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Field of screams : haunted tales from the baseball diamond, the locker room, and beyond
by Mickey Bradley
From the authors of the popular Haunted Baseball comes this all-new collection of spooky stories from ballplayers, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office staff, and fans, exploring the sometimes amusing and often eerie connection between baseball and the paranormal. The haunting of Yankee Stadium, the ghost of Babe Ruth, and inexplicable encounters at the Hall of Fame are among the many tales herein. While spotlighting numerous major league teams, Field of Screams also includes minor league ballparks, hotels, and baseball memorabilia, and concludes with a look at major league pranks that players indulge in to spook one another.
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Death in Salem : the private lives behind the 1692 witch hunt
by Diane E. Foulds
Salem witchcraft will always have a magnetic pull on the American psyche. During the 1692 witch trials, more than 150 people were arrested. An estimated 25 million Americans—including author Diane Foulds—are descended from the twenty individuals executed. What happened to our ancestors? Death in Salem is the first book to take a clear-eyed look at this complex time, by examining the lives of the witch trial participants from a personal perspective. Massachusetts settlers led difficult lives; every player in the Salem drama endured hardships barely imaginable today. Mercy Short, one of the “bewitched” girls, watched as Indians butchered her parents; Puritan minister Cotton Mather outlived all but three of his fifteen children. Such tragedies shaped behavior and, as Foulds argues, ultimately played a part in the witch hunt’s outcome. A compelling “who’s who” to Salem witchcraft, Death in Salem profiles each of these historical personalities as it asks: Why was this person targeted?
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The Salem witch trials reader
by Frances Hill
Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial--examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians--and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook.
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Ghosts of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
by Renee Mallett
From historical hauntings to tales of modern-day spooks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, hosts everything paranormal. Share a drink with the ghostly patrons of Molly Malone's, the Portsmouth Brewery, and AK's Bar and Bistro. Catch a performance at the Portsmouth Music Hall...just don't complain about a phantom blocking your view of the stage. Watch ghostly ladies who pine for war hero John Paul Jones, and shudder as you read about an alien abduction of a couple that sparked the UFO craze. Discover the glowing tombs at Point of Graves and South Cemeteries. Portsmouth is rife with spirits, haunted houses, UFO sightings, ghost ships, pirates, witches, and more! Be prepared to be scared.
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American ghost : a family's haunted past in the desert Southwest
by Hannah Nordhaus
In a true story of pioneer women, immigrants, ghost hunters, psychics, frontier fortitude, mental illness, imagination and lore, the author takes us to a Sante Fe hotel where she traces the life, death and unsettled afterlife of her great-great-grandmother Julia, who haunts this elegant establishment. By the author of The Beekeeper's Lament.
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Haunted hikes of New Hampshire
by Marianne O'connor
New Hampshire is a state rich with history; some of it haunted. Explore the ghosts and their haunts in towns such as Alton, Dover, Franconia, Litchfield, Nashua, Portsmouth, and West Chesterfield that will leave your senses tingling with adventure.
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Haunted Hotels : Eerie Inns, Ghoulish Guests, and Creepy Caretakers
by Tom Ogden
Haunted Hotels comprises more than two dozen tales of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and other spooky happenings at hotels, inns, and rooming houses across America and around the world. Tom Ogden, author of four other books in the Haunted series, also provides information for readers who wish to check in and check out the spirits themselves ... if they dare
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Killing the witches : the horror of Salem, Massachusetts
by Bill O'Reilly
Revisiting the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693, during which more than 200 people were accused, this dramatic history of the Puritan tradition and how the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the US depicts good, evil, community panic and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.
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The haunting of Alma Fielding : a true ghost story
by Kate Summerscale
The Edgar Award-winning author of The Wicked Boy documents the story of 1930s Hungarian ghost hunter Nandor Fodor and the traumatic details surrounding the case of a London housewife's bizarre supernatural experiences.
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New Hampshire book of the dead : graveyard legends and lore
by Roxie J. Zwicker
New Hampshire's historic graveyards, from Portsmouth to North Conway, have bizarre and eerie stories to offer their visitors. Graveyards often invoke fear and superstition among the living, but the dead who rest within them may have more to communicate to the world they left behind. The sands of Pine Grove Cemetery in Hampton once concealed the tombstone of Susanna Smith, but now its message--which reads simply Slaine with thunder"--and her story have risen from beneath the soil. The Point of Graves Cemetery in Portsmouth is home to the spirit of Elizabeth Pierce, who beckons departing guests back to her grave. Along the state's southern border in Jaffrey, tombstones at Philips-Heil Cemetery caution the living to cherish life. Author Roxie Zwicker tours the Granite State's oldest burial grounds, exploring the stones, stories and folklore of these hallowed places.
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