Books for the Ghost Hunter in Your Life.

Name: Haunted Cape Cod
Brand: Barbara Sillery
SKU: 9781455626427
Price: 21.99 USD
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Whether believer or skeptic, we all love a good tale of things that go bump in the night. Our books about Legends and Lore in America celebrate the unusual, the inexplicable, and the supernatural in towns and cities nationwide. These are hair-raising accounts of ghosts, vampires, occult figures and spirits that inhabit dark corners of the American landscape. Give your loved one a haunting thrill this year.

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Ghost Hunter's Guide to New Orleans

Haunted Cape Cod's Sea Captains, Shipwrecks, and Spirits

Paperback

$21.99

Ghost Hunter's Guide to Portland and Oregon Coast

Paperback

$17.95

Ghost Hunter's Guide to New Orleans

9781455621583

$18.95

It�s not hard to find restless spirits in the Big Easy. Let the popular paranormal investigator guide you through its winding streets and history.

Newly revised and updated, this installment in the much-acclaimed�Ghost Hunter�s Guide Series�is designed for locals, new residents, and travelers seeking the haunted history of the Crescent City and nearby locations. Detailed descriptions and historical background for more than two hundred locations guide readers to sites where they might encounter ghostly apparitions.

Sites and spirits in the Garden District and French Quarter include the ghosts of voodoo priestesses, victims of yellow-fever epidemics, several well-known French Quarter restaurants, and the famous Lalaurie Mansion, thought to be the most haunted house in New Orleans. A section on City Park, the Faubourg Marigny, and nearby Chalmette, the site of the Battle of New Orleans, is also provided. A chapter dedicated to day trips suggests the paranormal possibilities awaiting travelers destined for the famous River Road plantations and Baton Rouge.

Praise for Jeff Dwyer�s Ghost Hunter�s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

�While sometimes scary, [the ghost stories] more often serve as reminders of the sometimes quirky, and oftentimes tragically haunting, history of the people of California.� �The Reporter (Vacaville, CA)

�I thought I knew everything about the wine country, but I apparently overlooked the protoplasmic �walk by night� world.� �Mick Winter, author of The Napa Valley Book

Haunted Cape Cod

9781455626427

$21.99

The lively ghosts found on this magical, mysterious Massachusetts island include a pirate, a preacher, a witch, a whaling captain, and a sea captain's wife. The area's history stretches back to the Indians of thousands of years ago, to the Vikings, to the Pilgrims, until the present day. This book highlights the most interesting stories, featuring such sites as a haunted rare-books store, several inns, a guesthouse, a tavern, and a theater.

Haunted Cape Cod's Sea Captains, Shipwrecks, and Spirits

9781455626823

$21.99

BEWARE THE SALTY SEA DOGS AND WRETCHED WRECKS ALONG THE SPIRIT-FILLED COAST OF CAPE CODClipper ships, packet ships, whale boats, and steamers left home ports on Cape Cod to navigate the icy seas. Death demanded a toll from those aboard who dared to risk the waves--and those they left behind forever awaiting their return. Extracted from The Haunting of Cape Cod and the Islands, published by Pelican Publishing, plus four new chapters, each tale brims with a froth of fascinating facts related to the ghostly mariners and their exploits . . . or their watery graves. Addresses for these fraught sites can be found at the end of the book; contacting the ghosts is up to you.

Ghost Hunter's Guide to Portland and Oregon Coast

9781455621163

$17.95

Ghosts and spirits abound in western Oregon. The imprints of pioneers, soldiers, prostitutes, and murder victims haunt the places they trod in life, searching for loved ones, reliving joyful times, protecting favorite haunts, and seeking revenge. This guide, history, and comprehensive how-to offers tantalizing information about the lives, deaths, and locales of the Portland area�s lingering past.

Areas include Central Portland, East Portland communities, Vancouver and North Portland, communities south of Portland, and Oregon�s coastal communities. The infamous Shanghai Tunnels have long reverberated with the screams of kidnapped victims, doomed to a brief life of forced servitude. Lone Fir Cemetery is visited to this day by the spirits of the Chinese laborers, mental asylum inmates, and Civil War veterans who rest there. Thelma Taylor can sometimes be felt in Cathedral Park, under the St. John Bridge. Historical hotels still host the spirits of guests who died, sometimes by their own hand. Opera houses and ballrooms tell a happier story: the imprints left by decades of entertainment and energy can be felt even now. These sites, and many others, are vividly described, and entries include locations and contact information.

Informative sections cover what a ghost is, how it can manifest, ideal ghost sighting conditions, and types of imprints. Techniques included are preliminary historical research, physical and mental preparation, and the two primary schools of ghost hunting: the technical and psychic methods. The technical method section covers equipment use and suggestions, and the psychic method section discusses using your intuition and sensitivity to sense phenomena. Helpful appendixes include a sighting report form; suggested readings, videos, and websites; a list of tours and events; and a collection of area museums and historical societies.