Just perfect for Halloween (or any other occasion). The Vermont Ghost Experience!
It’s been three years since a book by Joseph A. Citro showed up in the bookstores just prior to Halloween. Too long.
Vermont has changed a lot and continues to do so
There is no doubt that a lot of newcomers to the Green Mountains are anxious to “revise” Vermont history and folklore to better suit their own vision of the state. Many attempt to down play the entire “weird and haunting” aspects of Vermont, simply because they're not happy with the image it portrays.
Perhaps this makes it just about the perfect time for a book called “The Vermont Ghost Experience“.
About The Vermont Ghost Experience:
The book is available in a softcover version with some wonderful illustrations by Robert Waldo Brunelle JR. At a price of just $15.00, The Vermont Ghost Experience is definitely a treat, rather than a trick. The illustrations really help to bring some of the stories to life (excuse the pun).
Get your copy of The Vermont Ghost Experience at your local Vermont bookstore. You can also order the book online. Simply click here to order your copy.
Once you open the cover, you will notice that the book was “conjured” by the dynamic duo of Joseph Citro and Robert Brunelle JR, rather than “written”. Here are some of the tantalizing stories you'll encounter within the book:
“The Introduction: What Are These?” contains some “candy corn gems” that will get you off to an intriguing start. You just know that the main courses are going to be even more tantalizing. But don’t skip around, as tempting as it might be. The stories are arranged to lead up to an important point. But above all, this is a book to savor and enjoy. Start at the beginning and take the full, ghostly journey to the end
Once inside the book, you will start with “The Richford Horror“, about an old house in a northern Vermont town. Far from being the tranquil, Vermont dream home that a family moving in would expect! Just the type of story you would want to read on a dark, rainy night when you're home alone.
“The Cotton Mill Ghost” story is up next and takes place in Burlington, VT. It is the sad story of a woman who was struck by a train and killed on her way back to work. After her untimely demise, the ill-fated woman came back to haunt the cotton mill. The story became so popular that it was told in many different versions. It even became the subject of a Christmas story!
A personal favorite, is “The Dutton House“, which is a very old house now located at the Shelburne Museum.
The Dutton House was moved to the Museum grounds years ago and the ghost (or ghosts) came along with it. Some of the Museum employees refuse to enter the house after paranormal events they encountered. Find out more in this fascinating story.
“The Griswold Murder House” took me totally by surprise, as I had never heard about it before.
Part Two of the book starts with an introduction based on the author's own unexplained experiences with the supernatural.
“The Jews of Middletown” features a con man with a “magic divining rod” trying to fleece an entire town, conspiring with an overly zealous priest who is preparing for the world coming to an end. All of this in a small Vermont community.
“An Awful Story” is indeed, just that! In the Northeast Kingdom town of Irasburg, a family spots sinister, giant, birdlike creatures with no feathers. The story tells about similar creatures that were also spotted in the Richford and Berkshire, VT areas.
The book winds down, much the same as it started, with a few small stories including one about the Ransom Bay Inn at the Lake Champlain Islands. The last lines in the book end with “I'll fill another book with Vermont Ghost Experiences. And all the mysteries will prove too vexing to solve in a single lifetime”.
We certainly hope so! The Vermont Ghost Experience is another long awaited book by Joseph A. Citro and like all the ones preceding it, we're always looking forward to MORE!
- New Englanders are always cursing
- But a colorful profanity uttered by some stero-typically taciturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing
- Yet, true maledictions (the opposite of benedictions) have frequently been spoken on New England soil, curses intended to invoke evil, injury, or total destruction against other people
- Stories about preternatural revenge are numerous in Yankee lore, with each New England state providing its favorites
- You’ll read about curses that were followed by the strange disappearance of a father and daughter in Rhode Island, mysterious afflictions in Massachusetts, a river of death in Maine, an unaccountable blight in New Hampshire, unexplained madness in Connecticut, and other eerie happenings from New England’s colorful history
- Though not widely acknowledged, the Green Mountain state is home to more winged wonders, wet weirdoes, and crypto creatures than any other state in the country
- You probably know about Champ, the elusive monster of Lake Champlain
- But what about Northfield's Pigman? And Richford's The Awful? Wherever you are in Vermont–in town or country, river or lake, land or sky–you're never far from the unknown
- Or the unexpected
- Joseph A
- Who was Vermont's first Ghostbuster? Was a full-blown exorcism performed at a local college? What mystery did a Vermont Doctor discover on the Moon? Do unknown populations live hidden in the Green Mountains? What are Vermont's most shameful secrets? These and other questions are the “favorite haunts” of Joseph A
- Citro, Vermont's Ghostmaster General
- Get the answers you want-and maybe some you don't-in this latest addition to Mr
- Citro's ongoing collection of Vermont oddities
- Strange but True! Strange but MAYBE True!! Strange but HOPEFULLY NOT True!!! Grab hold and hang on as we enter that realm of the SUPER WEIRD, a place teeming with monsters, madmen, ghosts, curses, eerie lands, and strange legends
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Citro, Joseph A. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 244 Pages – 06/01/2018 (Publication Date) – Mariner Books (Publisher)
- To outsiders, the deep, impenetrable forest that blankets Vermont's Green Mountains gives the state its peaceful and verdant mystique, but those same dark woods hide a secret from pre-history that reaches menacingly into the present
- Joseph A
- Citro's widely read publications about the more haunting history, legends, and lore of New England have earned him a reputation as an expert on themes of the supernatural
- In this book (first published in 1987), however, he deftly melds real-life ancient ruins, a keen eye for the social fabric of small-town Vermont, and a soaring imagination to fashion a gripping tale of a family's life-or-death struggle to save their farm from an enemy far more devastating than banks, taxes, or land developers
- Eric Nolan is a man already too familiar with death
- What's so scary about Vermont?You'll find out in dozens of haunting tales, all evocatively illustrated
- Join Ghost Guides Joseph A
- Citro and artist Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr
- , as they direct you to a host of phantoms, curses, and horrible haunts
- Greatly expanded and enhanced, this new edition of the Vermont Ghost Guide shows you a Vermont where few have dared to go
- Vermont's Creepiest Classics is the first in an exciting new series of volumes, collectively called Green Mountains, Dark Tales
- The series aims to explore the many dark avenues of strangeness in Vermont's colorful history, from the distant past right up to the present
- You'll encounter never-before-published tales, classic legends, and long-forgotten lore, scrupulously researched and told by masterful storyteller Joseph Citro and profusely illustrated by the incomparable Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr
- In addition to the stories, each book is crammed with EXTRAS: modern and vintage illustrations, photographs, historical supplements, author’s notes, and interesting asides
- Vermont's “Twins of Terror” — Citro and Brunelle — will expand on terrain covered in earlier books, introduce all-new material, and venture farther than ever before into the realms of the mysterious, the paranormal, and the just plain weird
- CLASSIC TALES OF VERMONT HIGH STRANGENESSJOE CITRO’S VERMONT ODDITORIUM is an indispensable collection of unparalleled weirdness from the Green Mountain State
- In these virtual pages you’ll find the complete written transcripts of master storyteller Joseph A
- Citro’s Weird Vermont audiobook
- Handpicked favorites: 8 bizarre and baffling accounts of Vermont’s haunted past… and present
- READ ALL ABOUT IT !* Champlain Monster Mania * Angels in Danville * Student Spirits* Horror in a Dummerston Barn * Terror Triangle of No Return* Water Wonders * Bridges Through Time * The Spirit Capital of the UniverseEXTRA! EXTRA! BONUS materials include photographs, illustrations, and Joe Citro’s personal commentary on every selection
- CLASSIC TALES OF VERMONT HIGH STRANGENESSJOE CITRO’S VERMONT ODDITORIUM is an indispensable collection of unparalleled weirdness from the Green Mountain State
- In these virtual pages you’ll find the complete written transcripts of master storyteller Joseph A
- Citro’s Weird Vermont audiobook
- Handpicked favorites: 8 bizarre and baffling accounts of Vermont’s haunted past… and present
- READ ALL ABOUT IT !* Champlain Monster Mania * Angels in Danville * Student Spirits* Horror in a Dummerston Barn * Terror Triangle of No Return* Water Wonders * Bridges Through Time * The Spirit Capital of the UniverseEXTRA! EXTRA! BONUS materials include photographs, illustrations, and Joe Citro’s personal commentary on every selection
- CLASSIC TALES OF VERMONT HIGH STRANGENESSJOE CITRO’S VERMONT ODDITORIUM is an indispensable collection of unparalleled weirdness from the Green Mountain State
- In these virtual pages you’ll find the complete written transcripts of master storyteller Joseph A
- Citro’s Weird Vermont audiobook
- Handpicked favorites: 8 bizarre and baffling accounts of Vermont’s haunted past… and present
- READ ALL ABOUT IT !* Champlain Monster Mania * Angels in Danville * Student Spirits* Horror in a Dummerston Barn * Terror Triangle of No Return* Water Wonders * Bridges Through Time * The Spirit Capital of the UniverseEXTRA! EXTRA! BONUS materials include photographs, illustrations, and Joe Citro’s personal commentary on every selection
Get your copy of The Vermont Ghost Experience at your local Vermont bookstore (if available). You can also order the book online. Simply click here to order your copy.
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