Book Review: Phone calls from the dead

 Phone Calls From The Dead

Author:                            Scott Rogo & Raymond Bayless

Publisher:                         Prentice Hall

Type:                                 Hard Cover

Pages:                                164

Genre:                               non-fiction

Published:                        1979

ISBN:                               0136643345

 My copy of this book is quite old, an original with no dust jacket purchased from a little second hand book shop. It has loose pages but was a bargain purchase as i had wanted to read this work for quite some time.
 The text is of a reasonable size and clear, there is only one black and white diagram within.

 This book was really the first dedicated to the phantom of phone calls from the dead. Now every ghost hunter, or parapsychologist has a tape recorder to capture EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) but when this work was written the concept was not at all popular.
 Basically a phone call from the dead is exactly how it sounds, a person receives a phone call and the caller appears to have been someone who ha died. Usually the receiver of the call is unaware of the callers death at the time of the call.

 The book examines where the calls might really be coming from and the mechanics of how they may actually be manifesting. It also touches on other related subjects such as EVP, PK, Edison, ESP, Other dimensions, UFO's, and mediums as well as other devices that have reportedly assisted the dead in contacting the living.

 There is even an appendix where the authors discuss criticisms of there work and the evidence they provide. As well as an extensive bibliography, and index.

 I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in science, the paranormal, and the supernatural. It should be in every "ghost hunters" book shelf.

Have you read this? What did you think? Have you ever had a phone call from the dead?