by Erin Gilbert
Erin would like to thank Abby.
Abby would like to thank Erin.
Shoot! We’re out of space and, once again, we totally forgot to thank our families for their love and support. And we forgot to thank the rest of the Ghostbusters, without whom we wouldn’t have nearly half as much fun as we do saving the world. Oh, well. We’ll make space in the next book for everyone! Promise.
Photography Credits
Figure 1.1: Courtesy of the author
Figure 9.5, Figure 9.6, Figure 10.1, Figure 11.1: TM & © 2016 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Chapter 1: Shutterstock/Lario Tus
Chapter 2, Chapter 3: Shutterstock/agsandrew
Chapter 4: Shutterstock/Heartland Arts
Chapter 5: Shutterstock/Andrey-Popov
Chapter 6: Shutterstock/Stepan Kapl
Chapter 7: (composite) Shutterstock/Perseo Medusa and Shutterstock/agsandrew
Chapter 8: Shutterstock/Fer Gregory
Chapter 9: Shutterstock/PhotoProRo
Chapter 10: Shutterstock/Perfect Lazybones
Chapter 11: Shutterstock/Alexander Raths
Chapter 12: Shutterstock/Bruce Rolff
About the Authors
Erin Gilbert, Ph.D., M.S., previously taught theoretical physics at Columbia University before taking permanent extended leave to cofound the Ghostbusters. The former academic firebrand’s work has been published in Scientific American, Nature, and The Journal of Unexplained Things, Explained. Erin has been friends—and, for a short time, frenemies—with Abby for nearly three decades. As a wise man once said, “There is no spirit more powerful than the spirit of friendship.”
Abby L. Yates, Ph.D., is a supernatural scientist and founding member of the Ghostbusters. Prior to joining the private sector, she was a professor of paranormal studies at the Kenneth P. Higgins Institute of Science. She is a fan of The X-Files, mid- to late-nineties hip-hop and R&B, and Blossom. Her philosophy is that if she can be a scientist, then so can anyone.
Andrew Shaffer is the New York Times bestselling author of the essential survival guide How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters. He is a member of the American Society for Psychical Research and the Horror Writers Association.
Excerpt from Erin and Abby’s Forthcoming Book,
A Glimpse into the Unknown: A Journey into a Portal; Catching Sight of the Other Dimension: Discovering the Undiscoverable: A Curiosity Piqued and Peaked
A glimpse into the unknown.
A journey into a portal.
Catching sight of the other dimension.
Discovering the undiscoverable.
A curiosity piqued and peaked.
Such were the titles we considered for this, our second book. So monumental was the subject matter, however, that we had no choice but to use them all.
No longer are we figuratively haunted by ghosts from our past. As the recent outbreak of spectral activity in New York City demonstrates, the ghosts from our past are quite literal. We told some people we wouldn’t talk about what happened, but the dangers posed by malevolent entities are clear and unambiguous. What happened in New York City is only the tip of the figurative iceberg when it comes to the threats that lie beyond this world. And we’re not talking about figurative iceberg lettuce, either. Or literal iceberg lettuce. We’re talking about the type of iceberg that sunk the Titanic and turned Leonardo DiCaprio at his most innocent into a human popsicle.
Yet a glimmer of hope exists. Not for DiCaprio’s Jack Dawson, but for humanity.
We didn’t just have a near-death experience—we also had a near-life experience. The implications of what we’ve seen go far beyond strengthening the barrier to prevent malevolent forces from entering our dimension. We’re on the cusp of a world in which the paranormal is treated not as a sideshow but as a branch of physics worthy of legitimate scientific pursuit. In this new world, death is not the end. It is merely a new frontier.
“There is no death!” poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote. “What seems so is transition.” If dear old Hank Wadsworth had seen what we’ve seen, he wouldn’t have settled for a single exclamation point. HE WOULD HAVE USED AT LEAST THREE!!!—MAYBE FOUR!!!!—AND THEN CAPITALIZED AND UNDERLINED THE ENTIRE POEM.
What did we see on the other side? What was it that so piqued (and peaked) our curiosity? We’ll tell you! IT WAS MORE MIND-BLOWING THAN QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT THEORY. IT ELECTRIFIED US MORE THAN TOUCHING THE THIRD RAIL. IT BROUGHT MORE TEARS TO OUR EYES THAN TITANIC. WHAT WE’RE ABOUT TO TELL YOU WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THE WORLD. WHAT WE SAW WAS—
End of excerpt.
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