Minnesota
The Phantom Sea Wing on Lake Pepin — Lake City, MN
Lake Pepin lies wide and deceptively calm along the Mississippi River, a broadening of the current between Minnesota and Wisconsin where the…
U.S. Virgin Islands
The Akwamu Jumbies of Ram Head — Coral Bay, VI
At the southeast end of St. John, where the island narrows toward heat, salt, and open horizon, Ram Head rises from the…
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American Samoa
The Restless Dead of Aʻasu’s Massacre Bay — Aʻasu, AS
On the north shore of Tutuila, where the island folds its green heights down toward the Pacific and the sea presses in…
South Carolina
Zoe St. Amand, the Lady in Black at Poogan’s Porch — Charleston, SC
At 72 Queen Street in Charleston, an 1888 Victorian house stands with the quiet composure of a place that has learned to…
North Carolina
The Restless Cold of Pine State Creamery — Raleigh, NC
By day, the old Pine State Creamery looked harmless enough. That was part of its trick. Sunlight fell on its brick walls…
Pennsylvania
The Red-Dressed Ghost of Pattee Library — State College, PA
There are buildings that remember in the ordinary ways: by stone darkened with weather, by worn brass polished under the hands of…
Washington
The Headless Colonel of Ebey’s Landing — Coupeville, WA
On Whidbey Island, where the land narrows and rises in long, wind-combed folds above Puget Sound, the past does not feel buried…
Guam
The Cries at Tinta and Fåha — Malesso’ (Merizo), GU
In Malesso’—the village many maps once called Merizo—the land does not forget what was done to it. There are places on Guam…
Northern Mariana Islands
The Prison Ghosts of Saipan’s Old Japanese Jail — Garapan, MP
In Garapan, on Saipan, there stands a ruin that does not ask to be beautiful. It has no need of ornament, no…
Ohio
Ceely Rose and the Poisoned Farmhouse at Malabar Farm — Lucas, OH
On the grounds of Malabar Farm State Park near Lucas, Ohio, there stands a farmhouse with a name that seems to carry…
Louisiana
Toni Jo Henry, the Perfumed Ghost of the Calcasieu Courthouse — Lake Charles, LA
In Lake Charles, Louisiana, the old Calcasieu Parish Courthouse stands with the kind of gravity that public buildings acquire only after decades…
New Hampshire
Betty Moody and the Crying Child of Star Island — Rye, NH
Star Island rises from the Atlantic not as a gentle place, but as a weathered remnant of endurance — a shoulder of…
New Mexico
Bobby Darnall, the KiMo Theatre’s Doughnut-Loving Ghost — Albuquerque, NM
The KiMo Theatre came into the world in 1927 with the confidence of a dream too carefully made to be temporary. In…