| Acknowledgments | 6 |
| Introduction | 7 |
| Chapter 1 | Haunted Houses | |
| The Hale Homestead South Coventry, CT | 10 |
| White House of Wilmington Wilmington, VT | 14 |
| The Huguenot House East Hartford, CT | 18 |
| House in Shrewsbury Shrewsbury, MA | 26 |
| Sprague Mansion Cranston, RI | 30 |
| Port Clyde's Haunted Summer Home Port Clyde, ME | 37 |
| Chapter 2 | Wandering Women | |
| Mercy Brown Exeter, RI | 40 |
| Country Tavern Nashua, NH | 43 |
| Aunt Lannie's Ghost Near Foster, RI | 49 |
| The Ghost of Eva Gray Biddeford, ME | 50 |
| Emily's Bridge Stowe, VT | 57 |
| Wedderburn Mansion Narragansett, RI | 60 |
| Ghost on Great Island Harpswell, ME | 62 |
| Chapter 3 | Curses and Unsolved Mysteries | |
| Bara-Hack, the Village of Voices Pomfret, CT | 65 |
| Portrait of Death Gloucester, MA | 69 |
| Dudleytown, New England's Cursed Ghost Town Near Cornwall, CT | 71 |
| The Ramtail Ghost Foster, RI | 77 |
| Bloody Melcher Biddeford, ME | 81 |
| Loew's Poli Theater Worcester, MA | 83 |
| The Jawless Ghost Bath, ME | 88 |
| The Stratford Knockings Stratford, CT | 90 |
| The Curse of the Saco River Saco-Biddeford, ME | 98 |
| Chapter 4 | Maritime Spirits | |
| Lighthouse Legends | 102 |
| The Phantom Fishermen Gloucester, MA | 120 |
| Ghosts of Bailey Island Casco Bay, ME | 122 |
| Maritime Museum Hosts a Ghost Cohasset, MA | 125 |
| Seguin Island Light Phippsburg, ME | 128 |
| Plymouth Lighthouse Plymouth, MA | 130 |
| Pirate Ghosts of Harpswell Pond Island, ME | 132 |
| The Gloucester Triangle Near Cape Cod, MA | 135 |
| The Dead Ship of Harpswell Harpswell, ME | 137 |
| Chapter 5 | Haunted Hospitality | |
| The East Wind Inn Tenant's Harbor, ME | 143 |
| Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Fall River, MA | 146 |
| The Red Brook Inn Old Mystic, CT | 151 |
| The Village Green Inn Falmouth, MA | 154 |
| The Charlemont Inn Charlemont, MA | 159 |
| The Chart House Restaurant Simsbury, CT | 164 |
| John Stone's Inn Ashland, MA | 170 |
| The Galen Moses House Bath, ME | 177 |
| Chapter 6 | Historic Haunts | |
| The Headless Paymaster's Ghost Canton, CT | 184 |
| The Hoosac Railroad Tunnel the Berkshires, MA | 186 |
| A Barton Family Ghost Story Shaftsbury, VT | 191 |
| The Boothbay Harbor Opera House Boothbay Harbor, ME | 193 |
| Spectral Snippets | 195 |
| The Opera House at Enosburg Falls Enosburg Falls, VT | 199 |
| Tales from Bath Bath, ME | 201 |
| Frank the Ghost Foster, RI | 204 |
| White River Bridge Hartland, VT | 208 |
| Chapter 7 | An Education in Fear | |
| University of Vermont Burlington, VT | 213 |
| University Hall, Brown University Providence, RI | 217 |
| Roger Williams University Theater Bristol, RI | 220 |
