Jeffery W. McKelroy

American Ghost

True Ghost Stories From Around the Country

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  • New Orleans to Chicago

    by Jeffery W. McKelroy In the summer of 2020 during the pandemic, I took a train from New Orleans to Chicago and then another train from Chicago to Elkhart, Indiana. I was for the most part alone. On the night that I arrived in Elkhart there was rain, and thunder and lightning. The train station…

  • Memphis, Tn

    by Jeffery W. McKelroy It was November 4th, 2015. It was 6 days before my birthday, and I was packed up and ready to go. I retired from the military on the 1st of September. I had moved all my furniture into a storage unit on Tchoupitoulas Street the day before and already returned the…

  • Janesville, Wisconsin

    by Jeffery W. McKelroy The city of Janesville, Wisconsin sits on what was originally the home of many different Native American tribes, primarily the Ho-Chunk and Pottawatomie. There is evidence that there was a massacre of Native Americans by federal troops during the Black Hawk wars, along a stream that is in what is now…

  • The Myrtles

    A Shrouded Apparition The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana is known as one of America’s most haunted houses. It was built in 1796. There were several deaths due to disease and one confirmed murder on the property but there are also numerous stories of deaths and murders that never actually happened. Although many of…

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Jeffery W. McKelroy