Suicide Forest (World's Scariest Places, #1)

by Jeremy Bates

It was human nature to want to know what was around the next corner, regardless of what might await you.

The saplings seemed to be pressing ever closer together, their trunks lining up as tight as prison bars, while some of the lower branches reached toward us, like skeletal hands.

certain rocks and minerals within the earth, or even large bodies of water above- or belowground, were conductive to storing the residual energy left behind when someone died, and this energy could play back for years, decades, or even centuries. This was why most ghosts didn’t seem to possess an intelligence, personality, or mass, and why their actions were always the same; they were the three-dimensional equivalent of old TV programs playing over the air long after the actors in them had died.