World's best "true" ghost stories / [electronic resource] C.B. Colby.

Includes index.

Forty-eight purportedly true ghost stories from all over the world.

Strange -- The light in the window -- The sound of the drip -- The man and the glove -- The spell on the mirror -- The iron tomahawk -- Off the time track? -- Tunnel to the past -- The phantom schooner -- Hitchhiker to Montgomery -- The haunted cabin -- Ghostly Animals -- NIght ride -- The dream dog -- The witch cat of the Catskills -- The frightened dog -- The white dove -- Ghost dog on the stair.

Partying with ghosts -- A night with the dead -- Sam plays the ghost from South Troy -- Lucky at cards -- The anniversary party -- Sea-faring ghosts -- The tale of the strangled figurehead -- Ghost on the beach -- Women all in white -- The mystery of the Seabird -- The great wheel of light -- Faces in the sea -- Ghost in the house -- The ghost of Greylock -- The octagon hauntings -- The Waterford ghost's revenge -- The baby ghost -- The headless lady -- The black thing in the cellar.

Saved by a ghost! -- Lord Dufferin's story -- The phantom stagecoach -- The doctor's visitor -- The indian guide -- Protection from beyond -- Bizarre! -- The ghost with flaming fingers -- The old man of the woods -- The ghost of dead man's curve -- The haunted schoolhouse -- Vanished! -- The man who fell forever -- The man they couldn't bury -- Tragedy atop the glacier -- Eskimo village -- Tales of terror -- The vanishing Oliver Larch -- The terrible hand -- The whistle -- The strange death of Mrs. Reeser.