In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about the ghost of William Coffin that still haunts his home on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts... (Read More)
In this article, just in time for the approach of Halloween, Melissa Davenport Berry tells ghost stories from the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry searches old newspapers and digs into historical records to learn about the ghosts haunting Dent’s Palace in Maryland... (Read More)
Melissa Davenport Berry tells the story of the gentle ghosts that seem to haunt the Porter-Phelps-Huntington house in Hadley, Massachusetts... (Read More)
In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry tells an eerie tale about Nathaniel Hawthorne and a troubled spirit that came to him in a seance... (Read More)
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega searches old newspapers to uncover eerie stories of ghostly sightings at some of America’s oldest cemeteries... (Read More)
Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this blog article, Mary searches old newspapers for stories about ghosts, séances and psychics – and tells two related stories from her own family’s history. Starting in the Victorian Era, séances, psychics and spiritualists seemed to be everywhere, as... (Read More)
Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this blog article—posted last year for Halloween and, due to its popularity, reposted now—Gena writes about some of the ghost stories she found in old newspapers, stories spooky enough to raise the hair on the back of your... (Read More)
In this article, just in time for Halloween, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about some haunted houses and ghost stories she found in old newspapers... (Read More)
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