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Haunted Baltimore: Charm City Spirits
Baltimore harbors a bounty of spirits aboard the USS Constellation. Spectral soldiers still stand guard at historic Fort McHenry. Edgar Allan Poe’s spirit stays alive at his Amity Street home and favorite Fells Point bar. These are just a few Inner Harbor haunts that offer ghost hunters, history buffs, and tourists a peek at the paranormal. Haunted Baltimore reveals the Charm City’s spirit world where the spirits of the dead still captivate the living.
73 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
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About the author
Lynda Lee Macken
47 books11 followersBlack 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.
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.
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September 9, 2023
This book could’ve been so great, but it just missed the mark.
The first big issue is that the text is in a font not even close to times new Roman. It kind of made it hard to read.
The other thing was that it either really hit on the ghosts and encounters and lacked information about the location or really hit on the location and gave almost nothing about the ghosts.
The first big issue is that the text is in a font not even close to times new Roman. It kind of made it hard to read.
The other thing was that it either really hit on the ghosts and encounters and lacked information about the location or really hit on the location and gave almost nothing about the ghosts.
June 21, 2017
Good quick read. Haunting wise it's a lot of your usual stories of creaky floors and chills running down the spine but the book does serve as a good resource for finding places to go and see while in the historic area of Baltimore.
September 25, 2025
2.75 ⭐️
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