02402cam a2200337 4500 1280276474 TxAuBib 20240523120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781439675465 1439675465 B0BK27FWH2 Amazon ed107316-9c63-4bb8-85d3-56ed7c347a75 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9332085 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Zablocki, Peter. The 1788 Morristown Ghost Hoax [Bridges eBook] : The Search for Lost Revolutionary War Treasure. The History Press, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1001kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>A Fabulous Fable of the Supernatural Kind</b></p> <p>The saga of the Morristown ghost has been told around campfires and dinner tables in Morris County for generations. Local legend claimed British Loyalists secretly buried stolen Patriot treasure on Schooley Mountain as they fled the oncoming forces of George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Years later in 1788, a former school teacher from Connecticut, Ransford Rodgers, convinced local prominent Morristown families that a ghost was protecting the true location of the treasure and he alone could exercise it. Little did the victims know, Rodgers was perpetuating an elaborate hoax and eventually extorted large sums of money from the embarrassed local elite. The tale has been recounted in various sensational pamphlets and publications ever since, leaving behind a mystery of what is true or myth.</p> <p>Author Peter Zablocki separates fact from fiction in the story of the great Morristown ghost hoax.</p>. True Crime. Nonfiction. History. New Age. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-05-21 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ed107316-9c63-4bb8-85d3-56ed7c347a75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ed107316-9c63-4bb8-85d3-56ed7c347a75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ed107316-9c63-4bb8-85d3-56ed7c347a75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)