Ghosts of the River Raisin

Ghosts of the River Raisin blends historical fact, local legends, and modern-day fiction.

Luke Loranger is a middle-schooler in the small Midwestern city of Monroe, Michigan. It’s a quaint, picturesque town cut by the age-old waters of the River Raisin. It’s also home to the River Raisin National Battlefield Park, which marks the site of the War of 1812’s infamous River Raisin Battle and Massacre, a bloody clash where British troops and their Indian allies fought Americans along the river’s banks on a bitterly cold day in January 1813. The snow was stained with blood, and the early settlement of French Town was burned to the ground and abandoned.

For Luke and his pals, it was like ancient history, until strange things started happening around town …


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River Raisin National Battlefield Park
Visitor Center
1403 E. Elm Avenue
Monroe, MI 48162

The Book Nook
42 S. Monroe St.
Monroe, MI 48161

Monroe News
20 W. First St
Monroe, MI 48161

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Charles Slat has been a reporter, editor, and writer for newspapers and magazines for more than three decades, most of those years for The Monroe Evening News. He has a bachelor of arts degree in history with a minor in journalism from Eastern Michigan University. He and his wife, Carol Schlagheck, have three children, Christopher, Stephanie, and Nicholas, and live in Monroe, Michigan.