Belief and Disbelief -- Is Belief in the Supernatural Declining? -- Telling It Slant -- Patterns of Belief -- Order in Chaos -- Family Love -- Competing Cultures -- Contact with the Dead -- Life after Death -- Ghosts and Hauntings -- Visitations -- Cause, Consequence, and Lack Liquidated -- Delving -- Witnesses, Bereavement, and the Sense of Presence / Witnesses -- Bereavement -- The Sense of Presence -- From Private Experience to Public Performance Supernatural Experience as Narrative -- Belief and Disbelief: Patterns of Narration -- Story Dialectic: The Imaginary Judge and Jury -- "Alas, Poor Ghost!" Case Studies in the History of Ghosts and Visitations -- The Ghost of Hamlet's Father -- The Cock Lane Poltergeist -- The Clodd/Lang Debate -- The Vanishing Hitchhiker -- A Brief History of "Witnesses" -- Collecting the Data -- The Manchester Study -- The Leicester Study -- Transcribing Spoken Texts -- The Manchester Respondents -- Linguistic Clues to Belief and Disbelief -- Word Lists Showing Story Patterns in Memorates.