Haunted Cemeteries: Creepy Crypts, Spine-Tingling Spirits, And Midnight Mayhem

Haunted Cemeteries: Creepy Crypts, Spine-Tingling Spirits, And Midnight Mayhem

by Tom Ogden
Haunted Cemeteries: Creepy Crypts, Spine-Tingling Spirits, And Midnight Mayhem

Haunted Cemeteries: Creepy Crypts, Spine-Tingling Spirits, And Midnight Mayhem

by Tom Ogden

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Overview

Twenty-five chilling tombstone tales from around America and the globeEverybody knows better. Yet from the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, Heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries we've developed many a superstition to protect ourselves from restless graveyard ghosts. Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than two dozen stories of some of the most actively haunted graveyards both in this nation and abroad, including: • The Greenwood Hauntings: Greenwood Cemetery in Decatur, Illinois, is one of the most ghoulish graveyards in America's Heartland, sporting at least five individual entities, a gaggle of ghost lights, and a whole trainload of Civil War dead. • Pretty in Pink: The ethereal ghost of the Pink Lady floats over the graves of the Yorba Cemetery in Yorba Linda, California—on June 15 of even-numbered years, that is. • The Queen of Voodoo: The restless spirit of Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century Queen of Voodoo, is said to appear in New Orleans's St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in the form of a gigantic black crow or a phantom black hellhound—when she's not walking through the French Quarter.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762756582
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 08/03/2010
Series: Haunted
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 319,608
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Tom Ogden is one of America's most celebrated magicians, having appeared on major television specials. He is also the author of several books, including Haunted Hotels, Haunted Highways, Haunted Hollywood, and Haunted Theaters. He lives in Hollywood, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction viii

Part 1 Wraiths of the Windy City 1

Chapter 1 The Resurrection Apparition 2

Chapter 2 The Ghosts of Bachelor's Grove 10

Chapter 3 The Legend of Inez Clarke 17

Chapter 4 The Helping Hand 25

Chapter 5 The Greenwood Hauntings 32

Part 2 Stateside Spirits 39

Chapter 6 Old Town Terrors 40

Chapter 7 Pretty in Pink 50

Chapter 8 Kabar, the Cavorting Canine 58

Chapter 9 Simply Marilyn 66

Chapter 10 The Seventh Gate of Hell 73

Chapter 11 The Lady in Gray 79

Chapter 12 The Queen of Voodoo 85

Chapter 13 The Storyville Madam 93

Chapter 14 Till Death Do You Part 100

Chapter 15 Nevermore! 110

Chapter 16 From These Honored Dead 117

Chapter 17 The Curse of Giles Corey 125

Chapter 18 The York Village Witch 135

Part 3 International Apparitions 141

Chapter 19 The Capering Coffins of Christ Church 142

Chapter 20 The Highgate Vampire 152

Chapter 21 Beneath the City of Lights 160

Chapter 22 The Master's Touch 170

Chapter 23 The Ghost of Gallipoli 178

Chapter 24 The Isle of the Dead 187

Chapter 25 The Mummy's Curse 195

Appendix A Funeral Notices 205

Appendix B A Ghost Hunter's Guide to Graveyards 211

About the Author 254

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