Puerto Rico
The Vanishing Sentry of La Garita del Diablo — San Juan, PR
At the outer edge of Old San Juan, where the city’s stone seems to brace itself against the Atlantic, Castillo San Cristóbal…
Missouri
Betsy Ward of the Savoy’s Room 505 — Kansas City, MO
Near 9th and Central, in the old heart of Kansas City, there stands a building that has learned the peculiar art of…
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North Carolina
The Pulse Beneath Heartbeat Bridge — Clinton, NC
There are roads in Sampson County that look as if they were laid down not by men, but by some old and…
Vermont
Boots Berry, the Tap-Dancing Ghost of the Green Mountain Inn — Stowe, VT
At the center of Stowe, where the Green Mountains gather themselves into a long, watchful hush, the Green Mountain Inn has stood…
U.S. Virgin Islands
Jumbies in the Great House at Estate Whim — Frederiksted, VI
Outside Frederiksted, where St. Croix opens itself to the salt breath of the Caribbean and the hard brilliance of the sun, Estate…
Michigan
The Ghost Light of George Parris — Presque Isle, MI
On the shore of Lake Huron, where the water can appear as smooth as hammered pewter one hour and rise in dark,…
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…
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…
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…