Spirits of the Adirondack Mountains

Spirits of the Adirondack Mountains

Author: Tom Tolnay

Publisher:

Published: 2000-12-03

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 9780913559673

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Featuring 36 delightful wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair, this book is a charming account of the ghosts and other forms of spirit life in the six-million acre forever wild forest preserve in upstate New York.


Adirondack Ghosts II

Adirondack Ghosts II

Author: Lynda Lee Macken

Publisher: Black Cat Press (NJ)

Published: 2003-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780970071866

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Journey farther than ever before into the little known spirit world of New York's North Country. Historic inns, posh resorts, museums, and private homes are some of the places where long-gone folks are still entertained. The fantastic appearances of ancient spirits and resident wraiths convey the spine-chilling feeling that one is never really alone in the hauntingly beautiful and vastly mysterious Adirondack Mountains. Book jacket.


Haunted Adirondacks

Haunted Adirondacks

Author: Dennis Webster

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-09-13

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439673616

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Often shrouded in an eerie mist, the Adirondack Mountains are a perfect backdrop to the mysterious and the haunted. Troubled spirits of former patients roam the campus of the historic Dr. Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanitorium just outside Sarnac Lake. The ghost of Grace Brown, tragically murdered by her lover in 1906, drifts over the waters of Big Moose Lake. A long-deceased runaway slave remains a guest at the Stagecoach Inn in Lake Placid. The Sagamore Resort on an island in Lake George has been welcoming vacationers since 1883, and many have never left. Held captive in a remote mansion by her husband until her death, Mary Rhinelander still wanders the burned-out ruins of her earthly confinement. Writer and paranormal investigator Dennis Webster highlights the scariest haunts the Adirondacks can offer.


The Ghostly Tales of the Adirondacks

The Ghostly Tales of the Adirondacks

Author: Karen Miller

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-05-02

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1439675031

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Ghost stories from the Adirondacks have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! The haunted history of The Mountains comes to life--even when the main players are dead. Visit the Sagamore Resort to catch a glimpse of the spirits who checked in but never checked out. Or look for ghosts amongst the stacks at the Woodgate Free Library. Dive into this spooky chapter book for suspenseful tales of bumps in the night, paranormal investigations, and the unexplained; just be sure to keep the light on.


Spirits of the Forest

Spirits of the Forest

Author: Robert French

Publisher:

Published: 2023-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781939216755

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Mountains, trees, streams, wind, and rain are each a force that has mystified humans forever. Never has a man totally understood the mysteries of nature and the events that come from a spiritual power, a spiritual energy.A fictional story set in the Adirondacks in 1941. The principal characters are based on important people in the author's life, including his aunt and uncle.


Haunted Old Forge

Haunted Old Forge

Author: Dennis Webster

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1625857160

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Discover the paranormal past of this little town in the Adirondacks . . . photos included! Spirits linger on the pine-covered slopes of the Adirondack Mountains that surround Old Forge. Books fly off the shelves at the Maxson House, and something—or someone—spies on the living from the attic window of the Goodsell Museum. The spirit of Mohawk Peter Waters is said to linger along the shores of First Lake, where an assassin killed him in 1833. The scent of a phantom cigar hints at the presence of the former owner of the Strand Theatre. In this book, Dennis Webster and Bernadette Peck and the Ghost Seekers of Central New York take a chilling journey into the paranormal history of what may be the most haunted town in the nation.


Adirondack Ghost Stories

Adirondack Ghost Stories

Author: Dennis Webster

Publisher: North Country Books

Published: 2025-05-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781493088348

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Adirondack Ghost Stories features tales of hauntings, apparitions, and the hidden lives of spirits that lurk with the towns and mountains of the Adirondacks. Collecting stories written by well-known local authors, psychics, mediums, ghost hunters, and award-winning short story writers, editor Dennis Webster returns to showcase the uncanny and unnerving presence that all of us - at some time - have felt hovering just behind our shoulder. From the mysterious ghost who walks the shores of White Lake, to the face of the young woman who jumped from the high peaks and now appears on her tombstone, the hauntings at Barkeater Chocolates, the truth about what happened to Troop 48 those decades ago at Camp Russell, and many more, Adirondack Ghost Stories explores the otherworldy happenings that take place in one of the most ancient and mysterious places in the country.


Wicked Adirondacks

Wicked Adirondacks

Author: Dennis Webster

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-02-05

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1614239061

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While the Adirondack Mountains are New York's most beautiful region, they have also been plagued by insidious crimes and the nasty escapades of notorious lawbreakers. In 1935, public enemy number one, Dutch Schultz, went on trial and was acquitted in an Adirondack courtroom. Crooks have tried creative methods to sidestep forestry laws that protect the flora of the state park. Members of the infamous Windfall Gang, led by Charles Wadsworth, terrorized towns and hid out in the high mountains until their dramatic 1899 capture. In the 1970s, the Adirondack Serial Killer, Robert Francis Garrow, petrified campers in the hills. Join local author Dennis Webster as he explores the wicked deeds and sinister characters hidden among the Adirondacks' peaks.


Adirondack Ghosts III

Adirondack Ghosts III

Author: Lynda Lee Macken

Publisher:

Published: 2010-05-17

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780975524497

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In her third volume of Adirondack ghost stories, Lynda Lee Macken presents an array of faithful phantoms. Devoted caretakers carry on at the Glenmore Hotel, Grant Cottage and Wellscroft Lodge. A constant gardener digs in at the Knox Mansion and an ever-present chauffeur is on the run at the Fort Hudson Health System. The New York native reveals revenants from the region's iron mining industry at the Penfield Homestead Museum and Moriah's Town Hall. The Adirondack's long history of hospitality gives rise to a host of spirits at The BrightSide on Raquette and Paul Smith's College. Curl up by a crackling fire and savor these spirits, and more, in Adirondack Ghosts III.