Haunted Plantations

Author : Geordie Buxton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738525014

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Haunted Plantations by Geordie Buxton Pdf

A shackled West African tribe drags themselves off a slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy triggers a heart attack in a city museum. These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America's past--real lives of people on plantations from Savannah and the coast of the Carolinas. Most deal with the hub of the East Coast slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina. All are richly illustrated with both historic and contemporary images. Dwelling in the affairs of plantation life is to tread the fires of emotionally raw history. Sifting through the folklore and legends, the old hushed embers of the south ignite once again in this collection. While these stories relate encounters with the supernatural, readers will find that what actually happened here doesn't always need a ghost to be disquieting.

Author : Richard Southall
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738745565

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Haunted Plantations of the South by Richard Southall Pdf

Step into the mysterious world of haunted plantations, where you'll meet the restless spirits of soldiers, slaves, and owners who roam the antiquated halls. Presenting majestic homes from seven southern states, this remarkable guide contains dramatic history and true stories from the days before and during the Civil War. Join paranormal expert Richard Southall on an awe-inspiring journey through each plantation, exploring grand houses and their ghastly ghouls. Haunted Plantations of the South presents fascinating research, in-depth interviews with ghost hunters, and unforgettable encounters full of paranormal activity and evidence. Discover the phantom casket of the Sweetwater Plantation, the Man in Black who haunts Bellamy Mansion, and many more compelling ghost stories along the way.

Author : Cheryl H. White, PhD, and W. Ryan Smith, MA
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626198753

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Haunted History of Louisiana Plantations, A by Cheryl H. White, PhD, and W. Ryan Smith, MA Pdf

Louisiana plantations evoke images of grandeur and elegance. Beyond the facade of stately homes are stories of hope and subjugation, tragedy and suffering, shame and perseverance and war and conquest. After sixteen workers axed most of the Houmas House's ancient oak trees, referred to as "the Gentlemen," eight of the surviving trees eerily twisted overnight in grief over the losses wrought by a great Mississippi River flood. An illegal duel to reclaim lost honor left the grounds of Natchez's Cherokee Plantation bloodstained, but the victim's spirit may still wander there today. A mutilated slave girl named Chloe still haunts the halls of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville. Cheryl H. White and W. Ryan Smith reveal the dark history, folklore and lasting human cost of Louisiana plantation life.

Author : Dennis William Hauck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0142002348

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Haunted Places by Dennis William Hauck Pdf

Describes over 2,000 sites of supernatural occurances in the United States, including places visited by ghosts, UFOs, and unusual creatures.

Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781493047147

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Haunted Houses by Nancy Roberts Pdf

Ghostwriters Nancy Roberts and Taryn Plumb spin fascinating tales about 26 haunted houses all over America. Based on stories told by first-hand witnesses, these stories of ghostly goings-on will keep you on the edge of your seat—and possibly up all night! Read about San Diego’s Whaley House, whose former residents maintain an active presence, as does Yankee Jim, a hanging victim over whose gallows the house was built. Learn about the house in Massachusetts that once belonged to eccentric millionaire and brilliant inventor John Hammond, Jr.—whose practice in spiritualism, say some, continues long after his death. And relive the terrifying battle that claimed the lives of 1,700 Confederate soldiers whose battlefield became their final resting place on Tennessee’s Carnton Plantation.

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626345

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Tales from the Haunted South by Tiya Miles Pdf

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.

Author : William Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0813122279

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Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky by William Montell Pdf

The bestselling author of "Ghosts Across Kentucky" now presents an all-new collection of amazing ghost stories of the state.

Author : Christopher John Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9813250925

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Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters by Christopher John Shepherd Pdf

By presenting a history of Western ethnography of animism in East Timor during the Portuguese period, this intriguing study offers an original synthesis of the country's history, culture and anthropology. The book consists of ten chapters, each one a narrative of the work and experience of a particular ethnographer. Covering a selection of seminal 19th- and 20th-century ethnographies, the author explores the relationship between spiritual beliefs, colonial administration, ethnographic interests and fieldwork experience.

Author : Dennis William Hauck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440673221

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Haunted Places by Dennis William Hauck Pdf

In almost every town in America there are places where strange things happen. The perfect companion to The International Directory of Haunted Places, this revised and updated edition of Haunted Places is both a fascinating and unusual travel guide as well as an indispensable casebook for those interested in the paranormal. From buildings and parks believed to have resident ghosts and poltergeists to areas where Bigfoot or UFO sightings are most frequently reported, Haunted Places will lead you to more than 2,000 sites of paranormal activity across the United States. Organized alphabetically by state, each entry is referenced to an extensive bibliography of sources-with descriptions, addresses, phone numbers, Web sites, and travel directions provided for all locations.

Author : Brad Steiger
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578594214

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Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places by Brad Steiger Pdf

The culmination of Brad Steiger’s 50 years of paranormal research, this book is a bold telling of true ghost stories and firstperson encounters with the supernatural. Arranged topically, it covers every sort of ghost and haunting: poltergeists, shadow beings, and phantoms alongside haunted apartments, hotels, and trains. From ghosts that still haunt Ohio’s State Reformatory, otherwise known as Shawshank, to Abe Lincoln’s regular consultation with mediums, this compendium delves into the true scary stories from both historical documents and personal accounts. In its 30 chapters, spirits represented include the good (“Ghosts that Saved Lives”), the bad (“Invisible Home Wreckers”), and the ugly (“Demonic Spirits That Whisper Commands to Kill”). The book goes on to unearth the ghastly goingson and macabre manifestations at haunted places such as museums, churches, graveyards, restaurants, and sacred sites while also instructing how to perform a cleansing ritual to rid a home of unwanted spectral visitors. This second edition is updated to include new stories and compelling evidence of both the existence of ghosts and proof of hauntings that will entertain, induce chills, and make the doubtful believe.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1704 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89116883257

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Candice Ransom
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728408163

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Eerie Haunted Houses by Candice Ransom Pdf

Send shivers up readers' spines with tales of spooky houses and the ghosts rumored to haunt them. Kids will love learning all about ghosts, the people who hunt them, close encounters, and more!

Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Author : Deran Gray
Publisher : Deran Gray
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Haunted Plantations of the South by Deran Gray Pdf

The historic South was one that was doted with grand palatial plantation estates. However, the riches found in the cash crops at the time were often built off of human suffering. Which might explain why many of these houses are said to be some of the most haunted locations in America. Join author Deran Gray as he takes you on tour of some of the most haunted plantations of the American South and meet some of the ghost's that haunt them.

Author : Geordie Buxton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439614129

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Haunted Plantations by Geordie Buxton Pdf

Chilling stories of the antebellum era, ranging from Savannah, Georgia to the Carolina coast, with photos included. Members of a shackled West African tribe drag themselves off a slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join the faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy triggers a heart attack in a city museum. These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America’s past—real lives of people on plantations from Savannah to Charleston and the coast of the Carolinas. Richly illustrated with both historic and contemporary images, most deal with the hub of the East Coast slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina. Sifting through folklore, legends, and emotionally raw history, these stories relate encounters with the supernatural—and reminds us that what actually happened here doesn’t always need a ghost to be disquieting.