Deep in the woods on top of a desolated hilltop, stood the most haunted cemetery ever known, called "Haunted Hills Cemetery." Legend has it, that in 1855, a man by the name of Jester Flats was the new Sheriff in town. One thing the townspeople had no idea about when Jester Flats was appointed the new Sheriff in the town of Deadsville was that the Sheriff had his idea of how he wanted to bring law and order to the town of Deadsville. His way would be, by way of an axe. He was the most feared Sheriff the town of Deadsville had ever known. According to the son of the sheriff, just after he was born, Jester's wife was caught in bed with another man in his own home. Jester happened to forget his axe that day and never left home without it, but this day would be a day he'd never forget. Jester noticed a horse was tied to a tree next to his house. Jester didn't like the looks of it, so he cautiously opened the front door of his house. Jester heard laughter coming from his upstairs bedroom. Jester took his axe out of the closet and went upstairs to investigate. Jester slowly opened the bedroom door and there lying on his bed was his wife and another man.

Former NYPD officer and current ghost hunter Jason Medina travels up the Hudson River to a hotbed of paranormal activity. The quiet New York suburb of Yonkers hides a history of hauntings. Now converted into apartments, old Public School 13 is the site of strange apparitions that may be ghosts of former students and teachers who died in a tragic fire. The Boyce Thompson Institute’s lofty goal of solving world hunger was never met, and unfulfilled spirits are said to lurk in its abandoned laboratory. Wealthy colonial landowners still watch over stately historic homes like Philipse Manor Hall. Even the iconic Untermyer Park is a playground for the otherworldly. Local ghost investigator Jason Medina reveals these and other ghosts of Yonkers.

From the mediums of Spiritualism's golden age to the ghost hunters of the modern era, Taylor shines a light on the phantasms and frauds of the past, the first researchers who dared to investigate the unknown, and the stories and events that galvanized the pubic and created the paranormal field that we know today.

Susie Meyers was one of the most beautiful women you ever laid eyes on. She had long wavy blonde hair and a smile that would melt any man's heart. The story begins at around midnight on October 31, 1953. Susie and her friends downed too many beers at a Halloween party. Then decided to pile into her friend Tommy's car with his friends Jack and Karen, with their six packs of beer, and drove down Hill Haven road. Just as they were all singing along with the radio, rain came pouring down and Tommy was having a hard time concentrating on the road because of the loud music and laughter coming from Susie and Karen in the back seat of Tommy's car. Jack was too busy handing out the beers to everyone to notice danger was on the way. Susie was the only one in the car not wearing her seat belt. The rain was pouring down to where Tommy should have pulled off to the shoulder of the road and waited for the rain to stop before proceeding any further. Tommy just kept driving at a high rate of speed and drinking his beer when all of a sudden a driver on the other side of the road lost control of his vehicle causing Tommy's car to skid off the road and hit a tree head on. Unfortunately, Susie was the only passenger in the car that was not wearing a seat belt. Susie was ejected from the car and hit the tree head decapitating her.

Explores eleven of the world's spookiest graveyards.

“Ghosts are always hungry,” someone once said—and no one knows how ravenous they really are more than Ed & Lorraine Warren, the world’s most renowned paranormal investigators. For decades, Ed and Lorraine Warren hunted down the truth behind the most terrifying supernatural occurrences across the nation... and brought back astonishing evidence of their encounters with the unquiet dead. From the notorious house immortalized in The Amityville Horror to the bone-chilling events that inspired the hit film The Conjuring, the Warrens fearlessly probed the darkness of the world beyond our own, and documented the all-too-real experiences of the haunted and the possessed, the lingering deceased and the vengeful damned. Graveyard chronicles a host of their most harrowing, fact-based cases of ghostly visitations, demonic stalking, heart-wrenching otherworldly encounters, and horrifying comeuppance from the spirit world. If you don’t believe, you will. And whether you read it alone in the dead of night or in the middle of a sunny day, you’ll be forever haunted by its gallery of specters eager to feed on your darkest dread. Don’t miss the Warrens’ latest film “Annabelle” in theaters now.

Legend has it that during the mid-eighteen hundreds, the Clanton brothers were considered some of the roughest outlaws that the West has ever known. It is said that one night they set up camp in the mountains after a stagecoach robbery and as they were counting the stolen money around the campfire they were ambushed by another gang of outlaws known as the Smith and Wesson brothers. Just as one of the Smith and Wesson brothers was about to shoot the last Clanton brother in the head he said "You can go ahead and pull the trigger and end my life just the way you did my two brothers, but we'll be back for you and your two brothers mark my words." The Smith and Wesson brothers all just laughed and one of them said as he laughed and put his cigarette out on his head "You ain’t coming back from the dead. You want to know why? I'll tell you why. I'm going to cut each one of your heads off to make sure. What do you think of that?" as he spit on him. "Just get it over with or are you too chicken to pull the trigger, because you know what I'm saying is true." replied a fearless Clanton. He replied "Shut up! Then the Smith and Wesson brothers took a swig of Tequila and broke the bottle over the Clanton brothers' head. Then he shot him in the head as he laughed. The Smith and Wesson brothers cut each one of their heads off and buried the bodies. Then the Smith and Wesson brothers got on their horses and rode back to town with the Clanton brother's stolen stagecoach money ready for some poker. As the brothers got off their horses and swung open the saloon doors the place got quiet because not many of the townspeople dared cross the Smith and Wesson brother's path. Cause if they did they wouldn't get just one six-shooter they would get three six-shooters. The brothers approached one of the tables where six men were playing poker and one of the Smith and Wesson brothers said "Looks like there's no place for us to sit." Then the brothers just laughed and pulled out their six-shooters and shot the three men dead at the poker table. The brothers kicked the dead men out of their chairs and sat down at the table fired their six-shooters at the ceiling and said "Bring us a bottle of whiskey!" All the cards were dealt to all the players as the night wore on. The brother’s stolen money was dwindling. Then all of a sudden three horses came galloping down the mountain and headed straight to the saloon where the Smith and Wesson brothers were playing poker. The three figures stepped off their horses and swung open the saloon doors and the Smith and Wesson brothers jumped out of their chairs in shock.

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.

Cemeteries can be creepy and downright scary places even without reports of paranormal activity. But throw in a few ghosts and all bets are off! Discover which ones are considered to be the most spookiest and why. *Find out why you don't want to park in front of El Campo Santo Cemetery. *Learn about the Phantom Mourners at Greenwood Cemetery, as well as the Greenwood Bride and Ghost Lights. *If you end up near Resurrection Cemetery and see a female hitchhiker, be sure to stop or else you may face the wrath of Resurrection Mary. *Find out why renowned paranormal investigator and Demonologist, Ed Warren, wrote an entire book about the White Lady of Union Cemetery. *Learn all about the vampire who lurks in Chestnut Hill Cemetery and about the fascinating and frightful legend of Mercy L. Brown. *Be prepared to see some celebrity ghosts hanging out among the graves and mausoleums of Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Take a Tomb Buggy Tour--if you dare! *Discover where to go to attend the biggest Halloween graveyard gathering and find out why it always ends before midnight. *During a tour of the creepy catacombs of Westminster Hall & Burying Ground be on the lookout for it most famous ghost resident, Edgar Allen Poe. *Find out which cemetery has a phantom farmhouse that appears and disappears right in front of your eyes, where to go to see the spirit of New Orleans's most famous Voodoo Priestess and much more! This handy reference will also reveal relevant visitor information, tour options, and chronicle paranormal activity.

Longtime residents of Harper's Cove believe that something is wrong with the Widow's Point Lighthouse. Some say it's cursed. Others claim it's haunted. Originally built in 1838, three workers were killed during the lighthouse's construction, including one who mysteriously plunged to his death from the catwalk. That tragic accident was never explained, and it was just the beginning of the terror. In the decades that followed, nearly two dozen additional deaths occurred in or around the lighthouse including cold-blooded murder, suicide, unexplained accidents and disappearances, the slaughter of an entire family, and the inexplicable death of a Hollywood starlet who was filming a movie on the grounds. The lighthouse was finally shuttered tight in 1988 and a security fence was erected around the property. No one has been inside since. Until tonight. Thomas Livingston is the acclaimed author of thirteen books about the supernatural and this evening he will enter the Widow's Point Lighthouse, searching for material for his next bestseller. He will be locked inside for the weekend with no way of contacting the outside world. And although no human has stepped foot inside the structure in nearly three decades, Livingston will not be alone.