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In the first half of the program, George Noory welcomed writer, bookseller and advocate for books, eBooks and digital technology within publishing, Mark Leslie , who shared ghostly tales from haunted bookstores and libraries. Places with books are sacred to book lovers and some of them will not leave these locations even in death, he explained. Some hauntings may not caused by spirits of the deceased but rather impressions on time and space left behind by those still living, he noted. In addition, the source of a haunting can sometimes be traced to a haunted book, Leslie pointed out.
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| | |   | | | "You're not just taking a book home with you, you're taking the essence of someone else," he continued. Leslie recounted the story of a man who bought a used book on the First World War from Rivendell Books in Barrie, Ontario, and took the ghost of a previous owner home with it. Leslie said the man was awakened on numerous evenings by a ghost paging through this book near his bed. A priest advised the man to return the book and the ghost stopped appearing, he reported.
Leslie detailed his visit to Haslam's Book Store in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the ghost of author Jack Kerouac has been seen roaming the aisles. According to the story, Kerouac used to visit and place his books in more prominent positions around the store. After Kerouac's death his books continued to move to different shelves, Leslie revealed. He also talked about Lord Combermere whose ghost was supposedly photographed sitting in a chair in his library in 1891.
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| | |  | | Today in Strangeness:
On this day in 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition through Africa for missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone. Also on this date, an assassination attempt on Hitler fails (1943), televisions J.R. is shot (1980), and readers quickly spot the only known typo (control=contol) on a Time Magazine cover (1983).
Tonight's Show, Saturday, March 21:
Journalist and author David Yonke joins George Knapp in the first half, to discuss the brutal slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Yonke, who covered the case for the Toledo Blade, shares details of the ritual killing, and how later, Father Gerald Robinson, who presided over her funeral, was found guilty of the crime. In the latter half, author William Scott will discuss his campaign to force police to disclose the true number of people they kill every year, and why bad cops continue to be protected instead of arrested.
From 6-10 pm (PT) on Saturday night, Coast Insiders can hear an Art Bell: Somewhere in Time program from 8/11/97 for an evening of Open Lines, with callers debating the UPS strike.
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