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Contains …

• Lakey’s Ghost: On Folklore and Folk Horror from the Prairie, and How the Legend of the Headless Horseman Galloped Westward Across an Ocean and a Continent
• Christmas Ghost Stories On The Prairie
• The ghosts of Williamsburg, Illinois and Ridge Cemetery
• From Hickory Hill and the Crenshaw House to the Old Slave House
• Hoppy Rebstock, the Heartbeat in the Tombstone and the Joys of School Picnics
• Tales Told By A Tombstone … on Betsey Reed, The White Lady of Baker Cemetery, and a Quartet of Southern Illinois Hauntings From Lawrence and Crawford Counties
• A History of Witchcraft in Southern Illinois
• True Witch Legends From Southern Illinois … Giving Carmi’s Cato the Witch the Last Laugh
• Urban Legend Black Annis Makes the Trip from England to the Midwest
• Tales Told By A Tombstone: “Prepare For Death and Follow Me,” Secrets of the Witch’s Grave at Big Hill Cemetery
• A Tale Told By A Tombstone: A Real Life Poison Ivy Appears While Searching for a Ghost in a Carmi Cemetery
• The Ghosts of the Tri-State Tornado
• The 1925 Tri-State Tornado: In Search of the Scars From the Worst Tornado in U.S. History and Finding Them Closer Than I Expected … A Tale Told by a Tombstone
• Tales Told By Tombstones: Winged Skull Effigies Lead to a Evil Stain on Southern Illinois History
• Monster Hunting in Southern Illinois at Alton, Murphysboro, Harrisburg, Enfield, Mt. Vernon and Why Not Bigfoot While We’re At It?
• A Strange Account of the Monster Rattlesnake Big Jim (or Snakes on a Plain)
• Stranger Things In The Nighttime Sky … In the Sixties, a Little Boy Sees A Rocket in the sky over Carmi, Illinois That Shouldn’t Be There
• A Native American Necropolis A Thousand Years Old In My Own Backyard