Estill County is full of ghosts, urban legends, superstitions, and mysteries. In this version of the popular "Haunted Estill County" series, stories have been taken from both books and combined in a special edition that might be more appropriate for a younger audience. Although these stories have already appeared in "Haunted Estill County" and "More Tales from Haunted Estill County," here some of them are a little tamer and lack the adult themes they might have contained in their earlier versions.

Never fear, though There are still spooky stories to be shared. Whether we're talking ghosts, vampires, or UFOs, Estill County has a little something for everyone who loves a good scary story

Just be careful if you're reading them before bedtime...or you might not be able to sleep

Most stories in here are appropriate for grades 2-5. There are still some mentions of murder, death, and ghoulish things that go bump in the night that might still scare the younger ones

Windwood Farm has a terrible secret-one that's been buried for more almost 100 years. Taryn Magill aims to uncover it...or die trying.

As a mixed media artist and urban explorer with a love for abandoned houses and a big imagination when it comes to the past, 30 year old Taryn has never really met an old house she didn't like. In fact, she's made a career out of painting these sad, often derelict structures, to show them in their former glory for her clients.

With Windwood Farm, though, she might have bitten off more than she can chew

The locals refer to it as "the devil's house" and even vandals have stayed away from this once grand stone farmhouse in Vidalia, Kentucky. Hired by the Stokes County Historical Society to paint it before it's demolished by a land development company, Taryn's determined to make friends with the house and farm everyone around her seems to be terrified of.

As it turns out, though, their fears may just not be unfounded.

Who is the woman whose cries echo throughout the farm and what does she want? What negative force about the house is so powerful that it won't even allow the upstairs bedroom to be touched? Does the 93 year old vanishing of the next door neighbor have anything to do with the house's mysteries?

Taryn wants the answers to these and the house may just be trying to tell her because now, when she looks through her camera, she doesn't have to use her imagination to see the past-

SHE CAN SEE IT

Will Taryn be able to figure out what happened here AND escape with her sanity and life before the house comes down? Because now it seems like someone is trying to kill her Using what her camera reveals to her and her wits, she'll try to unravel the mysteries of the farm and get out before it's too late.

"The first book in the Taryn's Camera series."

In the summer of 2010 Rebecca Patrick-Howard woke up and showered, not knowing that her young son had passed away in his sleep. What followed was a parent's worst nightmare. There were no instructions on how to cope with the loss of a child. Rebecca soon discovered that dealing with the depression and sadness was just one hurdle that would have to be dealt with. None of the articles, books, and brochures she picked up warned her about the support groups that didn't seem to have a place for her, the friends who would abandon her, the insensitive and sometimes cruel things people would say, the anxiety that a subsequent pregnancy would bring, and the financial ramifications that would go far beyond the cost of burial. In Coping with Grief: The Anti-Guide to Infant Loss Patrick-Howard shares her own experiences with grief and includes the stories of others as well. Sometimes heart wrenching, sometimes traumatic, and sometimes even humorous; it covers the feelings, emotions, and experiences that go along with grief in perhaps the most comprehensive and current book out there on infant loss.

As the rain comes pouring down on Buck Creek, a man slowly goes out of his mind and does something so terrible that the house will never forget it. A lightning storm brings a sight that shocks a family in Hargett. A woman is paralyzed in fear in her own bed near the Madison County line. A headless man offers a gift to a poor widow that changes her life. Ghosts from the Civil War haunt a popular soccer field. A little boy just wants to play with those who visit him in Pryse...but he's been dead for almost a century...

As a follow up to Haunted Estill County, More Tales from Haunted Estill County explores stories of ghosts, demons, witches, vampires, and even Estill County's own version of Jesse James.

Collected through interviews with local residents all across Estill County, the stories might just make you wonder if the monster under the bed is real.

From restless spirits that roam through houses they once inhabited to unimaginable terrors that stalk the woods after dark, will it ever be safe to turn the light off again?

A baby cries in a dark cave on one of the county's tallest mountains, UFOs hover in the sky, thundering hoof beats surround visitors outside of an old farm house, Native Americans chant into the night, dark shadow people loom around store corners, and Civil War soldiers fight a battle that continues to this day.

As arguably one of the most haunted counties in Kentucky, Estill County is home to a range of ghosts, spirits, angels, and demons that haunt and terrorize locals and visitors alike. Haunted Estill County investigates the stories and histories of some of the county's most terrifying locations. Local legends, murder mysteries, and tales of the paranormal are all explored in this spellbinding collection which is sure to keep you up at night. Truth really can be stranger than fiction.