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In this book, I want to show you some of the strangest, creepiest incidents that have taken place through the centuries, and show you that there has to be something bigger than what can be explained taking place. Sure, there are always going to be those who doubt, but if you open your mind and consider the possibility that there is something unseen taking place, you will realize just how plausible it really is.

Who doesn't love a great ghost story? Haunted houses? Moving objects? You're about to discover some of the most scariest and true ghost stories from around the globe. If you love a scary ghost story, then this book is for you. Whether you're at home alone or sitting around a campfire, true ghost stories are sure to get your spine tingling. From weird objects that were bought and later started doing scary things, to houses that have been haunted since the 1800s, true ghost stories will take you on a trip that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

This audiobook is about what happens when the only way to stay alive is to overcome seemingly impossible odds. These are stories of courage, determination, and the ability to overcome injury, pain, and physical and mental challenges that seem overwhelming. But most of all, these are stories about the triumph of the human spirit. When everything seems lost, when all hope of rescue is gone, when exhaustion, illness, injury, and hunger have taken their toll, some people still find the mental strength to continue. Are these special people?

 Zombies will roam the Earth. Are you ready? 

Inside this book you will discover a collection of mystifying, unsolvable real-life ghost stories tell of horrifying encounters with the supernatural, and the terrifying awareness that none of us are safe from evil from the other side. The inexplicable ghostly apparitions, phantoms and wicked demons that visit our material world are weird, creepy and frightening. These horrifying events include the shocking real life experiences. 

In the 1850s, a street kid in Chicago grows up stealing to survive and finds himself the protector of the other kids he runs with. When circumstances force him into the army, just as the Civil War is starting, he is forced to grow up fast. The war is good for him, as he learns to fight and to have a new appreciation of the law. 

In this touching and often humorous memoir, machinist, journalist, corporate writer, public relations hack, and author Steven E. Wedel talks about how he became a high school teacher and what those 12 years in public education meant to him. From beginning his teaching career as a 40-year-old long-haired guy with an alternative certification to teaching Advanced Placement, Wedel tells it all, including how he decorated his room as a heavy metal horror show to battles with principals, lesson plans that worked, or didn't, and going viral with his "Open Letter to Parents and Lawmakers".

All around the world, people grow up hearing the spooky stories about the abandoned house on the street corner, or the insane asylum that housed serial killers. These places are imbued with a powerful dark energy from the stories people tell. While some of these places were inevitably more fiction than fact, or the workings of a child's imagination, that doesn't mean that there aren't truly haunted places.

Within the past couple of years, pop culture has been captivated by prison life. There is an almost constant stream of documentaries and TV shows being released that capture what life is like behind bars. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that while people enjoy watching these shows, they certainly don't want to experience prison firsthand. Now imagine that on top of being in prison and contending with all the struggles of prison life, you also must deal with the ghosts and evil spirits from former inmates.

Four friends, brothers Bill and Ryan, plus their two lifelong friends, Charlie and Danny, take their annual fishing trip on Lake Michigan during the fall salmon season. It's a trip they have taken for the last six years. It has proven to be great fun for the four young men, but this year, things will be different. In their wandering about the lake, they discover an old ferry that appears to be abandoned. This chance encounter changes their annual excursion from a fun-filled, male bonding experience, into a race to the safety of shore.

The bank robbery was planned down to the smallest detail. The delivery from the mint in Denver was to deliver a million dollars just an hour before they would make their move. The US Marshal's service, though, had other plans.

The brand new western from Robert Hanlon takes the listener on a voyage of discovery - through hills, valleys and gunfights, this is one novel western listeners won't want to end. There comes a time when each boy must become a man. When a boy's family is killed, a man must be born and that man must seek vengeance. This is that story - a story that will take a young man and put a gun in his hand. The law is against him, the world is against him, but he will get vengeance - and he will kill the Gold Renegades.

They dressed as beasts, draping fur over their chainmail clad bodies, while wearing iron helmets with animal heads attached over the top. They used huge broad swords or large heavy clubs to subdue their victims, often slaughtering whole villages for a few gold coins. Their arsenal of weapons included swords, spears, axes, clubs, bows and arrows, and fire.They were the scourge of the coastal inhabitants of Europe. They were Norsemen, they were the Vikings.

Carter Glenn is a young man in his late twenties who has returned home to seek revenge for a crime committed against him 20 years ago. As an eight-year-old boy, he was nearly beaten to death by a gang of teenage boys because they were bored and he was easy prey. Convinced he is on a mission from God, Carter sets out to excise his demons by killing the members of the gang and the old woman who could have saved him but instead chose to deliver him to hell.

A bounty hunter always catches his man, even if the man he is chasing is a dangerous murderer. Timber is hired by the new governor and his new chief justice when the two of them become terrified of the crime that is taking over their state. With near immunity and nearly unlimited power to hunt down and kill those who are wanted or should be wanted, provided he can make a reasonable argument that the person he kills was an outlaw or a criminal, Timber is given his mission.

John Spokes is a man with a grudge. After 20 years in Yuma Prison, he is seeking revenge against Elijah Douglass, his childhood friend and fellow Confederate soldier, who turned him in to the authorities when John went rogue during the war. When a wanted outlaw shoots up their town, they find themselves again on the same side. Will there be healing between the two, or will Spokes continue his quest to see Douglass in hell?

Marshal Jake Timber has been tasked with collecting Gray Buffalo, an Indian accused of the murder of the president of a stage line, from Fort Collins and bringing him back to Denver for justice. Grey Buffalo's people aren't about to let him leave, however. They attack the fort in earnest, overwhelming both in skill and number the small attachment of greenhorn soldiers stationed there. Timber must be both marshal and army officer, as he teaches the soldiers how to fight Indians. Will Grey Buffalo be rescued by his tribe? Or will he be forced to face his destiny in front of the judge? 

Jake Timber is a tortured man, repaying his debt to society for avenging the brutal murders of his wife and daughter. In his work as a special agent, tasked with ridding the territory of criminals, he takes no prisoners and gives no mercy. His job is to hunt down wanted men, asking no questions before delivering his own brand of justice through the barrel of a gun. While traveling through the territory, Timber finds himself in the middle of a turf war in the town of Heaven Brook, where he helps bring an end to the tyranny of two powerful men.

What is a hero? Do you have what it takes to be a hero? Find out.

How far would you go to save a child in need? Jadyn is a promising inner-city student. But his community is terrorized by gangs and a series of grisly unsolved murders. When the boy stops coming to school. his teacher, Annelise, determines to find out why. Now she is trapped on the wrong side of town, and something evil is stalking her.