The Ghost Lab
How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science
$63.21
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2025
Summary
A surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America.
In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to a copy center and framing shop, a ghost lab opened. The Kitt Research Initiative’s mission was to use the scientific method to document the existence of spirits. Founder Andy Kitt was known as a straight-shooter; and was unafraid - perhaps eager - to offend other paranormal investigators by exposing the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781541703971 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1541703979 |
| Author: | Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Imprint: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 560g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 146mm x 36mm |
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Critics Review
“The Ghost Lab is like a season of your favorite spooky, ghost-hunting television show, in which you grow to know and like the hunters, and maybe even understand what drives them.”
–Big Think“An alternately fascinating and disturbing portrait.”–The Gospel Coalition
“Fascinating.” –Booklist
“Hongoltz-Hetling [writes] with a dry and wry sense of humor reminiscent of Mark Twain… But under this gentle rib-poking, he has a serious purpose, namely, to investigate why, in the 21st century, in the wealthiest, most developed country in the history of the world, so many ordinary folk are so utterly lost to science that they devote tremendous energy to readily debunked and debunkable nonsense.”
–KirkusAbout The Author
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling is a freelance journalist specializing in narrative features and investigative reporting. He has been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, won a George Polk Award, and been voted Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press association, among numerous other honors. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, USA Today, Popular Science, Atavist Magazine, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Associated Press, and elsewhere. He is the author of two prior books, A Libertarian Walks into a Bear and It Sounds Like a Quack.
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