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Twenty-five chilling tombstone tales from around America and the globe
Everybody knows better. Yet from the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, Heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries weve developed many a superstition to protect ourselves from restless graveyard ghosts. Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than two dozen stories of some of the most actively haunted graveyards both in this nation and abroad, including:
• The Greenwood Hauntings: Greenwood Cemetery in Decatur, Illinois, is one of the most ghoulish graveyards in Americas Heartland, sporting at least five individual entities, a gaggle of ghost lights, and a whole trainload of Civil War dead.
• Pretty in Pink: The ethereal ghost of the Pink Lady floats over the graves of the Yorba Cemetery in Yorba Linda, California—on June 15 of even-numbered years, that is.
• The Queen of Voodoo: The restless spirit of Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century Queen of Voodoo, is said to appear in New Orleanss St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in the form of a gigantic black crow or a phantom black hellhound—when shes not walking through the French Quarter.
Synopsis
Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than two dozen stories of some of the most actively haunted graveyards from around the world—including the sordid account of a Florida grave robber, accusations of witchcraft and voodoo, and reports of a vampire or two. Tom Ogden, author of four other books in the Haunted series, also includes a “Ghost Hunters Guide to Graveyards” providing information for readers who wish to visit the haunted cemeteries and other sites . . . if they dare.
About the Author
Tom Ogden is one of Americas most celebrated magicians. Over thirty years he has gone from the tinsel-and-sawdust of the circus ring to the glitter-and-sequins of Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Lake Tahoe. He has appeared on specials such as The Worlds Greatest Magic II (NBC) and The Great Magic of Las Vegas (FOX). The author of several booksincluding four in the "Haunted" series: Haunted Highways, Haunted Hollywood, Haunted Theaters, and Haunted Hotels, as well as The Complete Idiots Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings and The Complete Idiots Guide to Street Magic.
Table of Contents
Haunted Cemeteries
Introduction
Part One: Wraiths of the Windy City (Chicago and environs)
Chapter 1The Resurrection WraithChapter 2The Groundskeepers GhostChapter 3Creatures from the Bachelors LagoonChapter 4The Statues of GracelandChapter 5The Phantom FlapperChapter 6Last Stop: EvergreenChapter 7The Helping Hand
Part Two: Stateside Spirits
Chapter 8The Punchbowl Phantoms (Hawaii)Chapter 9Old Town Terrors (San Diego, CA)
Chapter 10Pretty in Pink (Yorba Linda, California)Chapter 11Simply Marilyn (Westwood, California)Chapter 12Kabar, the Cavorting Canine (Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park)Chapter 13The Spectral Orbs of Silver Cliff (Silver Cliff, Colorado)Chapter 14The Seventh Gate of Hell (Kansas City, Kansas)Chapter 15The Spoiled Spirit of Greenwood (Decatur, Illinois)Chapter 16The Lady in Gray (Columbus, Ohio)Chapter 17The Haunted Sphere (Ohio)
Chapter 18The Other Salem (Ohio)Chapter 19The Queen of Voodoo (New Orleans, LA)Chapter 20The Tomb of the Storyville Madam (New Orleans, LA)Chapter 21The Children Without Hope (Gautier, Mississippi)Chapter 22The Mark of Death (Winfield, Alabama)Chapter 23That These Honored Dead (Evergreen, Alabama)Chapter 24The Hippy Haunter (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)Chapter 25Till Death Do You Part (Key West, FL)Chapter 26Boneys Ghost, the Spectral Slave (Charleston, South Carolina)Chapter 27Are You A Good Witch or a Bad Witch? (York, Maine)
Part Three: International Apparitions
Chapter 28The Orb of Oblivion (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)Chapter 29The Capering Coffins of Christchurch (Barbados)Chapter 30Faithful to the Endand Beyond (Dublin, Ireland)Chapter 31City of the Dead (London, England)Chapter 32The Secret of Bury St. Edmunds (Suffolk, England)Chapter 33Beneath the City of Lights (Paris, France)Chapter 34The Ghosts of Gallipoli (Gallipoli, Italy)Chapter 35The Isle of the Dead (Port Arthur, Tasmania)Chapter 36The Mummys Curse (Egypt) Appendix A: Funeral Notices (Bibliography)Appendix B: Map to the CemeteriesAppendix C: Burial Practices
Appendix D: Ghost Hunters Guide to GraveyardsIndex