Haunted Lakes II: More Great Lakes Ghost Stories

by Frederick Stonehouse

Genres: Ghost Stories

190 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2000

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

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

After the first Haunted Lights was published, Stonehouse received enough stories about lighthouse ghosts, ghost ships, shore ghosts, shipboard and underwater ghosts, hoodoos, superstitions, and sea serpents to fill another book. As in the first one, Stonehouse weaves from one scary story to another, urging you to continue turning the pages and being cast into yet another tale of the unknown. People ask Stonehouse if he believes in ghosts and he answers, “I dodge the question by saying that there are things that I don’t understand.” For those who have lived their lives on or near the water, there’s enough out there that is unexplainable and surely enough tales to last throughout generations or another book.

[Dani · Rating 3 out of 5]

its slightly better than the first, but some i was still bored to read :/ im bummed i lost interest