Supernatural category: 1973 books

Turn out the lights, stoke up the fire, and enjoy another set of true spooky tales from the cache of T. M. Simmons' ghost hunting diaries. Curious Capers of the Calvert Ghosts, Parts One and Two, are tales of true supernatural encounters in a haunted bed and breakfast in Calvert, Texas. Great-Grandpa...

This fascinating book, enriched by archive photographs from private collections, contains a terrifying assortment of true-life tales from Hertford and its surrounding villages. Featuring stories of unexplained phenomena, phantoms, and poltergeists – including a blood-soaked policewoman seen in a...

A hag's pool. A ruined abbey. A house with a skull. Join award-winning mystery author Virginia King on this SHORT TALE of true travel, when her role as an accompanying delegate at a conference turned into an investigation of some of the spookiest places in Wales. Not only did the experience...

Compiled by a paranormal investigator, this new book contains a chilling range of spooky tales from around Highgate. From haunted public houses, private homes taken over by malevolent poltergeists, and a top-hatted fiend who hisses at passers-by, to the vampire sightings of the 1970s at Highgate's...

There is darkness in our world that the ancients have warned us about and we have ignored for too long. R. S. Tumber shines a light into the depths of human existence to uncover the lost secrets and ancient mysteries of our past. What he finds is a chilling testimony to what we have lost but what...

" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens...

Revealing a side of the famed city that tourists rarely experience, this handbook uncovers a hidden realm of ghosts, apparitions, and paranormal phenomena in San Francisco. The guide delves into the haunted hotspots that unsuspectedly lie in the city's most famous landmarks and neighborhoods, including...

The city of New Orleans is formed into the shape of a crescent, which is believed by many people to form a sacred chalice which holds and stores energy making it one of the most unique areas in the world in which to perform magic and to see it magnify due to the energy in the land and from the flowing...

A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened—and still do happen—in the collective back yard of the...

Echoes of a dynamic history still linger in Springfield, Missouri. The town square was the scene of a Civil War battle, a Wild Bill Hickok shootout and a tragic 1906 lynching. From the phantom landlord of Jefferson Avenue to the spectral bride of Grove Park Bridge, meet figures from the town's past that...

The author of Haunted Nevada explores the spooky goings-on in the city named one of the top-three most haunted towns in America. Unlike any city in America, Virginia City epitomizes the notion of a western boom-and-bust ghost town. The Comstock Silver Rush lured wealth seekers from around the...

On the easternmost edge of Westchester County, among the quiet communities nestled against the Connecticut state line, memories of eerie incidents and haunted happenings flow through the generations like the currents of the nearby Hudson River. The old-timers of South Salem and Waccabuc still recall...

A study of supernatural activity in the halls of higher learning from the author of Haunted Oklahoma City.   Since Norman’s inception more than 120 years ago as a college town, it has gathered a shadowy history and more than a few residents who refuse to leave. Ghostly organ music and sinister...

At the heart of Peoria�s Haunted Memories is the rich and compelling history and folklore of the Peoria area. Buildings and cemeteries in and around the city provide ideal stomping grounds for many restless specters. In this collection of haunted sites, the reader will be introduced to some of Peoria�s...