Author : George Rogers Mansfield
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781502548498
The official explanation of the Brown Mountain Light in North Carolina. After numerous requests, the United States Geological Survey investigated the light in 1922. This is the compelling story of the unusual investigation into the "unexplained phenomenon" of the Brown Mountain light.
Author : George Rogers Mansfield
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Optical illusions
ISBN :
Author : Wade Edward Speer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476626200
Mysterious nighttime lights near Brown Mountain in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest have intrigued locals and visitors for more than a century. The result of a three year investigation, this book identifies both manmade and natural light sources--including some unexpected ones--behind North Carolina's most famous ghost story. History, science and human nature are each found to play a role in the understanding and interpretation of the lights people see.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Brown Mountain, N.C.
ISBN :
Author : R. Caines
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2004-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595295460
65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period eighty-five percent of all species disappeared, including the dinosaurs. This was the second largest mass extinction in Earth's history and numerous theories have been proposed to explain it, but none of them have been correct. Now there is a new theory. Geologist Derek Burdette and his seismologist and ex-power lifter friend, big Jeff "Mac" Mackenzie, embark on an ordinary camping trip in the North Carolina mountains. The camping trip turns into a scientific mystery when they have an alien encounter and stumble upon the real reason for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
Author : Joseph Kelly Turner
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Baptists
ISBN :
Author : Richard Walser
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Joshua P. Warren
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9781570723100
"A beautiful young woman dies from a fall in Asheville's greatest hotel ... and the Pink Lady is said to still wander the massive halls of the Grove Park Inn. A building is constructed on the grounds of a miserable, ancient cemetery ... now they say you can still hear strange noises at night in the halls of Clyde A. Erwin High School. In 1908, a group of prisoners finally comes to Christ ... after being terrorized at night by a spook in the Buncombe County Jail. A distraught mother hangs herself from the rafters of a looming Beaucatcher Mountain bridge ... and the legend of Helen is born. These stories and more can be found within the pages of this remarkable book. A surreal mixture of history and myth, it searches for the fading morsels of truth while examining the feasts of folklore. These are the tales that linger in the minds of Asheville, as old and flavored as the mountains themselves. From secret chambers in aged castles to cryptic etchings on forgotten tombstones, this mountain town is filled with the lore and intrigue of the mysterious side of life."--Publisher description
Author : John W. Harden Sr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,32 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 : Steven E. Nash
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 146962625X
In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South. Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole.
