Uintah County Western Heritage Museum               Vernal, Utah

The Rocky Mountains are renowned for their majestic beauty and wild history. But did you know the region is also notoriously haunted?  In this long-awaited sequel, Barbara Smith brings her personal touch to mysterious tales on both sides of the border.  Included are stories about lost gold mines, scenic haunted hotels and phantom travelers, as well as eyewitness sightings of many legendary Rockies apparitions. 

• perched atop his phantom horse, the spirit of an old man returns to guide his disoriented grandson to safety on a Rocky Mountain ranch 
• an amorous ghost visits single women in Colorado rooming house, intent on some romance beyond the grave
• proving that some ties can indeed survive death, a long-dead boy saves a little girl from danger in Hinton, Alberta
• a spirit spotted near the Great Salt Lake in Utah hauls around a pile of dirty old clothing -- a reminder of his former vocation as a graverobber
• the ghost of a man from western Montana returns to offer each of his loved ones a comforting good-bye
• eyewitnesses in New Mexico report sighting of a La Llorona, the "Weeping Woman" whose wanderings in the afterlife reflect her earthly guilt
• even today, ghostly sounds of a young girl's fatal tumble echo through a Colorado hotel
• the phantom image of a hotel employee inexplicably materializes beside the highway in majestic Kananaskis Country
• in the foothills near Wyoming - Montana border, an eerie paranormal encounter teaches a young boy a lesson about respecting the dead

Paperback, c2003, 216 p. : ill. ; 13 1/2 cm.

$12.95