Cursed in Pennsylvania: Stories of the Damned in the Keystone State

by Mark Nesbitt, Patty A. Wilson

Overview

In Cursed in Pennsylvania, Mark Nesbitt and Patty A. Wilson recount tales of genuine maledictions intended to invoke evil and unease across the state the Keystone State. The pages will bring to life these stories, letting you decide whether the resulting tragedies were simply bad luck, coincidences…or something far more sinister.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493019427
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2016
Series:	Cursed
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Mark Nesbitt was a National Park Service Ranger/Historian for five years at Gettysburg before starting his own research and writing company. Since then he has published fourteen books including the national award-winning Ghosts of Gettysburg series. His stories have been seen on The History Channel, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel, Unsolved Mysteries, and numerous regional television shows and heard on Coast to Coast AM, and regional radio. In 1994, he created the commercially successful Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours® and in 2006, the Ghosts of Fredericksburg Tours.

Author Patty A. Wilson was born in America and lives in Central Pennsylvania with her three sons. She has been a writer for thirty years and has 19 books to her credit. She has written about diverse subjects including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and North Carolina history, folklore, the paranormal, farming, and cooking. She has appeared as an expert on various television shows including Mysterious Journeys and My Ghost Story. Patty enjoys people and loves working as a lecturer and tour guide in Central Pennsylvania. She hosts a blog on examiner.com and created The Ghost Research Foundation (ghostsrus.com). She truly enjoys discovering and sharing the more colorful side of history and the paranormal. Follow her on twitter at ghostladyofpa.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction ix

1 A Reverse Curse 1

2 John Brown's Curse from the Gallows 5

3 Iverson's Pits 17

4 Gettysburg-Cursed to Be a Killing Field? 25

5 Vengeance at Devil's Den 31

6 Star-Crossed Lovers 37

7 Duffy's Cut 45

8 The Eternal Hunter 51

9 Rausch Gap 57

10 The Devil-Built Barn 61

11 Chickies Rock 67

12 Hell on Earth 71

13 The Goatman Case 75

14 Trotter's Curse 83

15 The Gilday Curse 91

16 The Serial Killer's Curse 99

17 Hex Hollow 103

18 The Story of Reuben Rock 107

19 The Baby's Curse 115

20 The Zoot Suit Man 125

21 The Woman in the Driveway 131

22 Something Wicked This Way Comes 141

23 Beauty's Curse 151

24 The Haunting of Al Capone 165

25 Little Red Mustang 173

26 The Cursed Train 179

27 The Phantom Handprint 183

Select Bibliography 191

Index 195

About the Authors 211