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Haunted Homeland (Haunted America) [Hardcover]

Michael Norman (Author)
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September 19, 2006 Haunted America
Trapped miners from cave-ins long ago still calling for help.
Ghostly women lurking in the shadows of city streets.
Spectral holy men and outlaws from America's Spanish past making appearances in our modern age.

They are all citizens of Haunted America, and this is

HAUNTED HOMELAND.

From a haunted castle in the wilds of Alaska to phantom clergymen in the Southwest and mysterious bouncing lights on the East Coast, this latest volume covers the places, the people, and the things that belong to the earthbound realm of the fantastic. Michael Norman has gathered together spectral events of all kinds--apparitions of the famous like Mary Surratt, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Mad Anthony Wayne; haunted crime scenes in Chicago and along the Indiana byways; as well as banshees, poltergeists, and even a ghost named George who has become an accepted resident in a house in North Carolina.

Some of these tales date back to America's early days, such as the screaming woman of Marblehead, Massachusetts, while others rise from more contemporary sources, like noted mystery writer Mary Robert Rhinehart's encounter with ghost at a house on Long Island.

A ghostly Supreme Court Justice, a specter known as The Texan, an abandoned Canadian bride reminiscent of Dickens's Miss Haversham, and many others make an appearance in this latest chronicle of the Haunted American landscape.



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"Haunted America provides a deliciously disturbing collection of stories from every state in the Union and Canada. . . . An impressive collection that involved eighteen years of study and investigation. Engrossing and entertaining. . . . Norman and Scott spin good yarns with fun, fact, and fright."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune


"Inject some spirit into your travels."--Orlando Sentinel

"It's a road map to the Other Side. Take a left at the cemetery. Go down Highway 666 until you hit a dead end. And you're there. Haunted America."--The Milwaukee Journal




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“The wide-ranging book covers spooky stories, ghostly sightings and strange auditory phenomena from across the United States and Canada.”—Tampa Tribune

“Won’t disappoint.… The tales are detailed enough and the ‘eyewitness’ reports are vivid enough to make skeptics wonder and ghost-hunters more convinced there is ‘something out there.’” —Bucks County Courier Times

“It’s a road map to the Other Side. Take a left at the cemetery. Go down Highway 666 until you hit a dead end. And you’re there. Haunted America.” —The Milwaukee Journal

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Forge Books; 1st edition (September 19, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0765301725
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765301727
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,861,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Slow Going, September 22, 2008
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This book is mainly a collection of folklore rather than an attempt at scientific documentation of ghosts. The stories are related in a "storytelling" style intended to entertain more than inform, with lots of embellished detail bordering on fiction.

I found some of the stories mildly interesting, although overall the book was a slow read for me and I kinda forced myself to finish it.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Complete cop out of a book., November 27, 2006
This review is from: Haunted Homeland (Haunted America) (Hardcover)
Little (if anything) new or original, much less personally investigated by the author here, from what I could tell. Of course, I didn't read past the first few chapters because I was so disappointed in this book. Anybody with access to a libray of old ghost stories and legends could have churned it out. Don't waste your money. I hate to rate any book this low, but I feel this one is nothing but an attempt to separate people who collect ghost books from their money.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring., December 4, 2007
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What a disappointment. I wonder if the majority of "Haunted Homeland" stories were rejects from the earlier books research?
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