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Traversing a necropolis’ winding paths can be an unnerving experience, especially when the light begins to fade and fog rises among the crooked tombstones. Is that a mournful figure in the distance, or are you alone? For many Virginians, cemeteries are a place to visit loved ones long past, but an adventurous few hope to…
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The Commonwealth of Virginia has been called the birthplace of presidents, with storied history around every corner. But with this history comes specters of the past, specters that creep and groan from every shady crevice. Only the limits of your imagination can protect you from the phantasmal horrors at the creepiest places in Virginia. Bladensfield…
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My latest article is up at the Emerging Civil War blog! Both stories, “The Soldier Boy’s Ghost” by Mrs. B. C. Peters and “A Baffled Ambuscade” by Ambrose Bierce, examine the Civil War through the eyes of individual soldiers. These are not tales of patriotism, grand armies, or larger-than-life figures, they are stories about loneliness…
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Love, rebellion, and fire still haunt the halls of Bacon’s Castle, where ghosts walk the stairs and a glowing red orb drifts through the night sky. History lives here, but so do the dead. Bacon’s Castle rises from the flat fields of Surry County, Virginia like a relic out of time. Its red brick façade,…
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Behind the brick walls of this old jail, history lingers—and so do the dead. From ghostly children and flickering lights to the Lady in White and the restless spirit of a freezing inmate, the Fauquier History Museum is a place where the past refuses to stay silent. Tucked just off Main Street in Warrenton, Virginia,…
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M.A. Kleen 