Ghost Notes: Haunted Happenings on California's Historic Monterey Peninsula

by Randall A. Reinstedt

From the eerie Man in Gray of Monterey's old Hotel Del Monte to haunted mansions in Pebble Beach, central California's historic Monterey Peninsula is rich in tales of the strange and unexplained. Ghost Notes, Randall A. Reinstedt's fifth book of ghostly lore, recounts stories collected from a variety of sources over a twenty-year period--most published here for the first time, and many recounted personally to the author by the individuals who experienced the happenings they describe.

190 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ghosts Stories from locals. 3/5 stars

[Isobel]

Pretty dry, moved & won't finish

[Blake Murray · Rating 1 out of 5]

Arghh... okay.. I know this is "Ghost NOTES" but that doesn't mean we can't have story or at least compelling points that keep us moving through. All this is a 'one time i had coffee and someone saw something but no one was there' and then moves on to the next thing! There's no emphasis on detail or dialogue. I understand these are meant to be stories but if you are going to go through all the effort to write a book about ghosts and the nonfiction notes of them there could at least be some theatrics here and there and don't even get me started on the poor structure of this novel. Sadness.

[Angela T. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reinstedt( a local author of Monterey Bay and was my mothers teacher) gives us a great account of peoples experiences in my own home town and county in this collection of notes. The notes paint a very interesting picture upon peoples experience in various famous (and some private) areas around the Monterey bay. Including places such as Steinbeck's home and the cannery row and including the Naval Post Graduate school, ghost (or even legend) enthusiasts definitely have something to chew on in these accounts.
Great read and peoples accounts have definitely made my hair stand on end!
Thanks for the ghost notes!

[James Bowman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A miscellany of short accounts of ghosts in the region around Monterey, California. The titular notes are arranged in chronological order as received, which results in a lot of jumping around and repetition. Yet, this somehow makes it more compelling than it probably would have been as a better organized work. Many are fairly generic as ghost stories go (objects being moved in the night and such), but this makes the true gems leap out, like diamonds in the rough - and all the more tantalizing for being so brief. A recommended read for anyone interested in Monterey's ghosts. (B+)

[Adreana Tseng · Rating 5 out of 5]

read this since i was 9 whenever I needed a spook once in awhile!