Book
Description
Here’s your ghostly guide to spooks,
spirits, and specters of Montana. From haunted hotels to
eerie inns, this book will take you to all the spookiest
spots in the state. Want to meet a phantom? Experience
a poltergeist? Commune with the dearly departed? Let Haunted
Montana lead the way to places you can stay to experience
the other side.
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About
the Author
A
word about ghosts from ghost hunter Karen Stevens….
I grew up in a
haunted house in Minneapolis. We lived there for 19 years,
and over the years everyone in my family saw and heard
things we couldn't logically explain. Even as a youngster
I wanted to know how something without a body could switch
on lights and turn doorknobs, so I devised "scientific" experiments like spreading
flour on the basement floor to see if the ghost left footprints
(it didn't, and Mom made me clean up the mess next day)
and tacking a strand of yarn across the basement stairs
to see if the ghost could pass through it as it came up
the stairs. Dad tripped on the yarn, though, and my experiments
came to an abrupt end. I've been fascinated by ghosts,
whatever they are, ever since and have visited "haunted" sites
all over the US and Britain. I've collected ghost stories
here in Montana for thirty years, but began to work on
the book about ten years ago after Renee Christiansen of
Fun Adventures Tours and I began offering ghost tours at
Halloween, guiding people to the haunted places of Billings.
The interest in ghosts has grown enormously since then
and the time just seemed right to seek a publisher.
Anyone can become a "certified" ghost hunter
by taking courses offered by various groups. Some are reputable,
others are less so. Although I have studied paranormal
phenomena for fifty years, I've never considered myself
to be a "certified" ghost hunter. "Certified" probably
sounds better than "certifiable" though!
I
enjoyed visiting every one of the sites that’s listed
in my book, but probably Butte and Fort Peck stand out
most in my memories, Butte for its rollicking past that
still lingers in the Rookwood Speakeasy, and Fort Peck
where the damworkers' sense of pride, hope, and accomplishment
can still be sensed at the Fort Peck Hotel.
One of the most common questions I encounter is, Don’t
you ever get scared? Naw. Ghosts don't scare me. It's the
live ones you have to watch out for...
Happy Halloween!
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