The Subject: The Battlefield Dead

Subject Category: Book written by Elizabeth Matusiak

Description: This is a collection of ghost stories which primarily take place in the Gettysburg area. The majority of stories come from sources other then the author. 

The Good: Hmmm, I can honestly say that I have nothing good to say about this book.

The Bad: Oh, there is plenty of it. Take note, readers...I LOVE to read. I can sit and read a book for hours and hours, moving only when the blood stop flowing to particular areas. However, I actually had to force myself to read through this book...and it took six tries to complete it. The stories, for the most part, have nothing "REAL" to offer. The majority can easily be explained away. Most of the stories collected in this book rely on a "noise" or "feeling frightened" as the only point. 
    The photographs presented in this book are among the worst I've seen anyone trying to pass off as paranormal. Where the author claims there are spirits, I can easily pick out frozen breath, fog, dust, rain, moisture from a large body of water (creek) and even a healthy imagination! the author calls your attention to certain photo anomalies, but disregards others that explain what the photo really is. 
    What really got me was the first two lines of the very first story, which reads "It was the perfect night for a ghost hunt. The moon was full and the fog lay covering the ground." Any investigator with half the know-how knows that fog DOES NOT make for a perfect ghost hunting night. 
    A big problem is that the author follows the babble of a "renowned and interesting" psychic. This told me, even before the first story, that this book was gonna have a lot of nonsense in it. The psychic proves she's a fraud with her descriptions of several pictures, as well as the psychic babble she puts out in certain stories.

Advice: Please, please, please...do not waste the $10 I wasted on it. I feel that I was taken for at least 9 of those 10 dollars. If you really want to read it, I'll sell you mine for $10.

Author- Kenny B of PIRA