Civil War Ghosts at Fort Delaware History, Mystery, Legends, and Lore

by Okonowicz, Ed

• ISBN13: 9780811710749
• ISBN10: 0811710742
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-13
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

* Ghosts at the Civil War island prison at Fort Delaware State Park* Spirits of captured Confederate soldiers, political prisoners, and federal convicts* Comments by staff and visitors * Ranking of the prison's most spirited sites* Also eerie tales in nearby Delaware City and New Castle

Author Biography

Ed Okonowicz is a freelance writer and author of 28 books on Delmarva culture, crime, and the unexplained, including Haunted Maryland and The Big Book of Maryland Ghost Stories.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Let's Take a Step Back in Time
ECSPE Rates Fort Delaware's Haunts	p. 8
Haunted Site HAUR (Horror) Ratings
True Stories
Historical Summary of the Forts on Pea Patch Island	p. 10
Contemporary Apparition in the Heronry	p. 16
Ghosts in the Barracks	p. 18
Love at First Sight(ing)	p. 22
Accidental Death of Private Stefano	p. 26
Ghosts (or Reenactors) Above the Sally Port?	p. 28
Mystery of the Missing Mess Hall Mantel	p. 32
The Kitchen Ghost or Fort Delaware's 'Lady in Black'	p. 40
Capturing the Apparition in the Kitchen	p. 48
More Unusual Events in the Haunted Kitchen	p. 50
Escaping from the Island	p. 54
Finn's Point National Cemetery	p. 60
'I Saw the Skull!'	p. 66
'Where are the Dungeons?'	p. 72
Headless Major and the Man in the Black Cloak	p. 76
Door to Nowhere	p. 82
Are There Ghosts on the Island?	p. 87
Delaware City Stories
Clinton Street Sighting	p. 88
Curse of Newbold's Landing	p. 90
Sounds of Phantom Soldiers	p. 96
Fort DuPont	p. 98
Body in the Canal	p. 99
Lost Graveyard Hosts Civil War Heroes	p. 100
Rev. Dr. Handy and the 'Weeping Tombstones'	p. 106
Olde New Castle Stories
New Castle's 'Lady Along the River'	p. 109
Burned at the Stake in Olde New Castle	p. 114
Legend & Lore
Tale of Tunnels and Treasure	p. 119
Acknowledgments	p. 147
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