Christmas Haunts: True Legends and Myths

By Ethan Hayes

2026 edition. Updated and revised.

When the nights are longest, the dead come calling.

Christmas is a season of candlelight and carols, but it has always had a darker side. Christmas Haunts gathers thirty-five chilling stories from the holiday season. There are ghosts said to walk Eastern State Penitentiary on Christmas Eve, and five Sodder children who vanished in a house fire early on Christmas morning in 1945 and were never found. The Tay Bridge collapsed in a winter gale three days after Christmas, taking a train full of passengers into the river below. You'll meet the Bell Witch, the Cock Lane Ghost and the Deacon of Myrk , and the Mari Lwyd, a horse's skull that still knocks on Welsh doors as the year turns.

This revised and expanded edition checks every story against the historical record. Each chapter ends with a "Fact or Folklore?" note showing how much is documented, how much has been embellished and how much is pure legend. Sources are included so you can follow the trail yourself.

Pull your chair closer to the fire, and leave the lights on.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1954528957
• ISBN13: 9781954528956
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Beyond the Fray Publishing
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"