Hilary Evans

Ghosts have two common types of appearance, says Hilary Evans, the author of the following selection. They either wear long robes (the Halloween ghost-in-a-sheet type), or they look like normal human beings wearing the clothing they wore in their lifetime. Evans suggests that ghosts choose these appearances because they want to be recognized. Evans is a longtime researcher of paranormal topics and the author of several books.

The year is 1940. Mr. Frank Clifton, a citizen of Brownsville, Texas, is honeymooning with his bride in a hotel in Mexico. In the middle of the night he wakes, and is astonished to see a nude lady with long hair kneeling beside the bed. His first thought is that his newly acquired wife-who herself has long hair-has got out of bed in the middle of the night to pray, though...