Who would ever think that Sussex County is haunted? Something is definitely stirring in the buildings of Sussex and all around the county, and the stories about them can be found within these pages if you are fearless enough to read them. Have the dead returned to their beloved hometown to recover something they lost? Or, have they never really left at all?

Book Teaser

Deb and another girl named Jaime were in the kitchen area when they heard a resident, Gladys, from one of the rooms screaming her head off.

“Ahhhhhh! Help me, help me!” she shouted to anyone who would listen. “It’s gonna’ kill me!”

It was unusual for Gladys to be acting this way. She was very wealthy and had a corner, private room with a window all to herself. In her life before assisted living, she used to have servants wait on her. Gladys was not very nice and had been known on occasion to throw her toothbrush on the floor, ordering Deb to clean with it because that was “all she was good for.” When Deb and Jaime heard Gladys screaming, they immediately went to her room to see what was amiss. They stopped dead in their tracks. The light was off. When they peered into the doorway, they saw a black, featureless Nosferatu-like figure with tree-like limbs hovering over Gladys in her bed. Deb immediately flicked the light switch on, and the thing turned its head in their direction. Piercing, red eyes stared wickedly back at them. It must have been at least 6 to 7 feet tall, but immediately shrunk down and slipped out the window and disappeared.

Gladys looked desperately at them. “You saw that!” she screeched, her eyes begging for confirmation and validation. “What was that?”

Deb and Jaime were in shock. They moved quickly into Gladys’ bathroom to try and calm down. Deb began to cry. Jaime was shaking uncontrollably. “What the hell was that?”

Deb asserts it was not human, nor had it ever been. Deb is convinced it was Hell coming for Gladys, who passed away a few days later.