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Synopsis
Historic Haunted America is an engrossing investigation into North American ghost legends, a comprehensive documenting yesterday and today's most shocking hauntings in the United States and Canada.
From the ghost-ridden forts in Old Tucson to the "Inn of the 17 Ghosts" near Philadelphia, from the haunted plantations of Louisiana and Georgia to a haunted community playhouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Michael Norman and Beth Scott tell stories of the past and present so terrifyingly real that even the most skeptical reader will believe.
Library Journal
Perfect Halloween reading, this fourth and final companion volume (to Haunted Wisconsin, Stanton & Lee, 1980; Haunted Heartland, Stanton & Lee, 1985; and Haunted America, LJ 11/1/94) is the culmination of 18 years of research and journalistic collaboration by the authors. Having traversed the United States and Canada to garner eyewitness accounts of ghostly sightings and habitats, the authors present yet another all-new assortment of earthly visitations by restless spirits of bygone eras residing in such common locales as homes, theaters, plantations, open fields, schools, and railroad cars. Be they old generals, soldiers, nursemaids, children, lovers, moonshiners, former employees, mental patients, murder victims, former residents, or servants, each has a tale to tell, things to do, people to guard, and places to watch over. Although some tales seem plausible, others are more difficult to believe, and still others too haunting to be real, all have been thoroughly researched; none is the result of the authors' overactive imaginations. Mesmerizing, spine-tingling-and not to be missed by any folklore collection.-Ann E. Cohen, Rochester P.L., N.Y.