FROM AMERICAN HAUNTINGS INK

IN THE BONEYARD

HISTORY AND HORRORS OF AMERICA’S HAUNTED CEMETERIES
BY TROY TAYLOR (2020)

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Death is the final mystery at the end of life. We have feared and worshipped it since the beginning of time. All of us have contemplated the mystery of death, and we all wonder – no matter what our beliefs – what will happen to us after we die. Some believe we are born again in a new body with an old soul, while others believe our spirits pass on to another place – or perhaps remain behind as ghosts. The mystery of death has forced us to create rituals and practices to deal with it and to immortalize it with cemeteries, grave markers, and of course, dark and frightening legends and lore.

Come along as author Troy Taylor takes you on a cross-country trip to the most haunted cemeteries and burial grounds in America. Within these pages, you’ll discover the traditions behind our funeral and cemetery customs and find out why a cemetery becomes haunted. On this journey, we’ll uncover forbidden and forgotten places, premature burials, grave robbery, desecrations, vampires, haunted cemetery art, curses, and a myriad of lingering spirits that will chill your blood. They are nightmarish stories that seem to be too good to be true – but, they aren’t. They are not tales from fiction, but authentic accounts from the dark side of American history, including the true story of one of the most famous cemetery phantoms of all time – Resurrection Mary.

This collection of unsettling tales of boneyard ghosts and specters is the most chilling we have ever offered. Inside, we’ll explore both old favorites and reveal some of the mysteries of haunted cemeteries that may have eluded us until now. So, take our hand, light a candle, and let’s whistle as we walk past the graveyard tonight – and hope that nothing is waiting for us out there in the dark. [360 pages, More than 100 photos and illustrations] $20

among the dark tales in this book:

The American Way of Death from the winged skulls of New England to the burial customs of the rural regions of the country – front parlors, feather crowns, cooling boards, sin eaters, funeral traditions, wearing black, history of embalming, undertakers, burials, funerals, mourning gifts, postmortem photographs, and the Victorian Celebration of Death

* History of American burial grounds, churchyards, potter’s fields, and the rise of American Garden Cemeteries
* History of Haunted Graveyards
* Buried Alive
* The Long-Distance Call of Martin Sheets
* The Legend of Octavia Hatcher
* Grave Robbers and Resurrectionists
* The Strange Love of Carl von Cossel
* Stealing Mr. Lincoln
* The Black Hope Horror
* Not Resting in Peace at Cheesman Park
* Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery
* Julia Petta – The Italian Bride
* Vampires in American Graveyards
* Mercy Brown – The Last Vampire
* Spirits in Stone – history and symbolism of graveyard art
* The Devil’s Chair
* Stones that Won’t Stay Still
* The Grave that Became a Roadside Attraction
* The Uncooperative Gravestone of John Rowan
* The Miracle Child of Chicago
* The Blood-Stained Mausoleum
* Josie Arlington’s Flaming Tomb
* The Girl in the Box
* The Black Angel of Oakland Cemetery
* The True Story of “Black Aggie”
* Edgar Allan Poe and the Haunted Catacombs
* Legends of Memory Hill
* The Graveyard Light of St. Simon’s Island
* The True Story of “Carl Pruitt’s Grave”
* The Girl by the Gravestone
* Library Ghosts
* Stull Cemetery – Not the “Gateway to Hell”
* Billy Cook’s Unmarked Grave
* Legends of Stepp Cemetery
* Lights of the Old Miner’s Cemetery
* A Spectral Reunion with Jacob Crouch
* The Grave of “A. Bookbinder”
* Marie Laveau and the City of the Dead
* And many, many more!

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