"In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling . I am startled but not afraid . Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me. "Dennis Waskul writes these lines about his first-hand experience with the supernatural in the introduction to his beguiling book "Ghostly Encounters. "Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 midwestern Americans, the Waskuls book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings in everyday life. The...

In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling . I am startled but not afraid . Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me.

Dennis Waskul writes these lines about his first-hand experience with the supernatural in the introduction to his beguiling book Ghostly Encounters. Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 midwestern Americans, the Waskuls book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings...