Excerpt from The Oakland Ghost and Ancient Phenomena, With a Review of the Oakland Committee At that time, speaking in general terms, myself and family were entirely ignorant of modern spiritualism. I write this, that this phenomena may in great measure remain, as when it came upon the material plane, and not because I am vain to advertise my ignorance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.