Haunting the Prairie

Haunting the Prairie
Author: Michael Kleen
Publisher: Black Oak Media
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2010
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0979040140

An organized and comprehensive guide to Illinois' haunted and legendary places, Haunting the prairie contains 130 mystery sites and 60 individual illustrations and maps, plus a bibliographic timeline of paranormal and folklore research in Illinois. The author examines the sites and the history, as well as the hobbyists and professionals who explore the strange and unusual in the state. Divided among eight distinct regions and listed by county, each location features a description, directions, and information drawn from a diverse variety of books and articles.

Ghost Whispers - Tales from Haunted Midway

Ghost Whispers - Tales from Haunted Midway
Author: William Gorman
Publisher: Helm Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780976919322

The haunted and haunting stories of this book come from a variety of people and places, persons who reside in sleepy, practical neighborhoods scattered all throughout the Rock River Valley and over most of north-central Illinois.

Haunted Lawrence

Haunted Lawrence
Author: Paul Thomas
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625859201

Founded in 1854 as an abolitionist outpost, Lawrence is a seemingly unassuming college town with a long history of hauntings. A ghostly guest never checked out of the Eldridge Hotel's mysterious room 506. Sigma Nu's fraternity house, the former home of Kansas's eighteenth governor, is still haunted by the specter of a young woman. Learn the tragic stories of Pete Vinegar, George Albach and Lizzie Madden and uncover the devilish truth behind the "legend" of Stull Cemetery. Author Paul Thomas reveals the ghoulish history behind these stories and many more.

Ghost Towns of Texas

Ghost Towns of Texas
Author: T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1991-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806121895

"The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to life -eighty-six Texas ghost towns for the reader's pleasure. Baker lists three criteria for inclusion: tangible remains, public access, and statewide coverage. In each case Baker comments about the town's founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. There are maps and instructions for reaching each site and numerous photographs showing the past and present status of each. The contemporary photos were taken, in most instances, by Baker himself, who proves as adept a photographer as he is researcher and writer....Baker has done his work thoroughly and well, within limits imposed by necessity. He obviously had fun in the process and it shows in his prose."---New Mexico Historical Review

Ghost of 22 Mountain

Ghost of 22 Mountain
Author: George Morrison
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2004-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595317960

Ghost of 22 Mountain is the story of a woman who met death under mysterious circumstances when she was still young. The story is set in the mountains of West Virginia where the victim was born and lived. Of the dozens of people who might have committed the crime of murder, only one paid the price. He was a young black who served as handyman in the urban estate where Mamie Thurman lived with her husband, the policeman on the downtown beat of Logan, West Virginia. It is not likely that Clarence Stephenson was the guilty party, even if he were involved in a most unlikely way in the disposition of the body of Mamie Thurman. There were many others who could have killed the lovely Mamie, all of them members of the urban elite of the small West Virginia town. Mamie was a promiscuous flapper known to all of those who ran things in the town of Logan. Who was the real killer? Ghost of 22 Mountain offers the enticing story of all the candidates, while leaving the decision with you.

The Big Book of West Virginia Ghost Stories

The Big Book of West Virginia Ghost Stories
Author: Visionary Living, Inc.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-07-17
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1493043994

Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Mountain State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author Rosemary Ellen Guiley shines a light in the dark corners of Virginia and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From the headless ghosts wandering Droop Mountain to the tortured spirits of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, there’s no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up at night. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.

800 Years of Haunted Liverpool

800 Years of Haunted Liverpool
Author: John Reppion
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2008-06-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0750959916

This creepy collection of true-life tales takes the reader on a tour through the streets, cemetaries, alehouses, attics and docks of Liverpool. Containing many tales which have never before been published, it unearths a chilling range of supernatural phenomena, including the Grey Lady of Speke Hall, the poltergeist who scrawled 'I want you out' on a blackboard in a cottage in Hunts Cross, and the truly terrifying tale of 'Spring Heeled Jack', the unidentified apparition who terrorised the citizens of Everton during the 1830s. Illustrated with more than sixty photographs, maps and drawings, this book will delight anyone with an interest in the paranormal history of the area.

Ghost Towns of Arizona

Ghost Towns of Arizona
Author: James E. Sherman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1969-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806108438

A pictorial survey of the past history of more than one hundred former mining towns in Arizona

More Ghost Towns of Texas

More Ghost Towns of Texas
Author: T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806137247

A companion volume to Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers with histories, maps, and detailed directions to the most interesting ghost towns in Texas not already covered in the first volume. Reprint.