Tracing The Scars Of Hell: Wandering The Path Of The Tri-State Tornado of 1925, The Sketchbooks Volume III (The Haunted Travels Sketchbooks) Paperback – March 10, 2025

On March 18, 1925, at 2:32 p.m., the Tri-State Tornado struck Murphysboro, Illinois. A minute or so later, 238 people lay dead or dying.The tornado dipped from the clouds in Missouri, then crossed the entire state of Illinois before disappearing in the skies over Indiana. Over the next 210 minutes, entire towns were destroyed, others were crippled and never regained their former glory. 695 people lay dead or dying, and over 2,000 were injured.For the the last several years, I’ve traced the route of the Tri-State Tornado, looking for the scars it might have left, that survived over the past century. What I found was a horror show. People lived through something out of Dante's Inferno, witnessing scenes seldom seen this side of Hell. The scars still exist, for the path has never fully recovered. They exist in the stories of survivors, bits and pieces of ruins left behind and most of all, empty spaces where life used to be lived.A biography of a minute from Hell, repeating over and over for three and a half hours and 219 miles.Full color, 144 pages, over 70 images both historical and modern, media accounts from the day and the story of the author's own experiences with tornados and from along the route of the storm. Read more