Product Description

ADIRONDACK GHOSTS presents stories of legendary haunts, spirited resorts, restaurants and museums where the departed continue making their presence known.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #894661 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Review
"Macken does a great job researching and presenting the ghost stories. Her conversational writing style makes for an easy read." -- Press Republican, October 22, 2000

"Macken's commentaries are just right, brief, fairly straightforward, letting the stories tell themselves." -- The SandPaper, October 24, 2001

About the Author
Prize winning author Lynda Lee Macken is a native New Yorker. Her articles have appeared in regional and national publications including THE MOUNTAIN ASTROLOGER and FATE magazines. Ms. Macken's story of her own ghostly encounter at Big Moose Lake in Upstate New York with Grace Brown, whose murder inspired Theodore Dreiser's AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, was produced by UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. This is her second book of ghost stories.

Customer Reviews

Scary And Real!
"Adirondack Ghosts" is a fascinating series of shorts that is several steps above camp fire ghost stories, as the writer has actual testimonies from living people. Many of the stories are handed down from generation to generation. Others are taken straight from historic sites such as Fort Ticonderoga, the Lake Placid Club and various famous local mansions and estates.

Although most of the activities seem to revolve around poltergeist activity (objects being moved about, sometimes in sight of the visitor), many are true ghost sightings. Several employees of a restaurant (The Anvil in Fort Edward) experienced objects and noises until they actually witnessed the ghost standing in a doorway. An apparition appeared over the water near Pulpit Rock in Lake Placid several times until divers found a woman's body intact thirty years after she disappeared - at the very same spot (the temperature is frigid). The most harrowing is probably the author witnessing a ghostly apparition hovering over the waters of Big Moose Lake. Grace Brown was drowned there by her lover Chester Gillette in 1906. The story has been made into a novel ("An American Tragedy") and a film ("A Place In The Sun"). This chapter is full of accounts describing odd happenings, electrical appliances not working and many other ghost sightings by employees and guests.

For a relatively short book, there is a large variety of ghost stories ranging from old folklore to modern day terror. All are interesting, but it would have been great to know more about the history of these ghosts in some cases, such as the Grace Brown murder. However, these simply made me want to study more into the history on my own. I recommend you read this by candlelight.

Adirondack Ghosts
I highly recommend this pamphlet-size book for anyone interested in the basic facts of the area's ghost stories. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is because it leaves the reader wanting to learn more about the stories contained therein.