Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.

"Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never...

Rendered a ghost by a bicycle accident, young Finn McAllister teams up with fellow spirit Isabella Rojas to commit invisible pranks on the living, before discovering that they cannot move on to the afterlife.

Read 33 chilling ghost stories about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Minnesota. The ghost of a murder victim repeatedly attacking a woman in her sleep, a jealous spirit pushing people down the stairs, a helpful phantom guiding a loved one to a vital missing document-Minnesota is one of the most haunted states in America. This collection of ghost stories presents the freakiest, most surprising tales in the Land of 10,000 Lakes! Minnesota...

"A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest...

In a big old house at the edge of town there's a spooky surprise in store ... But who's afraid of a few ghosts? Not this little girl!

Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house -- and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives...

Read 14 chilling ghost stories about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Mississippi. A graveyard where the dead do anything but rest peacefully, a haunted bridge that was the site of unspeakable violence, the ghost of an ancient witch who roams the dark woods-Mississippi has long been regarded as one of the most haunted states in America. This collection of ghost stories presents the freakiest, most surprising tales of the Magnolia...

In words and pictures, ghosts set the record straight about ghosts.