Laura Wright
Long before Dracula became the model for the modern vampire, families in rural America were opening graves....
Laura Wright
Their owners are documented. Their architecture is photographed. Their tragedies are repeated in books, television programs and...
Wales has no shortage of creatures hiding in its folklore. There are spectral hounds, troublesome fairies, water...
Katherine Grady never reached Virginia. We know almost nothing about her life. We do not know where...
The vampire did not begin with Dracula. It did not begin in Transylvania, and it certainly did...
Some ghost stories begin with murder. Others begin with love. The old Appalachian tale of Brahm and...
Sometimes a ghost story survives while almost everything that could explain it disappears. No photographs. No newspaper...
There are some Appalachian ghost stories that were never intended to be subtle. Old Tom is one...
Spend enough time reading about ghosts and eventually someone will say it: “Ghosts are energy.” It sounds...
Few houses in America have accumulated as much mythology as the Winchester Mystery House. There are staircases...
