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Ghosts Don’t Need Permission: Tales from Ontario’s Most Haunted Road
WHTTR
July 26, 2025
Ink That Refuses to Fade: Tales of Texas Road by K.G. Miceli
A haunting nonfiction collection that pulses with urgency, independence, and the quiet rebellion of a writer who wrote it anyway.
👻 Small Town. Big Haunts.
Some roads are paved with asphalt. Others? With memory, myth, and something that refuses to rest.
Welcome to Amherstburg, Ontario—home to Old Texas Road, a stretch of rural pavement so soaked in paranormal lore that locals speak of it in half-jokes, half-whispers. But when K.G. Miceli stepped into the space between rumor and reality, she emerged with Tales of Texas Road: a chilling and strangely personal collection of 38 true stories about unexplained phenomena, ghostly encounters, and energy you can feel in your bones.
This isn’t just local history. It’s local haunting—delivered with the curious mind of a documentarian and the steady hand of a novelist.
Miceli, already an award-winning author known for her psychological thriller I’m Still Here, brings a literary approach to ghost stories. Each account in Tales of Texas Road is shaped with care—light on theatrics, heavy on mood. The result? A book that feels like a flashlight beam sweeping through your hometown, finding all the things you’d rather not name.
First Lines
We’ve all heard stories like these. The places you don’t go after midnight. The names that locals say with a shake of the head. The things no one really wants to believe in—until they’re staring back.
Miceli had heard the rumors. The figures in the fog. The cold spots. The screams. But it wasn’t until the success of her award-winning thriller I’m Still Here, and a trip to Arizona for the International Impact Book Awards, that the idea truly took root.
“I needed to write something engaging,” she says. “Something that really resonated—not just with me, but with others too.” What followed was Tales of Texas Road: a chilling catalog of lore, layered with real accounts that leave just enough space for doubt—and dread. One story stands out: “Unwanted.” “It resonates because it was my experience. This was my memory,” Miceli admits. The story doesn’t just live in the past—it haunts the present. And that’s the magic of the book. It doesn’t ask if you believe. It just asks if you’re sure. |  Listen to the Podcast |
Between the Lines
K.G. Miceli didn’t just write Tales of Texas Road to thrill. She wrote it to preserve—to collect whispers before they vanish, to capture something ephemeral and unsettling. And in doing so, she reminds us that indie authors don’t just tell stories. They gather them. Protect them. And sometimes, get haunted by them too.
What inspired this book—and why now? “I had always heard the spooky stories about Texas Road. I’d been told about the entities that lurk there and the way the land just acted out of the ordinary. After winning an award in Arizona for my book I’m Still Here, I came home needing to write something engaging that really resonated. Something that felt not just relevant—but personal.” | What’s one passage or scene that holds deep meaning for you—and why? “The story Unwanted really resonates with me, because it was one of the experiences I had. This was my memory. Writing it helped me make sense of it. It wasn’t just something that happened. It shaped how I understood the road—and how I approached the other stories too.” | What’s something about your writing life readers won’t find in your author bio? “I almost gave up. Multiple times. Not because I didn’t want to write—but because I didn’t think people would care. I felt small in the publishing world. But then the stories came, and the need to share them was stronger than the fear of being ignored.” |
Margins & Meanings
“Being an indie author means everything to me,” she says. |  |
So why does a woman who writes bestselling thrillers turn her gaze toward ghosts? Because Miceli isn’t chasing popularity—she’s chasing what’s real. And sometimes, what’s real can’t be measured.
Indie authors often carry the entire weight of a book—vision, edits, publishing, promotion—on their shoulders. But Miceli wears that weight like armor. With each release, she’s carving out more space for stories that don’t fit neatly into categories. That’s especially important when those stories involve ghosts, grief, memory, or cultural discomfort.
“I hope readers learn about a truly haunted place that doesn’t get much recognition. I hope it keeps them wondering… and keeps them on edge the next time they find themselves somewhere like that, in the dark.”
What’s really haunting about Tales of Texas Road isn’t just what’s in the stories. It’s the emotional residue they leave behind. You close the book and feel like someone—or something—is still watching. Still waiting. Still unexplained.
Miceli doesn’t offer clean endings. She offers echoes. And for those willing to listen, that’s where the meaning lives.
Shelf Life
The Last Page
Hauntings don’t always scream. Sometimes they whisper.
Tales of Texas Road is a rare thing: a nonfiction collection that feels like folklore, yet reads with the intimacy of a diary. It’s both deeply regional and eerily universal—because every town has a road like this. And every reader has wondered, at least once, whether the stories might be true.
We’re proud to feature K.G. Miceli this week on Indie Ink Spotlight. Her words walk the line between seen and unseen—and they don’t flinch.
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