Adirondack Ghosts II: Haunting Tales of New York's North Country

by Lynda Lee Macken

Journey farther than ever before into the little-known spirit world of New York’s North Country. Historic inns, posh resorts, museums, and private homes are some of the places where long-gone folks are still entertained. The fantastic appearances of ancient spirits and resident wraiths convey the spine-chilling feeling that one is never really alone in the hauntingly beautiful and vastly mysterious Adirondack Mountains.

102 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2003

About the author

Black 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.

Reviews

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fun beach read, I enjoyed learning some local history!

[Dawn Leitheuser · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great little book! Terrific spooky stories!!

[Shelly Dabbs · Rating 3 out of 5]

It had some good stories but alot were so much alike. Liked hearing about the places in the area.

[Roberta · Rating 2 out of 5]

An OK collection of 27 haunted sites in northern New York. Most of the profiles are one or two pages of text and some of them have photographs of the outside of the building. The photos are dark, as if the buildings were all back lit at dusk. It's not spooky; it just makes it impossible to see what the buildings looked like.

Some of the reports are so vague that it is hard to say why anyone would think that the property is haunted. "No one can elaborate on the supernatural at the Christian resort, but several employees have shared that indeed Paine Hall is a mysterious place." (My bedroom closet is a mysterious place but that doesn't mean it's haunted.) "Enough statements have been garnered from the Silver Bay staff to conclude that Paine Hall is haunted but unfortunately few specifics can be ascertained." and "Unexplainable events have occurred, no one can say exactly who or what they are, and when and why they happen."

If you are only going to read one book on New York ghosts, try Things That Go Bump in the Night.