ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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MICHAEL J. VARHOLA is a freelance author, editor, and lecturer who specializes in nonfiction and travel-related subjects, and he runs Skirmisher Publishing LLC, a small game manufacturing company. He has a lifelong interest in the paranormal and has conducted investigations worldwide. He has been a resident of Fairfax County, Virginia, since 1991. His other books include Everyday Life During the Civil War, Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes, and Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950–1953. He studied in Denver and Paris before earning a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.