S8: American Ghost Story

My special guest tonight is author Michael Kozlowski, who's here to discuss his new book, American Ghost Stories: True Tales from All 50 States.Tell Michael Your Ghost Story  Take an eerie road trip! A chilling collection of true ghost stories spanning every state in the United States with a full range of ghostly manifestations and haunted locations!From séances to shiny graveyards, take a ghostly journey across the United States. Visit the highways and byways of the supernatural across the country and each state in the union. American Ghost Stories: True Tales from All 50 States tours possessed houses, unearthly burial sites, forbidding farms, sinister forests, school bathrooms, and all places haunted by spectral visitors, including … 

• Sullivan, Maine, and Nelly Butler, America's “first ghost.”
• Wilder, Kentucky, and Bobby Mackey's Music World, which was initially built as a slaughterhouse and then served at various times as a honky-tonk, bingo hall, biker bar, and cocktail lounge before becoming a direct portal to Hell.
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and The Pfister Hotel, where every U.S. president since William McKinley stayed—as did Elvis Presley—and its weird noises, flickering lights, malfunctioning electronics, and moving objects.
• Exeter, Rhode Island, and Mercy Lena Brown, the vampire ghost caught on a YouTube video.
• San Jose, California, and the maze-like Winchester House, allegedly designed to confuse ghosts that haunted the original owner … and have continued to haunt people ever since.
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Skirvin Hotel, the historic Art Deco hotel, a former speakeasy, and location of several gunfights haunted full time by Effie, a Prohibition-era chambermaid.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the numerous sightings at the Betsy Ross House. 
• Huntsville, Alabama, and the Maple Hill Cemetery, the internment site for governors, U.S. senators, representatives, and soldiers, is the site of … a playground!
• Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, and Pavla Blanca, the woman in white roaming the dunes of the White Sand National Monument.
• And many more paranormal experiences, poltergeists, residual hauntings, curses, witches, prisons, bridges, and mental institutions of an America plagued with spirits, phantoms, and ghosts!