Indiana
Whispers in the Old County Poor Farm — Winchester, IN
People in Winchester know the road, though many will tell you they’ve never taken it after sundown. It runs out past the…
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Arizona
The Lady Who Never Checked Out of the Hotel Vendome — Prescott, AZ
In Prescott, Arizona, the wind comes down from the pines with a dry whisper, carrying dust, juniper, and old names. It moves…
Georgia
The Mourning Tunnel Beneath Candler Hospital — Savannah, GA
Savannah has always known how to keep a secret. It hangs its secrets from wrought-iron balconies and lets Spanish moss comb them…
North Carolina
The Phantom Whistle of the Catsburg Ghost Train — Durham, NC
There are places where the earth does not forget what men have done upon it. That is what old Mr. Harlan Pruitt…
North Carolina
The Lost Children’s Cries on Crybaby Lane — Rural Hall, NC
By day, Crybaby Lane looked like any other narrow road in the old folds of North Carolina: two ragged shoulders, a seam…
North Carolina
The Phantom Lanterns of Brown Mountain — Morganton, NC
By dusk, the Blue Ridge had folded itself into layers of bruised velvet, one ridge laid over another like the wings of…
Indiana
The Upstairs Footsteps of Roads Hotel — Atlanta, IN
By the time the last freight train came through Atlanta, Indiana, most decent folks were already asleep. It was the kind of…
Washington
The Piano That Plays After Midnight — Port Gamble, WA
There are towns that grow old the way people do: by gathering aches, by favoring one side in the wind, by lowering…
Missouri
Whispers in St. Joseph’s House for the Friendless — St. Joseph, MO
There are houses that look abandoned even when candles burn in every window. The Beattie Mansion was such a house. It stood…
Northern Mariana Islands
The Ancient Watchers of Tinian’s House of Taga — San Jose, MP
By the time the sun drops behind the breadfruit trees in San Jose, the House of Taga no longer looks like a…
U.S. Virgin Islands
The Jumbies of Estate Whim — Frederiksted, VI
By daylight, Estate Whim was a handsome lie. It stood on the quiet west end of St. Croix with its whitewashed walls…
North Carolina
The Ballad Still Echoes in the Old Wilkes Jail — Wilkesboro, NC
In Wilkesboro, where the hills rise blue and old as bruises against the evening sky, there stands a brick jail that has…