Table of Contents
Preface 9
Acknowledgements 11
I The Haunted City 13
II Ghost Sightings
1 The Masonic Lodge: Plano's Most Haunted Building 25
2 The Evaporating Apparition 33
3 The Lonely Widow 37
4 The Giggling Ghost 41
5 The Phantom Pianist 44
6 The Spooky Spinster 47
7 The Haughty Hostess 52
8 Heritage Farm Hauntings 56
9 The Murdered Dentist 63
10 The Paranormal Playmate 65
11 Ghosts around Town 67
12 The Zodiac Rider 70
13 The Uncanny Cook 74
14 Who Ya Gonna Call? A Visit to the Genealogy Center at Plano Public Library 77
III Urban Legends
15 Edna, the Bad Seed? 83
16 Clown Threat 88
17 The Goat Man 91
18 Stranger Things at Ranch 111 96
19 The Witch Lady of Plano 101
IV Dark Moments in Piano History
20 The Night Watchman 109
21 Plano's Darkest Hour: The Smallpox Epidemic 117
22 The Muncey Incident: The Gruesome Fate of Plano's First Settlers 125
23 The Hanging of Stephen Ballew 130
V Haunted History
24 Death in Early Plano 135
25 Keepers of the Family Plots 139
26 Tombstone Mysteries 143
27 Halloween Hijinks 147
28 What Lurks Beneath 152
Notes 155
About the Author 159
