As I travel the roads of Arizona’s Haunted Sites, I always pack a tote bag full of current and historical maps—newspaper and Internet story clips, and an array of reference books covering the history of the location I am investigating and writing a story on. I am not an armchair investigator or journalist. I believe if you are going to write about a haunted location, you need to walk the talk, and experience the reported paranormal phenomena.
“Ghosts of Central Arizona” by Heather Woodward is one of those books you can add to your reference tote bag as you explore haunted places in Arizona. Heather’s road trip adventures with her ghost hunting buddies make you want to grab your cameras, EMF meters, recording devises, and head out to some of the great locations covered in this book.
You will make a spiritual stop at the vortexes of Bell Rock, Airport and Boynton Canyon at the metaphysical metropolis of Sedona and learn of the powerful energy these red rock landmarks present to visitors. A journey to the old mining town of Jerome will take you up close and personal with the phantoms of the Ghost City. Jerome has many haunted hotels, historic buildings and eateries that serve up a bit of spirit in us all.
Caravan to Cottonwood and visit the Cottonwood Hotel once owned by a psychic named Brooks in the 1920’s. He predicted a devastating fire in Cottonwood, but did he foresee his own death?
Travel north to the forests of Flagstaff and stay at the Haunted Monte Vista Hotel and Hotel Weatherford which were once bustling hotels along old Route 66.
The spirits of the Superstition Mountains will be beckoning you to take a hiking trail to solve mysterious spirits surrounding the lost treasures hidden there. Are these sacred mountains cursed? “Ghosts of Central Arizona” will attempt to answer your curiosities.
As a bonus, Woodward provides an introduction to ghost hunting for novice ghost hunters in the first two chapters of the book. All the latest equipment and techniques are explained. There are also several biographies of Hollywood celebrities who have visited central Arizona’s ghosts.
So grab your K ll meter, gas up the car, and experience some of the best haunted locations central Arizona has to offer. These ghosts haunt close to the Phoenix area and make perfect day investigation trips. “Ghosts of Central Arizona” is a must have guide.
Ghosts of Central Arizona may be ordered from your local bookstore, or they may be ordered directly from the publisher by writing to:
Schiffer Publishing LTD
4880 Lower Valley Road
Atglen, PA 19310
610-593-1777 FAX 610-593-2002
Email: Info@schifferbooks.com
www.schifferbooks.com
For more info: www.mvdghostchasers.com
Debe Branning nazanaza@aol.com
Comments
Wow, we must have read two different books.
I was actually looking forward to reading this and let me tell you, I was quite disappointed with it.
Heather tries too hard to be funny, it almost seemed forced.
I found the chapters to ramble on for too long and there is nothing that stands out in this book.
Very forgettable.
I was introduced to Heather at the Fourth Avenue Street Fair here in Tucson and I couldn't get over how condescending she was to myself and my boyfriend. I had wanted to get a Tarot reading from her but she acted like she couldn't be bothered. Yesterday I saw this book and decided to thumb through it. I noticed immediately that she talks down to the readers, the same way she was talking down to myself & boyfriend. Her writing is very sarcastic, maybe that is the only way she knows how to talk to people. Skip this book & buy one of Debe Brannings!
Heather is a total fraud. Seems when she was an investigator in California she ran off with the members money and then in Tucson she took some members equipment. Stay away from her.
Not only is she a fake, she is being checked out for check fraud! Seems she knowingly wrote checks on an account that had no money when she had a "metaphysical" store in Tucson and bounced a few checks and was known to steal from the register of the store she was co-owning with a photographer. The manager of the property is going after her for alot of money..Hmm..if she is such a psychic, you would have thought she'd seen that coming!
I would be troubled by these comments if I thought they had any bearing on the truth. Like ghost stories, each retelling gets bigger and bigger and more changed until the truth is lost in the myth.
Thanks to all who have actually taken the time to find out the truth. As for those who keep spreading the rumors and lies - your time will come.
Nothing original in this book or these stories. Heather is just rehashing stuff that we have all heard. I saw that Heather is also putting out another book..great..more crap by an untalented writer.
At one point in this book, the author states that ghost hunting is mostly waiting in the dark, not knowing when, how, or even if a spirit will put in an appearance. That’s a good metaphor for the book itself—so much time is spent on ghost hunting techniques, background information, and stream-of-consciousness accounts of the author’s every minute, waking or sleeping, on the trail of hauntings that I began to wonder if the spooks would make it into the book before the Index.
When the ghosts did show up, they were a mixed bag, with all the good stuff happening “off stage.” The author—a so called psychic and long-time paranormal investigator (she claims)—promises to personally investigate the legends of haunting, but we learn more about her thoughts on exercise (only while shopping..WTF?), Catholicism (very offensive), and Nicholas Cage (What a waste of reading..I wanted ghost stories, instead I she rambled on about her love for this poor actor) than about her experiences with ghosts. In fact, for all but a couple of haunted locations, all we get are third-or-fourth-hand rumors—the author never even visits them. Heather should leave the ghosthunting to the experts and she should crawl back under the rock that she came from. Her poor attempt at writing is a complete waste of time. In a nutshell, there’s more fluff here than substance. And to think, someone actually wanted her to write a second book. Someone at her publishing company really needs their head examined.
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