Montana Chillers

Award-winning author and Montana Historical Society interpretive historian Ellen Baumler unearths 13 spine-tingling stories in Montana Chillers: 13 True Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings. Written for children ages 9 to 12, the stories are all true; they are about real people, real places, and real events.

In “Tommyknockers,” Baumler offers up a chilling tale of four young men who stumble into a ghost town near Missoula late one night and are terrified by what they find. Two boys who venture into the “The Harlem Hotel” discover that the old building isn’t as empty as it

appears. And in “The Mansion’s Little Ghost,” former residents of the Old Governor’s Mansion in Helena tell of seeing the same ghostly black cat wandering from room to room, only to disappear right in front of them.

In her fascinating introduction, Baumler touches on

what ghosts are, what ghost hunters do, and evidence

of the supernatural, from orbs to ectoplasm.