Glacier Ghosts Stories: Spooky Tales and Legends From Glacier National Park Paperback – May 7, 2013

I enjoyed this collection of ghost stories. Seeing the different aspects of Glacier through a haunted lens was a very interesting take. And hearing the travelogue bits weren't that horrible either. But I wish the author might have had more of a balance. It’s hard to really call this a ghost story book when it sometimes reads as an advertisement for Glacier and its many attractions. Not that there’s a problem with Glacier; I adore the park. But I would have enjoyed the ghost stuff better if it would have had more focus.But what was there was fascinating. I can just imagine being one of these winter caretakers, knowing you’re the only individual that could possibly be in this huge hotel complex (being snowed in and such) and finding a fresh cup of coffee or an empty wine bottle in the middle of a hallway and know you didn't put it there… Or to here footsteps or a door slam in the same circumstances? Yeah, freaky much! And the author does a fantastic job of making those scenarios very immediate.All told, a solid collection of supernatural happenings in one of the most beautiful locales I've ever personally been to. I definitely shivered more than once. If only more time was spent on those shiver worthy moments and less on describing how wonderful this attraction is or how great that hotel was…

Karen Stevens ("Haunted Montana," "More Haunted Montana") has been collecting Montana ghost stories for thirty years and has been visiting Glacier National Park for forty years. "Glacier Ghost Stories" brings her passions together in a slim, but informative volume that follows her search for strange and inexplicable events at the park's historic hotels.Steven's book is, in one sense, a reporter's travelogue: she talks about her investigative trips, the weather, the accommodations, and her interviews with hotel personnel. In the process, she includes a fair amount of park history with details for each hotel: Apgar Village Inn, Belton Chalet, Glacier Park Lodge, Lake McDonald Lodge, Many Glacier Hotel, Prince of Wales Hotel and Sperry Chalet.Glacier Park Lodge celebrated its 100th anniversary this summer. The other hotels are elders in the lodging business as well. The hotels are busy during their short summer seasons. They're isolated from the world throughout the rest of the year. The schedule and the wild country are, it seems, the perfect recipe for legends, yarns and a long list of things that defy logical explanation.While they don't advertise ghosts in travel brochures, hotel managers and long-time employees had a lot to day about things that go bump in the night: people who suddenly disappear, objects that move when nobody's looking, doors that lock by themselves, music and other sounds from unoccupied rooms, footsteps in the dark. Stevens includes the room numbers where things seem to happen. Take note of these before your next visit."Glacier Ghost Stories" includes legends about Marias Pass, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Two Medicine Valley and the Belly River. In the book's postscript, Stevens writes that visitors to Glacier and Waterton parks "follow in the footsteps o those who came before us: Native Americans, trappers, hunters, explorers and others whose spirits even today may roam the land they loved so much in life."Stevens does not hear about or witness the over-the-top paranormal happenings we associate with Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. She did uncover enough to make us wonder and to look over our shoulders the next time we visit any of the park's hotels. The book is an engaging portrait from a ghostly point of view.

I'm not really sure what I expected, but this book wasn't as good as I had anticipated. First of all, the author took a trip through Glacier to research ghost stories, but her book isn't in chronological order. The storyline would have flowed better if it had been chronological. Second, the author seemed to have included any report that could even remotely be considered a ghost story. Regardless of whether you believe in ghosts, if you're reading a book of ghost stories you want to hear the ones that are actually spooky and could actually happen if ghosts actually do exist. Some of these stories are a real stretch.

Montana has very few ghost stories. As I did some research for a local haunted house attraction, I had a hard time finding decent ghost stories. This book was an excellent find that delivered on its promise and gave me some valuable information for my project.

I read the book cover to cover and am eagerly awaiting my first encounter with a ghost. My wife and I stayed at many of the places noted in this book, including the Belton Chalet, Lake McDonald Lodge, etc., and are still waiting for our first ghost encounter. Some of the stories would make nice camp fire stories.

Pretty boring other than the history angel.

Being a native Montanan, I love reading Karen Stevens stories. Her descriptions of Glacier Park made me feel like I was there!

my brother worked up at glaciar lodge and has heard ghost stories,so was anxious to read the book.it will be his christmas present this year!