Shadows of the western door
Subtitle: haunted sites and ancient mysteries of upstate New York
By: Mason Winfield.
Publisher: Western New York Wares; Brand: Western New York Wares
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Haunted places -- New York (State); Ghosts -- New York (State).; Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New York (State).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-191).
Table of contents: title: Buried secrets. Ancient mysteries -- Monsters from the mound -- Bluff Point -- The Allegany Slaughter-Stone -- The Chautauqua Vikings -- Ephraim Woodruff’s copper plate -- The Genesee trade-token -- The mysterious mooring stones -- Iroquois Celts -- Valley of the Lost Nation -- “White Indians” -- Places of power. Supernatural nature -- The Great Lakes triangle -- M. I. B.’s and UFOs -- Mystery monsters -- Secret serpents -- The Byron Earth Wheels -- Rocky rain -- Spook Hill -- Pittsford’s mysterious tunnels -- Niagara Falls -- Ten classic spooks. 19th Century hauntings -- Fort Niagara -- Casper Meets Ronald McDonald -- The Hydesville knockings -- The Brothers Davenport -- The Octagon House -- The old Main Street cemetery -- Hill of the Hellhounds -- Forever on a fall afternoon -- The White Lady of Irondequoit -- Green Acres -- The spirit way. The trumpet of a prophecy -- The publick universal friend -- The code of Handsome Lake -- Noah and the New Jerusalem -- The Stone of Help -- The Golden Plates -- Harmonia -- The Brotherhood of the New Life -- The Lackawanna saint -- The Storyteller’s bag. The Keepers of the Western Door -- Iroquois witches -- The trial of Red Jacket -- Cornplanter’s accusation -- The stone giants -- The owl cap -- The little people -- The vampire-hermit -- Two friends and the Devil -- The swig of flying -- Some Iroquois beasties -- Track of the illuminoids. The secret societies -- Buffalo’s mystical layout -- The sacred lines -- The Mohawk mason -- The general’s barred windows -- William Morgan and the Anti-Masonic fury -- The Rosicrucian rascal -- The grave of Jack the Ripper -- The supernatural Roycroft. East Aurora’s mystical community -- Sacred architecture at Roycroft -- The Rosicrucian connection -- The first Phil Poster -- The son of Shakespeare -- The Roycroft seal -- Magna mater -- The Ruskin Room -- The face on the chapel -- Some Roycroft gabbyjack -- Hub’s mysterious death -- Ten modern spooks. 20th Century hauntings -- The strange case of Sassafras Charley -- Faustus at the Eastman -- Bonnie’s fifth dev -- The house on the point -- Phantom of the Pfeifer -- Fredonia’s Igoe Hall -- Smokestacks and shamrocks -- The vanishing hitchhiker revisited -- The hole to Hell -- Waif between worlds -- The Dragon Pat (With Franklin LaVoie) -- The dragon fight -- Landscape lines -- The dragon track -- The message behind the pattern -- The path of the dragon -- Conclusion.