When a new kid transfers to a teacher’s school, the teacher and his students are saved by the ghost of the child’s father. That people other than the ghost of the dead princess find this behavior immoral and culturally insensitive. Meanwhile, I’d have appreciated a little more acknowledgement from the narration that stealing cultural artifacts is, you know, not okay. There’s absolutely no reason for the mummy to have been a princess, and I feel like the science behind the mummy’s decay was, uh, less than factual (though, being far from an expert myself, I can’t be sure). This one made me laugh a bit, as it’s drowning in “Everything’s Better with Princesses”. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but a child might find it sufficiently spooky.Īfter a teacher steals a bone from an Egyptian tomb, she and her husband are haunted by the ghost of the deceased. It’s a mediocre ghost story and follows a condensed form of the traditional formula: living person meets dead person, living person learns the story of the dead person, living person helps the dead person “move on”, whatever that means. When a middle school teacher hears hoofbeats on campus, she meets the ghost of a schoolteacher who died in the Civil War. Why anyone would subtitled a fictional book “True Ghost Stories”, only to admit on the first page that it’s all bullshit, I haven’t the slightest idea. The names and places in the stories are not real.

These eerie tales are inspired, in part, by real-life cases taken from the files of noted ghost hunters. This book is a creepy collection of stories about phantoms–especially ghostly teachers–who have haunted teachers and students in the classroom, on the playground, and at home. That is to say, they’re definite works of fiction, as stated in the introduction: Haunted Teachers: True Ghost Stories contains seven stories that are every bit as “true” as the nine stories from Haunted Animals. Reader beware–these chilling true tales may cause you to forget to do your homework! Have you heard about the kids whose lives were saved by a mysterious young teacher’s aide? Has anyone ever told you about the teacher who was haunted by a ghostly visitor?

Allan zullo haunted books