PARANORMAL TEXAS
Your Travel Guide
to Haunted Places
Near Dallas & Fort Worth
2ND EDITION
by
TUI SNIDER
Genre: Travel / Haunted Places / Texas History
Publisher: Castle Azle Press
Date of Publication: September 19, 2019
Number of Pages: 210 with 100+ black & white images
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More Haunted Places and True Ghost Stories!Tui Snider’s popular travel guide to haunted places in North Texas is back with a fully updated 2nd Edition featuring more haunted places and true ghost stories!
What’s new in Paranormal Texas, 2nd Edition?
Just like the original travel guide, Paranormal Texas 2nd Edition gives readers haunted history and directions to sites where paranormal activity is reported in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex.
The 2nd edition now includes:
• Photos: Readers asked for photos of haunted places. Paranormal Texas, 2nd edition has over 50 photos of haunted towns, haunted hotels, and more.
• Ghost hunting tips: Tui Snider explains what she has learned since she began attending paranormal investigations with Texas ghost hunters.
• More haunted places: Several new venues (including a haunted doll museum!) with fascinating haunted history were added to Paranormal Texas, 2nd edition.
• Firsthand accounts: Readers asked for more true ghost stories and hauntings. (She even shares personal experiences with paranormal activity, including a strange encounter with her doppelganger at a haunted hotel!)
All the above, PLUS a paranormal activity evidence database:
See the paranormal activity for yourself: Readers can access an online database with links to EVPs, ghost photos, videos, and other evidence gathered by paranormal investigators who have visited the haunted sites in her book.
•Continually updated: This database will be continually updated with EVPs, anomalous photos, videos, and other data gathered at haunted places featured in Paranormal Texas, 2nd edition.
•Add your paranormal activity: Readers can contact the author if they have paranormal evidence to add!
Is Paranormal Texas, 2nd edition for YOU?
1. Ghost Hunters – If you want to plan a fun road trip to haunted places (with or without ghost hunting equipment) Paranormal Texas, 2nd edition can help.
2. Armchair Travelers – If you prefer reading about haunted history, Paranormal Texas, 2nd edition can take you on an exciting armchair tour through haunted towns of North Texas.
“Tui’s 2nd edition is spot on fun and thrilling for everyone
to read as only Tui can tell it!”
– Greg Stephens, Paranormal Investigator (RIP)
Texas Space Alien Grave from 1897 UFO Crash in Aurora – The Roswell of Texas?
Ghostbusters movies. Doctor Who. Harry Potter. Urban Fantasy books. I love them all. But truly, I’m a skeptic. Without proof, I can’t accept that ghosts and other objects that go bump in the night (or day!) exist. But as the saying goes, I Want to Believe. And Tui Snider’s second edition of Paranormal Texas is a great travel guide to help lead the reader find that proof her\himself.
This travel guide is well-organized. The sections are broken down by location, with the table of contents listing haunted sites to visit. For this reader, I think that the organization of the novel is key. If I’m headed to Aurora, I can consult the list of locations in this area that I might want to visit. Each site is listed with an address, directions, and a website if available. The introduction includes a list of jargon for the paranormal novice which was very helpful. (My ability to remember acronyms is not great. Having the bookmarked reference was my salvation.) The guide includes well-researched locations and a conversational writing style that’s enjoyable to read. In random facts, while reading Paranormal Texas, I learned that the lead cow in a herd is called “Molly”!
If you are worried the paranormal might be too scary for you, this book also covers benign and\or friendly paranormal entities. I enjoyed the story of “Otis” the elevator ghost from the Sammons Center in Dallas.
“If an attractive lady passes by, no matter the time of day or night, the elevator door frequently opens before she pushes the call button.”
How great is that? An elevator that is ready when you need it.
I didn’t have the opportunity to read the first edition of Paranormal Texas, but the improvements for the second edition really stand out for me. I love the addition of photos. I especially appreciate the addition of Ms. Snider’s personal experiences. Her experiences at the Old Park Hotel in Ballinger gave me chills while reading it. I also genuinely admire Ms. Snider’s husband, Larry. I identify with his skepticism and his belief in the multi-verse theory. I love his nickname of “Archie Debunker”!
In the end, I’m still skeptical about the existence of paranormal entities. But I do have a longer list of locations to visit in the Dallas area. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Paranormal Texas and would recommend it to anyone interested in travel guides, Texas, or the paranormal.
I received Paranormal Texas free in exchange for my honest review. Thanks to author Tui Snider and Lone Star Book Blog Tours for providing this opportunity.
Tui Snider is an award-winning writer, speaker, photographer, and musician specializing in offbeat sites, overlooked history, cemetery symbolism, and haunted lore. As she puts it, “I used to write fiction, but then I moved to Texas!”
Tui lectures frequently at universities, libraries, conferences, and bookstores.This fall, she will speak about the Great Airship Mystery of 1897 at this year’s UFO Congress and teach a course on Understanding Cemetery Symbols at Texas Christian University. She also shares weekly info-videos based on her research at her YouTube channel.
Snider’s writing and photography have been featured in a variety of media outlets, including WFAA TV, Coast to Coast AM, LifeHack, Langdon Review, the City of Plano, Wild Woman Waking, Shades of Angels and many more. She has several more books in progress.
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I love the organization, too. So easy to find what you want when you’re out and about. Thanks for a great review!
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Thanks, Kristine! Organizers for the win!
Thank you so much for reviewing my book! I’m glad that even as a skeptic, you were able to enjoy the history behind the haunts. And isn’t Larry fun? I’m biased, of course, but his skeptical outlook is truly helpful. Plus, it’s so fun when he can’t quite explain something away!
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Thanks, Tui! I did enjoy the history! And yes, not being able to explain something does make it a lot more interesting!