Category Archives: Halloween

Family Ghosts: Bringing Back the Dead (Part II)

"Ghosts of St. Mark's Place" by Eden, Janine and Jim (Wikimedia Commons).

In case you missed Part I of our readers’ family ghost stories: last week I talked about the history of ghost stories in the United States, and introduced you to some of the stranger spirits..

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Meet the Ghosts who Haunt our History (Part I)

Mary Todd Lincoln with the ghost of her husband Abraham Lincoln behind her, circa 1872. Photo by William H Mumler.

Thank you to everyone who answered our call for submissions! I had so much fun going through the treasure trove of strange, poignant, and even funny..

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Call for Stories: Family Ghosts

Photo from "Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft" by Henry Ridgely Evans, 1891

Are there ghosts in your family's stories? Do you have a relative who enjoys telling a tale of the unexplained, an ancestral home that seems to hold some trace of the..

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