Manchester Ghosts: New Hampshire's Haunted City

by Renee Mallett

Come visit Manchester, New Hampshire! You'll see children playing ball, people jogging by, and a host of pious nuns and monks. It all seems pretty wholesome, until you realize that the people you're seeing are ghosts! Covering everything from the haunted houses of today, back to the local legends of the Native Americans who lived here long before Manchester existed, this book will give you a different perspective of the history and culture of New Hampshire's Queen City--a ghostly one. -Who is the ghost that calms the frightened patients at Elliott Hospital? -Are child laborers still haunting the R. G. Sullivan Building? -Would you jog with the deceased River Road Jogger or visit the haunted Youth Detention Center on River Road? -And are you brave enough to read about the Hanover Street apartment with demon-like occurrences? -Read an interview with Manchester's very own ghost hunter, and learn how to experience the paranormal yourself. If you dare... These are only some of the chills and scares that reside within these pages!

176 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2006

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short easy read, interesting content to start with at least. But if you're really interested in these things I would use it more for a basic list of things to look up elsewhere. It was difficult to read with the editing and grammar mistakes as well. For a creative writing major you would think that she might know the difference between then and than, to and too, etc....

[Reggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

An entertaining read about all things ghostly in Manchester, NH. The history of the city and its buildings was interesting but some of the stories wavered in quality. Good for a lover of the paranormal!

[Karen Jorgensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Local haunted places. Spooky 👻

[Christopher Obert · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book contains two dozen short stories on the ghosts and haunted buildings of Manchester, New Hampshire. It is a spooky and exciting book full of stories of things that go bump in the night. Some of these tales were terrifying than others but all of them will send goosebumps up and down your spine. The book has many photographs to enhance the stories. So if you see a lady in white walking alone the path, or you smell something dreadful in a clean apartment, find your doors locked when they should be open or you see a jogger, that you can see though, run by; you may now start to understand the ghost of Manchester.

[Werner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Since I recently moved to Manchester, and have an interest in the paranormal, I decided to get this book. Though a little dated now, it's decent in the telling of local stories and legends. It did get me going around town checking out some of the sites mentioned in the book.

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just a re-telling of other people's stories. And extremely POOR editing - so many typos it was distracting.

[Michele bookloverforever · Rating 3 out of 5]

as I grew up in Manchester, nh..I found this very interesting. I wonder where exactly that haunted house on Hanover Street is and is it still haunted.

[Mandy Huot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! Had a good balance of photography and legends to describe the hauntings. Some i've heard of, others I had no clue.

Now to go and test some of these places and see if I feel anything.