Haunted Places

The strange cries at night heard in a dilapidated penitentiary, the glimpse of a Grey Lady passing in a castle corridor, the face at the window in a room that has been locked for decades stories of hauntings never cease to intrigue us. From English palaces to American prisons, from forts in India to a doll-infested island near Mexico City, Haunted Places features the world s most fascinating spooky locations. Some hauntings are recent, others are ancient, but all the stories are striking: from patients re-appearing in a deserted Italian island sanatorium, to the lift operator in a Banff hotel still working his shift decades after he died, to the restless spirits of the Salem 'witches'. With tales of the ghost of Abraham Lincoln appearing in The White House to ghost trains heard at night, from apparitions to disembodied voices to bells that ring in bricked-up bell towers, Haunted Places features 150 outstanding colour photographs. Each eerie photograph is accompanied by a caption explaining the story of the haunting, from plague victims returning to haunt their locale to brutal murders, from executions to crimes of passion.