Colleen O'Connor Olson

Working as a guide at Mammoth Cave National Park, I heard plenty of spooky tales from my fellow cave guides and explorers (caves are a great setting for ghost stories, it's always dark). These stories were passed down orally; if all cave guides, explorers and other tellers of tall Mammoth Cave tales died, these rich stories would be lost. To avoid this, my friend and fellow cave guide Charlie Hanion and I wrote Scary Stories of Mammoth Cave. That led me to write other cave related books, including Prehistoric Cavers of Mammoth Cave and Mammoth Cave by Lantern Light (in press).

I live with my cave explorer/ecologist husband Rick in (appropriately) Cave City, Kentucky.