Manchester Ghosts

by Renee Mallett

Overview

Come visit Manchester, New Hampshire! You'll see children playing ball, people jogging by, and a host of pious nuns and monks. It all seems pretty wholesome, until you realize that the people you're seeing are ghosts! Covering everything from the haunted houses of today, back to the local legends of the Native Americans who lived here long before Manchester existed, this book will give you a different perspective of the history and culture of New Hampshire's Queen City—a ghostly one. · Who is the ghost that calms the frightened patients at Elliott Hospital? · Are child laborers still haunting the R. G. Sullivan Building? · Would you jog with the deceased River Road Jogger or visit the haunted Youth Detention Center on River Road? · And are you brave enough to read about the Hanover Street apartment with demon-like occurrences? · Read an interview with Manchester's very own ghost hunter, and learn how to experience the paranormal yourself. If you dare… These are only some of the chills and scares that reside within these pages!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764326509
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	04/27/2007
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,056,889
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Author Renee A. Mallett writes both fiction and poetry, as well as ghostly accounts. She is a book critic for the New York Times website About.com, and for Kira's Eye in Canada, and a writer for the music magazine, Skratch. She currently lives in southern New Hampshire with her husband and two children.

Table of Contents

Disclaimer 4

Acknowledgments 5

Introduction 8

Great Chief Passaconaway 16

Elliot Hospital 23

Saint Josephs Middle School 28

The Murder of Jonas L. Parker 32

The R. G. Sullivan Building 38

The Grandmotherly Ghost 43

A Not So Helpful Spirit 46

Avery 51

The Horror on Hanover Street 55

Hesser College 65

An Apartment Building on Beech Street 76

The Palace Theatre 80

The Home Coming 85

The River Road Jogger 89

Saint Anselm College 93

Samuel 104

Strange Happenings on Rock Rimmon 107

Man's Best Friend 118

The Youth Detention Center 127

The Party That Never Ends 134

Valley Street Cemetery 137

Haunted New Hampshire 152

A Conversation with Manchester's Ghost Hunter 163

Spirit Photography 101 169

Bibliography and Website Resources 174