North Carolina Legends
Author : Richard Walser
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
North Carolina Ghosts & Legends
Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1611173620
Book Description
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.
The Devil's Tramping Ground and Other North Carolina Mystery Stories
Author : John W. Harden Sr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0807866776
Book Description
From the first colonization at Roanoke Island, the bizarre and inexplicable have shrouded the Tar Heel State. From history and legend, John Harden records ominous events that have shaped or colored state history.
Myths and Mysteries of North Carolina
Author : Sara Pitzer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0762774533
Book Description
Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends of North Carolina explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in North Carolina's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in North Carolina history. Read about the Cherokee legend of the Judaculla rock. Try to figure out if Tom Dula, subject of many a local myth and a popular folk song, really did murder his wife. Speculate as to what really caused the Carolina Bays indentations.
North Carolina Myths and Legends
Author : Sara Pitzer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493015869
Book Description
North CarolinaMyths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in North Carolina’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in North Carolina history. Read about the Cherokee legend of the Judaculla rock. Try to figure out if Tom Dula, subject of many a local myth and a popular folk song, really did murder his wife. Speculate as to what really caused the Carolina Bays indentations.
Haunted Hills
Author : Stephanie Burt Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1625844107
Book Description
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!
Ghosts of the Carolinas
Author : Nancy Roberts
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1611173590
Book Description
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".
North Carolina Rivers
Author : John Hairr
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2007-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781540204677
Book Description
John Hairr crafts a captivating study of the Tarheel State's rivers. The Cape Fear, the New, the Pee Dee: these are the streams that course through North Carolina's history, and Hairr navigates them all, while also exploring lesser-known waters. The only natural history to trace all of the state's rivers in a single volume, this is a must-read.
Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina
Author : Randy Russell
Publisher : Blair
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Eighteen stories deal with witches, ghosts, an enchanted lake, a phantom choir, a lover's leap, Bigfoot, fairies, and magic.
Folktales and Ghost Stories of North Carolina's Piedmont
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780764337451
Book Description
Hear the sad tale of The Gentleman Ghost of Uwharrie Mountain in Asheboro Lydia, the phantom hitchhiker of Jamestown and the real-life account of Lexingtons very own hero, Valentine Leonard. Appearing for the first time in print, twenty-one spine-tingling ghost tales from the regions renowned storyteller, Cynthia Moore Brown, perpetuates the history of tradition in and around Piedmont.
