HAUNTED WEBSTER GROVES

We’ve all been unsettled by chilling stories of hauntings and the unquiet dead, those spirits who refuse to rest and instead remain to take part in the lives of the living. We’ve read the tales, seen the movies, and occasionally we lean close to hear of someone’s personal experience with a ghost.

Especially when that someone lives next door.

Discover eerie legends and uncanny firsthand accounts of the ghostly and supernatural in a neighborhood perhaps just like yours, where residents of a quiet bedroom community come home nightly to unseen footsteps; resign themselves to objects mysteriously moving, disappearing, and reappearing; live with lurking, spectral figures; and otherwise share their homes with the ghostly and supernatural. Webster Groves, Missouri is one of the early suburbs of St. Louis, a place with a history that extends back to Colonial times and reaches across the Civil War right through to today. Some who lived that history have evidently remained…

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Author Patrick Dorsey was cautioned that “Once you start looking for the spirits, they’ll find you.”

And so they have.

Watch for his collections of further stories of the hauntings in Webster Groves, Missouri, and of the tales of neighboring Kirkwood.

THE CHAMPION SKY
For Prent Porter, eighth grade began like any other school year—until a single act of violence changed everything. Mysteriously saved in the school shooting when his father unexpectedly appears, Prent’s afternoons of talking and swapping comic books with his best friend turn to a solitary search for answers. He uncovers terrible truths about friends, teachers, and family as he’s consumed pursuing the greatest secret of all—the one he's begun to believe his own father holds.

Is it even possible, or is Prent the victim of his own imagination?

Is his father really some kind of real-world superhero?