Publisher: Clerisy Press (September 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1578605016
ISBN-13: 978-1578605019
Seattle may not be as old as some would expect from a haunted city. But it has a large number of haunted sites and stories. Spooked in Seattle will lead readers on a journey through Seattle’s neighborhoods and reveal the city's public locations, history, and tales of strange encounters. For those who love to venture off into corners in search of ghosts and the unknown, this book will set readers forth in the right direction.
Spooked in Seattle features more than 150 haunted locations, historic and contemporary photos, top ten questions about ghosts, Seattle's top ten most haunted places, location maps and addresses, Seattle history and haunted facts, Seattle cemeteries and tombstone symbols, and more.
Spooked in Seattle presents many locations throughout the city that are believed to be haunted, claim to have ghosts, or have undergone investigation. All of these stories are broken down into sections based on the city’s neighborhoods with corresponding addresses to make finding them easier for the ghost enthusiasts. Maps and photos help bring to life the locations, making the Seattle ghosthunting experience easy and enjoyable.
About the Author
President and Founder of A.G.H.O.S.T. (Advanced Ghost Hunters of Seattle-Tacoma) with well over 20 years of investigating the paranormal and 10 years running a ghost hunting group. He travels internationally to investigate paranormal activity, collect ghost stories and research cemeteries.
Ross has been lecturing for Power performers since 2004 and has spoken to over thousands of students at over 100s colleges and universities throughout the US on his ghost hunting adventures and teaches a class based on his book, Ghostology 101 - Becoming a Ghost Hunter at the University of Washington.
Through his travels he has had the opportunities to work with some of the biggest names in the field, such as Jason & Grant of "Ghost Hunters" fame. He has also investigated some of the scariest and most haunted sites known to man. The Stanley Hotel, Eastern State Prison, Amityville House and even has investigated "The Exorcist Case" where he has captured some of the scariest phenomena he has ever encountered.
Ross also has a few more books out through Clerisy Press, such as Spooked in Seattle (2011) and soon to follow Ghosts on Campus (2011) which features many of the campuses he himself has investigated on his lecture tours.
He's appeared on a number of radio programs, in magazines, books, news coverage and television shows, including The Learning Channel's America's Ghost Hunters, The Tonight Show, MTV, CMT, CNN, A&E, the Discovery Channel, ABC's Scariest Places on Earth, Sci-Fi's Ghost Hunters, Nightline and two episodes of Travel Channel's "Most Terrifying Places in America".
You may also find Ross wandering the streets of Seattle for he hosts the Spooked in Seattle Ghost Tours that take guests to the various haunted spots throughout the Seattle area.
Some of his personal projects are, The Angry Ghost Hunter Blog and the series Unknown Truth which has been picked up by the Ghost Channel.