Haunted Florida Love Stories, Haunted America
The author and folklorist examines Florida’s history through the lens of haunting tales of love.
Wide eyes, sweaty palms and a racing heart. Are these the tell-tale marks of a love story or a haunted tale? If the story is set in Florida, there’s a good chance it’s both. From the infamous Bellamy Bridge to a haunted lighthouse in Key West, love is in the air—but it isn’t always a good thing. Author and folklorist Christopher Balzano follows lingering campus whispers and trails that vanish into the swamp to track down the urban legends and ghostly lore of Sunshine State love affairs that live on even after death.
Christopher Balzano
Christopher Balzano is a writer, researcher, folklorist and current host of the podcast Tripping on Legends. He has been documenting the unexplained since 1994 and has been a figure in the paranormal world through his book and articles, as well as his work as the director of Massachusetts Paranormal Crossroads. Balzano is the author of several books about regional hauntings - Dark Woods: Cults, Crime and the Paranormal in the Freetown State Forest and Ghosts of the Bridgewater Triangle - as well as the collections of true ghost stories Ghostly Adventures and Haunted Objects: Stories of Ghosts on Your Shelf and the how-to paranormal books Picture Yourself Ghost Hunting and Picture Yourself Capturing Ghosts on Film.He has been a contributor to Jeff Belanger's Encyclopedia of Haunted Places and Weird Massachusetts and was one of the writers behind Weird Hauntings. He has appeared in more than two dozen other books, often called in to offer insight into the paranormal or perspective on a certain case.He has appeared on radio stations across the country and the Internet, and he has been called on by television shows to comment on ghosts and urban legends, including the British television series Conversations with a Serial Killer. He has been a guest on Coast to Coast AM and been asked in as a consultant on televisions shows like Paranormal State and Ghost Adventures. He formerly ran the Paranormal News at Ghostvillage and headed up Ghostvillage for Kids.
