A Field Guide to Common Ghosts

What if the ghosts said to walk among us aren't just the stuff of old tales, but part of our shared human story?

For over fifteen years, social philosopher G.V. Loewen has traveled through rural landscapes, sat with elders, and collected hundreds of firsthand accounts of encounters with the otherworldly. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork and narrative research into human anxieties, mortality, and the afterlife—as well as chance encounters with both the earthly and the potentially unearthly—Lo...