Author: Timothy Murray, Michelle Smith and Haydn Thomas
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467119938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Founded amidst the bloodshed of the French and Indian War, Pittsburgh is haunted by the ghosts of its gritty and sometimes violent past. Many believe American industrialist Henry Clay Frick still inhabits Clayton, one of the last surviving homes on Millionaires' Row. The spirit of Kate Soffel lingers at the Allegheny County Jail, where she helped plot the escape of the Biddle brothers and fell in love in the process. The Duquesne Incline in 1877 employed teens disguised as ghosts to boost business. However, an authentic sinister entity is said to haunt the nearby Monongahela Incline without compensation. Join the Haunted Pittsburgh team as it explores ghostly encounters in the Steel City.
Author: Louise Martin
Publisher: Hometown World
ISBN: 9781728267326
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Experience a fa-BOO-lous Halloween with a ghost family on a tour of all the places you know and love in Pittsburgh! A family of ghosts visits spooky sites on a Halloween tour around Pittsburgh! Little Ghost loves tricking everyone...until Little Ghost hears the biggest BOO ever! Readers will also join in the hide and SHRIEK activity fun by spotting the hidden ghosts on each page. Come along and celebrate an unforgettable Halloween night! The #1 Regional Publisher with more than 6.9 million books sold: Delivers a BRAND-NEW regional Halloween series Halloween continues to grow in popularity: Sourcebooks' previous Halloween regional titles have sold more than 1.2 million copies Regional and Festive: This spooky, fun read-aloud incorporates Halloween fun and features art and text created especially for a specific city, state, or country so that each title feels unique
Author: Rosemary Guiley
Publisher: Clerisy Press
ISBN: 1578603536
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a renowned expert on paranormal, visionary, and spiritual topics. She puts her expertise to use in this guide to the scariest sites in the Keystone State. Each destination includes a detailed description and photographs so readers may test their own ghosthunting skills or visit from the safety of their armchairs. Firsthand accounts of otherworldly encounters bring the spooks into view, while a Ghostly Resources section points ghosthunters to further information.
Author: Mark Nesbitt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493043935
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Keystone State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Authors Mark Nesbitt and Patty A. Wilson shine a light in the dark corners of Pennsylvania and scare those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From apparitions of fires and soldiers struggling in the cold at Valley Forge, to ghostly children stalking dormitories at Gettysburg College, these stories of strange occurrences are sure to send a chill up your spine. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.
Author: Beth E. Trapani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: Mark Saba
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945917165
Category : Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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"The stories in Ghost Tracks are indeed haunted, but not by poltergeists or any other supernatural monsters. Instead, these beautifully-rendered works of short fiction are haunted by memory and missed opportunities. Mark Saba excavates a city of Pittsburgh where the factories are still producing steel and the men still have to speak in shards of blunt metallic language, where shades of meaning hover like ghosts between the words." Craig Fishbane, On the Proper Role of Desire ____________________________________ "In Ghost Tracks: Stories of Pittsburgh Past, Mark Saba writes about a Pittsburgh that is neither material, nor historical, but a place of memory. Beginning his collection with a quote from Tolstoy, 'Everything is, everything exists, only because I love' he sketches in 'the everything' with stories about professors, workmen, children and nuns told in an amazing range of voices. Some of the narrators relate events as they are occurring and some talk about what happened after their deaths. In the last story in the book, a father who had died when his son was three wonders what his son would have been like if had been a part of his growing up. The father says that the only consolation he can find is that his son uses 'his uncommon perspective to bring light to others who may have found themselves in the same circumstance.' Mark Saba has an uncommon perspective, and he has used it to connect us to characters that exist for us because of his expert telling of their stories." Chris Bullard, Fear ______________________________________ "Mark Saba's Ghost Tracks: Stories of Pittsburgh Past serves up twenty-three delightful vignettes arranged in three movements, chronicling the bittersweet lives of men, women, and children of Pittsburgh past. Among them: a chronic illness, seen and experienced by an innocent child ('Asthma'); a Lithuanian immigrant girl's coming of age ('National Biscuit Company'); and a richly-lived (and told) life viewed through the diary of a blind maid, mother, and crone ('Eva'). In these and other poignant tales, Saba narrates the human condition at its most savory and delicious." Phillip E. Temples, Machine Feelings and Helltown Chronicles
Author: Joshua P. Warren
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9781570723100
Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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"A beautiful young woman dies from a fall in Asheville's greatest hotel ... and the Pink Lady is said to still wander the massive halls of the Grove Park Inn. A building is constructed on the grounds of a miserable, ancient cemetery ... now they say you can still hear strange noises at night in the halls of Clyde A. Erwin High School. In 1908, a group of prisoners finally comes to Christ ... after being terrorized at night by a spook in the Buncombe County Jail. A distraught mother hangs herself from the rafters of a looming Beaucatcher Mountain bridge ... and the legend of Helen is born. These stories and more can be found within the pages of this remarkable book. A surreal mixture of history and myth, it searches for the fading morsels of truth while examining the feasts of folklore. These are the tales that linger in the minds of Asheville, as old and flavored as the mountains themselves. From secret chambers in aged castles to cryptic etchings on forgotten tombstones, this mountain town is filled with the lore and intrigue of the mysterious side of life."--Publisher description
Author: Bob Cranmer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425268551
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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October 1988: Bob Cranmer buys a house in the Pittsburgh suburb he grew up in. He has no idea that his dream home is about to become his worst nightmare… The Cranmers seemed fated to own the house at 3406 Brownsville Road. As a young boy, Bob had been drawn to the property, and, just when the family decided to move back to Brentwood, it went up for sale. Without a second thought, they purchased the house that Bob had always dreamed of owning. But soon, the family began experiencing strange phenomena—objects moving on their own, ghostly footsteps, unsettling moaning sounds—that gradually increased in violence, escalating to physical assaults and, most disturbingly, bleeding walls. Bob, Lesa, and their four children were under attack from a malicious demon that was conjuring up terrifying manifestations to destroy their tight-knit household. They had two choices: leave or draw on their unwavering faith to exorcise the malicious fiend who haunted their home. Now, Bob Cranmer recounts the harrowing true story of the evil presence that tormented his family and the epic spiritual war he fought to save everything he held dear… INCLUDES PHOTOS
Author: Mark Nesbitt
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811732983
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Eerie stories of ghosts, spirits, and hauntings from across the Keystone State.
Author: Lois Ruby
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545540208
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Haunted by history. Bound by mystery. Lori Chase doesn't know what to think about ghosts. She may have seen a few in the past, but those were just childish imaginings . . . right? Only now that she is living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, spirits seem to be on everyone's mind. The town is obsessed with its bloody Civil War history, and the old inn that Lori's parent run is supposedly haunted by the souls of dead soldiers. Then Lori meets one such soldier -- the devastatingly handsome Nathaniel Pierce. Nathaniel's soul cannot rest, and he desperately needs Lori's help. Because Nathaniel was not killed in the famous battle. He was murdered. Lori begins to investigate the age-old mystery, stumbling upon shocking clues and secrets. At the same time, she can't help falling for Nathaniel, just as he is falling for her . . . .
