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Marguerite de la Roque, a French noblewoman condemned for 'sexual crimes' to Canada's long-lost Isle of Demons. What happened to her and the barren landscape itself is the stuff of legend. And 'Mad Lucy' Ludwell, the decidedly peculiar eighteenth-century high-society hauteur driven mad in the Virginia estate she prowls to this day. President Helen Peabody's spirit still stringently watches over her Women's College, now part of Ohio's Miami University. Ghosts of workers lost in horrific conditions while building the Hoosac Tunnel warn of imminent danger. Settle in. There are more. Welcome to the phantom ships, haunted academic halls, menacing landscapes, and family curses of America's Most Gothic - a tour of true spectral sightings and disordered minds. But beware: it's sure to get under your skin. 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