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Continuing on the success of ""Haunted America"" is a further investigation into North American ghost legends, a comprehensive compendium documenting yesterday and today's most shocking hauntings in the United States and Canada. From the ghost-ridden forts in Old Tucson to the 'Inn of the 17 Ghosts' near Philadelphia, from the haunted plantations of Louisiana and Georgia to a haunted community playhouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Michael Norman and Beth Scott tell stories of the past and present so terrifyingly real that even the most sceptical reader will believe.

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Legendary stories of phantoms, possessions by evil spirits, spontaneous combustion, and death cars....Great reading for a stormy night. -- Booklist on Haunted Heartland <br> Deliciously disturbing, carefully researcher, engrossing and entertaining.... Norman and Scott spin good yarns with fun, fact and fright. -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune on Haunted America <br>

Legendary stories of phantoms, possessions by evil spirits, spontaneous combustion, and death cars....Great reading for a stormy night. -- Booklist on Haunted Heartland <br> Deliciously disturbing, carefully researcher, engrossing and entertaining.... Norman and Scott spin good yarns with fun, fact and fright. -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune on Haunted America

Legendary stories of phantoms, possessions by evil spirits, spontaneous combustion, and death cars....Great reading for a stormy night. --Booklist on Haunted Heartland Deliciously disturbing, carefully researcher, engrossing and entertaining.... Norman and Scott spin good yarns with fun, fact and fright. --Minneapolis Star-Tribune on Haunted America

Norman and Scott (Haunted America, 1994, etc.) scare up yet another spiritless collection of eerie goings-on across the USA and Canada. In his foreword to this volume, which is organized alphabetically, state by state, Norman offers that in some cases . . . a modern visitor might expect to encounter the phantoms you'll read about in these pages. . . . Other stories are purely historical and the ghosts have probably departed for parts unknown. How convenient! Forget that many of this work's dubious events and testimonials are substantiated by such authorities as the ever-handy several prominent psychics, or one witness who swore he saw a Hessian soldier in the 1960s. This book's fatal flaw is its ne'er-flagging reliance on suspension of disbelief as the central narrative device. Indeed, the authors do their damnedest to spook readers, and they very nearly succeed in Alaska's entry, in which an elderly Inuit woman mutilates herself as a tactic to frighten her unruly grandsons into good behavior. However, for the most part, the stories - a couple who are run off from their Michigan dream home by a shotgun-totin' specter, rehearsing Broadway actors who hear strange noises - come off like hokey campfire scare-urns. Haunted mansions, ominous fog banks, spooky deserted roads, deranged widows, even Blackbeard's treasure - nothing is too cheesy for inclusion in this collection of urban myths, old wives tales, and crackerbarrel pontificating. The only real fright in this book is that Norman (Scott died in 1994) might have enough material left over to add another volume to the Haunted series. (Kirkus Reviews)

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MICHAEL NORMAN is a writer and retired journalism professor who lives in an absolutely unhaunted house near the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul. Beth Scott, who died in early 1994, was full-time freelance writer for more than thirty-five years.

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