The 1788 Morristown Ghost Hoax by Peter Zablocki

The 1788 Morristown Ghost Hoax by Peter Zablocki

A Fabulous Fable of the Supernatural Kind

The saga of the Morristown ghost has been told around campfires and dinner tables in Morris County for generations. Local legend claimed British Loyalists secretly buried stolen Patriot treasure on Schooley Mountain as they fled the oncoming forces of George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Years later in 1788, a former school teacher from Connecticut, Ransford Rodgers, convinced local prominent Morristown families that a ghost was protecting the true location of the treasure and he alone could exercise it. Little did the victims know, Rodgers was perpetuating an elaborate hoax and eventually extorted large sums of money from the embarrassed local elite. The tale has been recounted in various sensational pamphlets and publications ever since, leaving behind a mystery of what is true or myth.

Author Peter Zablocki separates fact from fiction in the story of the great Morristown ghost hoax.

Zablocki, Peter: - Peter Zablocki is an author, researcher, teacher and the co-host of the History Teachers Talking podcast. Focusing on local history, he is the author of Denville Goes to War: Denville's Story of WWI and Denville 13: Murder, Redemption & Forgiveness in Small-Town New Jersey. Peter serves as the vice-president of the Denville Historical Society and Museum and is one of Denville's town historians. He lives with his wife and two sons in Denville, New Jersey.

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ISBN 13	9781467150972
ISBN 10	1467150975
Title	The 1788 Morristown Ghost Hoax
Author	Peter Zablocki
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	History Press
Year published	2022-07-18
Number of pages	112
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