Maureen Wood - More Ghost Chronicles: Stories from the Realm of the Unknown, the Unexplained, and the Unbelievable

Praise for More Ghost Chronicles

With so much content out there from purported paranormal experts, it is difficult to know whom to turn to for honest yet compelling accounts. Look no further than this book! Maureen Wood and Ron Kolek have been there and done that when it comes to the supernatural. Cozy up with a warm blanket, turn the lights down, and enter their world of the weird in More Ghost Chronicles. I assure you a frightful time but in a very good way.

JIM HAROLD, host of The Paranormal Podcast and Campfire

Delightfully wicked in all the right ways, Ron and Maureen do not disappoint with their ghostly tales of lighthouses, drunken sailors, old mills, and the mysterious Puckwudgie of legend and lore. You'll devour their wonderful stories from cover to cover.

VARLA VENTURA, author of Varla Ventura's Paranormal Parlor

More Ghost Chronicles is like traveling with your best friends across a bridge between the seen and the unseen worlds. Maureen and Ron share their vantage point of this connecting, energetic matrix so we all can learn how these two worlds affect each other and how they affect us. It is a journey both entertaining and educational with plenty of what-the-heck and that-makes-sense moments.

JUANITA VIOLINI, author of Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored

New England, known for its haunting stories of ghosts and terror in the night, now brings you bone-chilling tales of an actual investigator and a psychic who take readers deep into the heart and soul of darkness. Each story in More Ghost Chronicles is more compelling than the last, taking you to your innermost core, filled with the fear of what the unknown can truly do! Images of what it's like to take on the spiritsas authors Kolek and Wood try to unravel the mysteries of what lies behind the veilwill have you gripping your blankets with the lights on.

KRISTIN LEE, owner of the Bellaire House and author of 1699 Belmont Street: A Portal to Hell

Ron Kolek and Maureen Wood took me to a place I swore I'd never go. After investigating the ghosts of Gettysburg for several decades, I've collected and experienced some of the most bizarre things one can imagine: phantom gunfire; an elevator opening onto a Civil War hospital scene; the ghostly, blue face of a little boy peering into a window three floors up; human blood on the floor of a historic hospital from the Battle of Gettysburg that disappeared completely. So you might say I've become jaded to the fright inherent in the paranormal. But the one thing I swore I never wanted to witness was the channeling of a tormented spirit by a trance medium. Well, thanks to Ron and Maureen's visit to Gettysburg recounted in More Ghost Chroniclesthis wonderful, impossible-to-put-down bookI watched horrified as Maureen channeled the ghost of a wounded soldier about to go under the scalpel at the Daniel Lady Farm hospital. It scared the living bejeebers out of me. This and other tales of their adventures at sites steeped in the supernatural will do the same for you.

MARK NESBITT, author of the Ghosts of Gettysburg series

This edition first published in 2018 by Weiser Books, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

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Copyright 2018 by Maureen Wood and Ron Kolek

Foreword copyright 2018 by Jeff Belanger

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages

ISBN: 978-1-57863-635-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wood, Maureen, author.

Title: More ghost chronicles : stories from the realm of the unknown, the unexplained, and the unbelievable / Maureen Wood and Ron Kolek ; foreword by Jeff Belanger.

Description: Newburyport : Weiser Books, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018018506 | ISBN 9781578636358 (6 x 9 pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Ghosts. | Haunted places. | Channeling (Spiritualism) | Parapsychology.

Classification: LCC BF1461 .W663 2018 | DDC 133.1dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018018506

Cover design by Kathryn Sky-Peck

Cover photo by iStock

Interior by Maureen Forys, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Typeset in ITC Oldbook, Formata and Old Newspaper Types

Printed in Canada

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Maureen:

To my late mother: Thank you for always being my rock and for loving me unconditionally. You always were, and still are, my biggest champion. I love you.

To my husband: What can I say... you are my love, my life, and my best friend on this crazy ride we call life.

To my daughter, Sabrina; my son, Joshua; and his beautiful wife, Kimberly: When others in this world are not so kind in their acceptance of my abilities, your belief, love, and support in who I am have meant more to me than you could possibly know. I love you all with every fiber of my being. Thank you.

Last, but certainly not least, to Addison, my granddaughter, who at the age of two is already displaying medium/psychic abilities: It is my hope that this book may someday act as a guide to help you understand that what you are experiencing is completely normal. Or should I say paranormal? And if nothing else, Sweetie, know that you are not alone. May the light inside you shine brightly for all to see, and may you never fear the gifts that God has given you. I love you more than words can say. By the way, your new nickname, since I am the fifth-generation psychic and your mom is number six, well, I guess that makes you lucky number seven!

Ron:

I would like to dedicate this book to Thermal Dan. Daniel E. Parsons was the deputy fire chief for the town of Hamilton for over twenty years, the squadron commander of the Beverly Civil Air Patrol, and a trusted member of the New England Ghost Project. He introduced our team to thermal imaging and gave us the rare opportunity to investigate two vintage B17s. He loved his son, Kent, often missing investigations to watch him compete in swim meets on the college level. Dan, we miss you, and I am sure our paths will cross again someday.

Lastly, I want to thank, St. Jan, my wife, and also my loving mother, both of whom put up with me all these years, never wavering in their love for me.

Spirits roam the halls of a home once owned by a reverend. At the conclusion of the investigation, the owners reject the results. The team is ultimately vindicated by a message from beyond.

Mysterious chicken bones lead Ron and Maureen to investigate a restaurant while under the scrutiny of a news team.

Ron and Maureen go for a Sunday drive to investigate the legend of Dudley Road. Are the legends true, or is there something more sinister beneath the surface?

While conducting a ghost-hunting event at a former gentlemen's club, Maureen gives the crowd more than they bargained for.

Strange goings-on at a windswept lighthouse urge the caretakers to seek answers. Is the lighthouse haunted? The team is called in to answer the question.

On a journey to one of the most haunted locations in America, the team experiences an onslaught of encounters with many spirits. Day or night, it doesn't matter where you are, there is no escape from the dead.