Ghostly Tales from America’s Jails

Table of Contents
Introduction page

1610 The Palace Ghosts - Santa Fe, New Mexico Robert Jesten Upton 1
1684 The Ghosts of Salem Village - Salem, Massachusetts Patricia Morse-McNeely 5
1760 A Terrible Secret - Charleston, South Carolina Eric Stabene 10
1771 Where Haunts Abound - Charleston, South Carolina Eric Stabene 12
1799 Host to Ghosts – New Orleans, Louisiana Patricia Morse-McNeely 17
1802 Pirates, Thieves, & Civil War Soldiers - Charleston, South Carolina Eric Stabene 23
1811 Orders from a Ghost – Augusta, Kentucky Barbara Brockwell Kelsch 28
1829 An Experiment in Solitude - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dina A. Chirico 33
1824 The Show Goes On – St. Albans City, Vermont Tammy Petty Conrad 39
1834 The “American Tragedy” Jail – Herkimer, New York Stacey Jones 43
1835 Man on a Rope – Rutherfordton, North Carolina Patricia Morse-McNeely 48
1845 Secrets of the Attic – Equality, Illinois Troy Taylor 54
1849 The Huntsville Walls – Huntsville, Texas Mitchel Whitington 67
1854 The Bridgewater Triangle – Bristol County, Massachusetts Janet L. Kilgore 71
1850s Doin’ Time on the Rock – Alcatraz, San Francisco, California Mitchel Whitington 77
1858 Touch at Your Own Risk – Leonardtown, Maryland Jackie Taylor Switzer 84
1859 Show Me – Independence, Missouri Mary Fenoglio 89
1859 The Ghosts of Fort Delaware – Delaware City, Delaware Maureen Timm 95
1862 Ghosts from Gold Rush Days - Central City, Colorado Ann Alexander Leggett 102
1866 Gothic Prison - Moundsville, West Virginia Elizabeth J. Baldwin 107
1872 Serve Your Sentence in Style – Washington, Arkansas Alan L. “Buz” Lowe 112
1872 Julius Greenwald: Scapeghost – Laramie, Wyoming Zoey Quinn 119
1875 Army of Ghosts – Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Carol McDonald Menchu 126
1875 Halloween: Anytime You Want It – Columbia City, Indiana Jennifer Zamaites 133
1879 Ghost Hunt at Buffalo Gap – Buffalo Gap, Texas Joan Upton Hall 138
1880 Dead Men Walking – Folsom, Represa, California Olyve Hallmark Abbott 147
1881 The Ghost Who Likes Me - Bandera, Texas Stephanie Parker Logue 154
1885 The Squirrel Cage –Council Bluffs, Iowa Joy Nord 161
1887 Cursed Clock Tower Stops Time - Gonzales, Texas Gary Brown 167
1887 Phantom Inmates – Globe, Arizona Ellen Robson 174
1891 Certifiably Haunted –St. Augustine, Florida Joy Nord 179
1892 Black Jail – Guthrie, Oklahoma Tonya Hacker 184
1894 Whispers Within the Walls – Deer Lodge, Montana Ellen Baumler 191
1896 Cathedral or Dracula’s Castle? – Mansfield, Ohio Elizabeth J. Baldwin 199
1897 History that Never Rests – Winchester, Tennessee Tonya Hacker 204
1901 The Old Pen – Rawlins, Wyoming Joan Upton Hall 208
1909 Misery Seeks Company – Lockhart, Texas Shelley Andrews 211
1909 (est.) A Personal Encounter – Courtland, Arizona Billie L. Stephens 217
1936 Eternally Looking Out to Sea – Port Orford, Oregon Herbert Holeman 224
1956 Residue of a Riot – Santa Fe, New Mexico Joy Nord 228
Last Words from the Editor (with ghostly photos) 234

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