Fueled by Fear: Lessons Learned While Chasing Ghosts

What scares you? For Sam Baltrusis, author of Ghosts of Salem and Related to Evil, fear has been his archenemy. He's afraid of clowns, dolls, disembodied voices, flying, and the dark-in fact, he has slept with the lights on for most of his life. As a psychic-medium featured on shows like A Haunting and The Curse of Lizzie Borden, Baltrusis has also been haunted-and hunted-by the things that go bump in the night. He has had several face-to-face encounters with a hat-wearing shadow entity with red glowing eyes that appears to stalk him in Salem, Massachusetts. In an attempt to confront his demons and ultimately break out of his self-made prison, Baltrusis visits some of America's most terrifying places and discovers that the monsters lurking in the shadows are also fueled by fear.