Notebook of Ghosts

I am excited to reveal the cover of my book Indiana’s False Hauntings: Stories of Pranks, Fakes and Supernatural Mistakes.

And guess what? That is me on the cover! I’m like a spooky Fabio.

The cover photos were taken by a local photographer (and my husband). We had a fun autumn day, driving around town and getting numerous shots of me in this costume. This front cover photo was taken at Wildcat Creek, which is a location of a “haunting” in my book.

My book will come out September 30th and is available to preorder on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. In the following months, I will share a list of local bookstores where you can purchase my book as well!

About my book:

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, newspapers were a major source of ghost stories. Paranormal experiences, no matter how mundane, were newsworthy and entertaining—even when they turned out not to be ghosts after all.

A coffin holding a “talking corpse” on a train turned out to be a box of bullfrogs. An overturned automobile carrying white paint resulted in a paint-covered “ghost” wandering the streets and a spiritualist tackled a phantom haunting a cemetery only to find that it was a fraternity pledge all along.

Revealing that the truth can sometimes be as amusing as the legend, author Ashley M. Watson gathers newspaper clippings about Indiana ghost stories that were not ghosts at all.