This vast transcontinental nation is home not only to its Native people and the settlers that have joined them over the centuries, but to entities much darker and more inexplicable. Since before Christopher Columbus made landfall on its shores, America’s mountains, deserts, plains and forests have been haunted by the weird and the strange. That didn’t change when cities began to rise out of the land and highways began to cross it. If anything, the paranormal activity only increased. Today the United States is riddled with chilling tales of hauntings and visitations. It’s stalked by human killers and by unknown creatures even more dangerous.
WELCOME
THIS HAUNTED LAND • Despite its image of shiny modernity, America is a land haunted by ghosts and myths, some native, others imported. Come with us on a journey to its shadow side
CHARLES FORT’S LONELY WORK
LEGEND TRIPPING USA • Fasten your seatbelt, you’re in for a bumpy ride! Take a spine-chilling tour of the new world through every state’s most notorious urban legends
IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS… • Once a bustling settlement, by the 1950s, Portlock, Alaska, was a ghost town. Did the mysterious creatures said to stalk the surrounding forests drive its people out?
SOMETHING’S AFOOT IN THE SALISH SEA • Since 2007, 21 individual human feet have washed up along a stretch of the northwest US and Canadian coasts, prompting rumours of serial killers, the paranormal, and spooky coincidence
THE WITCH CITY • Once a nightmare for anyone daring to be different, today Salem is a witch’s dream
THE HUNT FOR BIGFOOT USA
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN’S HAUNT • Many know Sleepy Hollow from TV and film, but the story is 200 years old and the village is as real (and macabre) as can be
MYSTERY OF THE YUBA COUNTY 5 • Five young men kissed their families goodbye and drove off to a basketball game. Four returned months later in body bags and one never returned at all. What happened on that freezing cold night?
HOW THE MYSTERY UNFOLDED • The clues to unlocking the mystery lie scattered across the map, from Yuba City to Bucks Lake
THE INVESTIGATION • Search and rescue teams scoured the surrounding area while police combed through the trailer in search of clues about the men
THE AFTERMATH • Decades later the police are no nearer to solving this perplexing mystery
THE GHOST DANCE • When Native Americans performed the Ghost Dance, they believed that the ritual would summon the spirits of the dead for the good of all their people
THE CHICAGO TYLENOL MURDERS • On one infamous day in September 1982, Chicago was plunged into a state of panic when seven unsuspecting victims died after taking painkillers laced with cyanide. The killer has never been caught
A CRIME SCENE DICTATED BY CHANCE • Early into the investigation, a suspected ‘placement route’ of the murderer was drawn up by detectives
THE INVESTIGATION • With little in the way of evidence to go on, authorities try to identify a suspect
THE WHISTLE-BLOWER AND THE SMOKING GUN • A former Johnson & Johnson employee and a victim’s daughter speaks out…
WHO ARE THE PRIME SUSPECTS? • The case remains unsolved, but the evidence points to a few potential suspects
THE AFTERMATH • Decades later, what hope is there of finally catching the Chicago Tylenol murderer?
ARE WE REALLY ALONE? • Have governments across the globe covered up proof of alien life? From ancient carvings to abductions, the truth really could be out there…
THE PENTAGON TAPES • In a rare move, the US government has released footage of ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’
BARNEY AND BETTY’S ALIEN ADVENTURE • The apparent abduction of a New Hampshire couple in 1966 is still the most famous...
