Supernatural Lore of Ohio (American Legends)

Rolfes, Steven J.

ISBN 10: 1467144142 / ISBN 13: 9781467144148

Published by The History Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Supernatural Lore of Ohio (American Legends)
• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1467144142
• ISBN 13: 9781467144148
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Supernatural Lore of Ohio offers a blood-curdling exploration of the witches, werewolves, wraiths and other dastardly beings of the Buckeye State.

  

A rich vein of bizarre and uncanny tales snakes through Ohio’s cornfields and cityscapes. In the earliest days of statehood, dark reports spoke of witches causing feathers to form a deadly ring in one’s bed, magically strangling its sleeping victims. For years, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train rolled through Urbana, a small town in the center of the state, and caused clocks and watches to stop in its wake. A vampiric entity was said to haunt a strange cabin in the Black Swamp, and a werewolf reportedly roamed a Defiance train yard. Join Cincinnati historian Steven J. Rolfes on a tour of Ohio’s strangest supernatural lore, from wailing banshees to the devil himself.

About the Author

Steven J. Rolfes, a lifelong Ohioan, is a freelance writer and volunteer docent at the Cincinnati History Museum. He is the author of nine books on history, including The Cincinnati Court Riot, Cincinnati Landmarks and Cincinnati Under Water: The 1937 Flood, and is coauthor of Cincinnati Art Deco and Historic Downtown Cincinnati. For years, he hosted a radio talk show on the supernatural, Bolgia 4. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and two children.