Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 8
Introduction 9
Chapter 1 The Coke-Garrett House Shapeshifter 15
When Is a "Lens Flare" Not a Lens Flare?
When it Moves and Shapeshifts!
Chapter 2 The Charlton Coffee House and the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop 20
Does Running Water Attract, If Not Empower Ghosts?
Chapter 3 The Everhard House 28
What if Your Decision Was Love … or Marriage?
Chapter 4 What about My House? 32
Living with Multiple Ghosts …
Chapter 5 The Peyton Randolph House 40
Meet the News Faces … from the Dark Side
Chapter 6 The Haunted Elementary School 45
Mathew Whaley and His Pauper Friend or the Two Murdered Boys?
Chapter 7 The Governor's Palace 50
Royalty, Revolution, and Wraiths
Chapter 8 Green Spring Road 56
Mad Anthony's Men Lost in Time?
Chapter 9 The Courthouse of 1770 60
Could the Defendants Be on Trial in the Afterlife?
Chapter 10 The Stocks, the Pillory, and the Whipping Post 66
Cruel, Corporal, end Entertaining?
Chapter 11 Anomaly In The Windows 75
The White Pillar
Chapter 12 The Powder Magazine 79
The Phantom Militia-The Largest Group of Ghosts Ever Caught on Camera?
Chapter 13 The Market Square Tavern 88
Jefferson … and Perhaps the Yankee Butcher?
Chapter 14 The Raleigh Tavern 93
Whatever Happened to Blackbeard's Skull?
Chapter 15 Josiah Chowning's Tavern 99
The Phanton Assault
Chapter 16 King's Arms Tavern 103
The Mischievous Manager
Chapter 17 Shields Tavern 107
The Murdered Marot
Chapter 18 The Brickhouse Tavern 112
The "Stink of a Man"
Chapter 19 Christiana Campbell's Tavern 117
By George-the Gathering, the Gambling, and the Ghosts
Chapter 20 Stacking Apparitions and the Armistead House 122
The Original Totem
Chapter 21 The Capitol 126
The Haunted Portrait of Patrick Henry and the Headless Statesman
Chapter 22 Blue Bell 132
Politicians Cavorting With Women?
Chapter 23 Catherine Blaikley House 136
The Famous Midwife: Does She Preside Over Birth into the Afterlife?
Chapter 24 Palmer House 139
Is the Slain Lieutenant Still in the House?
Chapter 25 The Peter Hay Apothecary and Kitchen 143
The Glowing Red Eyes
Chapter 26 John Coke Office 145
The Phantom Owl
Chapter 27 Prentis House 148
William Prentis: The Protector or the Poltergeist?
Chapter 28 Party on the Duke of Gloucester Street 152
You've Heard of the After Party-How about the After-Life Party?
Chapter 29 Williamsburg Theater 156
Brother versus Brother
Chapter 30 Travis House 159
The Irremovable Blood Stain
Chapter 31 Return to William and Mary 163
Alma Mater of a Nation of the Living … and the Dead
Chapter 32 First African American Church of Williamsburg 171
The Ghost That Defies Description
Chapter 33 Return to the Churches 175
Crosses, Steeples, and Lost Souls
Chapter 34 Battle of Fort Magruder 193
The Fort, the Bloody Ravine, and the Killing Field
Epilogue: What I've Learned About Ghosts 204
Endnotes 207
Bibliography 208
