"Ghostly diners, violent crimes of passion, phantoms peering from theatre balconies, canal workers who still walk the towpaths – the haunted history of Stark County includes characters and legends as bizarre as they are terrifying."

That was information History Press offered in 2009 for a volume in its "Haunted America" series, "Haunted Stark County: A Ghoulish History" by Sherri Brake, formerly of Canal Fulton and now living in central West Virginia.

The publisher called the book "a bone-chilling journey" filled with "characters and legends as bizarre as they are terrifying."

Brake, who now has 14 books about hauntings and ghost hunting, recently published another volume on local "dark" history, "The Haunted History of Canal Fulton." She also has a "Haunted History" podcast and operate

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