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Ghostly footsteps and flickering lights, a silhouette in the window of an abandoned building, a restless presence at the scene of a sunken ship, spectral wails and poltergeist theft of office supplies, mythical Native American legends, and other paranormal happenings scattered across the Alaskan panhandle come together in Spirits of Southeast Alaska, a grand adventure into the historical hauntings of the southeastern corner of the Last Frontier. Author James Devereaux lived in Alaska for years, working as an archaeologist. Inspired by ghost stories as a child, and by accounts of Alaskan…mehr

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Ghostly footsteps and flickering lights, a silhouette in the window of an abandoned building, a restless presence at the scene of a sunken ship, spectral wails and poltergeist theft of office supplies, mythical Native American legends, and other paranormal happenings scattered across the Alaskan panhandle come together in Spirits of Southeast Alaska, a grand adventure into the historical hauntings of the southeastern corner of the Last Frontier. Author James Devereaux lived in Alaska for years, working as an archaeologist. Inspired by ghost stories as a child, and by accounts of Alaskan residents of paranormal phenomena in the area, he set out to collect both the ghost stories of Southeast Alaska and their history.
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tell. With his bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Devereauxfirst moved to Alaska in 2005 to work as an archaeologist for the U.S. military. Since then, his trail through thenorth has led to him working as a mountain and river guide, a National Park Service archaeologist, a log cabincarpenter and a news reporter for a local radio station. His last five years in the Last Frontier were spent inSkagway, where he fell in love with the scenery and stories of the Southeast Alaska.As an avid historian whose job it is to study the lives of the dead, it was only a matter of time before he puthis interests and talents together to write about the history of some of the Inside Passage's most well-knownghost stories.Devereaux moved out of Skagway in 2014 with all his possessions, wife and dog packed into his FordRanger and now lives in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he works for Effigy Mounds National Monument.When he's not working to preserve history, he enjoys casting fishing lures into tree branches on the MississippiRiver, drinking good craft beers at bonfires and adventuring in the Driftless Area with his wife, Katie, and dog, Scarlette.