I collect ghost stories, folklore, and deep-rooted legends and pass them along. My books are unique and so different from other writers because I ACTUALLY VISIT THE PLACES where the stories in my books originated; I don't just pull the story from another book or an old newspaper. I see the areas. I walk the long-gone ghost town streets where those who told the story walked. I discover defunct cemeteries and slog through muddy meadows to find the old homes or cabins where the ghost once lived or loved or died. I get a feel for the terrain and the people who lived there and passed along the story or legend. It makes the story so much richer and more credible and gives my readers insight into the traditions and lives of those who told the stories or those whose stories I tell. Better yet, almost all the places are available for you to visit or pass by too.I have written 24 books including 3 West Virginia ghost story books, and Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts. I love the way storytellers from long ago wove their tales, and I like to take each of their characters and charismas and retell their stories in much the same way they did, passing along the folktales. My books are not about my journeys. They are about my readers’ journeys. I want my readers to see the places I saw, read about them, and visit them too. That is why my books offer the richest and most robust ghost stories, lots of area pictures, and GPS to visit the legendary places if they are able. You can even listen to me tell the stories on my podcast, Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn at: https://anchor.fm/betweenduskanddawn or watch most of them on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LoneGhostWriter and you can see some of the scariest places in the books on my YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LoneGhostWriterI spend an incredible amount of time driving around the Appalachian and Southern byways—Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I dig up old stories from libraries and newspapers and stop in places where folks will tell me the local legends passed on to them. I’ve been to over 2500 ghostly places because I truly believe a storyteller has to get a feel for the people and the place where the legend arises. That said, I find myself in old ghost towns and places long-abandoned. After getting stuck on muddy, dark mountain roads and having to make more than a few lone and horrendously long and terrifying walks from haunted spots to civilization, I bought a jeep so you might see me rolling through your neck of the woods looking for folklore. I have hiking boots, wading shoes, and a few changes of clothing sitting in the trunk, just waiting for my next adventure on backroads better suited as ATV trails. I have walked the trails of the ghost town of Nuttalburg in West Virginia, searching for the cloudy form of an apparition near the old Corbin Cabin homestead in Nicholson Hollow in Virginia, and I have slopped through the mud at Ingham Station near Moonville looking for a handless wraith, and Ghost House Trail in Tennessee. I’ve searched for Mothman in Point Pleasant, a monster in Flatwoods, and even looked for the goat-men of Kentucky and Maryland. If I see a ghostly light in some swamp in New Orleans, I am mucking through the mud rummaging for the fifolet. I have heard the baying hounds of Old Man’s Cave and listened to ghostly screams at a Gettysburg battlefield. And I've searched Daniel Boone National Forest for its namesake ghost.I love the adventure and want to pass those adventures on to you--whether it is following my journey with your own set of boots or sitting in front of the fire tucked in a blanket reading the old stories. You can find some of the ghost stories on: 21crows.comhttps://www.youtube.com/c/LoneGhostWriterSometime Between Dusk and Dawn Podcast: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/77b938a0-2228-474a-b2cd-675d44dc2c85/sometime-between-dusk-and-dawn-ghost-storieshttps://www.hauntedhocking.comhttps://westvirginiahauntsandlegends.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ohioghoststorieshttps://www.facebook.com/ghostsofwestvirginiahttps://www.facebook.com/NewOrleansGhostStoriesRead more about this authorRead less about this author