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Featured on Travel Channel's The Dead Files (2022). Producers and hosts have found Susan Johnson a generous, well-sourced guest, and every topic below comes with the receipts.

What She Speaks About

The Hauntings

Flagstaff’s haunted history

The Weatherford, the Hotel Monte Vista, the depot, the public library: documented hauntings and the history underneath them, from the author of Haunted Flagstaff.

The Case

The Walkup case and 1937 Flagstaff

The tragedy the town spent decades trying to forget, told with care from records and contemporary reporting. The case she brought to Travel Channel’s The Dead Files (2022).

The Frontier

Wicked early Flagstaff

Saloons, swindlers, blue laws, and the red-light district: the decades before the mountain town learned to behave, from Wicked Flagstaff.

The Method

Researching local history

How a historian checks a ghost story against the record: archives, ledgers, newspapers, and the discipline of letting a good story go when the sources say no.

Podcasts · Radio · Television · Readings · Historical Society Talks · Walking-Tour Collaborations

Past Appearances

  • Travel Channel’s The Dead Files, featured2022
  • Ghost Adventures, Fear in Flagstaff, interviewed2023
  • History Goes Bump podcast, episode 2752018
  • Bright Side Bookshop, reading and Q&A2022
  • The Lumberjack (NAU), origin-story interview2022

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