Table of Contents
Preface vii
California 1
A Shot in the Dark, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California 3
The Haunted Hotel, Hotel lone, lone, California 9
Return of the Hanged Man, Whaley House (Museum), San Diego, California 15
The House the Spirits Built, The Winchester Mansion, San Jose, California 21
Southern US 29
A Plea from the Grave, Cedarhurst Mansion, Huntsville, Alabama 31
The Ghostly Greeter, Lucas Tavern, Montgomery, Alabama 35
The Pirate's House, Savannah, Georgia 40
The House of Spirits, The Myrtles, St. Francisville, Louisiana 45
House of Tragedy, Camton Plantation, Franklin, Tennessee 49
The Free Spirit, Ashton Villa, Galveston, Texas 55
New England 61
The North Room, Red Brook Inn, Old Mystic, Connecticut 63
The Governor's Haunted Mansion, Woodburn, Dover, Delaware 67
The Romantic Inn by the Sea, Inn by the Sea, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 71
Where You Never Dine Alone, John Stone's Inn, Ashland, Massachusetts 77
Where History Comes Alive, The Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts 84
The Hatchet Murders, The Lizzie Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts 91
John Hays Hammond Jr.-Peculiar in Death Just as in Life? Hammond Castle Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts 97
The Ghost Lover, The Alexander-Philips House, Springfield, Massachusetts 102
Middle and South Atlantic States 107
How to Kill a Spy, Seven Stars Tavern, Woodstown, New Jersey 109
The Thing in the Well, Old Fort Niagara, Youngstown, New York 113
The Dreaded Meeting, White Oaks, Charlotte, North Carolina 119
The Phantom Lady, Mordecai House and the Andrew Johnson Home, Raleigh, North Carolina 126
Beware the Lights of Loudoun, Loudoun House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 131
The Hermitage, Near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 135
A Drum for the Dead, Berkeley Hundred, Charles City, Virginia 141
The Tramping Feet, The Gaffos House, Portsmouth, Virginia 146
About the Authors 151