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Ghosts and Spirits

Pirate treasure in Cape May County?

Text by CapeMay.com | Published March 5th, 2012 in Cape May County • Ghosts and Spirits • Historic Figures

According to an old undated newspaper filed away at the Cape May County Museum, an author identified only as Z.H. recalls a story told to him about Captain Kidd’s treasure supposedly buried in Cape May County.
For Ghosts, Halloween is Just a Nightmare

Text by Craig McManus | Published October 1st, 2011 in Ghostly Tales of Cape Island • Ghosts and Spirits

For ghosts, Halloween isn’t just a bad dream, it’s a nightmare.
Americans seem to be obsessed with ghosts and hauntings, especially this time of the year. We talk about them. We write about them. We chase them with meters and [...]
The Ghosts of Higbee Beach

Text by Craig McManus | Published September 1st, 2011 in Ghostly Tales of Cape Island • Ghosts and Spirits

The fall is when we start thinking about back to school, back to work after vacations, and the changing seasons and upcoming holidays. Those of us who love the paranormal also start thinking about ghosts and hauntings. However, Halloween is [...]
The Ghost of Joseph Gregory

Text by Craig McManus | Published April 1st, 2011 in Ghostly Tales of Cape Island • Ghosts and Spirits

I was dreaming about the beach or something to do with Cape May when the dream segued to an exterior view of a house, an old house. A teenage boy was looking up at the roof and, in the dream, [...]
Furry Phantoms of Cape May

Text by Craig McManus | Published February 3rd, 2011 in Ghostly Tales of Cape Island • Ghosts and Spirits

I was thinking about good old Punxsutawney Phil. He did not see his shadow, so we may actually live to see spring. Old Punx got me thinking about ghosts of animals. I have had more than one run in with [...]
The Ghostly Christmas Shoppe

Text by Craig McManus | Published December 1st, 2010 in Ghostly Tales of Cape Island • Ghosts and Spirits • The Holidays

The Victorians loved a good ghost story at Christmas time! Join Craig McManus as he explores Winterwood Christmas Shoppe and tells us about its resident ghost, Hester.
The Emlen Physick Estate – A Ghostly Family Affair

Text by Craig McManus | Published November 1st, 2010 in Ghostly Tales of Cape Island • Ghosts and Spirits

The Emlen Physick Estate circa 1970 (courtesy of MAC)
While we, the living, may only think about ghosts and hauntings in October, the fact is that ghosts are with us all year long. Ghosts tend to haunt where they lived, not [...]
Ghosts of the Washington Street Mall

Text by Craig McManus | Published October 1st, 2010 in Cape May • Ghostly Tales of Cape Island • Ghosts and Spirits

Hello Everyone! I’m Craig McManus, Cape May’s resident expert on ghosts and hauntings, bringing you a brand new column about paranormal happenings on Cape Island (Cape May), here at CapeMay.com!
For many years, I have enjoyed collaborating on feature stories with [...]
The Dead of Winter

Text by Susan Tischler | Published March 1st, 2010 in Ghosts and Spirits

Psychic/medium and author Craig McManus leads us on a virtual ghost tour, which begins on one of Cape May’s most haunted streets, Columbia Avenue PLUS: Craig shares EVPs from the investigation. Have a listen and decide for yourself!
Ghosts of the Memucan Hughes House

Text by Craig McManus | Published October 1st, 2009 in Books • Cape May • Ghosts and Spirits

Ghost hunter and psychic Craig McManus shares an excerpt from his newest book, “400 Years of the Ghosts of Cape May”
Calling up the spirits: Victorian influence on American spiritualism

Text by Susan Tischler | Published October 1st, 2008 in Ghosts and Spirits

It all began with the Fox sisters up in Hydesville, New York in 1848. Strange noises – knockings and rappings – were coming from the bedroom of John and Margaret Fox’s two youngest daughters, Katherine, age 11, and Margaretta, 13. [...]
On assignment: The Ghosts of CapeMay.com

Text by Susan Tischler | Published October 1st, 2005 in Cape May • Ghosts and Spirits

What was that noise in the attic? Susan and the ghost writer Craig McManus look for the haunting truth about the CapeMay.com office.
Who’s really staying at the Columbia House?

Text by Susan Tischler | Published October 1st, 2004 in Cape May • Ghosts and Spirits • Guest Houses • History

I’ve been looking for ghosts for three years running and have yet to see one, hear one, or feel one – let alone talk to one. Everyone else seems to see them and sometimes even photograph them. What’s wrong with [...]
On Assignment: Touring Haunted Cape May

Text by Susan Tischler | Published October 1st, 2004 in Ghosts and Spirits • On Assignment • Tours

It is dusk and just beginning to cool. A quiet has settled along the beachfront on this Sunday evening in late September. The throngs of tourists have disappeared but there are still a nice number of people walking about. Halloween [...]
Long Gone but Refusing to Leave: The Ghosts of Cape May

Text by Susan Tischler | Published October 1st, 2002 in Ghosts and Spirits • Tours

It was a dark and stormy night…. well….it was dark. Desiree, our guide to ghostly apparitions, has already led us up Beach Avenue, along Jackson Street, over to the Washington Street Mall, down Ocean and, now, we stand peering up [...]
Spirited Cape May: Do You Believe?

Text by Jennifer Brownstone Kopp | Published October 2nd, 2000 in Cape May • Ghosts and Spirits

Having grown up in many areas of the country, and almost always living in houses at least a hundred years-old, I’ve had a fair share of “ghostly” experiences. Many, of course, can be written off as coincidence, and some as [...]
Spirited Cape May: More Than Meets the Eye

Text by Jennifer Brownstone Kopp | Published October 1st, 2000 in Ghosts and Spirits

It’s been said Cape May is full of ghosts. Books have been written on the subject and there are even “ghost tours” to be taken. And, surely, one look at the town with its collection of 19th-century buildings could lead [...]
Searching for Henry Sawyer, the Past Comes Alive

Text by Jennifer Brownstone Kopp | Published October 1st, 1999 in Cape Island • Cape May • Cape May County • Ghosts and Spirits

Through the years rumors of sightings have persisted. Donlin knows a man claiming to have seen Sawyer himself 27 years ago standing at the top of the stair case. The man was 13 years old at the time, and never [...]