Ghosts Of Georgetown

Author : Tim Krepp
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625845795

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Ghosts of Georgetown by Tim Krepp Pdf

Take the Exorcist Steps to meet “the diverse array of ghosts” in DC’s historic neighborhood—from the author of Capitol Hill Haunts (The Hoya). On the banks of the Potomac River, Georgetown has had three centuries to accumulate ghoulish tales and venerable apparitions to haunt its cobbled streets and mansions. In this historic Washington, DC, neighborhood, the eerie moans of three sisters herald every death on the river, and on R Street, President Lincoln is rumored to have witnessed the paranormal at a seance. Along the towpath of the C&O Canal, a phantom police officer still walks his lonely beat, and on moonlit nights, he is joined by a razor-wielding ghoul. From the spirit of a sea captain who lingers in the Old Stone House to the strange ambiance of the Exorcist Steps, author and guide Tim Krepp takes readers on a chilling journey through the ghostly lore of Georgetown. Includes photos! “A great storyteller who, with a confident grasp of the facts and judiciously inserted asides, can bring to life both the haunters and the haunted. His way of ending his chapters with—gasp!—the literary equivalent of a horror movie organ chord lends a delightfully chilling touch.” —HillRag

Author : Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger,Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf
Publisher : Blair
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 089587122X

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Ghosts of Georgetown by Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger,Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf Pdf

Ghosts of Georgetown tells the stories of twenty local apparitions: dynamic men and women who once lived and prospered here.

Author : Michael Norman,Beth Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781466805149

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Haunted America by Michael Norman,Beth Scott Pdf

Haunted America takes you on a grand tour of ghostly hauntings through the U.S. and Canada, sweeping from terrifying battle-field specters at Little Bighorn to a vaudeville palace in Tampa, from ghostly apparitions in President Garfield's home in Ohio to the White House in Washington, DC. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0895875314

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More Ghosts of Georgetown by Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf Pdf

Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger returns to the heart of the South Carolina Low Country for her second collection of twenty ghost stories. Huntsinger spins her tales of hags and plateyes, haunted lighthouses, eerie ghost ships, and restless spirits from antebellum plantations, seaport townhouses, and violated graves of native Indian tribes.

Author : Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger
Publisher : Blair
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000056675584

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More Ghosts of Georgetown by Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger Pdf

Elizabeth Robertson Huntsinger returns to the heart of the South Carolina Low Country for her second collection of twenty ghost stories. Huntsinger spins her tales of hags and plateyes, haunted lighthouses, eerie ghost ships, and restless spirits from antebellum plantations, seaport townhouses, and violated graves of native Indian tribes.

Author : Linda J. Bottjer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781625849946

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Gold Rush Ghosts of Placerville, Coloma & Georgetown by Linda J. Bottjer Pdf

Fueled by the dream to strike it rich, prospectors flocked to California during the gold rush. Yet the harsh lifestyle and backbreaking work led many to early graves. Join author Linda Bottjer on a tour through Gold Country's most chilling--and true--haunted tales. Tales such as the hangman of Placerville, whose distinctive wheeze is a sign of his continued presence. Or the Georgetown miner whose unrequited love for a much younger lady of the night finds him still pining for her in death as he did in life. And in Coloma, the ghost of James Marshall is said to dwell on the lonely hilltop where his cabin and monument now stand. These stories, and many others, capture the ghostly spirit of Gold Country.

Author : Gregg Herken
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307456342

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The Georgetown Set by Gregg Herken Pdf

In the years after World War II, Georgetown’s leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. This coterie of affluent, well-educated, and connected civilians guided the country, for better and worse, from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism, Watergate, and Vietnam. The Georgetown set included Phil and Kay Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop, odd-couple brothers who were among the country’s premier political pundits; Frank Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a host of other diplomats, spies, and scholars. Gregg Herken gives us intimate portraits of these dedicated and talented, if deeply flawed, individuals, who navigated the Cold War years (often over cocktails and dinner) with very real consequences reaching into the present day. Throughout, he illuminates the drama and fascination of that noble, congenial, curious old world,” in Joe Alsop’s words, bringing this remarkable roster of men and women not only out into the open but vividly to life.

Author : Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780874216813

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Haunting Experiences by Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas Pdf

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.

Author : Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf
Publisher : John F Blair Pub
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0895873400

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Georgetown Mysteries and Legends by Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf Pdf

In this collection, Elizabeth Huntsinger moves beyond local haints to explore eerie events and unsolved mysteries from the area.

Author : James McCormick,Macy Wyatt
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813139340

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Ghosts of the Bluegrass by James McCormick,Macy Wyatt Pdf

An anthology of chilling ghost stories and death lore collected from central Kentucky. In Ghosts of the Bluegrass, James McCormick and Macy Wyatt present stories of Kentucky ghosts, past and present. Some of the tales are set in rural areas, but many take place in urban areas such as the haunted house on Broadway in downtown Lexington and in buildings on the University of Kentucky campus, where Adolph Rupp is said to have conversed with the deceased biology professor Dr. Funkhouser. This volume contains chapters on haunted places, poltergeists, communication with the dead, and ghosts who linger to resolve unfinished business from their past lives, as well as a chapter about ghosts who reveal themselves through lights, changes in temperature, or sound. The book even features a chilling account by a nineteenth-century family haunted in their Breckinridge County home. Whether witnesses believe that a spirit has come to protect those it left behind or to complete an unfinished task, ghostly appearances remain a mystery. As McCormick and Wyatt point out, there are no right or wrong answers when it comes to the supernatural. One thing is certain: these tales will bring pleasure and perhaps a goose bump or two to the reader interested in ghost stories and folklore in the Kentucky tradition. Praise for Ghosts of the Bluegrass “Bell witch stories, ghostly dogs, campus ghosts, rattling chains—all are here, with titles like “The Gray Lady of Liberty Hall” and “Family Banshee Foretells Deaths.” In sum, this is a fine anthology with extremely interesting and readable ghost stories, worth reading for the charm of the stories themselves.” —Journal of Folklore Research “I felt like I was there sitting down with some of the area’s best storytellers, hearing authentic stories. McCormick and Wyatt have done a tremendous service to current readers and to future generations by preserving this important part of our heritage.” —Roberta Simpson Brown, author of The Walking Trees and Other Scary Stories and Queen of the Cold-Blooded Tales “The compilers have done an excellent job of editing, inserting helpful explanatory or historic notes to add to information on a particular story, and giving cross references for like stories.” —Kentucky Kaleidoscope

Author : Julian Stevenson Bolick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : UVA:X001280881

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The Return of the Gray Man by Julian Stevenson Bolick Pdf

Author : Rebecca Green
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781774880401

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How to Make Friends With a Ghost by Rebecca Green Pdf

Ghosts make great friends for life (and beyond)! If you're lucky enough to have a ghost find you, you'll need to know how to treat it right. Open up this "how-to" guide to discover how to be the best friend a ghost could ever ask for! What do you do when you meet a ghost? One: Provide the ghost with some of its favorite snacks, like mud tarts and earwax truffles. Two: Tell your ghost bedtime stories (ghosts love to be read to). Three: Make sure no one mistakes your ghost for whipped cream or a marshmallow when you aren't looking! If you follow these few simple steps and the rest of the essential tips in How to Make Friends with a Ghost, you'll see how a ghost friend will lovingly grow up and grow old with you. A whimsical story about ghost care, Rebecca Green's debut picture book is a perfect combination of offbeat humor, quirky and sweet illustrations, and the timeless theme of friendship.

Author : Barbara Michaels
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061840951

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Ammie, Come Home by Barbara Michaels Pdf

It begins as a lark -- a harmless diversion initiated by Washington, D.C., hostess Ruth Bennett as a means of entertaining her visiting niece, Sara. But the séance conducted in Ruth's elegant Georgetown home calls something back; something unwelcome ... and palpably evil. Suddenly Sara is speaking in a voice not her own, transformed into a miserable, whimpering creature so unlike her normal, sensible self. No tricks or talismans will dispel the malevolence that now plagues the inhabitants of this haunted place -- until a dark history of treachery, lust, and violence is exposed. But the cost might well be the sanity and the lives of the living.

Author : Ben Catmull
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606996782

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Ghosts and Ruins by Ben Catmull Pdf

Who doesn’t love a good ghost story? This gorgeous book is a compendium of old, forgotten haunted houses imagined by artist Ben Catmull, along with the stories and rumors of who haunts them, and why. Each spread features a different haunted house, lovingly and exquisitely rendered in scratchboard on masonite, with a short, nightmare-inducing description of each scene. In “Drowned Shelley,” for example: A chorus of frogs surrounds the house where young Shelley was drowned headfirst in the bathtub by her drunken stepfather. Say her name 13 times while looking in the pond and she will drown you in your sleep. Say her name the wrong number of times while looking in the pond, and she will leave hair in your breakfast dishes. Say her name 13 times while not looking in the pond, and she will watch you when you clip your toenails. Mispronounce her name 13 times while looking anywhere near the pond, and she will kick you somewhere delicate at the stroke of midnight. Catmull’s images are evocative, haunting masterpieces that never tread in graphic imagery, choosing instead to suggest horrors far more frightening than what they explicitly depict.

Author : Elizabeth de Veer
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982674663

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The Ocean in Winter by Elizabeth de Veer Pdf

An unforgettable story about grief, love, and what it means to be haunted, The Ocean in Winter marks the debut of a remarkable new voice in fiction. The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. After their mother’s suicide, the girls’ father shut down emotionally, leaving Alex responsible for caring for Colleen and little Riley. Now the girls are grown and navigating different directions. Decades may have passed, but the unresolved trauma of their mother’s death still looms over them, creating distance between the sisters. Then, on a March night, a storm rages near the coast of northeastern Massachusetts. Alex sits alone in an old farmhouse she inherited. The lights are out because of the storm; then, an unexpected knock at the door. When Alex opens it, her beautiful younger sister stands before her. Riley has long been estranged from their family, prompting Colleen to hire the private investigator from whom they’d been awaiting news. After her mysterious visitation, Alex and Colleen are determined to reconcile with Riley and to face their painful past.