American Road Magazine American Road magazine Autumn 2018 Back Issue

We look at ghosts and all their company in this autumn issue of American Road, starting with our compendium that is “American Road’s Ghost Ride.” We take you to thirty-two stops across the creepy USA, beginning with the grave of lovesick teen Minnie Quay in Michigan’s peninsular thumb and ending in the domain of a cigar-smoking nun at the Inn and Spa at Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  They called her Sister George.

“It Came from the Mihmiverse” introduces us to the work of Christopher R. Mihm, a Minnesota
filmmaker who’s keeping the art of the drive-in theatre B-movie alive. He knows something about thrills and chills, whether they’ve come from outer space or atomic waste in a backwoods lake. After that, we head to Adams, Tennessee, and the cave of the Bell Witch, a malevolent spirit who was boiling and bubbling her eyes of newt long before the Blair Witch came along. In between, we visit a repository for ventriloquist dummies, the Salem Witch Museum, and the Exorcist Steps in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., remembering a little devil of 1973.