Haunted Mississippi Delta And Beyond

Author : Barbara Sillery
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781455626953

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Haunted Mississippi Delta and Beyond by Barbara Sillery Pdf

The Mississippi Delta possesses a rich past that fuels the haunted lore of the present. In this ghostly guide, Barbara Sillery delves into the legends and myths, tracking the homes where spirits still roam. She interviews witnesses and reveals vivid firsthand accounts of paranormal activity. A short history of each site and its ghostly inhabitants adds to the mysterious allure of these locales. Fourteen bone-chilling chapters profile the cavorting spirits and their often-frightening antics. Greenville's lost ghost remains on guard duty at the former armory. Rowan Oak, Mount Holly, the Lyric Theatre, the Old Capitol Museum, Rosedale and Waverley all have tales to tell and lively spirits who will not lie still.

Author : Rich Newman
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738735160

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Devil in the Delta by Rich Newman Pdf

When author Rich Newman first arrives at the battered doublewide trailer deep in the Mississippi Delta, it's clear that this is no ordinary haunting. Called from Memphis to assist a local ghost hunting team, Newman's investigation of the Martin house has become his most terrifying and mysterious case. What starts out as a malicious assault manifesting as deep rumbling sounds quickly spirals into a story of obsession, possession, witchcraft, and murder. When the evidence becomes overwhelming, long buried memories from Newman's own past come back to haunt him - memories he'd rather forget. Collecting physical evidence, researching the violent history of the property, and sorting through the spiritual implications of demons, Newman's investigation of the Martin house is unlike any other.

Author : Adam Gussow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469633671

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Beyond the Crossroads by Adam Gussow Pdf

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.

Author : Alex E. Chávez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372202

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Sounds of Crossing by Alex E. Chávez Pdf

In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within the lives of audiences, musicians, and himself—from New Year's festivities in the highlands of Guanajuato, Mexico, to backyard get-togethers along the back roads of central Texas—Chávez shows how Mexicans living on both sides of the border use expressive culture to construct meaningful communities amid the United States’ often vitriolic immigration politics. Through Chávez's writing, we gain an intimate look at the experience of migration and how huapango carries the voices of those in Mexico, those undertaking the dangerous trek across the border, and those living in the United States. Illuminating how huapango arribeño’s performance refigures the sociopolitical and economic terms of migration through aesthetic means, Chávez adds fresh and compelling insights into the ways transnational music-making is at the center of everyday Mexican migrant life.

Author : Barbara Sillery
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781439678299

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Haunted Nantucket by Barbara Sillery Pdf

Nantucket is known for its beautiful beaches, rich history, and swanky social scene. Now, you can uncover its shadowy supernatural side in this new addition to the Haunted America Series, based in part on The Haunting of Cape Cod and the Islands. Explore the "faraway land" and meet its ghostly residents while you unearth stories of shipwrecks, sailors, and legendary whalers.

Author : Barbara Sillery
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 1589807995

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The Haunting of Mississippi by Barbara Sillery Pdf

From the Stanton Hall ghost who greets his guests in the morning to the Anchuca Mansion where inanimate objects move of their own accord, this ghostly guide invites readers on a mystic tour across Mississippi. The book provides testimony from witnesses at each location, as well as images.

Author : Bud Steed
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614236832

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Haunted Mississippi Gulf Coast by Bud Steed Pdf

Get to know the spirits that haunt this sunny Southern spot . . . includes photos! Mississippi’s gorgeous Gulf Coast is known for its sandy beaches, sunny weather, and welcoming people. Not so welcoming, however, are the spirits that haunt the shores, lighthouses, canneries, and historic sites in towns along the coast. Join ghost hunter Bud Steed as he leads a haunted journey with stops in Pascagoula, Biloxi, Gulfport, Waveland, and all points in between. From the apparition seen lingering in the Bay St. Louis Train Depot, still waiting for his train to come, to the forceful spirits haunting the Old Biloxi Cemetery that refuse to be ignored, this collection takes you to the haunted hot spots that add a touch of darkness and a hint of menace to Mississippi’s sunny Gulf Coast.

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781625841612

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Haunted Meridian, Mississippi by Alan Brown Pdf

Meridian once echoed with the high and lonesome sound of early country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers. With the right ears, that lonely wail may still be heard from the spirits that haunt this historic east Mississippi community. Now, for the first time, Meridian ghost expert and local author, Alan Brown, surveys the city's many sites of ghostly activity and recounts chilling tales of spirits past. From the Gypsy Queen's grave at the Rose Hill Cemetery to the phantom that haunts Stuckey's Bridge, this frightening collection offers adventurous readers a view into a side of Meridian's history that is rarely seen.

Author : James McBride Dabbs
Publisher : Richmond, Va. : John Knox Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000456690

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Haunted by God by James McBride Dabbs Pdf

Author : Troy Taylor
Publisher : Whitechapel Productions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1892523205

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Haunted St. Louis by Troy Taylor Pdf

St. Louis ghosts, legends & lore! Welcome to Haunted St. Louis ... one of the grand cities of the Mississippi River, the gateway to the western frontier and a very haunted place! This is no mere book of ghost stories by a page-turning account of how history and hauntings have shaped the city, from the early days to the 1904 World's Fair, the bloodbath of Prohibition and beyond. Taylor plunges the reader headlong into the mysterious past, violent history and bloody deeds of this great city, intertwining these events with tales of ghosts, hauntings and the unsolved!

Author : Eddy L. Harris
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466885714

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South of Haunted Dreams by Eddy L. Harris Pdf

For black Americans from the north, a crossing into the South has always been a meaningful transition, a journey weighted with the burdens of history and oppression. Writing with real emotion and a twist of irony, Eddy L. Harris combines the lively detail of travel writing with a brilliant exploration of race in America in South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir.

Author : Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496829719

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Haunted Property by Sarah Gilbreath Ford Pdf

Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation’s history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery’s perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession.

Author : Chanelle Benz
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062490711

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The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz Pdf

A TONIGHT SHOW SUMMER READS FINALIST An electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction" (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father's life and death Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day—and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees, the family whose history has been entangled with hers since the days of slavery. As Billie encounters the locals, she hears a strange rumor: that she herself went missing on the day her father died. As the mystery intensifies, she finds out that this forgotten piece of her past could put her in danger. Inventive, gritty, and openhearted, The Gone Dead is an astonishing debut novel about race, justice, and memory that lays bare the long-concealed wounds of a family and a country.

Author : Jill E. Anderson,Melanie R. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501356650

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Shirley Jackson and Domesticity by Jill E. Anderson,Melanie R. Anderson Pdf

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narratives – those fictionalized in her novels and short stories as well as the ones captured in her memoirs – to explore the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson's storytelling. Examining various areas of homemaking – child-rearing and reproduction, housekeeping, architecture and spatiality, the housewife mythos – through the theoretical frameworks of gothic, queer, gender, supernatural, humor, and architectural studies, this collection contextualizes Jackson's archive in a Cold War framework and assesses the impact of the work of a writer seeking to question the status quo of her time and culture.

Author : Carol A. Jensen
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.