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Stories to make you gasp in fright … and in wonder! From famous women such as Anne Boleyn and Lizzie Borden to lesser-known wraiths, spirits, and specters, you will learn who these ghosts were in life and why they continue to haunt us even in death!
Society has long viewed women with suspicion. They’ve either been called witches, madwomen, vengeful seductresses, and other insulting labels or they were put on an unrealistic pedestal as models of purity and innocence. Did these tropes follow some women beyond the grave? Decide for yourself as you read unnerving stories in Haunting Women: Ghostly Wives, Mothers, Maidens and Ladies such as . . .
Compelling and unsettling, Haunting Women will leave you asking whether the horrors and injustices of life shaped the ghosts we find today. . . . Explore its pages if you dare!!
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Wronged
1. The Greenbrier Ghost (Elva Zona Heaster Shue)—Greenbrier, West Virginia
2. The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall—East Raynham, Norfolk, England
3. Kate Morgan—San Diego, California, USA
4. The Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short)—Los Angeles, California
Vengeful Spirits
5. Queen Esther—Wyoming, Pennsylvania
6. La Sayona—Los Llanos grasslands, Venezuela
7. The Green Lady—Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
8. Okiku—Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Woman in White
9. White Lady of Wopsy—Altoona, Pennsylvania
10. Perchta von Rožmberk—Rožmberk nad Vltavou, South Bohemia, Czechia
11. The White Lady of Worstead Church—Worstead, Norfolk, England
12. La Dame Blanche—Montmorency Falls, Quebec, Canada
Witches
13. The Bell Witch—Adams, Tennessee
14. Moll Dyer—Leonardtown, Maryland
15. The White Witch of Rose Hall (Annie Palmer)—Montego Bay, Jamaica
16. Angeline Tubbs—Saratoga Springs, New York
Madwomen
17. Sarah Winchester—San Jose, California
18. Mary Todd Lincoln—Springfield, Illinois
19. Women in Asylums—worldwide
20. Harbingers of Doom
21. La Llorona—Latin America
22. The Banshee—Ireland
Loose Women
23. Mizpah Hotel’s Lady in Red—Tonopah, Nevada
24. Nettie Dickerson—Charleston, South Carolina
25. Lydia—Skagway, Alaska
Martyrs
26. Bridget Bishop—Salem, Massachusetts
27. Anne Boleyn—London, England
28. Jennie Wade—Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
29. Lizzie Borden—Fall River, Massachusetts
Suicide
30. Minnie Quay—Forester, Michigan
31. Peg Entwistle—Hollywood, California
32. Evelyn McHale—New York, New York
Further Reading
Index