Ghost Stories Of California

Author : Janice Oberding
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781493058631

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The Big Book of California Ghost Stories by Janice Oberding Pdf

Few states can rival California in terms of natural beauty and exciting history. But nearly three centuries of violent crime, sickness, greed, and murder have tarnished the Golden State and made it ripe for ghosts and hauntings. From the Spanish priests who founded the first missions in their quest to bring Christianity to the Native people of the region, to the ill-fated Donner Party committing acts of cannibalism in order to survive. This book explores the most famous ghost stories from California’s past (dating back to the 18th century) with spine-tingling details that will delight readers.

Author : Charles A. Stansfield
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780811740791

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Haunted Southern California by Charles A. Stansfield Pdf

Is there a shadow over this sunny land of healthful vigor and natural abundance? This region includes the Central Coast, the San Joaquin Valley, and metropolitan Los Angeles and San Diego, where readers will encounter the spirits of gold prospectors, cowboys, Spanish padres, and movie stars, as well as the phantom camels of Fort Tejon, the shape-shifting witch of Tulare, underwater UFOs, ghosts aboard the Queen Mary, and the tragic specter of Marilyn Monroe.

Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : Ghost Stories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1894877829

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Ghost Stories of California by Barbara Smith Pdf

California's rich and colorful history has produced a wealth of tales about the supernatural, from the decks of the Queen Mary at Long Beach to the malevolent phantoms that haunt Alcatraz.

Author : Evie Ybarra
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467140935

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California’s Haunted Central Coast by Evie Ybarra Pdf

Eerie haunts and stories of apparitions stretch along the California coast from Monterey Bay to the Channel Islands. James Dean's presence lingers at the site of his deadly car crash on Highway 46, and a ghost-in-residence presides over the Robert Louis Stevenson house in Monterey. Learn of the ghoulish murders of the Reed family at the San Miguel Mission, the mysterious spirits that haunt the Hearst Castle and the twisted tales of strange occurrences in what was once the Camarillo State Hospital. Join author Evie Ybarra as she explores the unexplained along this infamous coast.

Author : Rand Richards
Publisher : Heritage House Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1879367041

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Haunted San Francisco by Rand Richards Pdf

From North Beach to South of Market to Golden Gate Park and points in between, ghosts have made their spectral presences known.

Author : S. E. Schlosser
Publisher : Spooky
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 149303247X

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Spooky Texas by S. E. Schlosser Pdf

Suitably, hauntings and paranormal happenings in the Lone Star state are larger than life. Included in this must-read collection are tales of the ghost lights of Marfa, the werewolf of Elroy, and the Devil's brand in the eternal roundup of El Paso. Your hair will stand on end as you read about the mysteries and lore in Spooky Texas.

Author : Carol A. Jensen
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1634993322

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Ghost Stories from the San Joaquin Delta by Carol A. Jensen Pdf

Ghost Stories from the San Joaquin Delta provides an introduction to local history through stories that reflect our culture and identity. Tule fog, railroads, waterways and remote homesteads provide a rich canvas upon which local legends are built. Once home to the wealthiest pioneers in California, few today remember John Marsh. Point of Timber, populist political wars, and ritualistic murders were once known in far eastern Contra Costa County. Truth is stranger than fiction as creation stories, cultural myths, extraordinary deaths, and unsolved mysteries from the California Delta heartland are revealed. You will find hair-raising stories of escaped anaconda snakes, missing wives, lone horsemen, train wrecks, fire and wistful love. The communities of Brentwood, Byron, Knightsen, Oakley, Discovery Bay, Bethel Island and the Far East Islands were settled by agribusiness pioneers, exported more grain in the 1870s than the entire Mississippi Valley, and welcomed the San Pablo and Tulare railroad--and they were scary! The bandit Joaquin Murrieta stole horses here, ritualistic murders occurred on Jersey Island and Hispanic folklore brought the La Llorna legend to the waterways. Do not forget the ghosts at the Byron Hot Springs! Today, these communities are safe and secure San Francisco Bay Area suburbs. Or are they? Do not underestimate the unexplained apparition of Sarah Norton, the "White Witch," lurking just outside your home.

Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888821522

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Ghost Stories of Alberta by Barbara Smith Pdf

An eerie collection of ghost stories in Alberta, from urban centres to rural areas and the Rocky Mountains.

Author : Sally Richards
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781578605163

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Ghosthunting Southern California by Sally Richards Pdf

In Ghosthunting Southern California author Sally Richards takes readers on an eerie journey through the region on a series of paranormal investigations to historic locations marred by tragedy and unfortunate happenstance that have caused the dead to rise. This collection brings well-known paranormal researchers, history, and evidence collected with state-of-the-art equipment together for chilling non-fiction accounts of haunted Southern California. The stories leave readers with a sense of deep interest to find out what lies in the murky darkness beyond. Sally Richards, historian, paranormal investigator, and spiritualist medium brings history alive as she investigates locations with high-profile paranormal experts using state-of-the-art equipment, historians, and people who share a similar curiosity of the paranormal to bring you the latest on "haunted" locations throughout Southern California. From the Mexican border to Santa Barbara, readers find chilling accounts of paranormal activity. Whether readers are veterans of ghost hunting, paranormal neophytes, or armchair travelers, this book offers fresh information and a style that puts readers right into the paranormal action.

Author : Jo-Anne Christensen
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1770706178

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Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan 3 by Jo-Anne Christensen Pdf

Saskatchewan and ghost stories. They go together like a grinning scarecrow in a whisper-dry October field. In 1995, Dundurn successfully published and reprinted numerous times the original Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan. Since that time, an eerie wealth of supernatural accounts have surfaced in this seemingly quiet prairie province. In this third collection, a quiet cemetery apperas to be a portal between the worlds of the living and the dead, a Victorian mansion-turned-restaurant in Moose Jaw remains occupied by the spectral image of the original lady of the house, and a weary traveller near Flaxcombe stops for coffee in a diner that burned to the ground a decade earlier. There are historical tales and personal accounts, legends and lore. And there is much to keep the dedicated ghost fan awake late into the night. Here the reader will find triple the history, mystery, and chills from one of Canada’s established authors int he paranormal genre.

Author : Antoinette May
Publisher : Tetra Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0933174918

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Haunted Houses of California by Antoinette May Pdf

Author : World Watch Media
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539108562

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Weird West Coast by World Watch Media Pdf

Weird West Coast: California Ghost Stories Featured Ghost Stories: Hauntings at 2:22 am The Blue Dog The Troubled Triangle A Haunting at Tequila Jacks The 2nd Street Ghost of San Jose Book Preview: A Chair is Still a Chair, but a House is not a Home when it's Haunted Susie and her husband Mark went to view their new house with their parents and two dogs at the end of September 2009. It was a beautiful house with big windows, hardwood floors and a grand somewhat modern fireplace, but it was also haunted. Although the four of them fell in love with the house at first sight, Susie knew they shouldn't move in. Apart from the fact that it was well out of their price range she could feel something else nagging at her, something strange and unusual, something not quite right. On the 10th of October of the same year they moved into their new house and for the first month everything went well. But as time passed Susie slowly started to notice little things. In their office space she felt a woman's presence, in the kitchen she could feel a darker, male presence, and each time she visited the garage she felt as if she were being watched. She felt unnerved, but shook it off as residual feelings from their last house, which had also been haunted.

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780811748537

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The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories by Alan Brown Pdf

The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . • Spirits of the Alamo • The Black Hope Horror • Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel • The legend of El Muerto • Woman Hollering Creek • Stampede Mesa

Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452054483

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Haunted Long Beach 2 by Claudine Burnett Pdf

Claudine Burnett, author of popular Murderous Intent and Strange Sea Tales Along the Southern California Coast, has at last revised and updated the long out of print Haunted Long Beach. New stories and updates have come her way since the original Haunted Long Beach was published in 1996. Now readers can rediscover the "ghostly" side of one of America's finest cities----haunted houses, phantom airplanes, cemetery apparitions, and ghosts of the Queen Mary come alive in these true stories of eerie happenings in Long Beach, California. Gathered from historical files and personal experiences, Ms. Burnett has researched these stories extensively to try to find historical evidence as to their cause. All in all, these ghostly tales are sure to entertain both visitors and residents alike.

Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101980217

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Ghostland by Colin Dickey Pdf

One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016 “A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our history. Colin Dickey is on the trail of America’s ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and “zombie homes,” Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places. Some have established reputations as “the most haunted mansion in America,” or “the most haunted prison”; others, like the haunted Indian burial grounds in West Virginia, evoke memories from the past our collective nation tries to forget. With boundless curiosity, Dickey conjures the dead by focusing on questions of the living—how do we, the living, deal with stories about ghosts, and how do we inhabit and move through spaces that have been deemed, for whatever reason, haunted? Paying attention not only to the true facts behind a ghost story, but also to the ways in which changes to those facts are made—and why those changes are made—Dickey paints a version of American history left out of the textbooks, one of things left undone, crimes left unsolved. Spellbinding, scary, and wickedly insightful, Ghostland discovers the past we’re most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.