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by Teresa Nordheim.
Softcover (6.5×9.3 inches). 96 pages. 2025.
I guess I should’ve paid a wee bit more attention to the blurb. I thought this was a photo book of museums and military bases turned into museums in Texas. Ummm…. Sort of.
It is a photo book of some Texan museums and abandoned military bases turned into museums. It also includes lighthouses, the USS Texas, USS Lexington II, battlefields, and some abandoned forts like the Alamo and Fort Defiance. The twist is that all these places are supposedly haunted. However, the photos never show any ghosts, spirits, or apparitions — just photos of the places.
They’re nice photos, but any effort to link them to ghosts is ineffective. I mean, for example, if you’re going to talk about a “red-headed sailor” ghost on the USS Texas (p36), not including a photo of said red-headed ghost seems a bit useless.
The book contains 126 color photos, seven black and white photos, five color illustrations, and four black and white illustrations.
If I ever get back to Texas on vacation, I might check out some of these places, but not because of alleged ghosts.
— Reviewed by Russ Lockwood
