ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

After writing Haunted Boston Harbor, my internal batteries are recharged and I’m grateful to have spent months exploring the mysteries of Boston Harbor as a tour guide with Boston Harbor Cruises. Thanks go to my spirit squad from the historical-based ghost tour Boston Haunts, including Nick Cox and Hank Fay, for helping me rouse the dead and give a voice to those long departed. The Haunted Boston Harbor boat tour I produced in 2014 on the Massachusetts Bay Lines’ Samuel Clemens helped shape the tone and lore featured in the book. Major thanks to the handful of paranormal investigators and researchers who helped make Haunted Boston Harbor a reality, including lighthouse expert Jeremy D’Entremont, Rachel Hoffman, Tina Storer and James DePaul from Paranormal Xpeditions; authors Cindy Vallar, Joni Mayhan, MaryLee Trettenero and Peter Muise; Joe “Jiggy” Webb from the weekly podcast Paranormal Hood; and Jeffrey Doucette, a veteran tour guide who appeared in my first book, Ghosts of Boston: Haunts of the Hub. I would like to give my friend and copy editor Andrew Warburton a supernatural slap on the back. He helped me uncover some of the skeletal secrets featured in this monstrous project. Thanks to my mother, Deborah Hughes Dutcher, for being there when I need her most and my friends for their continued support. I would also like to thank Karmen Cook from The History Press for her help during the process of putting this book together. Special thanks go to folklorist and author Edward Rowe Snow. His passion for Boston Harbor lives on and is felt by the thousands who bravely creep through Fort Warren’s dark hallway on Georges Island during the summer.