History.”

She is also the co-author of “11:11 the Time Prompt Phenomenon: The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences, and Synchronicities,” “The Resonance Key: Exploring the Links Between Vibration, Consciousness, and the Zero Point Grid,” “The Déjà vu Enigma,” and “The Trinity Secret: The Power of Three and the Code of Creation” with Larry Flaxman, her partner in ParaExplorers.com, an organization devoted to exploring unknown mysteries.

Their next book, due in July of 2012, is “This Book is From the Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes, and Other Adventures in Time Travel.”

She has an extensive background in journalism, metaphysics, and the paranormal and has worked as a field investigator for MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) in Los Angeles and San Diego in the 1980s and 1990s.

She currently serves as a Consultant and Director of Special Projects for ARPAST, the Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team, where she works with ARPAST President Larry Flaxman to develop theories that can tested in the field.
Marie has been on television, most recently on the History Channel’s “Nostradamus Effect” series, and served as a special UFO/abduction consultant for the 2009 Universal Pictures science fiction movie, “The Fourth Kind.”

She has been interviewed on hundreds of radio talk shows all over the world, including Coast To Coast AM, NPR, KPBS Radio, Dreamland, the X-Zone, Kevin Smith Show, Paranormal Podcast, Cut to the Chase, Feet 2 The Fire, World of the Unexplained, and the Shirley MacLaine Show, and has been featured in dozens of newspapers, magazines and online publications all over the world. She is a staff writer for Intrepid Magazine, and a regular contributor to New Dawn Magazine, and her essays and articles have appeared in TAPS ParaMagazine, Phenomena, Whole Life Times, Light Connection, Vision, Beyond Reality, and several popular anthologies such as “If Women Ruled the World” and five Chicken Soup For The Soul books. She has also contributed and co-authored over fifty inspirational books for New Seasons/PIL.

She has lectured widely at major paranormal, new science and self-empowerment events, including “Through the Veil,” “Queen Mary Weekends,” “TAPS Academy Training,” “CPAK,” and “Darkness Radio Events,” and is a popular public speaker on the subjects of cutting edge science, the paranormal, metaphysics, Noetics and human potential. She also speaks often at local libraries, bookstore signings and regional meet-ups on writing, the paranormal, and metaphysical subjects.

She is also the screenwriter and co-producer of “19 Hz,” a paranormal thriller in development with Bruce Lucas Films, as well as a science fiction feature film titled “Twilight Child,” and she serves as a co-host on the popular Dreamland Radio Show.

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2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012

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2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012The 5,125-yearlong Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, which many claim portends a massive global transformation. Some dread its arrival, believing it will be the beginning of the end. Others await it with delicious anticipation, expecting it to be the catalyst for a quantum leap of consciousness, the dawning of a true New Age.

Others wonder if anything at all will occur–remember Y2K?

2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning: Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012 examines all of the popular myths, prophecies, and predictions circulating about 2012, including the Mayan teachings of time acceleration and global awakening on a consciousness level. Furthermore it takes an in-depth look at lesser-known predictions and prophecies, and at the more scientific and reality-based challenges we will face.

Some of the questions this book explores include:

* Will cosmic and earthly chaos disrupt our lives with destructive sunspot cycles, volcanic super-eruptions, monster storms, mass extinctions, and asteroid threats?

* Will huge leaps in technology create bionic humans, computers that think, and an end to all disease–possibly even death itself?

* Will economic and geopolitical powers shift out of the West and into the “the New Eurasia,” with new wars being fought over dwindling resources as global warming takes its toll?

* Will this be the evolution revolution of human consciousness–or the final countdown that leads to Armageddon itself?

* Will it be the apocalypse so many have feared–or the rebirth of the world and the transformation of humanity?

There is much, much more to the 2012 enigma than just an ancient calendar, and 2013: The End of Days or a New Beginning? will prove it.

<a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.amazon.com/Marie-D.-Jones/e/B001JPA3KC/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=3xstrange-20″>Marie D. Jones</a><img src=”https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=3xstrange-20&l=ur2&o=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /> is the coauthor of Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History and PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena.

She is a widely published writer with hundreds of credits, including dozens of inspirational gift books and five Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

She is also a licensed New Thought Minister and spiritual counselor with a background in metaphysical studies. She has appeared on numerous radio shows including Coast to Coast A.M. and Darkness Radio.

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