Step into Charleston’s haunted heart with Charleston Haunted Guide: A Journey Through Shadows and Spirits.
While many ghost books offer quick tales or photo-driven snapshots, this guide plunges deeper—blending Charleston’s rich history with its spectral lore in vivid, narrative chapters. Each story unfolds like a guided tour through the city’s most infamous haunts, from the iron-barred corridors of the Old City Jail to the moss-shrouded gravestones of the Unitarian Churchyard.
What sets this book apart from other haunted Charleston collections is its immersive storytelling and practical utility. Each chapter reads like a gothic tale rooted in real events—pirates, patriots, epidemics, and tragedies—yet closes with traveler-friendly insights. A new Quick Reference Appendix provides addresses, best visiting times, and etiquette tips, making this not just a book to be read, but a companion to bring along on your ghostly wanderings.
Whether you’re drawn to the stage lights of the Dock Street Theatre, the solemn shadows of the Exchange & Provost Dungeon, or the legends echoing across the Lowcountry, this guide balances history, atmosphere, and accessibility. Perfect for readers who want more than a collection of short anecdotes, it’s an essential resource for paranormal enthusiasts, history buffs, and travelers who prefer their sightseeing served with a chill.
If you’ve enjoyed titles like Haunted Charleston (Sara Pitzer, Ed Macy) or Arcadia’s Haunted America series, you’ll find this volume richer, more atmospheric, and ready to guide your own footsteps through the Holy City’s restless past.
New Orleans is America’s most haunted city, a place where jazz mingles with shadows and history walks hand-in-hand with the supernatural.
In Haunted New Orleans: Ghosts of the Crescent City, author Von Axle unlocks the secrets of the French Quarter’s mist-filled streets, eerie cemeteries, and haunted mansions. Step inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, where the Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau still stirs the living. Glimpse spectral figures on Bourbon Street and uncover chilling tales inside the infamous LaLaurie Mansion.
This guide blends authentic history, folklore, and first-hand paranormal accounts to reveal the Crescent City’s most chilling stories. From pirates and voodoo rituals to bayou spirits and Civil War phantoms, every chapter invites you deeper into New Orleans’ haunted heart.
Perfect for paranormal travelers, fans of ghost stories, and lovers of Southern legend, this book is both a practical guide and a chilling companion. Whether you’re exploring New Orleans in person or from the page, the ghosts of the Crescent City are waiting.
Step into the heart of Savannah’s Historic District—where history lingers, and the dead refuse to be forgotten.
In Hauntings of Savannah: Volume I — The Historic District, author Von Axle opens the Night Watch Archives, a continuing chronicle of America’s most haunted cities. This volume captures Savannah’s enduring spirit—its cobblestone streets, moss-draped oaks, and silent mansions—revealing the ghosts and legends hidden behind the charm of the Old South.
From Madison Square and Colonial Park Cemetery to the storied inns and private homes that have witnessed centuries of tragedy, every chapter blends historical documentation, eyewitness accounts, and modern encounters with the spectral. Each site has been carefully researched and presented in the tone of a field investigator’s journal—at once historical, reverent, and quietly unsettling.
Step carefully through the squares… the watch has begun.
Hauntings of Savannah: Volume II — Riverfront & Beyond
Step beyond the manicured squares of the Historic District and follow the river’s dark current into Savannah’s forgotten heart.
In Hauntings of Savannah: Volume II — Riverfront & Beyond, author Von Axle continues the Night Watch Archives project — a meticulous chronicle of one of America’s most haunted cities. This second volume leaves the gas-lit avenues behind and ventures into the fog-shrouded wharves, derelict warehouses, and weather-worn neighborhoods that still echo with centuries of human longing and loss.
From the crumbling riverfront where sailors vanished into the tide, to the moss-covered cemeteries and spectral plantations that line the outskirts, every site in these pages is documented with care: its history, tragedy, and enduring hauntings preserved in the tone of an old investigator’s field journal.
Drawing from eyewitness accounts, archival records, and modern encounters, Volume II reveals how Savannah’s haunted legacy extends far beyond its polished façade. You’ll walk where stevedores once toiled under cursed cargo, where river captains heard phantom bells toll through the fog, and where restless spirits still cling to the city’s shifting shoreline.
With its vintage design, parchment aesthetic, and field-note appendices, Hauntings of Savannah: Volume II — Riverfront & Beyond continues the tradition of blending historical documentation with immersive storytelling. Each chapter serves as both a guide for the curious traveler and a preservation of folklore for those who keep the city’s haunted memory alive.
Hauntings of Gettysburg
By Von Axle — Night Watch Archives
In the quiet streets of Gettysburg, history has never gone silent.
From blood-soaked fields to candlelit windows, the echoes of July 1863 still stir beneath the town’s serene surface. Hauntings of Gettysburg invites readers to walk those haunted lanes, where the past lingers in whispers and shadows still remember the names of the fallen.
Through detailed research and firsthand accounts, Von Axle reconstructs the battle’s aftermath as it survives today — in the homes, inns, and landmarks that bore witness to unimaginable suffering and resilience. Each chapter blends verifiable history with enduring local legend, revealing how a single town became both a national shrine and one of America’s most haunted places.
Step inside the bullet-scarred Farnsworth House, where Confederate sharpshooters once watched the streets below. Visit the Jennie Wade House, the home of the battle’s only civilian fatality, whose spirit is said to linger in the parlor. Descend into the cold basement of the Orphanage on Cemetery Hill, where forgotten children’s voices still seem to call out from the dark. Explore the grand halls of the Gettysburg Hotel, the silent expanse of Sachs Covered Bridge, and the Daniel Lady Farm, where the floors remain stained with blood more than a century later.
Drawn from military records, personal diaries, and modern investigations, Hauntings of Gettysburg is both a historical document and a ghost story written by time itself. It honors the courage of the living, the suffering of the dead, and the strange endurance of memory in a place forever suspended between worlds.
The Hidden Giant of the Upstate
Encounters and Folklore from the Upstate of South Carolina
By Von Axle
Beneath the canopy of the South Carolina Upstate, something ancient still moves.
From Oconee to Sumter National Forest, hundreds of witnesses have reported a towering, humanlike figure haunting the backroads, rivers, and pine ridges of the Blue Ridge foothills. For decades, the stories were dismissed as campfire legend. But the evidence — footprints, audio recordings, and official reports — continues to grow.
The Hidden Giant of the Upstate is the most comprehensive record ever assembled of South Carolina’s Bigfoot phenomenon. Through first-hand accounts, field investigations, and historical research, author Von Axle and The Night Watch Archives trace a mystery that spans centuries — from Cherokee and Catawba forest spirits to modern law enforcement encounters.
Part field guide, part historical chronicle, this volume explores the landscapes, culture, and psychology behind one of America’s oldest legends. Richly detailed and grounded in field data, it invites readers to look again at the familiar forests of the Carolinas — and see what may still be walking there.
If you’ve ever stood at the edge of the woods and wondered what waits beyond the tree line… this book will feel like coming home.
A Night Watch Archives Book
Documenting America’s Haunted and Unexplained Heritage
UFO Hotspots of the American Southeast
Night Watch Archives — by Von Axle
From the mist-laced Appalachian ridges to the dark coastal waters of the Gulf and Atlantic, the American Southeast has long been a crossroads of unexplained aerial phenomena. UFO Hotspots of the American Southeast is a meticulously researched, atmospheric chronicle of the region’s most persistent and compelling encounters with the unknown.
Blending historical documentation with modern investigative insight, this volume traces sightings and reports from Indigenous sky legends and colonial-era “wandering lights” to the great mystery airship waves of the 1890s, Cold War encounters, military-adjacent incidents, and contemporary eyewitness accounts. Each chapter situates these phenomena within their cultural, geographic, and historical contexts, allowing patterns to emerge across centuries rather than presenting isolated incidents.
Written in the signature Night Watch Archives style—measured, archival, and immersive—this book avoids sensationalism in favor of credibility and narrative depth. Government records, newspaper archives, regional folklore, and firsthand testimony are examined side by side, offering readers a sober yet unsettling portrait of a region where the sky has never been entirely quiet.
Whether you are a dedicated UFO researcher, a student of American history, or a reader drawn to the uneasy boundary between documented fact and enduring mystery, UFO Hotspots of the American Southeast provides a compelling regional study that respects both skepticism and wonder.
This is not a book about answers.
It is a record of what has been seen, reported, and never fully explained.
Quiet streets remember.
From the witch trials of 1692 to the Great Fire of 1914, Salem, Massachusetts has endured tragedy without resolution. While the trials may have ended and the fires long extinguished, their consequences remain embedded in place, shaping atmosphere, memory, and experience rather than fading into history.
The Hauntings of Salem, Massachusetts is not a ghost story collection, nor an exercise in spectacle. It is a restrained historical record that examines why Salem continues to feel unsettled centuries after its defining injustices. Through careful documentation, eyewitness patterns, and grounded historical context, this book explores how fear, authority, and silence left marks that never fully healed.
Moving beyond the trials alone, the book traces Salem’s layered past, from fractured Puritan communities and judicial failure to maritime loss, urban destruction, and modern preservation. Museums, inns, private homes, and everyday streets are examined not as attractions, but as environments shaped by unresolved memory. Testimony from residents, staff, and visitors is presented alongside rational interpretation, allowing experience and skepticism to coexist without forced conclusions.
Rather than asking readers to believe, this book asks them to notice.
What lingers in Salem is not spectacle or superstition, but consequence. The past was not sealed away. It was absorbed, carried forward into daily life, and left to persist quietly where acknowledgment came too late.
Written in the archival, documentary style of the Night Watch Archives series, The Hauntings of Salem, Massachusetts offers a thoughtful, unsettling examination of how history endures when injustice is never fully confronted.
This is a book for readers interested in:
The Salem witch trials beyond myth and dramatization
Historical memory and unresolved injustice
Haunted places approached with skepticism and respect
Quiet, atmospheric nonfiction rooted in documented history
Salem does not ask to be feared.
It asks to be understood.
In the summer of 1988, a quiet stretch of rural roadway outside Bishopville, South Carolina became the center of one of the most enduring cryptid cases in modern American folklore. What began as a single late-night encounter near Scape Ore Swamp quickly escalated into a wave of reports, damaged vehicles, law enforcement patrols, and national headlines.
The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp is not a sensational retelling. It is a documentary reconstruction.
Written in the archival style of the Night Watch Archives series, this volume traces the events of that summer with chronological precision, drawing from contemporaneous reporting, official response, and the cultural conditions that allowed a brief series of incidents to become legend. Each chapter examines the case as it unfolded in real time: the first report, the escalation of sightings, the limits of investigation, the role of media amplification, and the long decline into unresolved memory.
This book offers:
A detailed reconstruction of the 1988 incident wave
Law enforcement and public reaction coverage grounded in documentation
Media analysis showing how the story evolved beyond the facts
Corrective chapters separating record from later distortion
Primary-source style excerpts and archival reference material
Neither believer’s manifesto nor debunker’s dismissal, this is a careful account of what can be known, what cannot be proven, and why certain stories endure without resolution.
For readers of serious paranormal history, Southern folklore, and modern legend studies, The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp stands as the foundational cryptid authority of the American Southeast.