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DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?

If you are like 52 percent of Americans (according to a recent Harris Poll), you do believe that ghosts walk among us. Perhaps you have 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 rocker chair, the same grandmother who had 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 are curious about the paranormal world, the spirit realm. If you weren’t, you would not now 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 have investigated haunted locations across the country and with each new site, I found myself becoming more fascinated with ghosts. What are they? How do they manifest themselves? Why are they here? These are just a few of the questions I have been asking. No doubt, you have been asking the same questions.

The books in the America’s Haunted Road Trip series can help you find the answers to your questions about ghosts. We’ve gathered together some of America’s top ghost writers (no pun intended) and researchers and asked them to write about their states’ favorite haunts. Each location that they write about is open to the public so that you can visit them for yourself and try out your ghosthunting skills. In addition to telling you about their often hair-raising adventures, the writers have included maps and travel directions so that you can take your own haunted road trip.

If you’re planning on traveling through the hills and “hollers” of Kentucky, then Patti Starr’s Ghosthunting Kentucky is just the guide you need for a paranormal tour of the Bluegrass State. While Kentucky is noted for its Thoroughbred racehorses and bourbon, spirits of another sort abound. Patti, a professional ghosthunter and founder of Ghost Chasers International, has been hot on their trail for many years. Ride shotgun with Patti as she seeks out pioneer ghosts at the old Boone Tavern in Berea and tries to communicate with spirits at the infamous Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Louisville. Stay close by her side as she searches for Civil War ghosts at the Perryville Battlefield and at nearby Maple Hill Manor, which was pressed into service as a field hospital for the Perryville wounded. Tag along with Patti to Bobby Mackey’s Music World in Wilder as she tries to coax the boot-scootin’ ghost of Johanna to make an appearance. Patti has visited all these spine-tingling haunted sites and plenty more. So, hang on tight; Ghosthunting Kentucky 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