The Ghosts of Johnstown: 2209 Innocent Lives Lost to an Engineering Disaster

 On May 31, 1889, a wall of water fifty feet high destroyed Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing 2,209 people. The official story called it a natural disaster. It was not.

Written by two Johnstown residents, Tommy & Hilde Wilkens who walk these streets today, The Ghosts of Johnstown cuts through 137 years of silence to expose the engineering failures, cost-cutting decisions, and political cover-ups that made the disaster inevitable. This was not an act of God. It was an act of negligence.

Who owned the dam? Who ignored the warnings? Who escaped accountability while 2,209 innocent people did not escape the water?

This book answers those questions with meticulous research and unflinching honesty, giving the victims of the South Fork Dam failure the truthful accounting they have deserved for over a century.