American Ghost Story
Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews
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🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
My special guest tonight is author Michael Kozlowski who's here to discuss his new book called American Ghost Stories: True Tales from All 50 States.
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 in 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 manner of 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 originally 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 that was caught on a YouTube video.
- San Jose, California, and the maze-like Winchester House, which was 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, former speakeasy, and location of several gunfights that is 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 that 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, mental institutions of an America plagued with spirits, phantoms and ghosts!
More than merely a collection of 50 true ghost stories, American Ghost Stories puts you in the middle of the eerie action with captivating stories that would be at home at any midnight campfire. The only difference is that these stories aren't urban legends or fantasies meant to scare you. These stories live right next door to every one of us. We suggest you don’t read them when you are home alone and the lights begin to flicker!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm K-Town, and on this edition of Mysterious Radio. |
| 0:04.6 | So, actually, my publisher, Visible Ink Press, who is great in Roger Danick over there, |
| 0:34.8 | we have some visual acquaintances, and we were just kind of hanging out one night, and I was |
| 0:39.5 | kind of pitching actually some fiction stuff to him, but it's not really their milieu. |
| 0:44.1 | So, we just happened to go down a path where we started discussing ghost stories, and I related |
| 0:50.4 | a personal one that I'm familiar with, not really that I've been affected by, I don't want to say, |
| 0:56.3 | but just one that I kind of grew up with, and kind of told him the story, and he said, can you tell, |
| 1:02.6 | you know, like 50 more of those? That was really interesting. Well, maybe. So, we started bouncing |
| 1:08.0 | around with some ideas, and you know, got to where we were going to do this ghost stories, and we |
| 1:13.2 | decided we'd try to pick something from each state. It was kind of how I wanted to do it, just so |
| 1:18.4 | I could, it could be diverse, and you know, reach a larger audience. |
| 1:22.4 | Do you think you'll continue to do stuff with Visible Ink, and kind of mosey over to another type |
| 1:28.5 | of finale now, or are you going to stay around Paranormal? I will. I'm still working on the horror |
| 1:34.6 | fiction, of course, but I have some research going for another ghost story book, and I'm kind of |
| 1:42.0 | bouncing around a few different ones I'm doing Michigan, which is where I live, I'm a Detroit |
| 1:49.1 | native, and so I'm doing all the local ones. So, Paranormal events around that area? |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah, just different stories. Eloise, asylum is popular here. Actually, they recently turned it |
| 2:04.0 | into a haunted house, and they had Ellis Cooper out, and it was a whole big thing, but as a kid, |
| 2:08.2 | that was a place where you stuck around, you know, down the abandoned hallways, and you know, |
| 2:13.2 | tunnels underneath, and all that good stuff. So, I'm going to visit there, do some, you know, |
| 2:19.2 | research there, and some investigations, and then just whatever I can find around Michigan, |
| 2:22.8 | some bigger well-known haunts, some smaller ones, some personal ones, and do sort of a regional |
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