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Adirondack Ghosts
ADIRONDACK GHOSTS presents stories of legendary haunts, spirited resorts, restaurants and museums where the departed continue making their presence known.
80 pages, Paperback
First published August 18, 2000
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About the author
Lynda Lee Macken
47 books11 followersBlack Cat Press of Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey was founded in 2000 by Lynda Lee Macken, a native New Yorker, who continues to combine her interest in history with stories of the paranormal.
She has chronicled supernatural tales and legends since her own ghostly sighting of Grace Brown whose 1906 murder in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains inspired a novel and a motion picture. The 19-year-old Brown drowned in Big Moose Lake in 1906. The homicide formed the basis of novelist Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and the 1951 film A Place in the Sun.
Macken's encounter was presented on the Unsolved Mysteries television series. It also led her to write her first book — Adirondack Ghosts: Stories of Spirits in New York State’s North Country. In the process of understanding paranormal phenomena, the author researched, wrote, and published 35 additional regional ghost books highlighting the most haunted places in New York; New Jersey; New Hope, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Salem, Massachusetts; and the Outer Banks, North Carolina.
In addition to her radio and television appearances, Ms. Macken consulted for PBS, the Travel Channel, Sightings, Paranormal Borderline, Scariest Places on Earth, and Ghost Hunters. Her articles have appeared in regional and national publications, including the Staten Island Advance newspaper, the Mountain Astrologer, and FATE magazines.
The death of loved ones prompted further research into death's mystery and consciousness' survival. Consequently, Macken published her first memoir, Array of Hope, An Afterlife Journal in 2008 which chronicles after-death communications with her mother.
The author holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Rutgers University and lives at the Jersey Shore in a gently spirited home.
She has chronicled supernatural tales and legends since her own ghostly sighting of Grace Brown whose 1906 murder in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains inspired a novel and a motion picture. The 19-year-old Brown drowned in Big Moose Lake in 1906. The homicide formed the basis of novelist Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and the 1951 film A Place in the Sun.
Macken's encounter was presented on the Unsolved Mysteries television series. It also led her to write her first book — Adirondack Ghosts: Stories of Spirits in New York State’s North Country. In the process of understanding paranormal phenomena, the author researched, wrote, and published 35 additional regional ghost books highlighting the most haunted places in New York; New Jersey; New Hope, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Salem, Massachusetts; and the Outer Banks, North Carolina.
In addition to her radio and television appearances, Ms. Macken consulted for PBS, the Travel Channel, Sightings, Paranormal Borderline, Scariest Places on Earth, and Ghost Hunters. Her articles have appeared in regional and national publications, including the Staten Island Advance newspaper, the Mountain Astrologer, and FATE magazines.
The death of loved ones prompted further research into death's mystery and consciousness' survival. Consequently, Macken published her first memoir, Array of Hope, An Afterlife Journal in 2008 which chronicles after-death communications with her mother.
The author holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Rutgers University and lives at the Jersey Shore in a gently spirited home.
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July 18, 2025
I got this out of the library to read on the beach. I learned some local history and hope to visit some of these sites!
July 26, 2011
Not horrible but nothing that really made me want to visit any of the places mentioned. The author seemed to be having a problem deciding between documenting hauntings and telling a ghost story.
When she is documenting there will be statements that current owners haven't seen the ghost or even owners for the last 200 years haven't noticed anything unusual. When she is story telling there are phrases like "Fact or fiction?" or "...can we every REALLY be sure?" or "YOU decide!"
There might be one place I would visit. The story of the Old Fort House in Fort Edward, NY, tells about a ghost who was seen standing in the cupola that used to be on the roof. The house was built in 1779 with a gambrel roof, was remodeled in 1839 with a peaked roof in the Greek revival style but the historical society persuaded them to restore the original gambrel roof after a chimney fire burned part of the roof and attic in 1943. A cupola was not part of the restoration project and there is no mention of a cupola in the description of the original house written by the architectural historian for the house's nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
The book is only 69 pages with very large print. This book, Adirondack Ghosts II and Adirondack Ghosts III together would have made a decent length book.
When she is documenting there will be statements that current owners haven't seen the ghost or even owners for the last 200 years haven't noticed anything unusual. When she is story telling there are phrases like "Fact or fiction?" or "...can we every REALLY be sure?" or "YOU decide!"
There might be one place I would visit. The story of the Old Fort House in Fort Edward, NY, tells about a ghost who was seen standing in the cupola that used to be on the roof. The house was built in 1779 with a gambrel roof, was remodeled in 1839 with a peaked roof in the Greek revival style but the historical society persuaded them to restore the original gambrel roof after a chimney fire burned part of the roof and attic in 1943. A cupola was not part of the restoration project and there is no mention of a cupola in the description of the original house written by the architectural historian for the house's nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
The book is only 69 pages with very large print. This book, Adirondack Ghosts II and Adirondack Ghosts III together would have made a decent length book.
November 27, 2022
The stories are weak but interesting. Knowing where most of the stories helped the interest level.
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