Called from their graves with a spirit board, New Shoreham residents are about to learn the true  meaning of the word fear as a dark presence lurks in the dunes surrounding the New England village. For this seemingly perfect town masks a guilty secret so ominous that it's spoken of only in low whispers ... a past steeped in greed and murder. It is historically documented that a ship of immigrants was deliberately lured onto the rocks, its passengers bludgeoned, robbed and set afire. Now shrouded in darkness the Palatine's return to exact bloody revenge.

Gallows Harbor is more ominous than its name sounds. It's a real place where real people have died. What haunts this ghost town is a matter of conjecture but history says that you never go there after dark or when the fog rises out of the ravines. Some tales of the implausible so capture the imagination that they quickly spread over much of the country. The unjust hanging of a man who then haunts an area is such a tale. It is told and retold in North Carolina as the Hanging Tree. In Illinois it is the Noose on the Bridge and in Arkansas it's Executioners Knoll. Dozens of interviews and hours of newspaper research trace the story’s origin and consequential spread across the country from one small town nestled in the foothills of the Alleghenies in Central Pennsylvania beginning in the late 1600's; Gallows Harbor.