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Colin Wilson - Mysteries

Half the spirits contacted by mediums are not what they profess to be but are merely the tramps, con-men and petty crooks of the spirit world, doing their best to swindle human beings out of a little energy.

When Alan Vaughan became possessed by the wife of the Nantucket sea captain; the entity who 'rescued'  him made him first write out the sentence :

'Each of us has a spirit while living; do not meddle with the spirits of the dead.'

In other words, contact without the underlying knowledge of what you are doing could land you in the hands of unscrupulous entities..... when news of the 'Hydesville rappings', for example, spread across America, then to Europe, spirits were suddenly manifesting themselves all over the place, from New York to Vladivostock. Why? The answer is because thousands of people were suddenly holding seances and playing with ouija boards, actually offering the spirits their energy and attention.
'Waves' of strange phenomena seem to occur when there is a wide expectation of them. The same thing happened in Europe between 1700 and 1740, when there were literally thousands of reports of vampires.