Author Noel Edmonds received harsh criticism from the Catholic church, who accused him of starting a cult based on cosmic ordering. Edmonds claims that his television career took off after he read Bärbel Mohr’s Cosmic Ordering Service.

There are many who believe that cosmic ordering works for them. As of this date, Mohr’s book has sold over 1 million copies in Germany alone. Strangely enough, this book has received only nine reviews on Amazon. These reviews are very mixed. Some hate this book while others rave about it.

Will cosmic ordering cults spring up because of this book, as the bishop fears? It’s possible, but I don’t know if they’ll last very long. I see this as a fad and nothing more.

Source: Bishop Attacks TV Star Over ‘Cosmic Ordering’

I found this book fascinating and entertaining at the same time. It is filled with stories by famous horror authors, both past and present. The one that sticks out the most is Ramsey Campbell’s “The Nearest to a Ghost.” He goes to the cemetery to scatter his mother’s ashes and feels a powerful sense of grief that isn’t his own. The feeling vanishes after a moment, his own grief returning. Creepy, huh? This is one of about thirty true-life experiences these people came face-to-face with. A great read.

The major complaint I have with this book is all the typos. Setting that aside, Arizona Ghost Stories was a very interesting read. Every chapter deals with a specific town or city. Garcez gives a short bio and location of the area before he launches into the ghost story itself.

Most of the hauntings took place in or around a home, though there are other sites such as saloons (big surprise), a hotel, a courthouse, and a prison. The accounts were written down as though the narrators were talking themselves.

The most chilling was the haunting which occurred in a rural area outside of Phoenix. Two women were on a nature hike when they met up with a couple. The four of them got acquainted with each other. They were talking among themselves when one of the women caught a naked Indian woman running across the desert. Blood seeped though her fingers as she held onto her stomach. From two hundred yards away, the people felt her intense fear as she was obviously running from something or someone. They tried to run after her, but she literally vanished. Park rangers have also spotted this ghost while they were out surveying the land.

There are two haunted sites (maybe more that are not included in this book) in Yuma. The first is the Yuma Court House. It is haunted by an elderly caretaker, who gave the night watchman a good scare. The second, is the old prison, which is now an historical landmark. The most affected of that area is the Dark Cell, where several inmates went insane after several days of solitary confinement. If you enjoy true-to-life ghost stories, I think you will like this book.

This book comprises several different cases, each markedly different from the other. A young mother’s ghost waits by the roadside, alerting a young officer that her child is still alive inside the wreckage of her car. A haunted police barracks. The mysterious disappearance and murder of a San Jose woman. Was her boyfriend mentally ill or does voodoo really exist? The use of a psychic in a brutal murder case. It was all good stuff.