The Vermont Ghost Guide

"What's So Scary about Vermont?" In The Vermont Ghost Guide, Vermont's Ghostmaster Joseph A. Citro teams up with award-winning artist Stephen R. Bissette to answer that question definitively. Organized alphabetically by town, this remarkable pocket-sized collection of lore and line art points travelers toward dozens of mystifying sites to discover -- or perhaps avoid. Both a guidebook and a reference tool, The Vermont Ghost Guide contains over 100 entries with 39 illustrations of haunted houses, ghostly spots, and mysterious events from every Vermont county. Many of the stories have never been published before. Vermont's mysterious mountains, hills, and hollows are rich with timeless tales of ghosts, phantoms, and horrible haunts, and Joe Citro has been covering that "dead-beat" for over a decade. In The Vermont Ghost Guide you'll encounter: - a poltergeist raining stones on a hapless North Pownal farm; - Northfield's Phantom Gravedigger; - a Ryegate ghostly door that appears and vanishes; - Charles Dickens's ghost guiding a writer's hand in Brattleboro; - a doppelganger's prediction of death in Cavendish; - the Midnight Cow, haunting the highways; - a miner's specter, embedded in stone; - the mysterious Eddy Brothers who marked Vermont as "The Spirit Capital of the Universe"; - and many, many more. But Be Warned! Citro's Vermont is not the idyllic New England wonderland of tourist bureaus and scenic postcards. These are shadowy haunts and whispered horrors, the ghosts, ghouls, gores, and mysteries of the Green Mountain State, rendered in eerie black-and-white by artist Steve Bissette. Perfect for visitors and residents, children and anyone else with an interest in or curiosity about Vermont history, legend, and lore, The Vermont Ghost Guide is sure to have a long shelf life and be of continuing interest for years to come.

JOSEPH A. CITRO is author of Green Mountains, Dark Tales (UPNE 1999), Passing Strange (1996), and Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls, and Unsolved Mysteries (1994). He has also written five novels on supernatural themes, including Lake Monsters (1991 as Dark Twilight, UPNE 2001), The Gore (1990, UPNE 2000), Shadow Child (1987, UPNE 1998) and Guardian Angels (1988, UPNE 1999). A popular lecturer and teacher, his commentaries are also heard regularly on Vermont Public Radio.

STEPHEN R. BISSETTE is best known for his award-winning collaboration on DC Comics' Saga of the Swamp Thing (1983 - 87). He founded, edited, and copublished the controversial Eisner Award-winning adult comics anthology Taboo (1988 - 95) and is currently at work on a serialized graphic novel.

Preface: Why Not a Ghost Guide?

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Introduction: Why a Ghost Guide?

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Albany: A Family Cursed

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(1)

Bakersfield: Sporting Spirits

2

(1)

The Brady House

2

(1)

Barton: The 5--16 Ghost

3

(1)

Bellows Falls: Naked Natives

4

(1)

Bennington: The Bottle Monument

5

(1)

Bomoseen State Park: Three Men and a Boat

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(1)

Brattleboro: The End at Last

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(2)

The Bloody Tower

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(1)

Club Dead

8

(1)

Bristol: The Ghost Shaft

9

(1)

Brunswick: The Cursed Springs

10

(1)

Burlington: Old Merchants Bank

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(4)

Vermont's Educated Spirits

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(1)

Hospital Haunt

12

(1)

A Ghost's Tracks

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(1)

Two Stories

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(1)

Cabot: A Ghostly Companion

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(1)

Cambridge: Ghost Room

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(1)

Castleton: Ghosts on the Fly

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(2)

Cavendish: Sam Connor's Other Self

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(1)

Charlotte: Disturbed Spirits

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(1)

Chester: Inn Spirit

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(1)

Chimney Corner: The Ghost House

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(1)

Chittenden: Vermont's Spirit Captital

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(1)

Colchester: Malletts Bay's Nuisance

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(2)

Porters Point Road

24

(2)

Dover: The Mystery Woman

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(1)

East Barnet: Inwood Oddities

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(1)

Enosburg Falls: Operatic Attic

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(1)

Fair Haven: The Maplewood Inn

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(1)

Fairfield: The Orb of the Valley

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(1)

Fairlee: The Ghost of Aunt Sally

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(2)

A Long Wait

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(1)

Grafton: The Unruly Ghost

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(1)

Grand Isle: Turn Back the Clock

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(1)

Hartford: A Railroad Disaster

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(1)

Hartland: Sumner's Falls Phantoms

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(1)

Heartwellville: Host to Ghosts

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(1)

Holland: Riley's Ghost

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(1)

Huntington: Black Ghosts

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(1)

Island Pond: The Thing in the Cellar

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(2)

Not Sheepish

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(1)

Jericho: Burned Up!

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(1)

Jonesville: Private Room

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(1)

Kirby: The Simpson Farm

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(1)

Lake Memphremagog: ``Mad'' Anthony's Ghost

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(1)

Lincoln: Scared Stiff

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(1)

Lincoln Gap: Native American Spirits

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(1)

Ludlow: Nightmare on Depot Street

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(1)

Lyndonville: The Spirit's Spirits

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(2)

Invisible Tears

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(1)

Beyond the Vail

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(1)

Manchester: Equinox

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(2)

The Blind Ghost

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(1)

Middlebury: Haunted Office

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(2)

X-Rayed

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(1)

Milton: A Ghost With a Mission

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(3)

Library Caretaker

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(1)

The Spanish Shawl

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(2)

Montpelier: Odors of the Grave?

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(1)

Morrisville: Grandma's Ghost?

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(1)

Moretown: Carrie's Orchard

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(1)

North Montpelier: The White Spot

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(1)

North Pownal: The Stone-Throwing Devil

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(1)

Northfield: Graveyard Shift

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(1)

School Spirit

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(1)

Norwich: Good Spirits

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(1)

Pittsford: Ghost Academy

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(1)

Plainfield: Dawson's Creak

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(1)

Plymouth: The Blue Ghost

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(1)

Plymouth Notch: Achsa's Inspiration

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(1)

Providence Island: Haunted Isle

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(1)

Putney: No Vacancy

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(1)

Richford: A Tidy Spirit

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(1)

Rockingham: Disurb Not the Grave

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(1)

Ryegate: Show Him the Door

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(1)

St. Albans: The Baby in the Cellar

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(1)

Band in St. A.

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(1)

St. Johnsbury: The Kellogg House

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(2)

Dog Lover

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(1)

Salisbury: Shard Villa

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(1)

Savage Island: Savage Haunts

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(1)

Searsburg-Wilmington: Invisible Sisters

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(1)

Shaftsbury: Seen by Daylight

80

(1)

Shelburne: Shelburne Farms

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(2)

Museum Ghost

81

(1)

Library Prankster

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(1)

Shoreham-Cornwall: Midnight Cow

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(1)

Stowe: Emily's Bridge

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(1)

Swanton: Nothing's Fishy

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(1)

Thetford: What Are You Doing Here?

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(1)

Waits River: The Photo Phantom

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(1)

Waterbury Center: Green Mountain Seminary

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(1)

Waterford-St. Johnsbury: The Trembling House

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(1)

West Haven: Ghost Hollow

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(1)

West Rutland: Whipple Hollow

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(1)

Westminster: Fanny's Phantoms

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(2)

Weston: A Premature Ghost

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(1)

Wilmington: White House, Brown Ghost

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(1)

Windsor: Watermans' Water Sprite

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(1)

Winooski: The Phantom Walker

97

(1)

Haunted High School

97

(1)

Woodstock-Windsor: The Phantom Highwayman

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(1)

Acknowledgments

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(2)

About the Creators

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