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Crack open this book and you'll enter the strange world of Ohio's paranormal legacy. As revenge against his faithless fiancee, an Egypt Pike man spends his afterlife terrifying contented lovers who cross the bridge where he took his own life. At the site of a horrific train wreck that claimed nearly 100 lives, the ghosts of victims return in search of answers. The inspiration behind a recent motion picture, a mysterious mothman baffles terrified witnesses on the Ohio-West Virginia border. For anyone interested in the paranormal, Ghost Stories of Ohio is sure to prove chilling and unforgettable.
There are ghost hunters. Individuals who stake out haunted houses at the request of frazzled home owners, who skulk through cmeteries at night, hoping to capture evidence of the otherwordly on theor night vision cameras, digital recorders and infra red thermometers. Some of them ar psychics, some are scientists...all of them hell bent on chasing spooks. Join them here on their adventures through the haunted landscape of N. America.
New York State''s rich and colorful history has given rise to a wealth of blood-curdling, spine-tingling tales of the supernatural. Spanning the entire length and breadth of the Empire State, this carefully researched collection of fright-filled folklore explores the unexplained phenomena, colorful spirits and haunted history that make up New York''s paranormal legacy: ΓÇó Popper, a grumpy poltergeist with a tendency to pop open lids, causes a media frenzy on Long Island horses refuse to cross a bridge in the Genessee Valley--where a peddler was killed long ago ΓÇó Henrietta, a saucy widow with a penchant for the drink, haunts a hard-to-find speakeasy in New York City on moonlit nights ΓÇó a ghost soldier wanders Fort Niagara in search of his missing head slaughtered during the Revolutionary War ΓÇó Loyalist Jane McCrea returns to haunt her former home in Fort Edward ΓÇó a ghost pig, capable of splitting itself in two, chases away visitors to Fishkill ΓÇó in Nyack, a couple wins an unusual lawsuit, making it illegal to knowingly sell a haunted house in New York State ΓÇó Martha Mesereau, one of Staten Island''s most famous spirits, waits patiently for her husband''s return from the Civil War ΓÇó vehicles and hitchhikers disappear without a trace along Devil''s Elbow, an ominous stretch of road in the Catskills
Ghost stories are found all over the state of Minnesota. Read about the spirit of a dead young mother still tending to her infant son on the third floor of the historic Warden's House in Stillwater; the ill-tempered ghost of a gangster caught on film trying to muscle in on a wedding at the Landmark Center in St. Paul; and Art, a coverall-clad handyman ghost haunting the Rochester Repository Theater in Rochester.
The most haunted real estate in America is explored in this volume of chilling tales. In Amityville, New York, an ordinary family is terrified by poltergeists in one of America''s most controversial haunted houses. Abraham Lincoln, whose wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was deeply interested in the paranormal, is said to haunt the White House in Washington, DC. In Galveston, Texas, a fiercely independent yet forlorn woman haunts Ashton Villa, a mysterious structure that survived a massive hurricane. Lalaurie Mansion in New Orleans, once owned by a sadistic southern mistress, is home to some tragic spirits who perished within. Discover these and dozens more remarkable accounts in Haunted Houses.
Barbara Smith's second collection of tales of the paranormal in Ontario. Meet the phantom who wanders the halls of a Brockville home dressed in along, white gown and the Hamilton family of five who have co-existed with a ghost for 20 years. Read about two psychics who visited a little cottage in Windsor only to stumble into a time warp that revealed the property and its owner as they existed many years before. Encounter the spirit of an angry boy trapped in this earthly plane who brought havoc to a home in Callander. These stories and many more provide hours of enjoyable reading.
Get ready for this fun collection of twisted stories just perfect for reading aloud. filled with many true-to-life characters and scenarios. This book is not recommended for people who are afraid of the dark.
Special individuals have shown gifts of prophecy, unusual insight and telepathy sine the beginning of time. Some predict the future or perform incredible feats, while others expand the limits of human knowledge. Another group, with no gifts whatsoever, seeks only profit from a universal curiosity in the unexplained.
The jack o'lantern is a central and traditional feature of Halloween. This book features the tips and design templates that will make carving your pumpkins a snap.
Darren Zenko takes us on a cruise around the alternative universe of shapeshifters. discover the pink river dolphins of Amazonia, said to turn into handsome men in order to seduce young women. And, of course, we visit the werewolf along with the werewolf legends of N & S American Indian tribes.
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