My latest article is up at the Emerging Civil War blog! Both stories, “The Soldier Boy’s Ghost” by Mrs. B. C. Peters and “A Baffled Ambuscade” by Ambrose Bierce, examine the Civil War through the eyes of individual soldiers. These are not tales of patriotism, grand armies, or larger-than-life figures, they are stories about loneliness […]| M.A. Kleen
Love, rebellion, and fire still haunt the halls of Bacon’s Castle, where ghosts walk the stairs and a glowing red orb drifts through the night sky. History lives here, but so do the dead. Bacon’s C…| M.A. Kleen
Behind the brick walls of this old jail, history lingers—and so do the dead. From ghostly children and flickering lights to the Lady in White and the restless spirit of a freezing inmate, the Fauqu…| M.A. Kleen
Long after her death, Harriet Haskell, the beloved headmistress of Monticello Seminary, still lingers in the library that was once her chapel, comforting students and startling skeptics with the sc…| M.A. Kleen
Stratford Hall may be among Virginia’s most elegant colonial estates, but behind its brick walls and beneath its polished floors, something stirs. From ghostly children and vanishing figures to icy…| M.A. Kleen
