Haunted Homeland: A Definitive Collection of North American Ghost Stories (Haunted America Series)

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Trapped miners from cave-ins long ago still calling for help. Ghostly women lurking in the shadows of city streets. Spectral holy men and outlaws from Americas Spanish past making appearances in our modern age. They are all citizens of Haunted America and this is HAUNTED HOMELAND. From a haunted castle in the wilds of Alaska to phantom clergymen in the Southwest and mysterious bouncing lights on the East Coast this latest volume covers the places the people and the things that belong to the earthbound realm of the fantastic. Michael Norman has gathered together spectral events of all kinds--apparitions of the famous like Mary Surratt Mary Todd Lincoln and Mad Anthony Wayne; haunted crime scenes in Chicago and along the Indiana byways; as well as banshees poltergeists and even a ghost named George who has become an accepted resident in a house in North Carolina. Some of these tales date back to Americas early days such as the screaming woman of Marblehead Massachusetts while others rise from more contemporary sources like noted mystery writer Mary Robert Rhineharts encounter with ghost at a house on Long Island. A ghostly Supreme Court Justice a specter known as The Texan an abandoned Canadian bride reminiscent of Dickenss Miss Haversham and many others make an appearance in this latest chronicle of the Haunted American landscape.