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Chasing Ghosts, Texas Style: On the Road with Everyday Paranormal
Part high-adventure tale, part autobiography, this page-turner recounts the eerie experiences that convinced brothers Brad and Barry Klinge, founders of Everyday Paranormal and stars of the TV series Ghost Lab on Discovery Channel, that ghosts really do walk among us Brad and Barry Klinge have been investigating paranormal occurrences for the last twenty years, and in Chasing Ghosts, Texas Style , they divulge some of their most exciting ghost encounters and analyze the science behind their paranormal hunts.
Each chapter of this fascinating book focuses on the Klinge brothers’ investigations into the creepiest of places, and explains how they have been able to capture both audio and video of paranormal occurrences using their high tech tools, and a healthy dose of common sense. Even when faced with mysterious slamming doors and haunting pleas for help, these brothers never shy away from a bone-chilling encounter or another chance to investigate a centuries-old haunting.
Whether they are simply looking for a frightening ghost story or are more interested in the science behind ghost hunting, readers will not be able to put this gripping book down. In fact, they may even be inspired to take up ghosthunting themselves.
Each chapter of this fascinating book focuses on the Klinge brothers’ investigations into the creepiest of places, and explains how they have been able to capture both audio and video of paranormal occurrences using their high tech tools, and a healthy dose of common sense. Even when faced with mysterious slamming doors and haunting pleas for help, these brothers never shy away from a bone-chilling encounter or another chance to investigate a centuries-old haunting.
Whether they are simply looking for a frightening ghost story or are more interested in the science behind ghost hunting, readers will not be able to put this gripping book down. In fact, they may even be inspired to take up ghosthunting themselves.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published September 27, 2011
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June 5, 2018
I needed this book after the bust of the last "true" ghost story book I had read. I knew I would enjoy this a bit since I was a fan of the Klinge short-lived "Ghost Lab" that was televised on the Discovery channel. The book focused on how the brothers became interested in ghosts, why they started Everyday Paranormal and the troubles in getting to the point of having a television show. The best parts for me were the stories of the places they investigated and what they found and didn't find there. I definitely suggest this book for fans of the genre, I really loved this book and wish that there had been more seasons of the show. I believe that the Klinge brothers and Ghost Lab were some of the more trustworthy of the paranormal shows out there.
September 29, 2015
I watched Ghost Lab when it was on TV. It was on only a few years and I really enjoyed the show. I was disappointed when it was cancelled. Ghost Lab didn't have quite the drama some other paranormal shows have and perhaps that's why it was cancelled. I liked it though and actually wish it was still on.
This book is written by Brad and Barry Klinge, the brothers who founded Everyday Paranormal. They have their own style of investigating, which is more scientific.
The book was interesting read. I liked reading about their lives and how they have always been interested in the paranormal. Some of their investigations were interesting to read about also.
I like their style although I have never agreed with riling up ghosts. They questioned why other investigators consider it disrespectful to do that. Well, it's simple: ghosts are people. They were once living and breathing like us. And let's be honest: who likes being yelling at? I'm not bashing them. I loved the show and enjoyed the book. But, I am a paranormal investigator and have been for 12 years now. Riling up ghosts isn't part of my style of investigating.
Also, I don't believe most orbs are dust. I have done my own experiments and found that it is really hard to get dust orbs. Some orbs may be dust, but I wouldn't discount the majority of them like many paranormal investigators seem to do.
Overall, I liked the book, even if I don't agree with everything they say. It is really too bad their show isn't still on today. It was a good show.
This book is written by Brad and Barry Klinge, the brothers who founded Everyday Paranormal. They have their own style of investigating, which is more scientific.
The book was interesting read. I liked reading about their lives and how they have always been interested in the paranormal. Some of their investigations were interesting to read about also.
I like their style although I have never agreed with riling up ghosts. They questioned why other investigators consider it disrespectful to do that. Well, it's simple: ghosts are people. They were once living and breathing like us. And let's be honest: who likes being yelling at? I'm not bashing them. I loved the show and enjoyed the book. But, I am a paranormal investigator and have been for 12 years now. Riling up ghosts isn't part of my style of investigating.
Also, I don't believe most orbs are dust. I have done my own experiments and found that it is really hard to get dust orbs. Some orbs may be dust, but I wouldn't discount the majority of them like many paranormal investigators seem to do.
Overall, I liked the book, even if I don't agree with everything they say. It is really too bad their show isn't still on today. It was a good show.
January 17, 2012
Interesting book on the Klinge Bros of San Antonio. This is the 3rd book I've read about paranormal investigation teams I've read (Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and Everyday Paranormal). They are all very different in their approaches to the paranormal, and of the three Everyday Paranormal is the most scientific. Their show on the Discovery Channel did not last long I think because they weren't as dramatic in their findings as the other two. They do find good evidence, but their approach is more like a science experiment. Not a bad read. I'm going to watch some of the episodes on Netflix and see if it changes my mind about it.
May 17, 2022
Brad and Barry Klinge are paranormal investigators and are on a television show called "Ghost Lab". "Chasing Ghosts Texas Style" gives you an open, honest look into their lives filming the show and how and why they become obsessed with the paranormal. I enjoyed that they told their own background stories and gave a behind-the-scenes look at some of their cases. They had to deal with some very strange assurances and fake people. I enjoyed the book as much as I enjoyed the TV show but have room for improvement. I would have liked updates on what happened after the show aired and after they left the investigation in the book and less background music and talk while playing the recordings.
November 25, 2019
Chasing Ghosts, Texas Style looks like it was mostly dictated by the brothers, trading off between passages. They each share their experiences but in a very casual way. This isn't rigid prose. Everything is very conversational. This both helps and hurts the book. Having no personal interest in Ghost Lab, the authors had to work harder for me to care about what they were discussing. Unfortunately, they don't always deliver.
August 22, 2025
Very cool book. The author is also fantastic. A lot of the paranormal scene is fictional crap made up for views, but not these guys. They are serious about what they do. I enjoyed reading their story.
December 10, 2019
Engaging, quick read. Was pleasantly surprised by the stories about frauds and people with their own peculiar agendas. I've not seen any of the shows, but this book made me curious to find them.
October 5, 2013
I liked this book but there were a few things I didn’t like. Let me get them out of the way. I didn’t mind learning about how they got their early start though some of the stuff that got in the way of Everyday Paranormal’s development and eventual TV show really didn’t interest me, though I understand why it would be important to the brothers. (I hate to say it, I never even heard of their show and I thought I knew all the ghost shows. Apparently it’s off the air now). What bugged me were their very dismissive attitudes towards some of their coworkers (not the one who faked evidence or the one who screwed them on the video editing, that I can understand) and of psychics etc. Did anyone else see the irony of them dissing on a team member’s wife for having ghost books on her shelf when by default they’d want people to be reading their ghost book? And the knee-jerk negative reaction to some of the pagan aspects to some people’s belief systems.
But the funniest negative thing for me was the comment about wanting a group without egos after their bad start with another group. There’s a whole lot of ego in here. I’m not entirely sure some of the claims are wholly accurate but since there is no real chronology for ghost hunting, maybe they were the first to yell at ghosts to provoke a bigger response. I sure as heck know they’re not alone. It’s something I dislike about Taps and Zak Bagans for that matter. I will give them this, they tried to reason out why acting like a jackass to a ghost would provoke a bigger response (and if we’re going to be scientific like they claim, did they do any data collection on what really did work) though cortisol and those things work in humans. Ghosts don’t have that but maybe a residual memory of it? I’m thinking too hard here. I do know that doing EVP work isn’t all that new and trending when they bought their digital recorder in 2007. I was doing that with my team back in the mid-1980s with a freaking Walkman which I’ll grant you weren’t that hot. We’ve been trying to record them since at least the early 20th cen but yes, digital recorders are a leap forward.
So now that I got that out of the way, I really did like this book. It’s obvious that the brothers have a good grasp on the scientific method and are using it well. We get both brothers input on every chapter and I very much enjoyed reading about where they went and what they found which is the majority of the book. I’m very familiar with The Myrtles and libraries often seem to be haunted (not sure why that is). The creepiest one, by far for me, is the abandoned nursing home which I think they were well aware of since there’s a teaser for it at the beginning of the book. The description of the nursing home is shocking and not just the ghosts. I’ve been a nursing home doctor and the idea of patient charts just left in situ to be tossed about by trespassers (or staff who knows) is gob smacking. Food trays in the room getting moldy. It’s like what in the hell happened in this shut down (they do mention it was closed for violations). The ghostly activity is chill making (and I expect that to be the case in nursing homes since I’ve seen that myself. Oh look, there’s my ego. See it’s hard to do this kind of thing without it creeping in).
The one that surprised me most I think was the number of haunted K-12 schools. I never really thought about that much and I’m not sure I’ve read much about haunted schools in spite of how much I’ve read on the subject. I liked that. They included their failures or dealings with the less than truthful or maybe even the delusional. Let’s just say the Klinge brothers seems to get a lot of weirdness among team members but the one where the woman faked the evidence is very irritating because I’m with the brothers on this, that kind of crap is just wrong. It ends with the troubles getting a TV show which honestly didn’t interest me. Over all if you like ghost hunting, this is pretty accessible book and they do give you a list of things a ghost hunter would need.
But the funniest negative thing for me was the comment about wanting a group without egos after their bad start with another group. There’s a whole lot of ego in here. I’m not entirely sure some of the claims are wholly accurate but since there is no real chronology for ghost hunting, maybe they were the first to yell at ghosts to provoke a bigger response. I sure as heck know they’re not alone. It’s something I dislike about Taps and Zak Bagans for that matter. I will give them this, they tried to reason out why acting like a jackass to a ghost would provoke a bigger response (and if we’re going to be scientific like they claim, did they do any data collection on what really did work) though cortisol and those things work in humans. Ghosts don’t have that but maybe a residual memory of it? I’m thinking too hard here. I do know that doing EVP work isn’t all that new and trending when they bought their digital recorder in 2007. I was doing that with my team back in the mid-1980s with a freaking Walkman which I’ll grant you weren’t that hot. We’ve been trying to record them since at least the early 20th cen but yes, digital recorders are a leap forward.
So now that I got that out of the way, I really did like this book. It’s obvious that the brothers have a good grasp on the scientific method and are using it well. We get both brothers input on every chapter and I very much enjoyed reading about where they went and what they found which is the majority of the book. I’m very familiar with The Myrtles and libraries often seem to be haunted (not sure why that is). The creepiest one, by far for me, is the abandoned nursing home which I think they were well aware of since there’s a teaser for it at the beginning of the book. The description of the nursing home is shocking and not just the ghosts. I’ve been a nursing home doctor and the idea of patient charts just left in situ to be tossed about by trespassers (or staff who knows) is gob smacking. Food trays in the room getting moldy. It’s like what in the hell happened in this shut down (they do mention it was closed for violations). The ghostly activity is chill making (and I expect that to be the case in nursing homes since I’ve seen that myself. Oh look, there’s my ego. See it’s hard to do this kind of thing without it creeping in).
The one that surprised me most I think was the number of haunted K-12 schools. I never really thought about that much and I’m not sure I’ve read much about haunted schools in spite of how much I’ve read on the subject. I liked that. They included their failures or dealings with the less than truthful or maybe even the delusional. Let’s just say the Klinge brothers seems to get a lot of weirdness among team members but the one where the woman faked the evidence is very irritating because I’m with the brothers on this, that kind of crap is just wrong. It ends with the troubles getting a TV show which honestly didn’t interest me. Over all if you like ghost hunting, this is pretty accessible book and they do give you a list of things a ghost hunter would need.
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April 29, 2014
Brad and Barry Klinge, brothers from San Antonio, Texas, have been fascinated by ghosts and the paranormal since childhood. This fascination and a series of personal experiences growing up led the two to eventually begin to investigate haunted locations. In this book, the two share stories from their childhood, those personal experiences that first made them wonder if there was anything to all the ghost stories they loved, and cases they have investigated with their team, Everyday Paranormal.
Brad and Barry take a very scientific approach to their investigations, just as my team does, which I can definitely appreciate. They run an investigation, find whatever potential evidence they can, and then test that evidence to be as sure as possible that what they have is legitimate paranormal phenomena.
This book covers stories from their experiences investigating both residential and public locations, the most mundane home or some of the more well-known haunted locations such as Myrtles Plantation. They tell about their personal experiences in these locations, share any evidence they find, and explain why they can or cannot consider each occurrence as actual evidence of the paranormal.
If you are interested in what really goes on during the course of a standard paranormal investigation, this book is worth reading. In the back, they also include a list of the basic equipment you will need if you wish to start investigating and a glossary of common terms used in the field.
Brad and Barry take a very scientific approach to their investigations, just as my team does, which I can definitely appreciate. They run an investigation, find whatever potential evidence they can, and then test that evidence to be as sure as possible that what they have is legitimate paranormal phenomena.
This book covers stories from their experiences investigating both residential and public locations, the most mundane home or some of the more well-known haunted locations such as Myrtles Plantation. They tell about their personal experiences in these locations, share any evidence they find, and explain why they can or cannot consider each occurrence as actual evidence of the paranormal.
If you are interested in what really goes on during the course of a standard paranormal investigation, this book is worth reading. In the back, they also include a list of the basic equipment you will need if you wish to start investigating and a glossary of common terms used in the field.
October 26, 2012
Who believes in the paranormal? Do unexplained occurrences happen all the time? How would we know if the slamming of a door was a phenomenon and not the wind? Brad and Barry Klinge can tell you and that’s exactly what they do in “Chasing Ghosts Texas Style.”
This is a detailed accounting of the ups and downs of Everyday Paranormal, their business of ghost hunting. They use science and the latest equipment in their investigations. They regale us with stories of these, some turning creepy and others ending with zilch. Of course, there are those ‘psychics’ or ‘mediums’ thrown in who believe they can solve many of the mysteries. Instead, what they cause is chaos through unfounded falsified evidence, giving the Klinge brothers bad reputations and thwarting their attempts to prove the actual existence of phenomena.
If you’re not a believer in the paranormal, that’s okay. I have a feeling you’re going to walk away questioning yourself. A great read with factual events (as far as you can get with the paranormal). Now, if I could partake in one of their investigations…
Reviewed by Starr Gardinier Reina, author of “One Major Mistake”
This is a detailed accounting of the ups and downs of Everyday Paranormal, their business of ghost hunting. They use science and the latest equipment in their investigations. They regale us with stories of these, some turning creepy and others ending with zilch. Of course, there are those ‘psychics’ or ‘mediums’ thrown in who believe they can solve many of the mysteries. Instead, what they cause is chaos through unfounded falsified evidence, giving the Klinge brothers bad reputations and thwarting their attempts to prove the actual existence of phenomena.
If you’re not a believer in the paranormal, that’s okay. I have a feeling you’re going to walk away questioning yourself. A great read with factual events (as far as you can get with the paranormal). Now, if I could partake in one of their investigations…
Reviewed by Starr Gardinier Reina, author of “One Major Mistake”
June 17, 2015
On the whole, not bad. Every paranormal group or ghost hunting team has its own style and mode of operation and Everyday Paranormal definitely has that. Unfortunately, all the "hard" evidence (EVPs, stuff caught in digital or on video footage) in the world does no good when you're reading a book about it rather than hearing or viewing said evidence for yourself. I looked online for stuff from the group, but there's nothing available. Oh well.
Since I was listening to the book, I found it entertaining and interesting while I did chores or pulled weeds, with stories of hauntings, both good and bad, learning about place in San Antonio I'd like to visit if I get the chance, and things that can go wrong with clients.
There is one thing I did not agree with and that's their philosophy of "riling" up the ghosts just to get EVPs (electronic voice phenomenon). I agree with critics about the whole provoking the ghost thing by yelling at them (a major reason why I don't watch 'Ghost Adventures'). You might rile the ghost, true, but on air it just makes you sound like a complete @&& and you might just provoke something even more dangerous in the process.
Since I was listening to the book, I found it entertaining and interesting while I did chores or pulled weeds, with stories of hauntings, both good and bad, learning about place in San Antonio I'd like to visit if I get the chance, and things that can go wrong with clients.
There is one thing I did not agree with and that's their philosophy of "riling" up the ghosts just to get EVPs (electronic voice phenomenon). I agree with critics about the whole provoking the ghost thing by yelling at them (a major reason why I don't watch 'Ghost Adventures'). You might rile the ghost, true, but on air it just makes you sound like a complete @&& and you might just provoke something even more dangerous in the process.
April 6, 2014
Paranormal investigation has never before been presented in such a scientific way. Brad and Barry Klinge give their tales of early life as paranormal investigators, covering the rise of Everyday Paranormal, and concluding with their television series Ghost Lab.
Throughout the book, it's explained why particular investigation steps are taken, what the likely causes of paranormal activity are, and even when both brothers are convinced they have cause signs of a genuine haunting, they still present alternatives to what might have caused it. My only complaint with this book was that it was too short!
Throughout the book, it's explained why particular investigation steps are taken, what the likely causes of paranormal activity are, and even when both brothers are convinced they have cause signs of a genuine haunting, they still present alternatives to what might have caused it. My only complaint with this book was that it was too short!
March 27, 2013
I think I've read them all now...all the books about the ghost hunting shows I like to watch. These guys got cancelled, unfortunately. I love reading back stories on people such as this, how they got started, their earlier cases.
April 24, 2013
This was a pretty good and interesting book. I would have liked to hear more accounts of hauntings throughout more of Texas though. Also, I could have done without the discussions on fraud psychics and the drama of getting a TV show deal.
October 5, 2013
I enjoy reading books on ghost hunting since I've been involved in that myself since the 80s. Once you get past the egos of the hosts (true of all the ones I've read, looking at you Taps and Zak Bagans), it's a fun read.
October 16, 2012
Very good book, anyone wanting to start ghost hunting should read this book.
November 13, 2012
With this group being from San Antonio, it was very interesting to read about some of the haunted sites around the old home town.
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May 11, 2013I brought it back to the library without finishing it...
April 1, 2015
This is a great well put together book that these men put together telling about how they got started and some of their adventures along the way.
June 29, 2016
Interesting. I haven't seen the show, but am very interested in watching it now. I like the scientific approach to ghost hunting.
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