Ghost stories from Iowa

The Cold Spot on the Landing

The Gibson house on Maple Street wasn’t haunted, not in the way people think. It was simply a place where the air sometimes forgot what season it was. The first...

The Last Ferry to Marrow Island

I’d spent my whole life reading about hauntings, scoffing at the stories of ghostly apparitions and spectral whispers. I thought I had all the answers: grief manifested as hallucinations, the...

The Papered Walls

The trailer sat at the end of a gravel lane in the scrubby outskirts of Parshall, North Dakota, where the wind never stopped. We’d lived there for six years, wedged...

The Loom in the Parlor

My grandmother inherited a Victorian house in the hollows of West Virginia, a place called Thistle Hollow. The house, known locally as the Wainwright Place, had stood empty for decades,...

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