Jeff Belanger's Books
Jeff Belanger is a bestselling author known for exploring history, legends, and the unexplained. With titles like The World’s Most Haunted Places and his latest works, The Call of Kilimanjaro and The Fright Before Christmas, Jeff continues to captivate readers with unforgettable stories of the extraordinary.
The Fright Before Christmas
The Fright Before Christmas delves into the folklore of Krampus and his friends with the elf-like Tomten and the goblinesque Karakoncolas. The Belsnickel is ready to hit us with his switch of sticks and Gryla may drag you back to her mountain lair. And watch out for the Yule Cat ready to pounce! These are just a few of the yuletide beasties coming for us in The Fright Before Christmas in the hope they can save us from ourselves. Published September 2023.
The Call of Kilimanjaro: Finding Hope Above the Clouds
Belanger's first memoir is an honest and engaging account of one amateur hiker's journey to spiritual transformation as he climbs to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. Published March 2021.
Chasing Spirits: The Building of the Ghost Adventures Crew by Nick Groff with Jeff Belanger
Take a look behind the scenes of the Travel Channel’s hit show Ghost Adventures with paranormal investigator Nick Groff as he shares his favorite explorations of the supernatural. From recording strange voices during his dusk-to-dawn lockdowns at haunted places to a face-to-face encounter with a spirit at Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles, Nick reveals an inside perspective of some of the most mind-blowing incidents caught on camera, a closer look at some of the gadgets and gear used in the show, and the friendly and competitive camaraderie among the Ghost Adventures crew—on the set and off. Published October 2012.
What It’s Like to Climb Mount Everest, Blast Off into Space, Survive a Tornado, and Other Extraordinary Stories
What is it like to reach the top of the world’s tallest mountain? To survive a shark attack? To fly with the US Air Force Thunderbirds? To find out, Jeff Belanger conducted interviews with twelve ordinary people who just happened to do extraordinary things-and then turned the interviews into adrenaline-packed, thrilling stories told in the first-person voices of the interviewees. Published March 2011.
Picture Yourself Legend Tripping: Your Complete Guide to Finding UFOs, Monsters, Ghosts, and Urban Legends in Your Own Back Yard
What is Legend Tripping? There’s a good chance you’ve already done it. Remember sneaking off into that cemetery at night as a kid to see if there were any ghosts? Remember hearing there was a monster lurking in that old abandoned building and wanting to check it out? Or hearing about a UFO landing site and wanting to plan your next vacation in the area so you could stand where the craft was said to have left its mark? That’s legend tripping. But it’s so much more. Published June 2010.
The Mysteries of The Bermuda Triangle (All Aboard Reading)
What will you find in the Bermuda Triangle? Join supernatural expert Jeff Belanger as he explores the mysterious Bermuda Triangle! What exactly makes it so mysterious? And just how many ships have disappeared there over the years? The answers to these questions and more lay inside! Published February 2010.
Who’s Haunting the White House? The President’s Mansion and the Ghosts Who Live There
Come explore the spooky world inside the White House! It’s one of America’s most famous and haunted homes, so keep your eyes wide open for darting shadows, ghostly apparitions, and lurking creepy creatures. We’ll hear true, scary stories from past Presidents and First Ladies, as well as from staff who work there every day and have had the chance to see it all. It’s the perfect election year book; as adults decide who will move in, kids can enjoy thinking of what the new inhabitant might encounter in the building’s many rooms and hallways. Published September 2008.
Weird Massachusetts: Your Travel Guide to Massachusetts' Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
Massachusetts and weird: not too much of a stretch, some would say. But we dug a little deeper and found all kinds of local legends, bizarre beasts, surprising cemeteries, and uncovered the best kept secrets from all over the Bay State. Published May 2008.
The Ghost Files: Paranormal Encounters, Discussion, and Research from the Vaults of Ghostvillage.com
In 1999, Ghostvillage.com was launched with the objective of exploring and openly discussing the subject of ghosts and the supernatural. What started then as six Web pages has exploded into more than 150,000 pages of personal encounters, research articles, and in-depth interviews with various experts, all supporting the existence of ghosts. Today, Ghostvillage.com is the largest and most popular supernatural Web site, according to Google. People from around the world have found a place to share their encounters, evidence, and thoughts on the paranormal. Published September 2007.
Ghosts of War: Restless Spirits of Soldiers, Spies, And Saboteurs
Ghosts of War is where history and mystery meet. Phantom U.S. Civil War regiments still march through Harpers Ferry, West Virginia before vanishing into the evening sunset. The beaches of Normandy, France still echo with the cries of the men who gave their lives storming the beaches on D-Day. The disembodied clip-clop of horse's hooves and the clank of swords from the British Civil War battle of January 25, 1644 are still heard in Nantwich, Cheshire. Wherever battles were fought and people perished, ghost legends have followed. Published September 2006.
Our Haunted Lives: True Life Ghost Encounters
Ghost encounters are happening everyday to people everywhere, and the events prove that we are not alone. When people encounter what they perceive to be a ghost or spirit, their lives are forever changed. The ultimate question - Is there life after death? - has just been answered for them. Ghosts cross every culture and continent, and the belief in their existence is on the rise. Published June 2006.
Nightmare Encyclopedia
Examines ideas about bad dreams found in different parts of the world, in different period’s of Western history, in recent clinical research, in current theories of the occult, and in popular films. Published November 2005.
Encyclopedia of Haunted Places, Revised Edition: Ghostly Locales From Around the World
For years, paranormal investigative groups have been studying their local ghosts with scientific equipment as well as with psychics and seances. This directory is a repository of some of their most profound cases. From across the United States, Canada, and many spots around the globe, ghost investigators tell of their sometimes-harrowing experiences, share their research, and give readers an overview of both well-known and obscure haunted locales. From private residences to inns and restaurants, battlefields to museums and libraries, graveyards to churches, Encyclopedia of Haunted Places offers supernatural tourists a guide to points of interest through the eyes of the world’s leading ghost hunters. Published August 2005.
Communicating With the Dead: Reach Beyond the Grave
This book is an objective and journalistic journey into the history and practice of spirit communication devices. Practitioners, scientists, clergy, and psychics all weigh in on the various means and materials used to make contact with the spirit world. Published April 2005.
The World's Most Haunted Places, Revised Edition: From the Secret Files of Ghostvillage.com
The World's Most Haunted Places, Revised Edition explores the history, folklore, and ghostly legends behind some of the world's most fascinating points of interest. Now in its second edition, Belanger revisits some of the most famous haunts with new first-hand accounts, chapters, and locations. Ghostly legends abound wherever history has made its mark. Battlefields, prisons, asylums, national monuments--all of them have stories to tell. Their ghosts still lurk, demanding that we remember the past. They're real. They're out there. And Jeff Belanger has found them. Published August 2004.