Terrance Zepke - The Ghost Hunters MOST HAUNTED Box Set (3 in 1): Discover Americas Most Haunted Destinations

The Ghost Hunters
Most Haunted Box Set

Copyright 2012 by Terrance Zepke

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData

Zepke, Terrance

A Ghost Hunters Guide to The Most HauntedPlaces in America/Terrance Zepke

ISBN-13 978-0-9855398-6-3

1. Ghosts-America. 2. Haunted Places-America.3. Paranormal-America. I. Title.

Cover sketch by Michael Swing

One of the things I really like aboutTerrances book is that it is such an easy read. The tidbits ofhistory keep you turning the pages, and you also learn about theparanormal investigators, who have used a variety of paranormalinvestigation toolsA Ghost Hunters Guide To The Most HauntedPlaces in America is one of those books that keeps yourimagination wondering what really happened.

-Josh Schubert, USA TravelMagazine

A Ghost Hunters Guide To The MostHaunted Places in America explores the story behind theseghost story settings all throughout the country, from theatres, oldfactories, asylums, homes prisons, and much more. A Ghost HuntersGuide To The Most Haunted Places in America is a must for lovers ofthe paranormal in America. Highly recommended.

-James A. Cox, Midwest BookReview

From a lunatic asylum to a brewery, ghostlypresences inhabit all these places. Complete directions and siteinformation is provided. Even if you dont get a chance to visiteach of these locations, the stories and the black-and-white photosare fascinating.

-Marcella Gauthier, EscapeesMagazine

a journalist by training, she [Zepke] takesyou on a tour of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in WestVirginia, the Birdcage Theatre in Arizona, and the Colonial ParkCemetery in Georgia, among a dozen other places

-Alan Caruba, Bookviews.com (NationalBook Critics Circle)

A Ghost Hunters Guide to The MostHaunted Places in America by Terrance Zepke is a travel guideto fifteen different places throughout the United States, which arebelieved to be the home of many ghosts. Zepke herself has alwaysloved a good ghost story and heard many as she was growing up inthe Carolinas. Now she has many books recording not only thestories she loves but also the history and photos of the placesnamed. These places have all been investigated and proven hauntedby the most sophisticated modern scientific equipment such as EMFdetectors, which register electrical and magnetic fields, and EVPs(Electronic Voice Phenomenon), which digitally records sounds thehuman ear cannot detect. Each place Zepke writes about has all thetour contact information also and many black and white photos. Afun way to plan a trip, if you arent afraid!

-Bonny Neely (Top 1,000 AmazonReviewer)

This book was full of so many great factsand figures as well as photos of some truly scary looking places.While I have not visited any of these places, after reading this Iam more apt to seek them out, especially with a daughter that lovesscary things. The book was well written, short and to the point,but the author does not leave out any detail. She does a great jobat describing the locations completely and gives you as a reader aclear glimpse into what you can expect (or not expect) when youvisit these locations. It was well written and for anyone who loveshaunted places, this is definitely the book for you!

-Dad of Divas, Blogger

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Table ofContents

Terrance Zepke became fascinated with theparanormal at an early age. This is probably due to growing up inthe South Carolina Lowcountry, which has lots of ghosts andhaints. She has a B.A. in Journalism, a Masters in MassCommunications, and has studied parapsychology at the prestigiousRhine Institute. She is an award-winning and best-selling author ofthree dozen travel references and ghost books. A complete list ofher titles and more about this author has been compiled into a freebooklet, Terrance Zepke Series Reading Order & Guide, which isavailable through most booksellers. Zepke has traveled to everycontinent and lived all over the world during her career as afreelance travel writer and ghost hunter. Her many adventuresinclude dog-sledding in the Arctic, piranha-fishing along theAmazon, and investigating haunted places around-the-world. She isin demand as a speaker and has appeared on the The LearningChannel, NPR, Discovery Channel, Good Morning Show, CNN, PBS, TheHistory Channel, and The Travel Channel. She is also the host ofTerrance Talks Travel: ber Adventures Show and co-host ofA Writers Journey.

Introduction

As the author of numerous ghost books, I havebeen asked a lot of questions about ghostly phenomenon over theyears, including some really strange questions. But the most commonquery I get is something that you may be wondering too, How andwhy did you start writing ghost books?

There are two reasons. First, I love a goodghost story. After all, I grew up in the South Carolina Lowcountrywhere storytelling and haunted plantations and things like ghostsand boo hags are as much a way of life as iced tea and humidity.Since Im a writer and I love a good ghost story, it was inevitablethat I would write about ghosts.

The longer reason is the research. In orderto understand who or rather what entity haunts a place, you have toknow the backstory. This means you have to put together a detailedhistory about a place.

There is nothing I enjoy more than learningabout how a historic house or hotel or asylum or prison came to bebuilt, who inhabited it, and what happened to the inhabitants. Theresearch proves especially intriguing in regards to what kind ofparanormal activity has been detected and by whom and for how longand how recently.

Usually, places are haunted due to theirrich historymurder, betrayal, love, greed, lust, war, disease,tragedy, death, duels, gambling disputesand the list goes on. Thetheory is that spirits that died tragically may have unfinishedbusiness so they linger where they died.