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    • The Army of the Dead
      The ghosts of the Confederate Army still march through Charleston, South Carolina. A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky South.

    • The Bells
      A sweeper -- seeking buried treasure -- encounters a terrible ghost!

    • Black Bartelmy's Ghost
      Black Bartelmy was an evil, surly buccaneer who murdered his wife and children and went to sea with a band of pirates as nasty as he. (Nova Scotia)

    • The Black Dog of Hanging Hills
      A black dog haunts Meriden, CT. A version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

    • Blackbeard's Ghost
      Blackbeard's ghost continues to walk the shores on the Pamlico Sound, searching for his head.

    • The Bloodstain
      A murdered man haunts the house where he was killed.

    • The Cut-Off
      A Louisiana riverboat captain is trapped forever in a cut-off. A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky South.

    • The Dungarvon Whooper
      A murdered cook screams out his rage and terror each evening at dusk.

    • The Death Coach

    • The Death Coach comes for a dying man.

    • Dem Bones
      The ghosts of Captain Kidd's pirate crew return to the place where they buried their treasure.

    • The Doctor and the Ghost
      A ghost helps a doctor save his patient. (Utah)

    • The Express Train to Hell
      The Express Train to Hell comes to Newark Central Station to take the soul of an old man.

    • The Fifty-cent Piece
      A couple spend a night at a haunted house. (New York)

    • The Girl in White
      A young man finds himself flirting with a ghost!

    • The Green Lantern
      The ghost of a lighthouse keeper haunts St. Martin's Island.

    • Ghost Handprints
      Ghosts rescue a car stuck on the railroad tracks.

    • The Ghost Pilots of Times Square
      The spirits of two RAF pilots visit Times Square after their planes were shot down over Berlin.
    • The Ghost Ship of Captain Sandovate
      The merciless crew that killed their captain are doomed to sail the Atlantic forever, searching for water.

    • Ghost Train
      A Ghost Train appears on the tracks three miles outside of Medicine Hat, Alberta.
    • The Ghosts of Ringwood Manor
      Do not visit Ringwood Manor after dark!

    • The Grave
      A woman haunts her burial ground.

    • The Headless Horseman
      A headless Hessian gallops forth from the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, scaring the locals.
    • Henry Hudson and the Catskill Gnomes
      Every wondered who Rip Van Winkle played nine-pins with? It was Henry Hudson and his crew!
    • I'm All Right
      A soldier visits his mother after he is killed in the Middle East.

    • La Llorona
      The ghost of a woman searches the river banks for her sons.

    • The Lady in Lace
      A beautiful ghost walks the shores near Pebble Beach, California.

    • The Lady in Red
      A murdered woman haunts a Nevada hotel.

    • The Lincoln Death Train
      Every April, the ghostly Lincoln Death Train travels up to Albany from New York City bearing a skeletal orchestra and the coffin of Abraham Lincoln.
    • Lost!
      A prospector lost in the mire is lead to safety by a beautiful ghost.

    • Milk bottles
      Day after day, a woman comes to the store for milk and leaves without paying.

    • Ocean-Born Mary
      The ghost of a beautiful woman haunts the house where her pirate-husband was murdered.

    • Palatine
      A Dutch ship wrecks off Block Island. (Rhode Island.) A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

    • The Phantom Drummer
      The sound of a phantom drummer seals the doom of a Revolutionary War soldier trying to desert the British army.

    • The Phantom Lovers of Dismal Swamp
      A distraught man seeks for his dead lover in the Dismal Swamp.

    • The Phantom Train Wreck
      A horrible train wreck is re-enacted before the eyes of a stranded traveler.

    • Presumed Drowned
      The souls of five drowned men rejoin their ship from the Ice.
    • The Shadow Train
      A ghost train stops to rescue a dying man.

    • Spuyten Duyvil
      New Amsterdam is under attack. Can a brave trumpeter warn the people in time? (New York)

    • The Tolling of the Bell
      A bell mysteriously tolls in the night, foretelling the doom of the passengers of a local ship.

    • The Telltale Seaweed
      An overnight stay in an abandoned Cape Cod house reveals a ghost. (Massachusetts) A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

    • The Trapper's Ghost
      The phantom of an evil trapper is doomed to roam the wilds of Labrador, helping lost travelers to atone for his sins.

    • Podcast: Turnabout is Fair Play
      An old man's ghost turns the tables on two little boys who played tricks on him when he was alive. Story comes from Spooky New Jersey.
    • The White Horse
      Mounted on a white horse, a new bride flees for her life from a rejected suitor.

    • The White House Ghosts
      Who's haunting the White House?

    • The White Lady
      A ghost rises out of Durand Lake to hunt down her daughter's killer. (New York)

    • Who Calls?
      A Cree warrior journeying to the home of his beloved hears her voice calling his name in the night.


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