Haunted Heartland By: Beth Scott & Michael Norman
non-fiction paranormal 468 pages
Book count: 59
This book is an odd combination of very well known stories and ones I have never heard of before even after reading other books on ghost stories only from the same areas. For example, the first story of the book is Resurrection Mary. Even if that name doesn't ring a bell you have heard some variation of the story as it is a well known urban legend. Resurrection Mary is a teen age girl that died long ago, but still enjoys going out dancing and getting rides back to her home. In this story she directs the young man she was dancing with or a cabbie to her current home, Resurrection Cemetery and either disappears on the way or walks thru the car/gate to get inside the graveyard. See, you do know the story. But, most of the stories I have never heard before, even in the MI part where I have read multiple books with ghost stories from this state.
The book is divided by state and includes a long list of sources in the end of the book making it different from most books of this type. It also works hard to be factual, so some of the stories do not have all the details added that books mainly interested in telling ghost stories do. It also will add commentary on some or additional information when the story and provable facts do not line up (dates etc.)or when they found additional information.
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