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Haunted Salem & Beyond: Witchcraft, Commerce, Seafarers, and Slaves
Witchcraft and commerce, seafarers and slaves, even literature combine to conjure up a ghostly brew of haunted happenings in this New England harbor town and other North Shore haunts.
- GenresGhosts
Paperback
Published August 1, 2001
About the author
Lynda Lee Macken
52 books11 followersBlack Cat Press of Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey was founded in 2000 by Lynda Lee Macken, a native New Yorker, who continues to combine her interest in history with stories of the paranormal.
She has chronicled supernatural tales and legends since her own ghostly sighting of Grace Brown whose 1906 murder in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains inspired a novel and a motion picture. The 19-year-old Brown drowned in Big Moose Lake in 1906. The homicide formed the basis of novelist Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and the 1951 film A Place in the Sun.
Macken's encounter was presented on the Unsolved Mysteries television series. It also led her to write her first book — Adirondack Ghosts: Stories of Spirits in New York State’s North Country. In the process of understanding paranormal phenomena, the author researched, wrote, and published 35 additional regional ghost books highlighting the most haunted places in New York; New Jersey; New Hope, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Salem, Massachusetts; and the Outer Banks, North Carolina.
In addition to her radio and television appearances, Ms. Macken consulted for PBS, the Travel Channel, Sightings, Paranormal Borderline, Scariest Places on Earth, and Ghost Hunters. Her articles have appeared in regional and national publications, including the Staten Island Advance newspaper, the Mountain Astrologer, and FATE magazines.
The death of loved ones prompted further research into death's mystery and consciousness' survival. Consequently, Macken published her first memoir, Array of Hope, An Afterlife Journal in 2008 which chronicles after-death communications with her mother.
The author holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Rutgers University and lives at the Jersey Shore in a gently spirited home.
She has chronicled supernatural tales and legends since her own ghostly sighting of Grace Brown whose 1906 murder in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains inspired a novel and a motion picture. The 19-year-old Brown drowned in Big Moose Lake in 1906. The homicide formed the basis of novelist Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and the 1951 film A Place in the Sun.
Macken's encounter was presented on the Unsolved Mysteries television series. It also led her to write her first book — Adirondack Ghosts: Stories of Spirits in New York State’s North Country. In the process of understanding paranormal phenomena, the author researched, wrote, and published 35 additional regional ghost books highlighting the most haunted places in New York; New Jersey; New Hope, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Salem, Massachusetts; and the Outer Banks, North Carolina.
In addition to her radio and television appearances, Ms. Macken consulted for PBS, the Travel Channel, Sightings, Paranormal Borderline, Scariest Places on Earth, and Ghost Hunters. Her articles have appeared in regional and national publications, including the Staten Island Advance newspaper, the Mountain Astrologer, and FATE magazines.
The death of loved ones prompted further research into death's mystery and consciousness' survival. Consequently, Macken published her first memoir, Array of Hope, An Afterlife Journal in 2008 which chronicles after-death communications with her mother.
The author holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Rutgers University and lives at the Jersey Shore in a gently spirited home.
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