Campfire Stories
Where truth blurs with tale, and the shadows do the talking.
At The Travelers’ Field Guide, we believe every great road trip should come with a good ghost story. This is where we keep ours.
Some of the stories you’ll find here are rooted in real places—based on local legends, strange sightings, and whispered accounts passed down through generations. Others are stitched together from imagination, dreams, and the occasional nightmare.
Growing up, I’d beg my uncle to “scare me” with his best ghost stories—long drives and late nights were his stage. This page is a tribute to that tradition. A place where folklore meets fiction, and curiosity meets the unexplained.
So whether you’re here to research your next haunted destination, or just want something a little creepy to read after dark—welcome. Settle in. Read slow.
And don’t mind the noises behind you. Probably just the wind.
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Newport’s Cliff Walk, After Dark
Newport’s Cliff Walk is beautiful in daylight, but once night falls, the mansions above look less like treasures and more like shadows. That’s when the legends begin — a woman in white who leads walkers toward the edge, whispers of a piano carried on the wind, and the uneasy sense that not all of Newport’s…
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The Lost Girls of Glastenbury
The Bennington Triangle is more than missing person files. It’s crooked trees, spinning compasses, and whispers that call you by name. The lost girls are said to walk there still, barefoot and silent, their pale eyes watching. If you meet them, don’t follow. And whatever you do, don’t answer when the forest calls.
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Seguin Light: The Keeper’s Last Piano
Isolated on a rocky Maine island, Seguin Light is known as one of the state’s most haunted lighthouses. Locals say the tragic tale of a keeper and his wife still echoes here — not in words, but in music. Faint piano notes are said to drift from the lighthouse windows on foggy nights, luring the…
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The Silence Between Trees
She set out alone on a quiet stretch of the Appalachian Trail, looking for solitude. But the deeper she hiked, the stranger things became—footsteps outside her tent, odd objects left behind, and warnings that came too late. Inspired by real accounts of missing hikers and eerie mountain folklore, this story explores what might be waiting…
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The Red Eyes Over Point Pleasant
You ever hear of the Mothman? If you have, your immediate thought is probably of the statue, the shiny metal one in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Wings outstretched. Muscles flexed. A little absurd. But that’s just the postcard version. The truth is a lot stranger.
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The Ghosts of Haynesville Woods: Tales from Maine’s Most Haunted Highway
In the far reaches of northern Maine, Route 2A cuts through a dense, brooding stretch of forest. The locals call it Haynesville Woods—and they don’t talk about it casually. Drivers say the road has a memory. That it holds on to every tragedy. Every scream. Every soul.