Over 100 Ohio ghost tales including the spirit of “Mistress Suzanne,” a murdered bride who showed a honeymoon couple to their room, the “pasta-geist” who craved raw macaroni, mysterious monsters, “Bernie,” the warehouse ghost with an attitude problem, and a phantom train still rushing to its fiery doom. You’ll discover a haunted mirror, skeletal spirits, a phantom house that disappears when approached, an apparition of the Grim Reaper. Visit the horrid Hotel Fort Piqua, a sadly haunted orphanage in Lebanon, and a stately Masonic temple in Dayton (with a friendly ghost as a guide, who pointed out his own photograph.) Stories from the following Ohio Adams, Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Columbiana, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Darke, Delaware, Erie, Franklin, Fulton, Gallia, Geauga, Greene, Guernsey, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Henry, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Knox, Lake, Licking, Logan, Madison, Marion, Medina, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Monroe, Ottawa, Pickaway, Pike, Preble, Putnam, Ross, Sandusky, Scioto, Seneca, Shelby, Summit, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Van Wert, Vinton, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Williams, Wood. TABLE OF CONTENTS Dead Man Walking 1. Houses of Places you wouldn’t want to live 2. Haunted Highway and transport ghosts 3. You Always Haunt the One You Ghostly relatives 4. The Can-Do Helpful ghosts 5. Ghosts that Would Crack a Ugly apparitions and hostile hauntings 6. Lions and Tigers and Scares, Oh My!: Strange and ghostly animals 7. Possessed Objects with something extra 8. They’re Return to Haunted Ohio 9. A Ghostly A potpourri of poltergeists 10. Doom at the More haunted inns and taverns 11. A Séance of Multiple hauntings 12. Ghosts of the Doppelgangers and Vardogers 13. Murder Most Ghostly murder victims 14. Working-Class More ghosts in the workplace 15. “You Can Call Me George”: The ghost at the Masonic Temple Appendix 1: Fright More mini-tales of the macabre Appendix 2: Haunted Sites open to the public Appendix 3: Bring Out Your Ohio ghost tours More Ghostly Tales References
I don't believe in ghosts and I'm more likely to roll my eyes at some of these stories, but as a native Ohioan, I enjoy reading about places that I'm familiar with, the tidbits of history scattered throughout. It's a fun, short read. The stories are generally less than two pages long and it's easy to pick up, read a few pages, and resume reading later.
Another terrific installment in the series, with many good and some quite chilling stories. As with previous volumes, the book weakens in the sections depending heavily on the author's psychic abilities, but they're still interesting to read. In fact, this might be the best overall volume yet. (B+)
This book is a great read for someone who needs a great short read. The book is about a woman who goes around all of Ohio searching for haunted places. She can also see many ghosts.
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The book was okay i like how they described all the ghost and how they go all the details.
One of my favorite was called " the phantom driver of old 40.The stroy goes back in the 1950's when to cops used to go into the Inn and this truck driver named Roy Fitzwater. He was driving across the bridge and a little blue sadan came by him and the inside light in the car was on and he said it was a skelton driving the car.
I didn't know there was such a thing as poltergiest It is a ghost that follow you around.
Is there going to be a new one?
I recomend it to kids that are in to the super natural and belive in ghost.