Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle 2nd Edition: Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, & Other Haunted Locations

by Pamela K. Kinney

In this 2nd edition, go deeper into ghostly history as you tour Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown in the Historic Triangle. Visit haunted Jamestown Island, where Captain John Smith and the first English colonists settled. Stroll around Williamsburg and follow the same footsteps of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as they walked along Duke of Gloucester Street. Tour ghostly historic Yorktown from the colonial era through the Civil War. Take side trips to the towns and counties nearby that put the finishing touches to the history of the whole area. You’ll hear odd noises and see apparitions, but above all, be prepared to get to know the ghosts of the Historic Triangle and its surrounding areas. They’re dying for you to hear their stories.

Genres: History

192 pages, Paperback

Published August 15, 2019

About the author

Author Pamela K. Kinney gave up long ago trying not to listen to the voices in her head and has written award-winning, bestselling horror, fantasy. science fiction, poetry, along with nonfiction ghost books ever since. Three of her nonfiction ghost books garnered Library of Virginia nominations. Her third ghost book, Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle: Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, and Other Haunted Locations, reached a second printing and is now a 2nd edition with extra new stories and ten new ghostly images added. Her horror short story, “Bottled Spirits,” was runner-up for the 2013 WSFA Small Press Award and is considered one of the seven best genre short fiction for that year. She has horror, fantasy, and science fiction stories published in various anthologies and magazines, plus an urban fantasy novel, a science fiction novella published too. Her horror poem, “Dementia,” that was published in HWA Poetry Showcase Vol VII in 2020, got her name mentioned as one of five whose poems the editor liked in Best Horror of the Year, Volume 13 released in 2021. She has six nonfiction ghost books, five published by Schiffer Publishing, and the sixth by Anubis Press, and has a nonfiction book, Werewolves, Dogmen, and Other Shapeshifters Stalking America that released April 26, 2022, from Dreampunk Press, plus a short story to be included in Dreampunk Press’ Halloween horror anthology, Blame It on the Pumpkin, coming October 2022. She had a horror short story in latest issue of Sirens Call Ezine and has an article included in Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2 just released end of April 2022.

Pamela and her husband live with one crazy black cat (who thinks she should take precedence over her mistress’s writing most days). Along with writing, Pamela has acted on stage and film and investigates the paranormal for episodes of Paranormal World Seekers for AVA Productions. She is a member of both Virginia Writers Club and Horror Writers Association.

Reviews

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've reviewed a couple of Pamela's historic haunted books. This is a second edition. The first edition was printed in 2011. This edition has more in-depth histories of the haunted places, more stories gathered from people who witnessed hauntings and some of Pamela's own paranormal investigations.

First, I want to comment on the quality of the physical book. The pages are thick and glossy. All the books I've reviewed from Schiffer are top quality. Not only is this book fun to read, it is satisfying to hold...only true book nerds know what I'm talking about...but it's a thing! Lol.

I'll start off by admitting I'm a skeptic. Don't believe in ghosts. I would only change my mind if I experienced something first hand. But I still enjoyed and learned some cool things from Pamela's book, Virginia's Haunted Historic Triangle 2nd Edition. The triangle consists of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown. There are some surrounding areas included as well. As an NC resident, I've been on many school field trips to these towns as well as on family vacations. I wish I would have had this book to read beforehand. It would have been a much more interesting experience!

There is so much historical information on each location along with photos. The first-hand haunting accounts are also entertaining (or scary if you are a believer). Pamela also did her own paranormal investigating of some of the locations and provides some pictures. In some cases, she documented paranormal activity.

The book is well-organized and written. It isn't boring historical info dumps but told with some humor and personality.

If you love historical haunting books, then this is your crack and Pamela is your dealer!

Pamela was interviewed on Virginia This Morning news show about her book: interview

5 "Haunted" Sheep
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[Ryan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Boy, this book was rough. I have no belief in the paranormal but I'm fascinated with it as it's full of strange stories that frequently intertwine with real history in intriguing ways. I've spent most of my life in the American southeast, which is an area of the world absolutely replete with the kind of ugly history that easily spins off into dark tales of the paranormal. I've collected books of local ghost stories from several areas that I've visited over the years and wasn't going to miss the opportunity to grab one for Virginia as I'd never really done more than pass through the state on other trips before this past May. I'm a little distressed that the author has such a vast body of work as her writing is dreadful (it reads quite a bit like the essays I wrote back in middle school) and her research is questionable at best as the information she includes in each section doesn't seem to go beyond something one would find on an easily observable plaque at the site or, perhaps, a brochure found in a gas station. The thing that made this remotely readable is that she did stumble onto the occasional interesting bit of history amongst all her twaddle. I had hoped, like others of this sort that I've read, that this book would relay pieces of local folklore and then reveal the bits of real world history that likely gave rise to the legends, taking the choicest stories and giving them room to breathe. This was one woman's brunch gossip transcribed into a nearly unreadable lump of glossy tourist bate. I hope to go back to the Williamsburg area sooner rather than later and look for something better than this book, which shouldn't be too difficult.

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Being from SEVA, I was interested in this book of hauntings and such in the Tidewater region of Virginia. The book not only briefly describes numerous supposed hauntings and odd happenings in the region, but was very informative about just how historic this area of Virginia is, dating back as far as the first colonists in the 1600s. In addition to relating the ghostly tales as well as some of her own paranormal investigations at some of the locales, the author includes many photographs, some of which are in clear, clean high-def. An interesting and informative book about Tidewater.

[halle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was quirky and fun! Glad it was in color, too. Virginia, I love how spooky you are.

[Barry Huddleston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thumb-through and review https://youtu.be/Ei_CyXyjSHA