Courtney McInvale is the founder of Seaside Shadows based out of Mystic, Connecticut and offering walking tours and boat tours throughout the southern New England region. She is a licensed tour guide, published author and actual descendant of accused witches. Courtney is a Connecticut native and spent five years in DC after completing her studies at Catholic University of America and the University College Dublin where she studied abroad, majoring in International Relations. After earning her degree, she worked for the FBI as an analyst -- having been influenced by her time interning at NCIS for the Cold Case Homicide Unit. Following her internship Courtney spent 2 years in Vermont working for Dept of Homeland Security and honing her investigative skills.
McInvale also spent many months in Ireland in study and visiting, a place rich with histories and hauntings alike! She avidly studies histories of early American in wartime -- specially the American Civil War and American Revolution as well, Celtic cultures in Ireland and Scotland, specializing in rebellions. She also has a special interest in Celtic cultures during times of rebellion.
McInvale has frequently had fascination with the unexplained and supernatural legends. In Courtney's childhood home in central Connecticut, in a town called East Hampton numerous paranormal occurrences happened. The events were so notable that the Warren family came to investigate the house during her teenage years there. Intrigued by her childhood home and raised by a teacher and a history major, she has always taken an interest in the unknown and has now put her sensitivities, investigative skills, love of history, and writing aspirations to work.
McInvale is also a realist amongst all things. That means you will get an excited, thought-provoking and spooky tour while at the same time being inundated with historical facts to corroborate all the haunting occurrences surrounding all tour regions and within all books
McInvale has written two books for Arcadia Publishing and the History Press including Haunted Mystic (2014) and Revolutionary War Ghosts of Connecticut (2016) and three books for Haunted Road Media including Civil War Ghosts of Connecticut (2021). Civil War Ghosts of Georgia Volume 1 (2023) and Civil War Ghosts of Georgia Volume 2 (Jan 2024) in the Bury my Bones series.
McInvale has been featured as a historian on Travel Channel’s Portals to Hell and on Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures. She hosts paranormal investigations and historical site fundraisers annually.
In her free time McInvale loves spending time with her husband, Marty, her loving pets, her sisters and wee niece & nephews. She is a sucker for a good period drama or true crime documentary and in free time can be found attending Whiskey Myers and other concerts or nerding out over Outlander and Vikings.
Website
www.courtneymcinvale.com
Books
Civil War Ghosts of Georgia: Volume 1 (Bury My Bones)
Civil War Ghosts of Georgia: Volume 2 (Bury My Bones)
Civil War Ghosts of Connecticut (Bury My Bones)
Revolutionary War Ghosts of Connecticut (Haunted America)
Haunted Mystic (Haunted America)
Haunted Arkansas and Psychic Development with Heather Woodward
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Demons, Otherworld Creatues and Spirits with Nathaniel Gillis
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Sunday Reading Day-The Book of Were-Wolves Day 3
Dead Husband Possesses Wife's New Lover with Medium Nancy Matz
Dead Husband Possesses Wife's New Lover with Medium Nancy Matz
Cryptids and Other Creatures with Lon Strickler
Defending John Wayne Gacy with Karen Conti
Haunted Hotels and Other Legends frm the California Haunts Case Files
Ghosts and Aliens with Lynn Monet
Sunday Reading Day-The Book of Were-Wolves Day 2
Do You Believe in UFOs? with Medium Nancy Matz
Poltergeists and Other Cases from the California Haunts Case Files
A Look Inside Death Row with Dr. Bill Kimberlin
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Why Do we Have Nightmares? with J.M. DeBord
An In Depth Look into Poltergeists and Ghosts with Randy Liebeck
Sunday Reading Day-Scottish Ghost Stories Day 6 and Day 1 of The Book of Were-Wolves
Receiving Session and/or Past Life Regression which works best? with Medium Nancy Matz
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