Nonfiction ghost book, set in Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, and other places in the Historic Triangle. Has ghosts stories, monsters, UFO, history from first colonists to Civil War, and legends too.
Take a step back into ghostly history as you tour Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown in the Historic Triangle. Visit Jamestown Island where Captain John Smith and the first English colonists settled. Stroll around Yorktown and follow the same footsteps of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as they walked along Duke of Gloucester Street. Hear odd noises and see apparitions at the Peyton Randolph House, Cornwallis’s Cave, Wells’s Corner, Sherwood Forest, the Rosewell Plantation, and many, many other places. Be prepared to get to know the ghosts of this Historic Triangle and its surrounding areas. They’re dying for you to read their stories.
Size: 7″ x 10″ | 121 color photos |
Binding: soft cover
Excerpt
More than Rest at This Williamsburg Hotel
Just like any other city, Williamsburg has taverns, bed and breakfasts, motels, and hotels. But, like the rest of the city, many have hauntings. Maybe just like such places in other cities and towns. It’s just that Williamsburg has so much history, that a lot of the paranormal stuff could be an attributing factor.
One of these stories happened to Jackie Tomlin at Williamsburg’s Hospitality House, across from the College of William and Mary. In the early 1990s, she worked for her father at his dealership, 360 Auto Sales, and he sent her to a convention for car dealers.
On her first night, she went out to dinner and then came back and went to bed at 9 p.m. At 9:30 p.m., she awoke to the sound of mutterings outside her door and feet running back and forth in the hallway. She got up and peeked out, but found no one. She closed the door and went back to bed. Once again, the sound of children running back and forth in the hallway commenced. She checked again, looking out her door.
Nothing.
She went back to bed. The running kept up until 11:30 p.m. and then all was quiet for the rest of the night.
The second night of her stay, at 9:30, the children running back and forth in the hallway started up. This time, when she popped her head out the door, she saw another head pop out from another room two doors down. This was a man. Both went back in as there was nothing. Thirty minutes later when the running happened again, they looked out again, and this time, Jackie and he talked about the phenomena. He hadn’t been there the first night and she told him this had happened until 11:30 p.m. that night. They decided to go downstairs to the hotel desk to get some answers.
The young woman at the desk said, “I have no idea, but there have been others that have complained about the children running on that floor before.” She went on to say that the entire hotel had been booked for the car convention people and that there were no children at all.
Whoever the ghostly children are, it seems that maybe with no adult supervision they could play at night when most children are asleep in bed.
Professional Reviews
Hanging Off the Wire Review
I wasn't expecting to get spooked by this book, but, well, I sort of did. I loved learning the history of Virginia, since some of my ancestors hail from there. And I love ghost stories, so this book was right up my alley. The photographs that go along with the chapters in this book are amazing and really help you to envision what you are reading. The book is gorgeously put together, and well laid out. Anyone interested in history and ghosts will thoroughly enjoy this book.
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A Garden of History—Pamela K. Kinney’s Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle
A paranormal researcher and writer is really like a gardener. They tend to stories that have been cultivated by others: they add and correct facts, update reports of paranormal activity and generally tend to these stories. They also seek out seeds of information and work to grow these into full stories. If a story isn’t tended it may simply pass into the realm of legend.
Pamela K. Kinney works hard tending the large garden of ghost stories that is found in and around the Historic Triangle of Virginia. Her recent book, Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle: Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, & Other Haunted Locations, covers a region that has served as a cradle of the nation and a burial ground for so many who fought to create and preserve this union. Here are found battlefields and plantations, taverns and churches, historic hotels and Holiday Inns; all with a palpable sense of deep history. This is a region where spirits swarm over the land, reminding us of the lives they once lived.
Courtesy of Pamela K. Kinney.
This spiritually fertile ground has been well tended by other authors from the aristocratic Marguerite DuPont Lee in her Virginia Ghosts (first published in 1930) to the prolific L. B. Taylor, Jr. and his many volume Ghosts of Virginia. Kinney endeavors to tend stories that were first documented by these authors, adding new reports of activity and her own impressions and experiences at each of these locations. She covers such notable hauntings as Shirley and Berkeley Plantations, Williamsburg’s Ludwell-Paradise House and Peyton Randolph House, the Yorktown Battlefield and Fort Monroe.
But Kinney does a good job tending to much lesser known locations as well, including the modern hotels along Richmond Road, Rosewell Plantation and Bluebird Gap Farm. I was particularly impressed by her chapter on the Crawford Road Bridge in York County. It’s a somewhat forgotten place with a chilling history. I know this is my first introduction to this story and I cannot locate another published source on this location. Kinney has taken a location that’s poorly documented online and grown a wonderful chapter on it.
Not only does Kinney cover the spiritual side of the area, but she includes chapters on sasquatch sightings, UFOs and the Cohoke Light. She’s created a marvelous guide to the supernatural in this extraordinary region of Virginia. With her previous books on Virginia ghosts, Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales and Haunted Richmond, Virginia and her blog, Fantastic Dreams of Pamela K. Kinney, I hope Pamela will continue her marvelous work in this state’s spiritual garden.
Winter 2011 13 Books in Style ~ Virginia Haunts Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle~Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, & Other Haunted Locations, By Pamela K. Kinney By Ruth E Forrest
The season for goblins may have passed, but ghosts have an eternal appeal. Pamela K. Kinney’s engaging book entitled Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle is part visitor guide, part history lesson, and part gossip column. Covering Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, and assorted historic sites in surrounding areas it is chock full of colorful pictures both old and new. She invites the reader to explore these sites with an eye toward the paranormal. Ms. Kinney presents an entertaining ghost-walk that includes “...the rest of the story”.
I enjoyed revisiting those sites
remembered from school field trips,
and being an armchair traveler into
ages past. Reminiscing about old
haunts, and pulling up old memories
of chums long ago forgotten sparked
my desire to plan a return visit to
these vintage places to see with new
eyes. Why is it that we rarely spend
time patronizing those tourist spots
that are right in our own back yard?
Our area is so filled with historic
places that we may overlook them in
our search for new and exciting venues
to explore. Ms. Kinney begs us to
rethink that all-too-human approach.
She encourages the readers to expand
their knowledge of familiar territory.
With her book as a starting place, you
too can stroll into the past, and snap a
ghostly photograph of spirits like the
ones documented in her travels.
Some of the pictures could have
been clearer. This is probably because
it is printed on antique beige paper—
possibly for effect—and my aging
eyes prefer a brighter tone. This aside,
the book is visually stunning, and
packs in a lot of cool information
for its size. Not only has she done
her homework, she also has a knack
for garnering quirky information.
For example, the Powhatan’s belief
that evil spirits could enter their home
if they let the cooking fire go out. The
book includes stories from student
volunteers, professional docents,
security guards,innkeepers, restaurant
managers, and private homeowners. How
did she gain access to such scary places
as attics, alleyways, and underground
delivery tunnels?
She clearly enjoyed writing this book, as her enthusiasm shines through between the lines she penned. I loved that her adventure stories included her husband Bill. It made the book seem more personal as I am also married to a Bill. This is not just another ordinary historic circle guidebook. Pick up a copy, take it to a nearby town, and take
a loved one with you on a journey into unseen worlds. You'll catch a glimpse of both new and old haunts!
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