Haunted History

In the series premiere tales of ghosts in a Greenwich Village brownstone, on board a World War II ship, a Mohawk Valley castle, and a Revolutionary War house on Staten Island. Also featuring "The Lavender Story" about a mysterious lady in a lavender dress as retold by folkorist Chuck Stead.

Legendary ghost ships are examined, including the Flying Dutchman, the Great Eastern, the Rouse Simmons and the Duchess II. Also: omens and apparitions of the sea.

Notable ghosts of Washington, D.C., include Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

A tour of historic Savannah, Ga., features the extravagancies and eccentricities revealed in John Berendt's bestseller "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." Included: an 18th-century pirate said to haunt the notorious Pirates' House tavern; Fort Jackson's phantom soldiers; and tales of deceased slaves who frequent the waterfront where they once labored as shipwrights, caulkers and ropemakers.

A tour of Tombstone, Ariz., one of the Wild West's most notorious towns.

A tour of historic Savannah, Ga., features the extravagancies and eccentricities revealed in John Berendt's bestseller "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." Included: an 18th-century pirate said to haunt the notorious Pirates' House tavern; Fort Jackson's phantom soldiers; and tales of deceased slaves who frequent the waterfront where they once labored as shipwrights, caulkers and ropemakers.

A tour of the scary sites in Edinburgh, Scotland.