Arizona
The Restless Dead of Brunckow’s Cabin — Tombstone, AZ
In the San Pedro Valley near Tombstone, where the Arizona light can seem almost too hard for human memory, the ruins of…
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Arkansas
The Wolf-Bounty Killing at Arkansas’s Old State House — Little Rock, AR
The Old State House stands in Little Rock with the grave composure of a building that has listened too long. Its walls…
New Hampshire
Nancy Barton’s Restless Chase Through Crawford Notch — Hart’s Location, NH
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, there are places where the land seems to remember in a language older than speech.…
Massachusetts
The Bloody Pit of the Hoosac Tunnel — Florida, MA
Hoosac Mountain rises in western Massachusetts with the grave patience of old stone. Between North Adams and the town of Florida, it…
Mississippi
The Bride of Annandale at the Chapel of the Cross — Madison, MS
Near Madison, where the land once belonged to the Johnstone family’s Annandale plantation, the Chapel of the Cross stands with the graveyard…
Delaware
The Wine-Loving Gentleman Ghost of Woodburn — Dover, DE
On Kings Highway in Dover, Delaware, there stands a house that has learned to keep its face composed. Woodburn, the official residence…
Pennsylvania
Fort Mifflin’s Screaming Woman — Philadelphia, PA
Fort Mifflin does not rise from the Delaware River so much as endure it. Set on Mud Island, low and weathered against…
Connecticut
Abigail of the Old Pettibone Tavern — Simsbury, CT
In Simsbury, Connecticut, where the land rises and folds into old New England shadow, there stands a building whose past has never…
Minnesota
Molly, the Maid of the Forepaugh Mansion — Saint Paul, MN
At 276 Exchange Street South in Saint Paul, the house still seems to hold itself apart from ordinary time. It was built…
Puerto Rico
The Carmelite Nuns of Hotel El Convento — San Juan, PR
In Old San Juan, where the streets are narrow and blue-gray cobblestones hold the day’s heat long after sunset, Hotel El Convento…
Georgia
The Mill Women of Sweetwater Creek — Lithia Springs, GA
At Sweetwater Creek State Park, the forest does not so much surround the ruins as reclaim them, patient root by patient root.…
Kentucky
Rafinesque’s Curse at Old Morrison — Lexington, KY
On the campus of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, Old Morrison stands with the grave composure of a monument that has learned…