Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Short description: 2005 book by Mary Roach

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

First edition

Author| Mary Roach
Country| United States
Language| English
Genre| Science
Publisher| W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

| 2005
Media type| Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages| 311 pp
ISBN| ISBN:0-393-32912-7
OCLC| 76884889

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), published by W. W. Norton & Company, a nonfiction work by Mary Roach, is a humorous scientific exploration as to whether there is a soul that survives death. In Britain, the title of the book is Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife.

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife was the recipient of the Elle Reader's Prize in October 2005. Spook was also listed as a New York Times Notable Books pick in 2005, as well as a New York Times Bestseller, and it was also an October Booksense pick.[1]

## Book synopsis

Author Mary Roach investigates the possibility of an afterlife and also attempts to find and define the soul, all while using a scientific approach. The book covers these topics:

* Investigations of reincarnation
* Attempts to find the soul (by dissection, weighing, and other methods)
* Spiritualism, fraudulent mediums, and ectoplasm
* Modern mediumship, and "medium schools"
* Attempts to use electronic devices to communicate with the dead, including electronic voice phenomena (EVP)
* Other forces that make people feel haunted electromagnetic fields, infrasound, etc.
* Court cases involving ghosts
* Near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences

## References

1. ↑ Roach, Mary. "Spook". http://www.maryroach.net/spook.html. Retrieved 31 July 2012.

## External links

* Mary Roach's website
* Roach talks about Spook with Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report

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