Haunted U.S. Battlefields: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Eerie Events from America's Fields of Honor - Paperback

by Mary Beth Crain (Author), Troy Taylor (With)

Do places where violent deaths occur somehow absorb the horror, only to conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? Many people believe that this can indeed happen; above all, in the context of that manmade phenomenon that reaps so great a toll in so short a time: War. Haunted U.S. Battlefields takes us on a spine-tingling tour of America's most legendary spectral scenes of human struggle-from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, from the Indian Wars to World War II and beyond.

As America's bloodiest conflict, the Civil War has yielded the greatest number of ghostly sightings. Hence, most of the twenty-five battlefield legends this book relates are from this era-whether the myriad strange spectral happenings associated with Gettysburg, or this war's lesser known but equally tragic events.

Summing up the eerie essence of wartime scenes across America-many of which today host popular ghost tours-Haunted U.S. Battlefields is a must for students of the paranormal, Civil War buffs, and all others interested in a spine-chilling realm of military history that the history books don't dare tell.

Back Jacket

Do scenes of wartime horror conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? You can finally decide for yourself with Haunted U.S. Battlefields, a spine-tingling tour of America's most legendary locations of human struggle - from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, from the Indian Wars to World War II and beyond. Most of the battlefield legends on these pages are from the Civil War, which has yielded the greatest number of ghostly sightings. A must for anyone interested in a fascinating realm of military history that most books don't dare tell, it will have you shivering as you read about: The Ghost Rider of Little Round Top, who allegedly turned the tide of the Civil War Old Green Eyes, a weird creature that takes various chilling forms at the notorious Chickamauga Battlefield, one of the Civil War's bloodiest scenes The Faceless Phantom of Corregidor, a terrifying entity that haunts a hotel on the infamous Island of Death in the Philippines where so many Americans lost their lives during World War II

Author Biography

Mary Beth Crain is a journalist, editor and author whose personal memoir, A Widow, A Chihuahua and Harry Truman (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000) was a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and whose book, Guardian Angels (Running Press, 2004) has sold over 150,000 copies. A long-time believer, through personal experience, in the paranormal, as well as a Civil War buff, Mary Beth has thoroughly enjoyed researching and writing Haunted U.S. Battlefields, and hopes to meet a military ghost or two one of these days.

Troy Taylor lives in Decatur, Illinois and is the founder of the American Ghost Society. He is the author of more than 80 books on hauntings and unexplained phenomena.