Detroit, Michigan – Delve into a colorful facet of history with spine-chilling stories of America’s ghosts! The United States’ past is littered with spooky tales and eldritch encounters. From centuries-old burial grounds and Civil War cemeteries to haunted hotels and famous White House residents long dead, United States of Ghosts: A History of America’s Hauntings (Visible Ink Press / September 15, 2026 / $22.95) by Richard Estep adds unexpected spectral elements to American lore, including …
Ghosts of the American revolution found in Boston Common, Boston’s Granary Burying Ground, the American Philosophical Library in Philadelphia, and elsewhere.
The brutality of the Civil War that led to thousands of people attempting to commune with their fallen loved ones and spawned poltergeist outbreaks.
Davy Crockett and the Alamo.
The lingering specters of Gettysburg, the Battle of Antietam, and other Civil War battles.
Mark Twain’s spiritual visits to his beloved former home in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
Spirits from the Wild West that continue to wreak havoc on the jails that incarcerated them and the mines that buried them.
The mutilation mystery of the Roaring Twenties’ Black Dahlia.
The World War II-era “superliner” Queen Mary and the smell of Sir Winston Churchill’s phantom cigar smoke.
John Belushi and the infamous Chateau Marmont.
First lady and president apparitions that still haunt the White House.
Haunted hotels, cemeteries, and burial grounds
And many, many more!
Join author Richard Estep as his research takes him from New York City to Los Angeles and across the country to places such as Boston, Charlestown, Concord, and Lexington, Massachusetts; Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and Hartford, Connecticut; Hydesville, New York; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Louisville, Kentucky; Appleton, Wisconsin; Springfield, Illinois; Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs, Colorado; Virginia City, Nevada; San Antonio, Texas; and Long Beach, California. Meet a whole host of
supernatural manifestations in this bone-chilling collection of true ghost stories spanning our nation’s history!
About the Author
Richard Estep has authored 30 books, many in the field of paranormal nonfiction, including Visible Ink’s Dark Spirits: Monsters, Demons and Devils; Ghostly Encounters: Terrifyingly True Hauntings; Serial Killers: The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History’s Most Notorious Murderers; and The Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers. Estep is a regular columnist for Haunted Magazine and has also written for the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. He appears regularly on the TV shows Haunted Case Files, Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, and Paranormal Night Shift. British by birth, Richard now lives a few miles north of Denver, Colorado, where he works as a paramedic and lives with his wife and a menagerie of adopted animals.
United States of Ghosts: A History of America’s Hauntings
By Richard Estep
Published by Visible Ink Press
Distributed by Publishers Group West
September 15, 2026
Price: $22.95
288 pages
120 B/W Photos and Illustrations, Bibliography, Index
6′′ × 9′′ Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-57859-885-4
Library Hardback ISBN: 978-1-57859-894-6
eBook ISBN: 978-1-57859-8
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