A tour guide for Demented Mitten Tours shares chilling supernatural tales from the history of Michigan’s capital. Hastily dubbed the new capital in 1847, Lansing overcame derision and setbacks to become a booming metropolis. Yet its rich history hides chilling legends… Bertie Clippinger plays tricks on the unwary at the Capitol Building, where the teen accidentally fell to his death when a game went horribly wrong. One of Lansing's founding families keeps a spectral vigil over its homestead, the Turner Dodge House. Malevolent spirits stalk the derelict Michigan School for the Blind. A witch's vengeful curse follows those who trespass on Seven Gables Road, one of the state's most haunted stretches. Founder of Demented Mitten Tours and local author Jenn Carpenter leads readers to the dark side of the Capital City.

Lansing is Michigan's state capital, home to local and state politicians, and also home for the spirited dead. Explore the campus of Michigan State University, named as one of the most haunted campuses in the U.S. where it is said that a student dies every year under frightening circumstances. Read the story of Elizabeth Giltner, the bride who was murdered before her wedding, and James Dallas Egbert III, the child prodigy behind the famous Dungeons and Dragons legend that sparked the Tom Hanks movie, Mazes and Monsters. Creep through the cemetery of Ingham County's poorest citizens, people that society wanted to forget, but whose tortured spirits will not rest. Take a tour of Danville, a small town surrounded by witchcraft legends and haunted locations. Explore the many haunted homes and meet people who have to live with ghostly residents every day, no matter how angry those spirits become! With over 50 haunted locations, this book is a must for your paranormal library.

Lansing is Michigan's state capital, home to local and state politicians, and also home for the spirited dead. Explore the campus of Michigan State University, named as one of the most haunted campuses in the U.S. where it is said that a student dies every year under frightening circumstances. Read the story of Elizabeth Giltner, the bride who was murdered before her wedding, and James Dallas Egbert III, the child prodigy behind the famous Dungeons and Dragons legend that sparked the Tom Hanks movie, Mazes and Monsters. Creep through the cemetery of Ingham County's poorest citizens, people that society wanted to forget, but whose tortured spirits will not rest. Take a tour of Danville, a small town surrounded by witchcraft legends and haunted locations. Explore the many haunted homes and meet people who have to live with ghostly residents every day, no matter how angry those spirits become! With over 50 haunted locations, this book is a must for your paranormal library.

Author of Legend of the Dead, Coyote Returns, The Shadow Catcher, and The Dark Canyon Strange lights spotted over the high desert of northern New Mexico, unmarked helicopters flying to and from Archuleta Mesa on the Apache Reservation, the death of a ranch foreman, and, after nearly a decade, livestock being killed and mutilated, again. Deputy Cliff Lansing is running for his first term as Sheriff. In the midst of his campaign the one-time rancher has to deal with divorce, the loss of a friend, and the gaggle of UFO enthusiasts who have descended on San Phillipe County. Lansing joins forces with Ned Koteen, the newly appointed Apache Reservation Police Chief, to investigate government cover-ups, conspiracies, and murder. While Koteen struggles with tribal secrets, Lansing has to fight his own family’s demons.

“Grand Rapids’ sinister and spooky past is illuminated . . . examines local hauntings and reveals the truth behind some long told urban legends” (The Collegiate). Come nose around in the creepier corners of the Grand Rapids of yesteryear. Discover why Hell’s Bridge persists as such an oft-told urban legend and what horrific history earned Heritage Hill the title of Michigan’s most haunted neighborhood. Mingle with the spooky inhabitants of the Phillips Mansion, Holmdene Manor, San Chez Restaurant and St. Cecilia Music Center. Meet the guests who never quite checked out of the Amway Grand. Read the true stories behind the Michigan Bell Building and the Ada Witch Legend. Nicole Bray, Robert Du Shane and Julie Rathsack illuminate the shadows of local sites you thought you knew. Includes photos!

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Mumbled voices in an empty attic, heavy footsteps on the stairs when all in the house are asleep, darting shadows across a darkened room . . . It should come as no surprise that with the dawn of the digital age, people have turned their new technology toward the mysterious stories they’ve heard or events they’ve personally experienced. Here, in the dusky gloom where traditional science has refused to enter, a new breed of investigator has introduced us to the strange sounds and weird images from these nocturnal adventures. Like most people, Jeff Cole has always been intrigued by aspects of the paranormal—does the human spirit endure after the body dies, and are there such things as ghosts? Though the deeper questions are best left to priests and scholars, his investigations of well- and lesser-known historical sites indicate the existence of a truly inexplicable phenomenon. Ghostly Encounters chronicles Cole’s journey into the world of ghost hunting, other ghost hunting groups he has met, and the team he ultimately joins. Ghostly Encounters also provides a first-person account of the haunted locations explored, historical background and context to these sites, and audio and video clips so the reader can experience some of the startling evidence captured during these investigations.