Bringing a whole new meaning to the term "historical interaction, " Bastien visits firehouses, taverns and cemeteries to exhume those bits of the past whose clammy fingers still cling to the present. The vividness of her spellbinding accounts will have you smelling the sulfur of dead-but-not-departed Hessian mercenaries in less time than it takes to shiver.
Jan Lynn Bastien is a freelance writer in Mount Holly, New Jersey, the haunted seat of a very haunted county. Upon discovering the lingering spirits in her hometown, Jan organized popular Mount Holly ghost tours, which led to her first book, "The Ghosts of Mount Holly, A History of Haunted Happenings." She feels that the ghosts do a good job of telling people about this unique and history-rich area, but the real reason they hang around is because it is such a great place to be, they just hate to leave!