A Book in Review – Weird U.S.

Book Count: 26

Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets By: Moran & Sceurman
Non-fiction: travel, odd, history, paranormal 344 pages 2005

First, this book has little in common with the TV show Weird U.S. hosted by the authors. It has mostly bits on ghosts, demons and other paranormal things. For places that you could actually go to it doesn’t include enough information to find most places that aren’t already famous or in an area you know. Information might include a city or general area, but it has no listing of detailed directions. Also I wonder how big some of these ledgens are. For example, it talks about a haunted road in the area that I grew up in. I had never even heard of this haunted road. I looked it up and found it on a map and it is a large road given that the town it is in is an intersection in the country, but still I never once heard anything about it being haunted even growing up with friends from that town. The only thing in our area that was known to be haunted was a convent that was haunted on the second floor. Which, of course no one used the second floor of (being only the nun’s bedrooms) and it was moved when the church connected with it expanded, so it wasn’t a big deal anyway as by the time I was a teen most people kind of forgot about it. (Also, it is not in the book or even in “Weird Michigan”, a book of the same vein only just about the state, as ghost of little old ladies that most likely died in their sleep aren’t that interesting. And having been inside the building [as the first floor was used until it was moved, as it had larger rooms that could be used by groups.] it’s not a spooky looking place either.)