From the vaults of FATE Magazine come true stories of encounters with ghosts, phantoms, and haunted places. An elderly waitress silently serves breakfast to two friends at an eerily deserted diner�and the next day, the friends discover the diner is out of business and slated for demolition. A phantom train still blows its whistle more than fifty years after a gruesome accident. And a grandfather's spirit brings a warning that saves his family from a deadly house fire.

Over the past sixty years, FATE magazine has published thousands of true ghost stories-personal accounts from ordinary people who have had extraordinary run-ins with the spirit world. This collection features the best of these spine-tingling, bizarre, heartwarming, and sometimes humorous haunting experiences. These frightening firsthand reports include tales of:

Ghostly Apparitions � Messages from the Dead � Dream Visitations
Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences � Haunted Places
Spirits Helping the Living � Animal Spirits � Child Ghosts
Phantom Vehicles and Buildings � Past-Life Memories
Vortexes, Time Slips, and Portals to Other Dimensions � Spirit Guides and Angels