To mark the release of his new book, Phantoms of Christmas Past: Festive Ghost Hunts, Ghost Hoaxes and Ghost Panics, author Paul Weatherhead examine the weird history of ghost hoaxing, a bizarre activity that was surprisingly widespread in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These hoaxes often led to mayhem, drunken rioting, ghost hunters dressing in drag, and even death....

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