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Haunted Histories in America
True Stories behind the Nation's Most Feared Places
- 368 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
If you believe in ghosts, you're in good company. Haunted Histories brings America's most ghostly locales to life, illuminating their role in shaping U.S. history and detailing how they became the nation's most feared places.
Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the text introduces readers to new ghostly tales and takes a fresh look at familiar stories and locations, with an eye to history. From well-known spooky spots like Salem, Massachusetts, to such lesser-known ones as the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland, Oregon, where spirits are supposedly trapped, readers will discover not only where America's most haunted places are but also why they are said to be haunted. The ghosts of the doomed Donner Party allow readers to experience the arduous and often deadly journey of America's westward wagon trains, while different kinds of "spirits" haunting old distilleries allow readers to discover how whiskey almost derailed the new American nation before it was born.
This book can be studied for academic purposes as a historical reference, used as a source for classroom assignments, or simply read for the pleasure of a great story.
Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the text introduces readers to new ghostly tales and takes a fresh look at familiar stories and locations, with an eye to history. From well-known spooky spots like Salem, Massachusetts, to such lesser-known ones as the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland, Oregon, where spirits are supposedly trapped, readers will discover not only where America's most haunted places are but also why they are said to be haunted. The ghosts of the doomed Donner Party allow readers to experience the arduous and often deadly journey of America's westward wagon trains, while different kinds of "spirits" haunting old distilleries allow readers to discover how whiskey almost derailed the new American nation before it was born.
This book can be studied for academic purposes as a historical reference, used as a source for classroom assignments, or simply read for the pleasure of a great story.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Topical Guide to Haunted Sites
- Geographical Guide to Haunted Sites
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Alabama
- 2. Alaska
- 3. Arizona
- 4. Arkansas
- 5. California
- 6. Colorado
- 7. Connecticut
- 8. Delaware
- 9. District of Columbia
- 10. Florida
- 11. Georgia
- 12. Hawaii
- 13. Idaho
- 14. Illinois
- 15. Indiana
- 16. Iowa
- 17. Kansas
- 18. Kentucky
- 19. Louisiana
- 20. Maine
- 21. Maryland
- 22. Massachusetts
- 23. Michigan
- 24. Minnesota
- 25. Mississippi
- 26. Missouri
- 27. Montana
- 28. Nebraska
- 29. Nevada
- 30. New Hampshire
- 31. New Jersey
- 32. New Mexico
- 33. New York
- 34. North Carolina
- 35. North Dakota
- 36. Ohio
- 37. Oklahoma
- 38. Oregon
- 39. Pennsylvania
- 40. Rhode Island
- 41. South Carolina
- 42. South Dakota
- 43. Tennessee
- 44. Texas
- 45. Utah
- 46. Vermont
- 47. Virginia
- 48. Washington
- 49. West Virginia
- 50. Wisconsin
- 51. Wyoming
- Appendix: Ghost Tour Road Trips by Region
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author