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FORLORN HOPE A HAUNTED HISTORY OF THE DONNER PARTY BY TROY TAYLOR "In prosecuting this journey," warned an 1849 guidebook to the West, "the emigrant should never forget that it is one in which time is everything." It was the best advice that any settler going West was given during the days of the wagon trains to California. The clock ticked with each passing mile, sounding an alarm that meant success for most but doom for an unlucky few - like the Donner Party. In Troy Taylor's latest book of historical horror, discover the true story of the Donner Party, which left Illinois in the spring of 1846 and traveled by wagon toward California. Most of us know how the story ends - with cannibalism i...
From the mediums of Spiritualism's golden age to the ghost hunters of the modern era, Taylor shines a light on the phantasms and frauds of the past, the first researchers who dared to investigate the unknown, and the stories and events that galvanized the pubic and created the paranormal field that we know today.
Covers ghost-hunting investigation techniques, detection equipment, spirit communication, cameras and photo analysis, historical research and more!
It's been said that books have a life of their own, but there's more than literature lurking in the cobwebbed recesses of dusty bookstores and libraries across Canada. Read about some of the most celebrated and eerie bookish haunts, and try to brush off that feeling of someone watching from just over your shoulder...
Ghost Stories, Hauntings and Tales of the Unexplained from the fields, forests, farms, cities and small towns that are found on the windswept prairie of Central Illinois.
Covering all 50 states, "Weird U.S." takes an unconventional look at the oddities, outcasts, and just plain strange things to see or do in America.
Illinois's mysterious and often violent history has made the state a haven for restless spirits.
"The haunted history of the Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee is America's greatest story and in this new, revised and updated edition of Taylor's classic book on the case, you'll come face to face with the blood chilling creature in a way that you never have before!"--Back cover
When he pulled up to the gate the Guard informed him, "Drew, go home, Con and her Crew are pissed off at you. You're not to be admitted! By damn I agree with them."Talk about someone being pissed off he thought try him on for size. He turned his car around, went home. Then he walked to the du Van's back gate.
Disasters and calamities have left a bloodstain on the history of America, frequently causing ghosts and hauntings to follow in their wake. In this first book of its kind, authors Troy Taylor and Rene Kruse present a blood-curdling account of death and horror like nothing you have ever read before! Arranged by the often devastating elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, they have collected stories of floods, hurricanes, epidemics, mine disasters, earthquakes, fires, explosions, shipwrecks, blizzards, train collisions, aircraft crashes, tornadoes - all linked to a history of ghosts and the supernatural. See how these terrible events in our country's past have given birth to tales of eerie co...