62 - The Mapleton Ghost

A ghost haunts the railroad connecting Brooklyn and Coney Island in August 1894, but it soon proves to be... not what was expected.

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SOURCES

Brooklyn Standard-Union, May 28, 1894.

Brooklyn Eagle, March 7, 1943.

“A.D. Mapledoram.” Brooklyn Citizen, March 28, 1909.

“All lies within the ken of Mr. Kennedy's pen.” Brooklyn Eagle, March 7, 1943.

“Funeral of Margaret Barning.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 10, 1894.

“Ghost – beware!” Brooklyn Standard-Union, August 14, 1894.

“Ghost hunt a-wheel.” New York Evening World, August 13, 1894.

“Her identity is a mystery.” New York Evening World, August 6, 1894.

“Her identity known.” New York Evening World, August 8, 1894.

“Mapleton slights its ghost.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 11, 1894.

“Mapleton's ghost out again.” New York Evening World, August 20, 1894.

“Mapleton's shy ghost.” New York Sun, August 20, 1894.

“Mr. Kelly's queer statement.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 9, 1894.

“More mysterious than ever.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 7, 1894.

“Recognized at the morgue.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 8, 1894.

“Rides royally.” Brooklyn Citizen, July 8, 1894.

“Scientists look for a ghost.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 22, 1894.

“The ghost cornered.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 28, 1894.

“The ghost seen again.” New York Sun, August 13, 1894.

“The ghost walks again.” Brooklyn Standard-Union, August 20, 1894.

“The great ghost hunt.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 23, 1894.

“Three shots at the ghost.” New York Sun, August 17, 1894.

“To be interred in Jersey.” Brooklyn Citizen, August 9, 1894.

“Turned out to be a pig.” Brooklyn Standard-Union, August 13, 1894.

“Walks about the city.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 26, 1894.

Heffernan, John A. “How two reporters laid Mapleton ghost.” Brooklyn Times-Union, July 21, 1930.

https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Early_Rapid_Transit_in_Brooklyn,_1878-1913

http://and-now-the-screaming-starts.blogspot.com/2009/08/stuff-portrait-of-victorian-ghost.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Drinker_Cope