Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1611173590
This collection of supernatural tales includes "The Talking Corpse"; "The Hound of Goshen"; "The Ring"; "The Phantom Rider of Bush River"; "The Witch Cat"; "The Gray Man"; "Tsali, the Cherokee Brave"; "The Ghost of Litchfield"; "City of Death"; "Treasure Hunt"; "House of the Opening Door"; "The Ghosts of Hagley"; "Return from the Dead"; "Whistle While You Haunt"; "The Brown Mountain Lights"; "Alice of the Hermitage"; "The Night the Spirits Called"; and "Swamp Girl".
Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1611173620
This collection of tales was originally published as An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurences in the Old North State. To her group of classic stories, Mrs. Roberts has added three new tales about the Carolina coastal areas. The mountains, Piedmont, eastern Carolina, and the Outer Banks all provide settings for the unique and haunting accounts found in this book. Six of the stories take place in the Outer Banks—a particularly inspiring location, and the perfect place to meet the ghost on Blackbeard's last voyage.
Author : Randy Russell
Publisher : Blair
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Eighteen stories deal with witches, ghosts, an enchanted lake, a phantom choir, a lover's leap, Bigfoot, fairies, and magic.
Author : Richard Walser
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Terrance Zepke
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1561643785
Best Ghost Tales of North Carolina offers twenty-five tales about strange happenings, creepy places, and engaging specters across the Old North State. Six are new for this edition. The ghosts of North Carolina's past linger among the living in this thrilling collection of ghost tales. Pink Lady at Grove Park Inn The legend starts in the 1920s when a pretty young girl in a pink ball gown plummeted to her death from Room 545. The Unknown Soldier and the Confederate Spy On certain nights when the fog rolls in and the moonlight is faint, two spirits have been seen walking down by the river. Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals What happened to the Carroll A. Deering is considered by many to be the greatest mystery of the seas during the first half of the 20th century.
Author : Stephanie Burt Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1625844107
The author of Wicked Charlotte roots out the spirited secrets of two small towns deep in the Appalachian Mountains. When the sun slips behind the trees and shadows lengthen near dusk, the mountains and valleys of Highlands and Cashiers whisper their tales of lost loves, deals gone bad, and ghosts who walk the night. This tourist destination is rich in folklore and legend—from rumors of a magical mountain volcano to the ghost of a white owl. Learn the stories and firsthand accounts of hauntings and the hard to explain. Listen to the voices winding through the hemlocks, or is it just the wind? Includes photos!
Author : John W. Harden Sr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0807866768
An amazing assortment of twenty-three stories and ten "short shorts" comprise this popular selection. More than merely entertaining, Tar Heel Ghosts captures the "spirit" of North Carolina's past. North Carolina's ghost stories have infinite variety. There are mountainous ghosts and seafaring ghosts; colonial ghosts and modern ghosts; gentle ghosts and roistering ghosts; delicate lady ghosts and fishwife ghosts; home ghosts and ghosts that just want to be noticed. Mysterious signs and symbols appear--small black crosses, galloping white horses, strangely moving lights, floating veils, lifelike apparitions, skulls, dripping blood, and "things that go bump in the night." At least one North Carolina ghost got himself into a court record, and other ghostly phenomena have attracted scientific investigation. These stories have a marked realistic North Carolina flavor. The reader finds mountain cabins and antebellum mansions, Indian trails, water wheels, river steamboats, railroad trains, slave labor on plantations, revenuers and stills in the mountains, a burial in St. James Churchyard in Wilmington, Winston-Salem before the days of Winston, Raleigh in the 1860s, Fayetteville during World War II, and even a new suburb haunted by old spooks.
Author : Terrance Zepke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 168334006X
Taken from real-life occurrences and from Carolina Lowcountry lore this collection introduces 32 ghost stories that will make your hair stand on end. Why did Joe Baldwins headless body once roam Macos train tracks? What happened to grave robbers and curious kids when they came too close to the cursed crypt? Why do drops of blood continuously appear on the floorboards of the Cape Romain Lighthouse? Discover these tales, and many more.
Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1469626349
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 : Patty A. Wilson
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811735850
Rich in Native American, Colonial, and Civil War history, North Carolina harbors ghosts from tidewater to mountains.
