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Haunted Places in North Carolina 29 Mar 2013 | 12:55 am
You may want to check out some of these haunted places throughout North Carolina. Maco, North Carolina Joe Baldwin was a railroad conductor who worked for the Atlantic Coast line. Late one night in ...
Hatchet Man 26 Mar 2013 | 11:01 pm
A Scary Folktale retold by S.E. Schlosser excerpted from Spooky Indiana There were warnings all over campus about a Hatchet Man who was supposedly abused and killed a woman in Bloomington. ...
What We Plant, We Will Eat 3 Mar 2013 | 06:32 am
A Korean Folktale retold by S.E. Schlosser Many moons ago, two brothers lived with their father in a small house in Korea. The younger brother worked hard and was kind to all he met. The elder, kn...
The Phantom Bellman 31 Oct 2012 | 09:56 pm
A Yellowstone Ghost Story Excerpted from Spooky Yellowstone Retold by S.E. Schlosser I gasped a bit as I wheeled my heavy bag toward the white-trimmed double doors leading to the hotel lobby. I wa...
Haunted Places in New York 19 Oct 2012 | 12:54 am
by S.E. Schlosser This Halloween, you may want to check out some of these haunted spots throughout New York. Sleepy Hollow Long before Ichabod Crane took his fateful ride through Sleepy Hollow, the ...
Bloody Mary Whales 15 Oct 2012 | 09:41 pm
Excerpted from Spooky Indiana Retold by S.E. Schlosser Old Man Whales was an evil man who loved money more than anything in the world, except his wife. In his lust for wealth, he supplemented his f...
How the Rainbow Was Made 11 Oct 2012 | 12:55 am
A Creation Tale from the Ojibwe Nation retold by S. E. Schlosser One day when the earth was new, Nanabozho looked out the window of his house beside the wide waterfall and realized that all of the fl...
The Headless Bride 2 Oct 2012 | 12:55 am
Excerpted from Spooky Yellowstone retold by S.E. Schlosser Once there was a lovely young woman growing up in a wealthy shipping family in New York. In those days, wealthy young women were expected...
The Box Song 12 Aug 2012 | 08:20 am
A Tongue Twister by S.E. Schlosser Listen to the Box Song We know its unorthodox, but we really love our lox, And better still we love to box, and gift-wrap too. Woodbox and workbox and toolbox and...
Storytelling, Folklore Lectures & Other Folklore Programs 4 Aug 2012 | 12:43 am
S.E. Schlosser is the author of the Spooky Series by Globe Pequot Press, as well as the Ghost Stories deck by Random House. She has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of "let's pr...
