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Categories: History , Horror & Supernatural

 Halloween is a happy time of year...wait, no, really!! If you love all things "haunted", this is the best time of year of all. Not that ghosties and gremlins wait for October to come around, but this is when most people think about them.

Just in time for the Presidential Election (now, that's scary), there is a terrific new children's book, Who's Haunting the White House: The President's Mansion and the Ghosts Who Live There (2008) by Jeff Berlanger. Not just for kids, this book has the lowdown on hauntings and ghosts in the White House.

Some people (like me) want to go looking for ethereal, ephemeral occupants that co-exist with us. In other words, we want to go ghost hunting. Cincinnati Magazine has an article in this current October 2008 issue, I, Ghosthunter, in which a skeptical reporter accompanies the paranormal investigation group CAPER (Cincinnati Area Paranormal Existence Research) into a house to gather evidence of a haunting, and... well, let's just say she changes her mind.

Cincinnati Ghosts (2008) presents absorbing evidence on local haunts that will shake the doubt of the most serious skeptic. The author, Karen Laven, and her husband are extremely entertaining speakers, and will be at the Oakley and Anderson branch libraries on Nov 3 and Nov 5.

Southwest Ohio Is Haunted (2008) by local authors Michael and Jeff Morris of Miamitown Ghost Tours is a fascinating case study of paranormal activity in our area. They will be speaking on Nov 6 at the Cheviot branch.

Happy Reading....and have a Happy Halloween!