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There are places in South
Dakota that many people
believe are truly haunted.
And they are chronicled in a
new book.
The South Dakota Road Guide
to Haunted Locations. The
authors are from Wisconsin,
but what they know about
South Dakota and its ghostly
past will scare you.
From burial grounds to
abandoned buildings, the
book tells of eerie legends
and eyewitness accounts of
people's ghost stories from
all corners of the state.
"It's a true road guide to
South Dakota," said Shelie
Farrand, Community Relations
Manager at Barnes & Noble.
Whether you believe in the
supernatural, the book has
been a top seller every week
since the first of June.
"I think it's the
fascination with the
supernatural and paranormal
activities that the authors
are claiming to have
experienced or taken stories
from those who have
experienced those," said
Farrand.
One of the authors is a self
proclaimed paranormal
investigator. He says South
Dakota is filled with ghost
stories.
"The first thing I had to do
is check out Sioux Falls'
locations that are
supposedly haunted that was
interesting to me," said
Farrand.
Farrand says the book is
also very popular with book
clubs, they'll buy it, take
a trip and try and explain
the abnormal, but some of
the stories are
unexplainable.
Like the Orpheum Theater,
said to be haunted by a
ghost known as Larry. There
are many theories as to how
Larry came into being. But
one of the more interesting
ones suggests Larry was an
actor distraught over not
getting the part of Romeo
and shot himself. His body
was never found.
Then there's the Pioneer
Memorial that sits up along
North Drive. During the
Sioux uprising of 1862,
Judge Amidon and his teenage
son were killed by Indians
and buried at this overlook.
Their ghosts are said to
keep a vigilant watch over
the city.
The book costs 14 dollars.
Its authors, Chad Lewis and
Terry Fisk, will be in Sioux
Falls this Sunday for a book
signing at Barnes & Noble.
This is their third book.
They also wrote books about
ghost stories from Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
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