The Ghost Hunters

The Ghost Hunters profiles notable figures in psychical investigation, examining who they were, how they worked and what they concluded about reported hauntings. Peter Underwood considers ghost hunters from earlier periods alongside more recent investigators, placing their methods and reputations within the wider history of the subject.

The book compares different approaches to investigating alleged apparitions and other seemingly inexplicable events. It also examines notorious fakes, showing how deception has shaped the ghost-hunting tradition, while preserving space for cases that investigators regarded as unresolved. The result is an account centred less on haunted locations than on the people, procedures and judgements involved in testing claims of supernatural activity.