Contents: Part one: Strange tales. Mysteries on Georges Bank -- Salem's doomed ship -- Boston Light's weird woman -- The Lady of Greenbush -- Ghosts aboard the Lucy Jackson -- The phantom boat -- Part two: Facts. Lizzie Borden, Newburyport and Timothy Dexter -- An escape from State Prison -- The Willey disaster -- Dr. Ball's miraculous escape -- New England trees -- The rescue of Molly Finney -- A New England hermitess -- The Austin duels -- America's first aerial photograph -- Dorothy's rescue -- Tales of Newbury -- Part three: Legends. The Rip Van Winkle of the Blue Hills -- The walking corpse of Malden -- The Old Man of the Mountains -- The Devil in Connecticut -- Grindstone Hill -- Unusual creatures of the Maine woods -- Peter Rugg, the missing man -- A rollicking ghost -- Coronation Rock -- Nell Hilton's ghost -- Part four: True tales. Dead man's ledge -- The privateer Dash, pride of Portland -- Is it lost forever? -- Cape Elizabeth -- Lost in the fog -- Jack Bunker -- Jeremiah Bumstead -- Far-flung Boon Island -- The subchaser S-241 -- The Portland

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Context of Fantastic folklore and fact : New England tales of land and sea, Edward Rowe Snow