Haunted Reno
Published on 20. October 2018
131 pages
978-1-62585-475-9 (ISBN)
Description
A historian offers a ghoulish and ghostly tour of this legendary Nevada city-includes photos.
The flashing neon lights of Reno harbor a ghastly past. With its wide-open gambling, divorce laws, and around-the-clock casinos and bars, the Biggest Little City in the World was a rough and wild town with a turbulent history.
Victims of Priscilla Ford's Thanksgiving Day massacre haunt a downtown street. After a disappearance and death shrouded in mystery, the spirit of Roy Frisch still lingers near the location of George Wingfield's home. Lynched by a mob for a death that never happened, the angry ghost of Luis Ortiz still walks the bridge at night. In this book, Janice Oberding unearths the haunting history that put the "sin" in Nevada's original Sin City.
The flashing neon lights of Reno harbor a ghastly past. With its wide-open gambling, divorce laws, and around-the-clock casinos and bars, the Biggest Little City in the World was a rough and wild town with a turbulent history.
Victims of Priscilla Ford's Thanksgiving Day massacre haunt a downtown street. After a disappearance and death shrouded in mystery, the spirit of Roy Frisch still lingers near the location of George Wingfield's home. Lynched by a mob for a death that never happened, the angry ghost of Luis Ortiz still walks the bridge at night. In this book, Janice Oberding unearths the haunting history that put the "sin" in Nevada's original Sin City.
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Haunted Reno
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An independent historian, Janice Oberding is a past docent of the Nevada Historical Society and Fourth Ward School Museum in Virginia City. The author of numerous books on Nevada's history, true crime, unusual occurrences, and hauntings, she speaks on these subjects throughout the state. She also teaches the popular courses Ghosthunting 101 and Nevada's Quirky Historical Facts for the community education program at Truckee Meadows Community College.
Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword, by Bonnie Harper
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- The 601 and a Downtown Lynching
- The Ghost of Joseph Rover
- Baby Face Nelson, aka Lester Gillis
- Ma Barker and the Gang
- Priscilla Ford's Thanksgiving Day Massacre
- Courthouse Shooting
- Daylight Bank Robbery and Daring Escape from Jail
- Courthouse and Jail Ghosts
- 2. GAMING GHOSTS AND LEGENDS
- It All Started Here
- George Wingfield Built a Mansion Here
- Ghosts of the El Cortez Hotel
- Jeans Were Invented Here
- Ghostly Showgirl
- White Noise
- Water, Spirits and Ouija Boards Don't Mix
- Ghosts in the Underground Parking Garage
- Music from Another Time
- Hoodoo Engine No. 2738
- 3. UNSOLVED
- Where Is Roy Frisch?
- Who Shot Fitz?
- What Became of Gerald Layne?
- Alf Doten's Ghost
- The Haunted Pedercini House
- 4. MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND THE LEGENDS
- Kissing a Courthouse Pillar
- Marilyn Monroe and The Misfits
- Throwing Wedding Rings
- Wilhelmina Beck's Skull
- The Unlucky Myron Lake and the Lake Mansion
- 5. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
- The Haunted Post Office
- Mapes Hotel Site Ghosts
- Ghosts of the Riverside Artist Lofts
- Dreamers Café Ghost
- Bruka Theatre
- Reindeer Lodge
- Ghost at the Antique Mall
- Wells Avenue House
- California Avenue Mansion
- Levy Mansion/Haunted Bookstore
- Hillside Cemetery
- Donner Party Ghosts of Rattlesnake Mountain
- China House Ghosts
- Haunted Kitchenette
- Galaxy Crash
- Reno-Sparks Convention Center
- University of Nevada-Reno
- Reno Little Theatre
- Third Street Bar
- Rock City Posters
- Robb Canyon
- Chism House
- Bowers Mansion
- Epilogue
- About the Author
