Since those days, the sounds of those carriage rides have haunted locals and visitors alike. People gathered around the gallows for the hanging events, as this was entertainment in those days,” Kinney writes. Those who rode it sat on their own coffins for the mile-long ride. “The wheels of the wagon of death would be heard creaking up Nicholson Street to take (the prisoners) to the gallows. “History has a way of causing hauntings,” she says. It’s not surprising, considering Hampton Roads’ rich history, according to Kinney.

The area is just rife in legends and ghostly hauntings. “Not just the three main places of Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, but nearby in West Point (the Cohoke Light), Gloucester, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson and Charles City (where the plantations are). “I was pleasantly surprised to find not one spot that was not haunted in the Triangle area,” Kinney says. She interviewed shopkeepers, residents and visitors and came away convinced that ghosts are among us, whether we know it or not.

Beginning in 2009 and for more than a year, she spent days traipsing across the Virginia Peninsula, armed with ghost-hunting equipment and a healthy curiosity, to ferret out the truth of the many tales of ghost sightings in and around the Historic Triangle. Kinney, Richmond-based author of “Virginia’s Haunted Triangle-Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown & Other Haunted Locations” (Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 2011), there is nary a spot in our area that hasn’t, at one time or another, been the site of some sort of paranormal activity. Kinney is an author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, poetry, and three nonfiction paranormal books, Haunted Richmond, Virginia Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths, and True Tales and Virginia's Haunted Historic Triangle.Has the spirit world taken up residence in your home or neighborhood? No? You sure about that? No eerie moans whistling through your hallways? No strange sightings on your local highways and byways? Nothing going bump in the deepest, darkest hours of night? You might want to think about that, because according to Pamela K. The dead don't stay dead in this town! AUTHOR: Pamela K. So be sure to plan your visit now to a very paranormal Richmond. All this plus a sea serpent, a lost city, ghostly cats, Bigfoot, a UFO, and haunted churches, parks, and colleges. It seems that the War Between the States is still being fought between ghostly Confederate and Union soldiers at Cold Harbor, Sailor's Creek, Parker's Battery, and Petersburg Battlefield. Discover that not only is the Richmond Vampire out for your blood, but the Werewolf of Henrico waits for you beneath the full moon. Step back in time at Henricus Historical Park where you'll be welcomed by dead colonists, Civil War soldiers, and other haunts. Visit Stories Comics, which holds more than just comics within its walls. Return once more to haunted Richmond, where no building is safe from supernatural happenings.

Haunted Richmond II by Pamela K. Kinney