50 Real American Ghost Stories, MJ Wayland
50 Real American Ghost Stories, MJ Wayland
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50 Real American Ghost Stories
A Journey Into the Haunted History of the United States – 1800 to 1899

Author: MJ Wayland

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Unabridged: 3 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/25/2022

Synopsis

Bestselling author and ghost historian MJ Wayland explores America's haunted heritage. As well as visiting some of the most famous ghost cases of the time, the author also uncovers ghost stories that have never seen print in over a hundred and fifty years!

From the downright chilling, to scary and the weird, this collection of REAL ghost stories is ideal for a Halloween thrill or an insight into a unique haunted history.

About MJ Wayland

MJ Wayland is a writer, researcher, and historian specializing in ghosts, supernatural belief, and fringe history. His research has appeared in dozens of publications and he has consulted and appeared in over one hundred television programs and documentaries. During the last ten years he has lectured internationally as well as appearing at the Sunday Times Literature Festival and various festivals and universities across the United Kingdom. MJ Wayland's interest in the paranormal, especially ghosts, began at an early age after experiencing a number of unusual incidents that his peers could not explain. In his early teens he joined various research societies and began to study the multiple facets to the paranormal with a scientific and historical viewpoint. His research has taken him from dark haunted castles of Britain to the haunted graveyards of New Orleans, investigating his primary love of ghosts to sightings of black panthers. Since the mid-1990s, MJ Wayland has provided consultancy for TV, film, and theatre as well as appearing in local, national, international newspapers, radio and TV. He is the author of eight bestselling books, 50 Real Ghost Stories holding the Amazon top 10 bestselling Paranormal book for the second consecutive Halloween in 2013. More recently he provided consultancy for the forthcoming Hammer film The Quiet Ones.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on June 17, 2018

The majority of the ghost stories in this book take place in the 1800s, and are therefore mostly collected from newspaper and magazine articles from that particular time period. Most of these 50 19th century tales are quite short, consisting of only a scant page or two, but some are longer, more inv......more

Goodreads review by Maria on January 12, 2023

MJ Wayland takes a 100-year period from 1800-1899 and recounts some of the documented cases of hauntings or ghost stories in America. I think mostly due to the fact that there's so many stories crammed into a tiny volume I didn't really feel like there's a lot of depth. I may be spoiled by Aaron Mah......more

Goodreads review by Tori on January 09, 2025

This was unfortunately, VERY surface level with little unique added to it. Simply a retelling of old ghost stories and lots of rehashing news articles and stories from the 1800s. There were times it felt like the author opened up a library archive, searched 'ghost' and then did a copy paste. I was s......more

Goodreads review by Mark on October 27, 2020

Fast Read of American Ghost Stories Since it’s October the haunting season and I love Ghost stories and Halloween is my favorite holiday, I decided to pick up this little tome on American Ghost stories - all of the stories come with references to the newspapers and other documents by which the storie......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on January 21, 2017

Some Stories I Hadn't Heard Of Which impressed me since I've been reading ghost stories and "true" ghost stories for about 30 years. I appreciate that it's well written and doesn't have as many typos and errors as some. I live in Minneapolis and had never heard of the Winslow House Hotel ghost.......more

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