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Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780811743075
Kentucky's beauty is offset by a violent past of Indian wars, Civil War battles, and the tragic spirits from these conflicts.
Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813138510
A Kentucky native and folk studies scholar presents a collection of haunting legends and stories of spirits from across the Bluegrass State. William Lynwood Montell has spent years documenting Kentucky’s rich legacy of ghostly visitations. Many of the stories were collected from elders by younger generations and are recounted here exactly as they were gathered. This volume introduces spirits such as the Tan Man of Pike County, who trudges invisibly through a house accompanied by the smell of roses, and the famed Gray Lady of Liberty Hall in Frankfort, a houseguest who never left. Montell tells the story of the ghost of Daniel Boone calling upon the statesman Henry Clay shortly before his death. He also recounts the tale of ghouls that haunt the rehearsal house of the band The Kentucky Headhunters. Readers will find accounts of haunted libraries, mansions, log cabins, bathrooms, furniture, hotels, and distilleries, as well as reports of eerie visitations from passed-on grandmothers, husbands, daughters, uncles, cousins, babies, slaves, Civil War soldiers, dogs, sheep, and even wildcats. Almost every county in Kentucky is represented. Though the book emphasizes the stories themselves, Montell offers an introduction discussing how local history, and local character, are communicated across the generations in these colorful stories.
Author : William Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0813122279
The bestselling author of "Ghosts Across Kentucky" now presents an all-new collection of amazing ghost stories of the state.
Author : Dennis William Hauck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0142002348
Describes over 2,000 sites of supernatural occurances in the United States, including places visited by ghosts, UFOs, and unusual creatures.
Author : Roberta Simpson Brown,Lonnie E. Brown
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813143828
“This wonderful collection of Kentucky ghost stories” is a treasure trove of history, heritage, and commentary on the oral tradition of storytelling (Elizabeth Tucker, author of Haunted Halls). In Kentucky Hauntings, beloved storytellers Roberta Simpson Brown and Lonnie E. Brown present a thrilling collection of paranormal tales that will appeal to anyone looking for a friendly scare. Weaving together factual accounts of unexplained events, peculiar headlines, and local legends passed down from a time when most homes lacked electricity, Kentucky Hauntings combines spooky stories with commentary on historic customs. From "telling the bees" about a death in the family, to a friendly "fool's errand" practical joke gone horribly wrong, and from terrifying haunted houses to the lifesaving "Bathtub Ghost," readers are transported to a world of age-old superstitions and paranormal experiences. Whether shared around the fire on a crisp autumn night or whispered in a huddle of close friends at a summer sleepover, these eerie stories will thrill and excite anyone who loves a good scare.
Author : Patti Starr
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781578604135
The hills and hollows -- and cities -- of the Bluegrass State offer excellent opportunities for the ghost hunter. Guide Patti Starr leads readers on a tour of 30 legendary haunted spaces in Kentucky. She snoops around creepy farmhouses and grim garrets, eerie rooms and dark corners, exposing the ghosts and recording first-hand accounts of terrifying encounters. Clear maps and photographs help readers locate each dire destination, while more sensitive souls can enjoy experiencing these visits from the other side from the safety of their armchair.
Author : David Domine
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813174549
Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, and Beaux Arts mansions, current residents trade riveting stories about their historic homes. Many of these tales defy rational explanation. When David Dominé moved into one of these houses, he dismissed local rumors of a resident poltergeist named Lucy. However, before long, unnerving, disembodied footsteps and mysterious odors caused him to flee his home in the middle of the night. Since that night, David Dominé not only embraced the possibility of supernatural phenomenon but also turned it into a popular tour series and best-selling collection of books, which have brought new attention to this iconic neighborhood. The book that launched the guided tours, Ghosts of Old Louisville, introduced readers to the hauntingly beautiful Lady of the Stairs and the Widow Hoag, who waits eternally near Fountain Court for a lost child who will never return. These tales of things that go bump in the night not only reveal why Old Louisville is considered the "most haunted neighborhood in America," but also help to preserve this historically and architecturally significant community.
Author : Rich Newman
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738750255
Restless Spirits and Supernatural Thrills More than 300 bridges with eerie phenomenon that span space and time Across the country hundreds of bridges harbor some of the creepiest paranormal activity known to man. Invisible hands reach out and touch unsuspecting travelers. Residual ghosts haunt scenes of murders, accidents, hangings, and suicides. At some bridges a voice cries out in the darkness that sends a chill down the spine of anyone who hears it. Haunted Bridges tells the kinds of stories that are told in hushed tones around hearths and campfires as we ponder the unknown late into the night. The stories are at once mesmerizing, unique, and unexpectedly familiar, as if we all know deep down that fate keeps some spirits bound to earth. If you can endure the fear and you don’t look away, you will experience the dread and mystery of the unexplained. Cities and states are listed for 324 public locations so readers can look up specific bridges.
Author : Nancy Hendricks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216094760
If you believe in ghosts, you're in good company. Haunted Histories brings America's most ghostly locales to life, illuminating their role in shaping U.S. history and detailing how they became the nation's most feared places. Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the text introduces readers to new ghostly tales and takes a fresh look at familiar stories and locations, with an eye to history. From well-known spooky spots like Salem, Massachusetts, to such lesser-known ones as the Shanghai Tunnels of Portland, Oregon, where spirits are supposedly trapped, readers will discover not only where America's most haunted places are but also why they are said to be haunted. The ghosts of the doomed Donner Party allow readers to experience the arduous and often deadly journey of America's westward wagon trains, while different kinds of "spirits" haunting old distilleries allow readers to discover how whiskey almost derailed the new American nation before it was born. This book can be studied for academic purposes as a historical reference, used as a source for classroom assignments, or simply read for the pleasure of a great story.
Author : Michael Paul Henson
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1570720444
“Probably no section of the country can rightly claim more mystifying, more intriguing, or more enduring ghost stories and unexplained phenomena than Kentucky.” With this statement, based on years of personal research and investigation, the author presents his second collection of such tales from the Bluegrass State.
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628469011
Before Alan Brown wrote Haunted Places in the American South, only the locals knew what was lurking in these locations. Slamming doors, eerie lights, and Confederate soldiers' ghosts kept some folks too scared to talk with outsiders. Above Peavey Melody Music in Meridian, Mississippi, children may be heard giggling and running down an abandoned hallway that turns icy cold. At the Jameson Inn in Crestview, Florida, an apparition appears on surveillance tapes after filling the lobby with sweet-smelling cigar smoke. Seldom told and rarely—if ever—printed stories such as these join tales from haunted inns, mansions, forests, ravines, and prisons to create Haunted Places in the American South. The book collects ghost stories from fifty-five historically haunted sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Alan Brown gathered these stories from newspapers, magazines, museum directors, archaeologists, hotel managers, and many others who shared their disturbing experiences. Most of these stories have never appeared in book form, and some, such as the haunting of Peavey Melody Music, have never been published at all. Haunted Places in the American South differs from most other collections of southern ghost stories, for the featured sites include more than just haunted houses. Bridges, forts, governors' mansions, prisons, hotels, woods, theaters, cemeteries, and even a large rock are included as focal points for these tales. The book provides directions to the sites, notes, and a bibliography that will be useful to folklore scholars and to travelers seeking that cold and creepy brush with the supernatural.
Author : William Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813127842
"Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields. He presents these suspense-filled stories just as he first heard or read them: as bona fide personal experiences or as events witnessed by family members or friends. There are over 250 stories in Ghosts across Kentucky that are set in specific places and times. They include tales of graveyards, haunted dormitories, animal ghosts, and vanishing hitchhikers. Montell describes weird lights, unexplained sounds, felt presences, and disappearing apparitions. Phantom workmen, fallen soldiers, young lovers, and executed criminals appear in these pages, along with the living who chance upon them. Though the focus is on the stories themselves, Montell also includes a chapter explaining our fascination with the supernatural and the deep truths these storytelling traditions reveal about our lives and our pasts.William Lynwood Montell, emeritus professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University, is the author of several books, including Killings."
Author : Terri Grimes
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 149596678X
Gas up the car and prepare to hit the road for a haunted tour of Kentucky. Whether you are exploring the dark, dank cave where an insane asylum stacked the bodies of the dead or wandering the antebellum mansion where the owner still greets guests more than one-hundred- and-sixty-years later, you are in for a spine- chilling good time. Author Terri Grimes offers up first-hand accounts of her encounters with spirits of the Bluegrass state, backed up with amazing photographs of apparitions, ghost lights, orbs and other anomalies. From the family pets taking one last ride, to the ghostly driver sitting behind the wheel at the insane asylum, to the antebellum mansion's dearly departed hostess taking a peek in the equipment case; the pictorial evidence will astound even the skeptical. If you've ever heard your name called in the night, felt a chill travel the length of your spine as you pass a graveyard or seen a glimpse of a loved one years after they've passed, then you too may have traveled the path of a Conduit. Walk the path again with Haunted Kentucky, one tale at a time.
Author : Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780874216813
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 : Rebecca Patrick-Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Estill County (Ky.)
ISBN : 0615811825
A baby cries in a dark cave on one of the county's tallest mountains, UFOs hover in the sky, thundering hoof beats surround visitors outside of an old farm house, Native Americans chant into the night, dark shadow people loom around store corners, and Civil War soldiers fight a battle that continues to this day. As arguably one of the most haunted counties in Kentucky, Estill County is home to a range of ghosts, spirits, angels, and demons that haunt and terrorize locals and visitors alike. Haunted Estill County investigates the stories and histories of some of the county's most terrifying locations. Local legends, murder mysteries, and tales of the paranormal are all explored in this spellbinding collection which is sure to keep you up at night. Truth really can be stranger than fiction.