Ghosts: Ohios Haunted Landscapes Lost Arts and Forgotten Places

by Randy McNutt

Towns come and towns go. Travelers sometimes have to move in the fourth dimension. Randy McNutt takes us on an eccentric travel trip to dozens of Ohio ghost towns, uncovering tattooed chickens, legendary daredevils, swamp ghosts, milkmen who delivered milk and whiskey, and a fella who bit off his mother-in-law's ear. Handsome illustrations. 80 pages.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Ghosts

261 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[Poojya B.]

By Randy McNutt
Non-fiction
Pages 261

Ghosts is a spirit filled saga of where we came from, an odd carnival of back roads, byways, and other places of curious patches of the past. It is from a time when people went off to the most peculiar places and pursuits with nothing more than a rope satchel and a hopeful heart. I enjoyed this book thoroughly. Randy McNutt travels to ghost towns, abandoned canals, battlefields and other historic sites and puts them into perspective, and it is filled with great tales.

[Big Bad]

My sister gave me this book a number of years ago and I liked it a lot at that time. I re-read it a few months ago and enjoyed it even more. Now that I'm actually driving all over Ohio and VISITING some of the places mentioned in the book, I'm able to appreciate the writer's details and anecdotes in a new and better way.

[Brenda]

Wasn't what I thought it was. With the word haunted I assumed there would be some areas of Ohio or sites that there had been ghost sightings, etc. Also wish there had been photos of the places he visited and talked about. Historical and Present.

I read one of the chapters and pretty much skimmed the rest and read some of the prior town names and trivia in the back of the book.