Haunted Christmas: Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings

Mary Beth Crain

Oct 2009 · Rowman & Littlefield

About this ebook

In plenty of time for the holidays, here is a gathering of thirty tales of ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal happenings purported to have taken place on or around Christmas, or that are otherwise related to this holiday. By a long-time believer in the paranormal who in the introduction tells the story of her own Christmas ghost, Haunted Christmas

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HAUNTED BETHLEHEM—Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is famous for haunted locales such as the Hotel Bethlehem, the first house built in the town, in 1741. There, guests have come to expect visits from several spirits. Predictably, things heat up at Christmas—after all, this is Bethlehem.

THE DEATH COACH OF CHRISTMAS—One Christmas Eve in Ireland many years ago, young Nora Mahoney was returning from the bogs when an invisible something suddenly rushed past her with the sound of grinding wheels and thundering horses' hooves. Had Nora encountered the “death coach” of Irish legend?

About the author

Mary Beth Crain is the author of Haunted U.S. Battlefields (Globe Pequot Press). Her other books include the Los Angeles Times best-selling memoir A Widow, A Chihuahua, and Harry Truman and Guardian Angels.