by Aaron Mahnke
Eric Olsen and Theresa Argie, America’s Most Haunted: The Secrets of Famous Paranormal Places (Penguin, 2014).
WITHERING HEIGHTS
“Lessons in Iceman’s Prehistoric Medicine Kit,” New York Times, December 8, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/08/science/lessons-in-iceman-s-prehistoric-medicine-kit.html.
“Ballsy,” Discover, April 2015, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2015/04/30/tuberculosis-plombage.
“Collapse Therapies,” Museum of Healthcare, date unknown, http://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/explore/exhibits/breath/collapse-therapies.html.
“An Echo in Time: The Waverly Hills Sanatorium,” Liberty Voice, July 2012, http://guardianlv.com/2012/07/an-echo-in-time-the-waverly-hills-sanatorium.
Randy Russell, The Ghost Will See You Now: Haunted Hospitals of the South (John F. Blair, 2014), 76–79.
“Waverly Hills Orderly Held for Killing Another,” Courier-Journal, March 2, 1954, 15.
“The Ghosts of Waverly Hills,” Mysterious Universe, October 2013, http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/10/the-ghosts-of-waverly-hills.
LOCKED AWAY
“Curses! Fungus Dispels the Myth of King Tut’s Tomb,” Los Angeles Times, July 30, 1985, 11.
“Nine Victims of King Tut’s Curse (and One Who Should Have Been),” Mental Floss, November 2009, http://mentalfloss.com/article/23321/quick-10-nine-victims-king-tuts-curse-and-one-who-should-have-been.
Mary Jo Ignoffo, Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune (University of Missouri Press, 2010).
Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (Penguin, 2016), 49–69.
Pamela Haag, The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture (Basic Books, 2016).
Laura Trevelyan, The Winchester: Legend of the West (I. B. Tauris, 2016).
“New Room found at San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House,” ABC 7 News San Francisco, October 2016, http://abc7news.com/society/new-room-found-at-san-joses-winchester-mystery-house/1548352.
“Three Ghost Stories of the Winchester Mystery House,” Mercury News, October 10, 2016, https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/06/three-ghost-stories-of-the-winchester-mystery-house.
BITE MARKS
Jan-Andrew Henderson, The Ghost That Haunted Itself: The Story of the Mackenzie Poltergeist—The Infamous Ghoul of Greyfriars Graveyard (Random House, 2012).
“The MacKenzie Poltergeist,” Unexplained Mysteries, January 2012, https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=220743.
Paul Roland, Hauntings: True Stories of Unquiet Spirits (Arcturus, 2008).
THE CAVE
Charles Darwin, Works of Charles Darwin (D. Appleton, 1915), 268–270.
Shafik Meghji, Anna Kaminski, and Rosalba O’Brien, The Rough Guide to Chile (Penguin, 2015).
Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (Penguin Classics, 2003), 109.
“Into the Cave of Chile’s Witches,” Smithsonian, February 19, 2013, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/into-the-cave-of-chiles-witches-20138093.
“Myth and Magic Infuse Chilean Island,” last modified November 5, 2014, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2008/06/26/91931716/myth-and-magic-infuse-chilean-island.
“The Trolls, Witches and Sorcerers of Chile’s Huilliche,” last modified February 15, 2015, IndianCountry, https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/the-trolls-witches-sorcerers-of-chile-s-huilliche-uRYUXRadkUmHbZzkkC0Tkw.
THE KING
“The Tyrant of Clipperton Island,” DamnInteresting.com, updated March 2016, http://www.damninteresting.com/the-tyrant-clipperton-island.
“Guide to Islands You Never Want to Visit,” Atlas Obscura, May 2011, http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/atlas-obscura-s-guide-to-islands-you-never-want-to-visit.
“The Explorer,” TheSmartSet.com, June 2010, http://thesmartset.com/article06021001.
“An Island the World Forgot,” The Age, February 22, 1960, 13.
THE MOUNTAIN
“Spirits of the South Pole,” New York Times, July 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/drinking-ernest-shackletons-whisky.html?_r=0.
“Dyatlov Pass,” Daily Mail, August 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401175/Dyatlov-Pass-Indicent-slaughtered-hikers-Siberias-Death-Mountain-1959.html.
Keith McCloskey, Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident (History Press, 2013).
WITHIN THE WALLS
“William the Conqueror’s Castles,” BritainExpress, date unknown, http://www.britainexpress.com/articles/Castles/william.htm.
Geoff Abbott, Ghosts of the Tower of London (David & Charles, 2012).
“The Princes of the Tower,” Historical Royal Palaces, date unknown, http://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/palace-people/edward-v/#gs.tZXifbM.
“The Ghosts of Edinburgh Castle,” About.com, February 2016, http://paranormal.about.com/od/hauntedplaces/fl/The-Ghosts-of-Edinburgh-Castle.htm.
“The Monster of Glamis,” Smithsonian.com, February 2012, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-monster-of-glamis-92015626.
Y. K. Wha, “The Glamis Mystery,” Notes & Queries 10, no. 251 (1908): 311–312.
Thomas Firming and Thiselton Dyer, Strange Pages from Family Papers (Sampson Low, Marston, 1895), 102.
THE TAINTED WELL
Lionel Fanthorpe and Patricia Fanthorpe, The World’s Most Mysterious Castles (Dundurn, 2005), 212.
Jeff Belanger, The World’s Most Haunted Places (Career Press, 2004), 15–20.
Allison Vale, Hell House: And Other True Hauntings from Around the World (Sterling, 2008), 112–115.
“The House of Horror,” Occult Review VIII, no. 6 (December 1908), 308–347.
“Correspondence,” Occult Review IX, no. 1 (January 1909), 44–47.
ROPE AND RAILING
Christopher Nicholson, Rock Lighthouses of Britain: The End of an Era (Whittles, 1995), 58–59.
I DIE
Roy Bainton, The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena: From Bizarre Biology to Inexplicable Astronomy (Little, Brown, 2013).
ALL GONE
Christopher Nicholson, Rock Lighthouses of Britain: The End of an Era (Whittles, 1995), 168–179.
REARRANGED
“History of Sheffield Island Lighthouse, Norwalk, Connecticut,” New England Lighthouses, date unknown, http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/sheffield-island-light-history.html.
Joseph Citro, Passing Strange (Houghton Mifflin, 1996), 276.
“Sheffield Island, CT,” LighthouseFriends.com, date unknown, http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=786.
THE BIG CHILL
“History of Owl’s Head Lighthouse, Maine,” New England Lighthouses, 2012, http://www.newenglandlighthouses.net/owls-head-light-history.html.
“Owl’s Head Lighthouse,” Alan’s Mysterious World, March 2012, https://alansmysteriousworld.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/owls-head-lighthouse.
“Haunted Memories,” Bangor Daily News, October 31, 2006, http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2006/10/31/haunted-memories-keepers-of-owls-head-light-tell-tales-of-ghosts-in-their-bed-plastic-pumpkins-that-move-by-themselves.
“Haunted Owl’s Head Lighthouse,” Angels and Ghosts, http://www.angelsghosts.com/haunted_light_houses_owls_head_lighthouse.
“Horrific Boon Island Wreck Has Portsmouth Link,” SeacoastNH.com, 2012, http://www.seacoastnh.com/History/History-Matters/horrific-boon-island-wreck-has-portsmouth-link/?showall=1.
WHEN THE BOW BREAKS
“Lyubov Orlova,” Independent, January 23, 2014, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/�
��uk/home-news/mystery-of-the-lyubov-orlova-ghost-ship-full-of-cannibal-rats-could-be-heading-for-british-coast-9080103.html.
“A Brief Overview of the Queen’s Wartime Service,” SkyLighters.org, date unknown, http://www.skylighters.org/special/queenmary/qmww2.html.
“Ghosts of the Queen Mary in Long Beach,” Legends of America, March 2013, http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-queenmary.html.
“The Queen Mary,” Unsolved.com, September 2015, https://unsolved.com/gallery/the-queen-mary/.
“The Ghost Ship Queen Mary,” Weird U.S., date unknown, http://www.weirdus.com/states/california/ghosts/queen_mary.
“The Queen Mary, Part 2,” Seeking Ghosts, February 2015, http://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Pedder.
IN THE DARK
“The Bell Witch Cave,” Prairie Ghosts, 2013, www.prairieghosts.com/b-cave.html.
AN ANGEL AMONG US
Diana Ross McCain, Mysteries and Legends of New England (Morris, 2009), 29–40.
Sylvester Judd and Lucius Manlius Boltwood, History of Hadley: Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Massachusetts (Metcalf, 1863), 145–147, 214–219.
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, February 12, 1887.
An Appalling Disaster (Cranbury Press, 1887).
J. A. Ferguson, “The Wrong Rail in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time,” Vermont History Journal 81 (2013), 52.
Joseph Citro, Weird New England (Sterling, 2005), 192–193.
A LEG UP
“The Legend of Jonathan Buck,” Bangor Daily News, October 28, 2015, http://bangordailynews.com/2015/10/28/living/a-close-look-at-the-legend-of-jonathan-buck.
“Colonel Buck’s Cursed Tomb,” Roadside America, date unknown, http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/6159.
A HEAD OF STEAM
Charles M. Skinner, American Myths and Legends (J. B. Lippincott, 1903), 100–103.
A DEADLY PAST
Howard Zimmerman and Robert Le Roy Ripley, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Strange Coincidences (Tor Books, 1992), 11.
FOR WANT OF CIDER
Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin, Legends of le Détroit (Thorndike Nourse, 1883), 180–188.
IN THE WOODS
Jeff Belanger, Weird Massachusetts: Your Travel Guide to Massachusetts’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Sterling, 2008), 78–82.
Loren Coleman, Mysterious Creatures (Paraview Pocket Books, 2001), 33–39.
Cheri Revai, Haunted Massachusetts: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Bay State (Stackpole Books, 2005), 84–87.
“Bill Russo Survived a Puckwudgie from the Bridgewater Triangle,” HubPages, September 8, 2015, https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/I-Survived-the-Bridgewater-Triangle.
BROKEN FINGERNAILS
Cheri Revai and Heather Adel Wiggins, Haunted Connecticut: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Constitution State (Stackpole Books, 2006), 68–69.
Roxie J. Zwicke, Haunted Portsmouth: Spirits and Shadows of the Past (History Press, 2007), 45, 47.
David Ferland, Historic Crimes and Justice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (History Press, 2014), 48–49.
GOING VIRAL
Robert E. Bartholomew, Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking (Prometheus Books, 2003), 49–59.
Martin Van Buren Ingram, An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch (Pioneer, 1894).
Pat Fitzhugh, The Bell Witch: The Full Account (Armand Press, 2000).
Gladys Hutchison Barr, The Bell Witch at Adams (D. Hutchison, 1969).
THE RED COATS
“The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit,” GQ, August 2014, http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit.
Tyler Resch, Glastenbury: The History of a Vermont Ghost Town (Arcadia, 2008).
Charles A. Stansfield Jr., Haunted Vermont: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Green Mountain State (Stackpole Books, 2007), 22.
Joseph A. Citro, Weird New England: Your Travel Guide to New England’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Sterling, 2005), 74–75.
Andrea Lankford, Haunted Hikes: Spine-Tingling Tales and Trails from North America’s National Parks (Santa Monica Press, 2006), 196–200.
Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger, Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences (Routledge, 2016), 127–128.
BY AARON MAHNKE
Destiny: A Fairy Tale
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THE WORLD OF LORE
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AARON MAHNKE is the writer, host, and producer of Lore, as well as the author of a number of supernatural thrillers. He has a deep love of the mysterious and frightening that began with Unsolved Mysteries and The X-Files—a love that continues to this day. Basically, he’s a nerd for anything unexplainable or supernatural. Mahnke lives with his family in the historic North Shore area of Boston, the very heart of Lovecraft Country and the epicenter of the Salem witch trials.
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M. S. CORLEY is a professional illustrator and book cover designer fascinated by folklore, the supernatural, and all things strange. Besides The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures and The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals, he has also created illustrations for Darkness There: Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings by Orrin Grey, and others. He haunts Central Oregon with his wife, daughter, son, and cat named Dinah.
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