United States of Ghosts: A History of America’s Hauntings

By Richard Estep

“There are some shocking stories in this book. … Estep outdid himself with United States of Ghosts! Richard Estep is a driving force of ghostly knowledge, you get the history, you get the facts and some of the stories are absolutely mind-blowing!” —Paul Dale Roberts, Halo Paranormal Investigations

Flickering lights and mysterious presences have haunted America since the founding of the republic. Explore the history and read the spine-chilling stories of America’s ghosts!

Join paranormal researcher Richard Estep as he plunks you into the middle of the unsettling action of captivating true ghost stories and encounters with the supernatural from throughout American history. From 1776 and Boston’s Granary Burying Ground to the spirits that arose after the brutality of the Civil War, the whispered voices heard in the White House, and eerie tales of dead celebrity sightings, United States of Ghosts: A History of America’s Hauntings delves into the true eerie tales from both historical documents and personal accounts, including …

  • Ghosts of the American revolution found in the Boston Common, the American Philosophical Library in Philadelphia, and elsewhere
  • Poltergeist outbreaks, a brutal murder in a haunted house, and other extraordinary events before and after the Civil War
  • The lingering specters of Gettysburg, the Battle of Antietam. and other Civil War battles
  • Ghostly encounters with famous men and women, including John Belushi, Harry Houdini, Rudolph Valentino, and Mark Twain
  • Spirits from the Wild West that continue to wreak havoc on the jails that incarcerated them and the mines that buried them
  • The brutal mutilation mystery of the Roaring Twenties’ Black Dahlia
  • First lady and president apparitions that haunt the White House
  • Davy Crockett and ghosts of the Alamo
  • Haunted hotels, cemeteries, and burial grounds
  • … and much more!

Master storyteller Richard Estep presents 250 years of hauntings in United States of Ghosts. You’ll meet a whole host of other supernatural manifestations, haunting this bone-chilling collection of true ghost stories spanning our nation’s history!

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ISBN: 9781578598854
Ebook ISBN: 9781578598953
Hardback ISBN: 9781578598946

September 15, 2026
288 pages
120 Photos and Illustrations
6″ × 9″ paperback
Trade Paperback Price: $22.95
eBook Price: $18.99
Hardbound Price: $59.95

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About the Author:

Richard Estep is the author of more than 30 books, including Visible Ink Press’ Dark Spirits: Monsters, Demons and Devils; Ghostly Encounters: Terrifyingly True Hauntings; Serial Killers: The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History's Most Notorious Murderers; The Serial Killer Next Door: The Double Lives of Notorious Murderers; Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal; and Monsters: Myths, Legends and Real Encounters. Additionally, he’s written numerous paranormal nonfiction titles, including The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer’s Home. He is a regular columnist for Haunted Magazine and has also written for the Journal of Emergency Medical Services. Richard appears regularly on the TV shows Haunted Case Files, Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, and Paranormal Night Shift. British by birth, Richard now makes his home a few miles north of Denver, Colorado, where he serves as a paramedic and lives with his wife and a menagerie of adopted animals.