Louisiana Ghost Stories

Author : Jesse L. Wimberly
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480853171

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Louisiana Ghost Stories by Jesse L. Wimberly Pdf

Louisiana is a place of legend, especially in the deep, dark bayou. Visit the swamps, and smell the usual combination of decaying vegetation and sluggish water. You might sense another smell, too—one you can’t identify but seems distinct. It could be more of a feeling than an odor. That feeling is fear, and it spreads past the bayou and into the heart of New Orleans. Louisiana Ghost Stories is a collection of original tales based on fact mixed with myth. A place of legend, the state is also a place of storytelling, and many of those stories grow like thick vines in the memories of locals and visitors alike. Step into the haunted plantations. Hear about voodoo and gris gris. Examine pirate legends, and follow ghosts into the dark. Come face to face with the Cajun werewolf, known as the “loup garou.” Hear of the heinous offenses of infamous serial killer, the Axeman. Learn the horrid history of the LaLaurie mansion, and even stumble upon a tale of Hallow’s Eve. With stories eerie, mysterious, sexy, and colorful, prepare yourself to be scared as legends come to life and haunt the page.

Author : Christine Word
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988-12-01
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 0966158504

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Ghosts Along the Bayou by Christine Word Pdf

Author : Jesse L. Wimberly
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480887206

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Louisiana Ghost Stories Ii by Jesse L. Wimberly Pdf

New Orleans claims to be the most haunted place in America, and the Crescent City has the stories to back it up. Louisiana Ghost Stories II: Lagniappe is the second riveting collection from acclaimed author Jesse Wimberly. These ten tales of the macabre are set in and around New Orleans and are guaranteed to frighten and enlighten. Go down to the crossroads on a moonless night and meet Old Scratch. Eavesdrop in Pirate’s Alley when Jean Lafitte reveals the location of his hidden treasure. Venture into the asylum or the heart of Mardi Gras as Inspector Sterling investigates brutal murders in the city. Get lost with two brothers on a flatboat in the swamp when they meet The Mossgatherer. Rooted in actual events that have taken place over the years, these stories of the supernatural and occult will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, this collection will challenge even the bravest of readers.

Author : Cheré Dastugue Coen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614239949

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Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana by Cheré Dastugue Coen Pdf

Discover this Cajun and Creole city where ghost stories abound . . . photos included! The Hub City boasts a multitude of spirits and specters, from those lost in Civil War skirmishes and fever outbreaks to those souls that simply can’t say goodbye. Today, they wander the halls of bed-and-breakfasts and restaurants and linger along back roads and cemeteries. Pirates are rumored to guard buried treasure, and ancient French legends hide in the swamps, bayous, and woods. Join journalist and ghost seeker Cheré Dastugue Coen as she visits Lafayette’s haunted sites and travels the countryside in search of ghostly legends found only in South Louisiana.

Author : Jeanne deLavigne
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807152928

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Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans by Jeanne deLavigne Pdf

“He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot’s elbow—a young woman dressed all in black, with pale gold hair, and a baby sleeping on her shoulder. She glided to the edge of the bridge and stepped noiselessly off into the black waters.”—from Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans Ghosts are said to wander along the rooftops above New Orleans’ Royal Street, the dead allegedly sing sacred songs in St. Louis Cathedral, and the graveyard tomb of a wealthy madam reportedly glows bright red at night. Local lore about such supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans, finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful slaves, and menacing gypsies haunting nearly every corner of the city, from the streets of the French Quarter to Garden District mansions. Originally printed in 1944, all forty ghost stories and the macabre etchings of New Orleans artist Charles Richards appear in this new edition. Drawing largely on popular legend dating back to the 1800s, deLavigne provides vivid details of old New Orleans with a cast of spirits that represent the ethnic mélange of the city set amid period homes, historic neighborhoods, and forgotten taverns. Combining folklore, newspaper accounts, and deLavigne’s own voice, these phantasmal tales range from the tragic—brothers, lost at sea as children, haunt a chapel on Thomas Street in search of their mother—to graphic depictions of torture, mutilation, and death. Folklorist and foreword contributor Frank A. de Caro places the writer and her work in context for modern readers. He uncovers new information about deLavigne’s life and describes her book’s pervasive lingering influence on the Crescent City’s culture today.

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : J. J. Reneaux
Publisher : august house
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 087483385X

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Haunted Bayou, and Other Cajun Ghost Stories by J. J. Reneaux Pdf

Gathers Cajun stories featuring werewolves, pirate ghosts, witches, and skeletons.

Author : Several
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0615715079

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Louisiana Ghost Stories As Told by Louisiana Witches by Several Pdf

LAW, the editor of this book, is a non-profit corporation dedicated to preventing religious discrimination of Pagans. To that end, we provide legal representation of individuals in Louisiana Courts when such individuals are discriminated against on the basis of their religion. We provide the attorney for free and to the extent possible pay all costs of litigation.Our funding comes from private donations and whatever fundraisers we can arrange. This book is our latest effort at fund raising and ALL of the profits received (including Left Hand Press) will support Law's continuing efforts to help the Pagan community.

Author : Dan Asfar
Publisher : Ghost House Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1894877195

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Ghost Stories of Louisiana by Dan Asfar Pdf

In Louisiana, disbelief in ghosts is not an option. Some of the best-known hauntings in the country are the unsettled spirits that have roamed the bustling French Quarter of New Orleans since its early days. But while the Crescent City teems with historic paranormal characters, the rest of Louisiana is also rife with intriguing and eerie ghost stories. Come explore the Pelican State and uncover its historic supernatural stars: * The ghost of an old woman killed in a car accident returns to her Baton Rouge home to comfort her grieving family. * A young girl's spirit haunts several generations of a family in New Orleans' Garden District. * A mysterious foreigner known only as ''the Sultan'' is massacred along with his servants, forever shrouding his French Quarter dwelling in the mysterious legend of his demise. * Visitors and staff at Oak Alley Plantation, St. James Parish, regularly encounter strange sights and frightening sounds. * Myriad spirits roam the rooms and halls of Myrtles Plantation of St. Francisville, already famous for the eerie tales from its past. * In life, Marie Laveau was undisputed voodoo queen of New Orleans; in death, she still imbues the city with dark magic. * And many more...

Author : George Washington Cable
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : UCSD:31822005466420

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Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable Pdf

Author : Jesse L. Wimberly
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665739870

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Louisiana Ghost Stories Iii by Jesse L. Wimberly Pdf

When a ten-year-old boy is invited to attend a big fight that attracts cockfighters and gamblers from all over the area to a pit in Carencro, he is so excited that he barely sleeps a wink the night before. But can the tender-hearted boy come to grips with the consequences that come with a cockfight surrounded by Old South voodoo rituals? In a collection of short tales, Jesse Wimberly once again leads others on an imaginary journey through horror and the supernatural world as he introduces diverse characters, each experiencing seemingly unimaginable events. When the police chief of New Orleans receives word that the bloody body of a young woman has been found in the street, he begins an investigation that leads him down a dark path that leaves him with more questions than answers. When Esther’s boyfriend breaks up with her just before her high school prom, she commisions help from her hairdresser—and two voodoo dolls—to instigate a vengeful plan. Louisiana Ghost Stories III shares ten more chilling, macabre tales of horror from a master storyteller.

Author : Jannette Quackenbush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1940087465

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Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans by Jannette Quackenbush Pdf

Ghost stories and folk tales of New Orleans, Louisiana including a French Quarter walking tour and haunted cemeteries.

Author : Troy Taylor
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614232599

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Haunted New Orleans by Troy Taylor Pdf

Travel beyond Bourbon Street into the macabre history of one of the most haunted cities in the United States with the author of Wicked New Orleans as your guide. New Orleans—the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, home of Cafe du Monde and what some call the most haunted city in America. Beneath the indulgence and revelry of the Crescent City lies a long history of the dark and mysterious. From the famous “Queen of Voodoo,” Marie Laveau, who is said to haunt the site of her grave, to the wicked LaLauries, whose true natures were hidden behind elegance and the trappings of high society, New Orleans is filled with spirits of all kinds. Some of the ghosts in these stories have sordid and scandalous histories, while others are friendly specters who simply can’t leave their beloved city behind. Join supernatural historian Troy Taylor as he takes readers beyond the French Quarter and shows a side of New Orleans never seen. Includes photos!

Author : Bud Steed
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614239697

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Haunted Baton Rouge by Bud Steed Pdf

Learn about the ghosts that haunt Louisiana’s capital city in this collection of spooky stories and photos . . . With yellow fever, Civil War battles, murders, and tragic accidents staining its history, it is no wonder that Baton Rouge is rife with tales of ghostly visitors. Highland Road has had so many reports of Civil War soldier sightings that the local police department sent out an officer to track one down. Spirits crowd about in the stately grounds of the Magnolia Mound and Old Cottage Plantations, the Old State Capitol building and the new, and even the USS Kidd. Unlikely spots like the Guaranty Income Life and Broadcast Building have plenty of hair-raising stories of their own; the cafeteria used to be a morgue. Now you can explore the Red Stick’s eerie past with paranormal investigator Bud Steed—as he uncovers the city’s most chilling tales.

Author : Sillery, Barbara
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 145560562X

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The Haunting of Louisiana by Sillery, Barbara Pdf

"To those who may be encountering Louisiana for the first time through these wonderful stories-prepare to be engaged and entertained to a degree to which you are certainly unaccustomed . . . Barbara's gift for storytelling holds in the written word just as it does before a television camera."-Phillip J. Jones, former secretary, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism "A personal, anecdotal narrative that paints events with evocative descriptions . . . best savored in slices-it serves up a great bedtime read."-New Orleans Times-Picayune Based on the PBS documentary of the same name that aired across the country, The Haunting of Louisiana highlights many of the stories that would not fit into the one-hour television program. Louisiana's haunted reputation is spotlighted in the twenty chapters that cover the ghostly escapades and happenings at Oak Alley Plantation, Ormond Plantation, Destrehan Manor, and America's "most haunted home," the Myrtles, in St. Francisville, to name a few. The book also includes behind-the-scenes incidents that occurred during the taping of the documentary. Who is the lady in the photograph whose mirrored reflection appears headless in a bedroom in Oak Alley Plantation? Why are little girls the only tour visitors to experience the taunting of Chloe, a slave and mistress of the owner of the Myrtles in the 1800s? Whose invisible hand had to be repeatedly pushed away from the owner's car horn at Chretien Point Plantation before the owner could get a good night's rest? The spine-tingling explanations for these events and many others are just waiting to be discovered.