You told us this place was haunted. How haunted is it?”Paul cast a quick glance at the house. “I’m not sure. When they found the bodies twenty years ago, the place became off-limits. That was...

You want to lay yourself out like an appetizer, go ahead.

I have a new nickname for Dottie. She’s now the Crazy Whisperer.

Yeah, I get it. I’ll be cool as a well digger’s ass.”He jumped when the front door slammed shut, the harsh bang echoing around the trees.Mitch shook his head. “That well digger must be working...

Back in the 1800’s, Ormsby Island was one of South Carolina’s crown jewels. The island was owned by Maxwell Ormsby, a very wealthy man who liked to entertain everyone from heads of state to artists...

It’s this place. Whatever darkness came to the island, it’s here to stay. Stick around long enough and it gets inside your skin, into your cells, like an infection.

Before they knew it, Ormsby Island would become a paranormal attraction like Waverly Hills or Houghton Mansion or the Whaley House. The place would be crawling with people anxious to catch a ghost on camera...

Buried and burned. Never find them. Never. Buried and buried.

As she walked to the stairway, he pulled her back with a light tug on her shoulder. “They’re responding to you now.”Turning to face him, she said, “Responding to me? What did I say?””The hallway...

Jessica’s hand flew to her mouth. If she had any doubt, the next entry settled it.She read on, cool beads of sweat trickling down the back of her neck, hardly daring to breathe as the...

Does it have a bed?” Liz asked doing her best to prop him up.”A couple of old army cots that probably have more mildew than a politician has bullshit.

The stinging slap against her cheek whipped her head sideways. Her hand reflexively went to her burning face.”I told you no,” Tobe said, barely above a whisper.Daphne had no words. He’d never so much as...

Eddie made a half-turn in his seat to face her. “So, what did you think of our hosts?”She chuckled. “I think they could be not-too-distant cousins of the Addams Family.””With Paul as a fuzzy Uncle...

There’s so many kids,” he said low enough so only Jessica could hear. “We’re going to walk right into them in two more steps.”If it gave Jessica pause, he didn’t sense it. Instead she seemed...

The air in the room was so cold, the exposed flesh of his face felt like ice. “I’ll be the first person to get frostbite in a house sleeping several feet from a roaring fire.

This was a part he didn’t like. It made him feel like a jailer, or a kidnapper.”Another sin, another string of Hail Marys,” he said, sitting on the edge of the bed. So much was...

She cursed under her breath. Eddie watched the EBs react, the younger ones recoiling with silent gasps.”Better watch your language. There are children present. I think you’re freaking them out.””Sure, I’m the one freaking them...

She fished a gum wrapper and pen from her bag and wrote down her number. “I’d like to stay friends with you and Jason. That’s my cell number. You can call me any time you...

Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin.

It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world.

Getting out of tight jams was his specialty.

Which grave are we in?” she said.”The oldest.” She felt Eddie’s puzzlement.”That can’t be possible. He looks like he was just buried.””There must be something at work in the chemistry of the island that’s preserving...

When people did stupid things around him, that was usually the last thing they did.