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The rich history of Pennsylvania is filled with the unexplained: frightening specters, mysterious apparitions and haunted buildings. Join Dan Asfar as he recounts the Keystone State's most intriguing ghost stories: * Phantoms materialize and eerie lights flash at historic Gettysburg, America's most famous -- and haunted - battlefield. * In a fountain at the notorious Baleroy Mansion in Philadelphia, a young boy sees a skull in place of his own reflection -- a strange premonition of his sudden death a month later. * Every New Year's Day, the spirit of colonial war hero Anthony Wayne wanders Route 322, still frustrated that his earthly remains were buried in separate graves * A three-year-old girl takes a fatal fall while her father paints her portrait, causing it to be inexplicably possessed by her forlorn spirit. * Two mysterious suicides cause a spike in paranormal activity in Tamaqua's haunted Elks Club. * Deceased convicts, driven to insanity by abuse, return to haunt the Eastern State Penitentiary, the first prison where solitary confinement was used. * With strange and often terrifying consequences, Pennsylvania ghosts appear in Pittsburgh, Radnor, Newtown, Lancaster, Hollidaysburg, Bedford, Altoona, New Hope, London Britain Township and more.

In Louisiana, disbelief in ghosts is not an option. Some of the best-known hauntings in the country are the unsettled spirits that have roamed the bustling French Quarter of New Orleans since its early days. But while the Crescent City teems with historic paranormal characters, the rest of Louisiana is also rife with intriguing and eerie ghost stories. Come explore the Pelican State and uncover its historic supernatural stars: * The ghost of an old woman killed in a car accident returns to her Baton Rouge home to comfort her grieving family. * A young girl's spirit haunts several generations of a family in New Orleans' Garden District. * A mysterious foreigner known only as 'the Sultan' is massacred along with his servants, forever shrouding his French Quarter dwelling in the mysterious legend of his demise. * Visitors and staff at Oak Alley Plantation, St. James Parish, regularly encounter strange sights and frightening sounds. * Myriad spirits roam the rooms and halls of Myrtles Plantation of St. Francisville, already famous for the eerie tales from its past. * In life, Marie Laveau was undisputed voodoo queen of New Orleans; in death, she still imbues the city with dark magic. * And many more...

If you've got spooks in the neighbourhood, who are you gonna call? Believe it or not, there are real ghost hunters out there; individuals who stake out haunted houses at the request of frazzled home owners, or who skulk through cemeteries at night hoping to capture evidence of the otherworldly on night vision cameras, digital recorders and infrared thermometers. Some are psychics, some scientists---all of them are hell bent on chasing spooks. You'll enjoy these true tales of the ghost hunters' adventures through the haunted landscape of North America.

Pack your flashlight and voice recorder; adjust your electromagnetic field sensor. You're about to explore the after-hours world of paranormal researchers, or ghost hunters. Supernatural storyteller Dan Asfar has compiled some of the creepiest and most intriguing tales from ghost hunters across America, and he invites you along on the hunt for unsettled spirits: * A ghost hunter in Daytona Beach struggles to explain why a young family's house is full of angry--and violent--spirits * A Ghost-hunting society in Michigan succeeds in convincing a tormented spirit to 'cross over' * A psychic ghost-hunting couple can't believe their luck when a ghost shows up in their own home--until its appearance becomes frightening * Known as one of the most haunted places in America, Gettysburg--the site of the bloody Civil War battle--never fails to reward ghost hunters with signs of paranormal presences * Two roommates from Penn State University find themselves plagued with a lonely and intrusive spirit * When a group of Connecticut researchers can't cope with a house of angry demons, they enlist a higher power to exorcise the spirits * A sceptical MTV producer invites a pair of ghost hunters to star in a paranormal reality show, and quickly becomes a firm believer in the ghosts. * Tag along on a real ghost-hunting investigation for an experience you won't soon forget!

Amid the beauty of Michigan's lakes and forested hills lurk spine-tingling stories of the supernatural. These tales of fright-filled folklore span the length and breadth of the Great Lakes State. Read about the Red Dwarf, a hideous harbinger of doom, who continues to be sighted in Detroit whenever tragedy visits; a cantankerous ghost that hampers renovations of an old farmhouse in Gladwin; and the mysterious growls and barks that haunt Dog Lady Island in east Monroe, where long ago a solitary woman began her legendary metamorphosis into a canine monstrosity.

More than 600,000 men died during the Civil War, but the conflict also displaced countless civilians. In this collection, noted authors Dan Asfar and Edrick Thay recount fascinating stories of soldiers, statesmen and star-crossed lovers, both ordinary and extraordinary, whose lingering spirits serve as a testament to America's most devastating war: * Eyewitnesses spot the ghosts of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Edgar Allan Poe at Fort Monroe, one of the few Union forts in the Confederate South. * In New Orleans, the spirits of General Pierre Beauregard and his fallen soldiers continue to fight the tragic Battle of Shiloh. * An anti-slavery crusader haunts Harpers Ferry, where he staged a munitions raid and was hanged before the war broke out. * 'Old Green Eyes,' the disembodied head of a fallen soldier, terrifies visitors to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia. * In the cemetery of a former Ohio war prison, a battalion of Confederate dead rise from their anonymous graves. * An entire chapter explores the many specters of Gettysburg, the war's most infamous battlefield. * For anyone interested in the paranormal, Ghost Stories of the Civil War will prove a chilling and unforgettable treat.

The ghosts of the past still haunt the dusty gold rush towns and frontier outposts where the legendary West was born and died. Dan Asfar explores the haunted histories of some of America's most infamous gunslingers, lawmen and opportunists, as well as of the prisons, saloons and forts where the lawlessness of the Old West found its truest expression.

Join feted paranormal storyteller, Dan Asfar, on another breathtaking journey through the paranormal landscape of the United States. Where go ghosts, so goes Ghost House, in this case following supernatural denizens to hot and arid Arizona and New Mexico, where: · A camper at Bonita Lake, New Mexico, is lured out of his tent in the middle of the night, where he has chilling encounter with a mysterious black figure · A Phoenix resident discovers a helpful haunt in his new home · Troubled spirits linger on in long-abandoned Yuma Territorial Prison in the Arizona desert · A brutal mining accident scars the history of Dawson, a haunted ghost town in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico.

Virginia's history is as rich as it is long: the first English settlement was established at Jamestown; Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War; the Civil War ended only when Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, fell. With a history such as this, it is appropriate that the Old Dominion State has a wealth of supernatural folklore to go with it. The spine-tingling tales that make up this collection span the 400 years of Virginia's past to its present: * The spirits of two young lovers torn apart by tragedy but reunited in death reside at the bottom of a well on one of Virginia's first plantations. * Blackbeard may not have come back to haunt anyone, but the same cannot be said for 13 of his fellow pirates who died on Gallows Road. * Ghosts of Union soldiers killed in one of the first battles of the Civil War cannot leave the place where they died. * An encounter with a witch in the Virginia Appalachians spooks a group of campers. * The origins of the Wampus Cat, the mysterious, cat-like creature that roams the wilds of Virginia, form the basis of much speculation.