·        Thomas Freese- is a successful author, storyteller and artist.  He has written six books including five books of ghostly tales.  His first book was Shaker Ghost Stories from Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.  He also freelance writes for magazines, including Lexington (Kentucky’s) Chevy Chaser Magazine.  Mr. Freese performs over a dozen educational and entertaining story programs for people of all ages, playing guitar, harmonica and other musical instruments.  His other books include Haunted Battlefields of the South: True Tales of Civil War Ghosts…Fog Swirler and 11 Other Ghost Stories…Strange and Wonderful Things:  A Collection of Ghost Stories With Special Appearances by Witches and Other Bizarre Creatures and How to Make Southwest Jewelry in Wood.  His website is www.ThomasLFreese.com. Title:  Ghosts, Spirits and Angels:  True Tales from Kentucky and Beyond Author:  Thomas L. Freese Publisher:  Acclaim Press 573-472-9800, customerservice@acclaimpress.com  253 pages, 51 illustrations ISBN: 978-1-935001-25-6 Hardbound with dust jacket, hand-sewn page signatures Nonfiction.  About the book: Ghosts, Spirits and Angels presents compelling and true tales from over seventy-five individuals with stories set in Kentucky and a dozen other states and two countries.  This unique panorama of paranormal and spiritual incidences is laid out by ordinary folks who happen to live in haunted houses, come up to the edge of spiritual realities and are blest to encounter angels.  Ghosts, Spirits and Angels makes a dramatic statement in spreading the net wider than just ghostly tales to bring in true accounts of the simply amazing.  Lives are forever changed by these encounters in such stories as a dead friend saving a would-be author from throwing away her first book manuscript, a Kentucky girl who grows up with a witch who married into their family, angel wings that caught a skier who fell off a cliff and the arrival of a cash-filled envelope addressed by someone’s deceased mother postmarked after her death.  There are tales of shadow people from very haunted Waverly Hills TB Sanatorium, an account of Tennessee’s Bell Witch, a humorous tale of a family’s ghost cat and the touching story of an angelic emergency responder.   Thomas L. Freese well knows tales of the unusual but true as Ghosts, Spirits and Angels is his fifth book of ghost stories.  Through personal interviews and travels, research and photography, storyteller Mr. Freese brings over ten years of gathering tales of the unusual into a quality, collectible book of mystery, awe and spiritual refreshment.  Ghosts, Spirits, and Angels by Thomas Freese is the first collection I have seen that presents paranormal encounters in three separate categories. These are true stories of real, normal people that illustrate the roles that ghosts, spirits, and angels play in our lives. These are not the usual retold tales. These are intriguing, original stories. Included are many enriching photographs of haunted sites and unexplained phenomena caught on film.  It is not only an entertaining book, but it is well researched.  The book has wonderful variety! I really loved it. You will read of a “cursed mink stole,” ghosts in hospitals, “power tools in Heaven,” family ghosts, and the “ghost next door.” You will learn of haunted historic and public places-- “The Ghosts of La Grange,” the Bell Witch Cave, Waverly Hills Sanatorium, and others--that you can check out for yourselves. You will thrill to accounts of “Bright Light Figures,” good and bad spirit energy, Civil War spirits, and “The Healer’s Story.”  You will be touched by encounters with baby angels, guardian angels, the “Little Crippled Angel,” and people who are angels on earth. Whether you are a believer or a non-believer, you will be left wondering and perhaps acknowledging some experiences of your own that you can’t explain. This is a book that makes you go back again to look at the separate categories and to look closely at your own faith. This is an invaluable book to help clarify experiences with the ghosts, spirits, and angels because they will always be around!