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A prolific and versatile writer Ambrose Beers was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States.

He wrote on every topic from Western genre to satire and civil war to horror.

For his horror writing, Michael Durda ranked him alongside Edgar Allen

Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and others,

and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic.

One of his best-known short stories and occurrence at Al Creek Bridge is included in our show archives here.

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In December of 1913, Beers traveled to Chihuahua, Mexico to gain firsthand experience of the Mexican Revolution.

He disappeared and was rumored to be traveling with rebel troops.

He was never seen again.

And now a fruitless assignment by Ambrose Beers. Henry's sailor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the

Cincinnati commercial.

In the year 1859, a vacant dwelling in Vine Street in Cincinnati became

the center of a local excitement because of the strange sights and sounds said to be

observed in it nightly.

According to the testimony of many reputable residents of the vicinity,

these were inconsistent with any other hypothesis

than that the house was haunted.

Figures with something singularly unfamiliar about them were seen by crowds on the sidewalk

to pass in and out.

No one could say just where they appeared upon the open lawn on their way to the front door by

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