Indiana's False Hauntings Book Release Party w/ Author Ashley Watson

Name: Indiana's False Hauntings Book Release Party w/ Author Ashley Watson
Start: 2025-09-30T18:30:00-04:00
Location: 2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904

Schedule

Tue, 30 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904 | Lafayette, IN

Join us to celebrate the release of Indiana's False Hauntings by Ashley Watson (@notebookofghosts) with a reading, discussion, and book signing! In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, newspapers were a major source of ghost stories. Paranormal experiences, no matter how mundane, were newsworthy and entertaining―even when they turned out not to be ghosts after all. A coffin holding a “talking corpse” on a train turned out to be a box of bull frogs. An overturned automobile carrying white paint resulted in a paint-covered “ghost” wandering the streets, and a spiritualist tackled a phantom haunting a cemetery, only to find it was a fraternity pledge all along.
Revealing that the truth can sometimes be as amusing as the legend, author Ashley M. Watson gathers newspaper clippings about Indiana ghost stories that were not ghosts at all. Ashley Watson received her PhD in rhetoric from Purdue University, her master’s from Miami University of Ohio and her bachelor’s from Purdue. She writes about haunted history, commonplace books and spooky folklore on her blog NotebookofGhosts.com. In addition, she maintains a newspaper archive of ghost stories proven to be false (sometimes humorously so) at ItWasNotaGhost.com. Ashley shares her passions of photographing cemeteries, making zines, collecting ghosts and Halloween decorations and reading spooky short stories on her Instagram account @notebookofghosts.