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Welcome to America’s Haunted Road Trip

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?

If you’re like 52 percent of Americans (according to a recent Harris Poll), you do believe that ghosts walk among us. Perhaps you’ve heard your name called in a dark and empty house. It could be that you have awoken to the sound of footsteps outside your bedroom door, only to find no one there. It is possible that you saw your grandmother sitting in her favorite rocking chair, the same grandmother who passed away several years before. Maybe you took a photo of a crumbling, deserted farmhouse and discovered strange mists and orbs in the photo, anomalies that were not visible to your naked eye.

If you have experienced similar paranormal events, then you know that ghosts exist. Even if you have not yet experienced these things, you’re curious about the paranormal world, the spirit realm. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be reading this preface to the latest book in the America’s Haunted Road Trip series from Clerisy Press.

Over the last several years, I’ve investigated haunted locations across the country and with each new site, I found myself becoming more fascinated by ghosts. What are they? How do they manifest themselves? Why are they here? These are just a few of the questions I’ve been asking. No doubt, you’ve been asking the same questions.

You’ll find some answers to those questions when you take America’s Haunted Road Trip. We’ve gathered some of America’s top ghost writers (no pun intended) and researchers to explore their states’ favorite haunts. Each location is open to the public so you can visit them yourself and try out your ghosthunting skills. In addition to telling you about their often hair-raising adventures, the writers include maps and travel directions to guide your own haunted road trip.

It is said that “Virginia is for lovers,” but Mike Varhola’s Ghosthunting Virginia proves that the state is fertile ground for ghosthunters as well. The book is a spine-tingling trip through Virginia’s sleepy small towns and historic sites, with a side trip to the District of Columbia thrown in for good measure. Ride shotgun with Mike as he seeks out Civil War ghosts at the Cedar Creek and Manassas battlefields. Travel with him to Belle Grove Plantation in Middletown where the ghost of the murdered Hetty Cooley still roams the house that was once hers. And who belongs to the disembodied voices that whisper in the Poor House Road Tunnel in Rockbridge County? Hang on tight; Ghosthunting Virginia is a scary ride.

But once you’ve finished reading this book, don’t unbuckle your seatbelt. There are still forty-nine states left for your haunted road trip! See you on the road!

John Kachuba

Editor, America’s Haunted Road Trip