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Mental hospitals and prison wards are among the most haunted places on the planet. No one knows why this is true, but it's a fact that has proven itself all over the world. It seems that when prisoners - either prisoners of society or people imprisoned in their own minds - live anywhere for an extended period of time, a haunting is soon to follow. And that's where this book comes in. In it, we are going to explore a variety of mental hospitals, asylums, prisons, and other haunted wards from all over the world.

All serial killers are psychotic. But Steven Marshall and Gary Evans gave a whole new meaning to the word "nut case" in their respective killing sprees. Steven Marshall went on a "mission of mercy" as he went around killing people he suspected of being "perverts", while Gary Evans was a small-time burglar who murdered anyone who got in his way.

The picture didn't fit. On the surface, Alyssa Bustamante was a pretty 15-year-old girl who excelled in school. Behind closed doors, however, Alyssa was a deeply disturbed teenager with fantasies about killing someone. Her social media pages and diaries all painted the portrait of someone with an insatiable to desire to inflict pain onto the world. Her murderous impulses increasing by the day, Alyssa dug two graves in the woods outside her home and waited...waited for the perfect victim.

Brittany Holberg was a 23-year-old prostitute when she was convicted of murdering 80-year-old AB Towery Jr., stabbing him over 60 times. The controversy surrounding the case centered around the relationship of Brittany and Towery prior to the killing. Brittany argued that Towery was a client who went into a rage when he found drugs on her person. He attacked her and she retaliated in self-defense. Further investigation would reveal otherwise.

After traveling 60 miles on horseback through snow to the Crawford cabin, Dr. Ephraim McDowell examines his patient. He realizes that he is not dealing with an overdue pregnancy, but an enlarged ovarian cyst. He gives the patient the grim news that he can do nothing to save her. She begs him to try to remove the life-threatening tumor.

Eddie Robinson's career lasted 65 years and spanned the era before and during World War II, integration, the organization of the players union, expansion, use of artificial turf, free agency, labor stoppages, and even the steroid era. He was a Minor League player, a Major League player, a coach, a farm director, a general manager, a scout, and a consultant.

When Rocky Elmore joined the United States Border Patrol, he knew it would be a journey fraught with danger. But little did he know that the very real trails he walked night after night would soon lead him into surreal encounters from a different dimension. This was never more evident than when the ghost of a recently fallen fellow agent began to appear on top of the cliff from which he died. It marked the beginning of the end to one of the most bizarre series of events in the history of the US Border Patrol.

This audiobook is written for great leaders, parents, coaches and mentors who want to become great teachers. The Seven Laws of Learning examines why people like Confucius, Nelson Mandela, Jesus, Winston Churchill, Evita Peron, Mahatma Gandhi and other extraordinary leaders were able to teach new ideas in ways that not only engaged people but persuaded them to use their free will to bring about personal and global change.

In good times and bad, in times of economic downturn and times of wartime peril, we as Americans have shown our mettle. There is something in the historical DNA of this people - a resilience, a power, a talent for innovation, a unique and empowering bravery - that has carried us forward as a nation and a people for nearly 250 years. This audio book is about this history, this inheritance, this people.

New York City, 1977 Disco. Gay liberation. The Son of Sam. Urban blight. It was a wild time in a wild city, and no one wanted to get wilder than a young man from a hick town in Missouri. Fresh out of high school, Richard Miller has come to the Big Apple to take a big bite of forbidden fruit. But among the dark corners of the city's cruising scene stalks an ancient evil. It is hungry for virgin male flesh, and it knows just how to tempt a young man eager for thrills and new experiences.

For Nathan, everything seemed to be going great. Business was strong, he was able to paint more than he ever did before, and overall, happiness was at the forefront. However, his mother was still a part of the picture, and when she comes forward to berate him for his actions, Nathan knows this will be the final showdown. His mother and him never got along, but this would prove to be the final battle. Nathan knew that her recent relationship could jeopardize everything.

Nathan knew his relationship with both of these men was growing stronger, but that only made his personal feelings that much worse. He didn't know what to do, or even where to go with this, since he wanted to express his love, but due to tumult in the past, a dark part of his heart, he refused to let those feelings in. However, he learns that he's unable to hold it back as Travis and Melvin start to grow closer to him, and finally, one night while on a yacht, the truth comes out.

Ed Hines is a professional burglar. He's been at it for ten years and made more than enough to retire on, but still carries on. Why? The opportunity to catch people in compromising positions and watch, hoping one day, for the moment he gets to join in. Well today Ed Hines might have just struck gold. Out of a street of millionaires, Ed somehow manages to come across enough perversions to keep him topped up for a lifetime.

Carol Bundy teamed up with Doug Clark and would become known as The Sunset Strip Killers as they committed a series of murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980. Targeting teenage runaways and prostitutes, Carol helped lure these unsuspecting young women back to her apartment where she would help torture and murder them.

True hauntings from behind the eerie walls. Most of us have heard a ghost story in our lifetime but have you ever really asked yourself what it would mean if these stories were true? It would prove that there was life after death, that we continue on in some way after we are gone and that there is another dimension besides our own.

America abounds with different spectacular and mysterious natural formations like tunnels and cave complexes. Over the course of years, the country has seen buildings of all kinds rise up and developing the different states. Along with this development, slowly but surely there has also been an increase in the paranormal activity and hauntings of natural and manmade structures.

Consumed by greed, the leading citizens of Stockton map out a daring plan to steal to the proceeds from the sale of a ranch and a cattle herd by a prominent local rancher, Jake Warren, who is moving his family to Wyoming. When the hired gun fails to do the job as planned, the conspirators frame the Warren's son, the only survivor of the planned murders, as the good son gone bad over his love for a local girl. Falsely accused of murdering his family, young Trevor Warren must become a man overnight to avenge his family.

This book is an honest and vulnerable first-person account of Celeste Edmunds a young woman who was raised by drug addict parents and, at a young age, learned to survive and protect her siblings among rapists and drug dealers. Eventually the state separated the family and Celeste was adopted, alone, into a dysfunctional, fractured home where she was treated, by a sadistic and manipulating mother, as an unwanted outsider.

The Mycenaeans were the first advanced civilization to develop on mainland Greece, and were responsible for much of the urban organization and cultural development seen in the early ancient Greeks. The Mycenaeans created sprawling palatial states, unique and sophisticated works of art, and possessed a writing system that could be used to make records.

In The Courage of a Leader, best-selling author, renowned speaker, and leadership development consultant Amy L. Riley teaches leaders how to step up, inspire, engage, and get extraordinary results.