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My search for the ghosts of North Jersey started this week in Bloomfield, near where the Morris Canal once ran along the present-day Garden State Parkway.

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I visited the Bidwell House today, my first home in the Berkshires, to plan a ghost storytelling event there this fall. What a fantastic place to share eerie tales from the early Berkshires. More information to come!

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I visited the Eunice Williams Covered Bridge in Greenfield today, where Williams was killed in 1704 and where, people say, her spirit has been seen.

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I'm excited to announce that, for my next book, I'll explore the ghost lore of my home state, New Jersey. If you have any stories to share or know of any haunted locations in Sussex, Warren, Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, Morr...

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It was very special to broadcast a reading of my book tonight to the Tewksbury Public Library from Edith Wharton’s boudoir at The Mount. To watch the presentation, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8USU5qASs&...

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It was such a pleasure to read from Ghosts of the Berkshires yesterday in the Church-on-the-Hill cemetery in Lenox.

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Two hundred people from across the US and beyond joined us tonight for the online ghost tour at The Mount in Lenox, MA! So exciting! Join us next Saturday night, Halloween, for a special evening of virtual Stable and Hou...

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It was so special read from Ghosts of the Berkshires tonight to an audience spread throughout the beautiful round barn at Hancock Shaker Village. To watch the presentation, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnj...

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I love offering presentations and readings at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA, especially when people share their own ghost stories with me.

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Kindred spirits at Shaker Mill Books in West Stockbridge, Ghosts of the Berkshires and one of my sources, Ghosts of Old Berkshire by Willard Douglas Coxey, published in 1934.

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The remains of old equipment left behind by the last of the quarrymen to walk off the site of the Becket Quarry here in the Berkshires, now believed by some to be haunted. Sounds of phantom machinery, eerie lights, and o...

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Offering a ghost tour of The Mount in Lenox, MA, last September to a group of seasoned psychics and paranormal investigators. That was a night to remember! Photo by Robert Bandov.

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You find some pretty amazing old tombstones on the side of the road here in the Berkshires. Here's one from Monterey to mark the burial place of Deacon John Jackson who died on March 13, 1757. It includes this friendly r...

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My search for Berkshire ghost stories started today with a visit to the New Boston Inn in Sandisfield, MA.

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It’s really special to me that one of my stories, The Song of the Reed, was included in this year’s Bread Loaf Journal, the literary magazine of the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English. To hear the story, click this ...

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On Tuesday, I shared Kawai the Sea Turtle and Kate shared her illustrations with children at the Jacob Edwards Library in Southbridge, MA, and then we helped them write and illustrate their own tales. We loved spending t...

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