Haunted Lake Huron

by Frederick Stonehouse, Joy Morgan Dey (Illustrator)

Newest in the Haunted Great Lakes Series, the collection of spooks and folklore explores the scary depths of our lakes. Haunted Lake Huron teems with ghosts, superstitions and cursed ships from Lake Huron's shores, islands and lighthouses, including a complete chapter on the ghosts of Mackinac Island and tales from Sarnia, Manitoulin and beyond. An amazing range of stories from Stonehouse's research.

Genres: Paranormal

211 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2007

About the author

Frederick Stonehouse has authored over thirty books on maritime history, many of them focusing on the Great Lakes and contributed to several others. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales are regional best sellers. Wreck Ashore, the U.S. Life-Saving Service on the Great Lakes, won a national publishing award and is the predominant work on the subject. Another book, Haunted Lakes, Great Lakes Maritime Ghost Stories, Superstitions and Sea Serpents, has opened an entirely new genre in Great Lakes study. His book, Final Voyage, is the first Great Lakes shipwreck book for children.

He has been a consultant for both the U.S. National Park Service and Parks Canada and has been an "on-air" expert for National Geographic, History Channel and Fox Family, as well as many regional media productions. Awards for contributions to Great Lakes maritime history have been received from Underwater Canada, Our World Underwater, Marquette Maritime Museum and Marquette County Historical Society. He is also the recipient of the 2006 Association For Great Lakes Maritime History Award for Historic Interpretation. The Award is presented annually in recognition of an individual making a major contribution over many years to the interpretation of Great Lakes maritime history in furtherance of the goals of the Association. In addition he was named the Marine Historical Society of Detroit’s “2007 Historian of the Year.” The award is the result of election by past MHSD Historians and recognizes persons who have actively contributed to the study of Great Lakes history. He holds a Master of Arts degree in History from Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan.

Reviews

[Joseph Pinchback · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have this guilty pleasure of buying books about local ghost stories when I go up north. I'm clearly not the only one, because there's a ton of these kind of books. This one is particularly good. Stonehouse writes with a kind of smart-ass attitude that takes the subject matter seriously, but not too seriously. It's like writing this kind of book is as much a guilty pleasure for him as reading it is for me. There's lots of ghost stories, but the book also contains plenty of stories about shipwrecks, local myths, and folk tales. You actually end up learning a lot about the history of the region when you read a book like this, at least that's what I'm going to tell myself to justify buying the next one.

[Cody Hoeffel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Haunting is in the title, however you will find more of Michigan's folklore than anything else. If you're looking for ghost stories, look to Haunted Lakes. If you're looking for folk tales and old yarns from both sides of Lake Huron, you've found your book.