Hello, I'm Richard McClain Smith, creator of Unexplained.

The following is an extract taken from my new book, which is available to buy in print

and audio book, at bookstores and online in Waterstones, Blackwells and Amazon, amongst

other outlets.

The book will also be available to purchase in the US and Canada in fall 2019.

I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 10

Every story is a ghost story.

The ghost holds a unique place in the world of the supernatural, as capable of scaring

as senseless as they are of inflicting us with the deepest of melancholys.

They also come in many forms, the ghosts that we carry with us in our daily lives, memories

of those we have loved and lost, or perhaps even wronged, thoughts that sit in the deepest

parts of the psyche, straining to become manifest.

It watered the apparitions that seemed not to have been brought forth from the subconscious.

Those that have no connection to the observer, but instead seemed to be reaching out to

us from a seemingly timeless space.

For some, to witness a ghost, particularly that of a relative, might bring a certain comfort,

the reassuring glimpse of a life beyond death.

Almost without exception, however, dating back to our earliest cultures from those of

the Igbo in West Africa to the Bengali of South Asia, the sighting of a ghost was rarely

something to celebrate.

Commonly the appearance of a ghost would speak of something unsettled, the result of a body

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