Michigan
Captain Townsend’s Cigar Smoke at Seul Choix Point Light — Gulliver, MI
On the northern shore of Lake Michigan, near Gulliver, there is a place where the land reaches out into dangerous water and…
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Indiana
The Grey Lady of Willard Library — Evansville, IN
In Evansville, Indiana, Willard Library stands with the solemn patience of a place built to outlast the hands that raised it. Its…
Oregon
Thelma Taylor’s Ghost Beneath the St. Johns Bridge — Portland, OR
Cathedral Park lies in the shadow of a bridge that does not merely cross the Willamette River, but seems to brood over…
Wisconsin
The Bleeding Grave of Kate Blood — Appleton, WI
In Appleton’s Riverside Cemetery, where the living come softly and the dead keep their long, weathered silence, there is a family plot…
Arkansas
The Bowie-Knife Ghost of the Old State House — Little Rock, AR
The Old State House stands in Little Rock with the gravity of a building that has listened too long. Before it became…
Colorado
Annabelle Stark Still Watches St. Elmo — St. Elmo, CO
High in Chaffee County, where the mountains rise with the stern patience of old witnesses, there is a place that seems less…
Montana
The Girl in the Window of Hotel Meade — Bannack, MT
Bannack had the look of a place that had been told to stand still and had obeyed too well. The street lay…
Oklahoma
The Unquiet Rooms of Belvidere Mansion — Claremore, OK
In Claremore, where the days can stretch wide and ordinary under the Oklahoma sun, there stands a house that seems to have…
West Virginia
The Bride Who Waits in Silver Run Tunnel — Cairo, WV
People will tell you there are two kinds of dark in West Virginia. There is the honest dark, the kind that falls…
North Carolina
The Bare Circle Where the Devil Is Said to Pace — Bear Creek, NC
You can drive past the turnoff three times and still miss it, even if you’re looking. That’s the first thing they tell…
Wyoming
The Green Lady Who Keeps Watch at Old Bedlam — Fort Laramie, WY
The wind had a way of arriving in Fort Laramie before anything else. Before the sun cleared the cottonwoods, before the first…
Louisiana
The Well-Widow of T’Frere’s House — Lafayette, LA
By daylight, T’Frere’s House looked harmless enough. It sat a little back from Verot School Road, where the traffic sighed past in…