Legends of ghosts abound wherever history has made its mark. From battlefields to hospitals, prisons to inns. If these places have existed for centuries or more, and if they are where history, especially tragic history, was made, ghost stories will inevitably follow.
The World’s Most Haunted Places: From the Secret Files of Ghostvillage.com explores the history, folklore, and ghostly legends behind some of the world’s most fascinating haunted places.
Jeff Belanger, speaks with witnesses, psychics, and ghost hunters who tell their stories and share their research on haunted places around the world.
First he presents the clear and logical history of the place where the haunting is located. Learn something about the history of places like the Queen Mary, Big Nose Kate’s Saloon or the White House. He relates the story behind the ghost or ghosts in question by telling about the theories of who the ghost might be. Sometimes there is more than one idea of who the ghost is or how it came to be, Belanger relates them all, to allow the to reader decide which theory best fits.
He then goes on to describe the early sightings involving the haunting he is writing about. Some of these apparitions have been reported for hundreds of years.
Every story related in this book is backed up with modern eyewitness accounts, something that is often missing from books on ghosts and paranormal books in general.
Many of the cases covered in this book contain accounts of paranormal experiences that have occurred in recent years and nowhere does he rely on old legends which no living person can attest to.
Some of the haunts to be found in the book are well known, such as the Whaley House and the Tower of London, but even with these well worn haunts Belanger is able to shed new light. He does this by actually talking with people who have had a personal ghostly experience is the last few years.
Websites, phone numbers and great black and white photos of each haunted location are included.
Here is a list of the haunted places that are covered:
- Ballygally Castle Hotel (Ballygally, Ireland)
- The RMS Queen Mary (Long Beach, California)
- The 1891 Castle Inn (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- Rose Hall Great House (Montego Bay, Jamaica)
- Hibbing High School (Hibbing, Minnesota)
- The Deane House (Calgary, Alberta)
- Imperial Casino Hotel (Cripple Creek, Colorado)
- The Catacombs Museum (Paris, France)
- Big Nose Kate’s Saloon (Tombstone, AZ)
- Ordsall Hall (Salford, England)
- The White House (Washington, DC)
- The Alaskan Hotel (Juneau, Alaska)
- Monte Cristo Homestead (Junee, New South Wales)
- Mercy Brown, The Rhode Island Vampire (Exeter, Rhode Island)
- Empress Theatre- (Fort Macleod, Alberta)
- Thornewood Castle (Lakewood, Washington)
- The Skirrid Mountain Inn (Llanvihangel Crucorney, Wales)
- Archer Avenue’s Resurrection Mary (Chicago, Illinois)
- Billy Bishop Legion Hall (Vancouver, BC)
- South Bridge Underground Vaults (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- The Pirates’ House (Savannah, Georgia)
- Boggo Road Gaol Museum (Brisbane, Queensland)
- Stone’s Public House (Ashland, Massachusetts)
- Muncaster Castle (Ravenglass, England)
- The Andrew Bayne Memorial Library (Pittsburgh,PA)
- The Spaghetti Warehouse (Houston, TX)
- The Olde Angel Inn (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario)
- The Whaley House (San Diego, CA)
- The Tower of London (London, England)