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Foreword -- Introduction -- Southwest shockers.The Bird Cage Theater, Tombstone, Arizona ; Pavla Blanca (Manuela): Tularosa Basin, New Mexico ; Bragg Road: Hardin County, Texas -- Pacific panic. The Rucker House: Everett, Washington ; Shanghai Tunnels: Portland, Oregon ; Winchester House: San Jose, California -- Restless Rockies. Henry Plummer/Dorothy Dunn: Bannack, Montana ; Idaho State Tuberculosis Hospital: Gooding, Idaho ; The headless bride: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming ; The Old Washoe Club, Virginia City, Nevada ; The purple lady: Salt Lake City, Utah ; Riverdale Road: Thornton, Colorado -- Paranormal Plains. Harvey Library, Harvey, North Dakota ; Sica Hollow; Lake City, South Dakota ; The City of Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska ; Sallie, the heartland ghost: Atchison, Kansas ; Skirvin Hotel: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- Midwest malevolence. First Avenue Club: Minneapolis, Minnesota ; The Pfister Hotel: Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Lucinda: Burlington, Iowa ; The Lemp Mansion: St. Louis, Missouri ; Congress Plaza Hotel: Chicago, Illinois ; Edna Collins Bridge: Greencastle, Indiana ; Ceely Rose: Pleasant Valley, Ohio ; Minnie Quay: Forester, Michigan -- Shadowy Southeast. Blennerhasset Island: Parkersburg, West Virginia ; Grace Sherwood: Virginia Beach, Virginia ; Highway 365: Woodson, Arkansas ; Bobby Mackey's Music World: Wilder, Kentucky ; The Loretta Lynn Ranch: Hurricane Mills, Tennessee ; USS North Carolina: Wilmington, North Carolina ; St. Augustine Lighthouse: St. Augustine, Florida -- Deep South dread. LaLaurie Mansion: New Orleans, Louisiana ; McRaven (The Bobb House): Vicksburg, Mississippi ; Maple Hill Cemetery: Huntsville, Alabama ; Old Charleston City Jail: Charleston, South Carolina -- Mid-Atlantic mysteries. The lady in white (Devil's Elbow): Owego, New York ; Shades of Death Road: Warren County, New Jersey ; Betsy Ross House: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Woodburn Mansion: Dover, Delaware ; Demon truck of Seven Hills Road: Ellicott City, Maryland ; Lake Lanier: Buford Georgia -- New England nightmares. Black Agnes: Montpelier, Vermont ; Eunice "Goody" Cole: Hampton, New Hampshire ; 966 Lindley Street: Bridgeport, Connecticut ; Mercy Lena Brown: Exeter, Rhode Island ; Giles Corey: Salem, Massachusetts ; Nelly Butler: Sullivan, Maine -- Otherworldly outliers. Haunted high schools: Alaska ; The night marchers: Hawaii.