Haunted Door County

by Soucek, Gayle

• ISBN13: 9781609494742
• ISBN10: 1609494741
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-31
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Because Door County received its name from "Death's Door," the perilous strait with more freshwater shipwrecks than anywhere else in the world, it should be no surprise that the idyllic county has plenty of ghostly history as well. In the company of storyteller Gayle Soucek, meet lighthouse keepers whose sense of duty extends beyond the grave. Catch a glimpse of the phantom ship, Le Griffon, never seen for more than a moment since it sailed through a crack in the ice in 1679. And it is not just the waters of Door County that carry the freight of haunted tales - Country Road T has its share of spooks, bizarre beasts have caused disturbances in the woods, and there are rumors that Al Capone added to the county's stock of ghosts through the murder of an unacknowledged son.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Haunted Ships and Lighthouses
Sherwood Point Lighthouse	p. 19
Chambers Island Lighthouse	p. 26
Pottawatomie Lighthouse	p. 32
The Phantom Ship Le Griffon	p. 37
The Wreck of the Van Valkenburg	p. 42
The Hackley's Last Passengers	p. 47
The Death of Innocence
The Precocious Huey Melvin	p. 55
Gretchen of Range Line Road	p. 61
A Drive on Thin Ice	p. 65
Capone's Legacy	p. 70
The Walking Dead	p. 76
Favorite Haunts
The Ghosts of County Road T	p. 83
The Ghosts Bike of Ridges Road	p. 87
The Curse of Fire	p. 92
The Alexander Noble House	p. 99
Tom Nelson and his Bitters Club	p. 105
A Ghostly Miscellany	p. 110
Assorted Oddities, Unexplained Lights and Things that go Bump in the Night
Ghost Animals	p. 119
Strange Creatures	p. 122
UFO's and Alien Visitors	p. 124
About the Author	p. 128
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