Table Of Content
Welcome to America's Haunted Road Trip Introduction NORTHERN Chapter 1: Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington) Chapter 2: Bunny Man Bridge (Fairfax Station) Chapter 3: Gadsby's Tavern (Alexandria) Chapter 4: Manassas National Battlefield Park (Prince William County) Chapter 5: Historic Occoquan (Occoquan) Chapter 6: Rippon Lodge (Woodbridge) Chapter 7: Weems-Botts Museum (Dumfries) CENTRAL Chapter 8: Berry Hill Road (Pittsylvania County) Chapter 9: Civil War Hospital Museum Exchange Hotel (Gordonsville) Chapter 10: Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond) Chapter 11: Trapezium House (Petersburg) Chapter 12: Wreck of the Old 97 (Danville) COAST Chapter 13: Assateague Lighthouse (Assateague Island) Chapter 14: 1848 Island Manor House (Chincoteague Island) Chapter 15: Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg) Chapter 16: Fort Monroe (Hampton) MOUNTAIN Chapter 17: Barter Theatre (Abingdon) Chapter 18: Carroll County Courthouse (Hillsville) Chapter 19: Devil's Den (Fancy Gap) Chapter 20: Octagon House (Marion) Chapter 21: U.S. Route 58 (Lee, Scott, Washington, Grayson, Carroll, and Patrick Counties) VALLEY Chapter 22: Belle Grove Plantation (Middletown) Chapter 23: Cedar Creek Battlefield (Frederick, Shenandoah, and Warren Counties) Chapter 24: Poor House Road Tunnel (Rockbridge County) Chapter 25: Virginia Military Institute (Lexington) Chapter 26: Ghosts of the Valley (Winchester) Chapter 27: Wayside Inn (Middletown) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Chapter 28: America's Greatest Haunted City (Washington, D.C.) Chapter 29: Decatur House (Washington, D.C.) Chapter 30: Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.) Visiting Haunted Places Ghostly Resources Acknowledgments About the Author
Synopsis
Virginia and the District of Columbia are fertile ground for serious and casual ghosthunters alike and have no shortage of venues for paranormal investigation -- if visitors know where to look. Author Michael J. Varhola has spared no efforts to make Ghosthunting Virginia as useful a resource as possible for those interested in visiting haunted sites as he leads readers on a guided tour of the most haunted sites in the Old Dominion and the nation's capital. A great many of these sites have some connection to the Colonial era or to the Civil War, two defining elements in the history of the region. Battlefields, cemeteries, tunnels, caves, bridges, haunted highways, inns and taverns, lighthouses, theatres, haunted cities like historic Winchester, Colonial Williamsburg, and Washington, D.C., and all manner of other eerie locales can be found in this novel and informative travel guide It's also perfect late-night reading for anyone who loves a good ghost story., Virginia and the District of Columbia are fertile ground for serious and casual ghosthunters alike and have no shortage of venues for paranormal investigation -- if visitors know where to look. Author Michael J. Varhola has spared no efforts to make Ghosthunting Virginia as useful a resource as possible for those interested in visiting haunted sites as he leads readers on a guided tour of the most haunted sites in the Old Dominion and the nation's capital. A great many of these sites have some connection to the Colonial era or to the Civil War, two defining elements in the history of the region. Battlefields, cemeteries, tunnels, caves, bridges, haunted highways, inns and taverns, lighthouses, theatres, haunted cities like historic Winchester, Colonial Williamsburg, and Washington, D.C., and all manner of other eerie locales can be found in this novel and informative travel guide! It's also perfect late-night reading for anyone who loves a good ghost story., Go Ghosthunting in Virginia and D.C.! Virginia and the District of Columbia are fertile ground for serious and casual ghosthunters alike and have no shortage of venues for paranormal investigation--if visitors know where to look. Author Michael J. Varhola has spared no efforts to make Ghosthunting Virginia as useful a resource as possible for those interested in visiting haunted sites as he leads readers on a guided tour of the most haunted sites in the Old Dominion and the nation's capital. A great many of these sites have some connection to the Colonial era or to the Civil War, two defining elements in the history of the region. Battlefields, cemeteries, tunnels, caves, bridges, haunted highways, inns and taverns, lighthouses, theaters, haunted cities like historic Winchester, Colonial Williamsburg, and Washington, D.C., and all manner of other eerie locales can be found in this novel and informative travel guide! It's also perfect late-night reading for anyone who loves a good ghost story., Come along with author Michael J. Varhola as he explores some of the most eerie sites in Virginia and the nation's capital.