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Tennessee Tales and Information
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General Information
- The Ghost Hunter's Guidebook
Troy Taylor's book is good for beginners but not recommended for serious hunters.
- The Paranormal Investigator's Handbook
40 b/w illustrations! Get closer to the truth about anomalous phenomena! This
extraordinary volume draws together a team of experts to provide the latest
techniques for investigating cases, interviewing witnesses, researching
background information, and recognizing a hoax. Real-life studies and actual
photos are presented, along with helpful checklists, diagrams, and instructions
for leading your own investigations. Read about documented ghost and poltergeist
hauntings, and conduct your own vigil. Delve into earth mysteries, like ley
lines--locate them on a map and prove them in the field. Try remote viewing or
use telepathy to "see" a distant place or event, then arrange your own session.
- The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits
Some 400 alphabetically arranged entries, varying in length from a couple of
paragraphs to several pages, with references and cross- references, describe a
wide range of beliefs, folklore, and strange phenomena. Credibly
written--avoiding sensationalism, yet sustaining the fun. Includes an index.
- Ghosts, Spirits and Hauntings
Patricia Telesco offers a balanced, comprehensive look at the subject, all while
remaining fun to read.
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings
You're no idiot, of course. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings is an eerie investigation into the firsthand accounts, legends, literature, and dramatic works surrounding the world of ghosts.
- The Field Guide to North American Hauntings : Everything You Need to Know About Encountering over 100 Ghosts, Phantoms, and Spectral Entities
W. Haden Blackman itemizes over 100 haunted sites and their resident specters, focusing on haunted houses, haunted vessels, haunted cemeteries, and haunted sites in nature--from the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego (where Kate Morgan, killed on Thanksgiving Day in 1892, now appears in a black lace dress and makes strange choking noises) to Franklin's Haunted Orchard (where a foreign-born peddler was killed and buried under an apple tree in 1759, and where apple trees have continued to this day to produce blood-stained blossoms and blood-streaked apple pulp).
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General Information
- Banshees, Bugles and Belles : True Ghost Stories of Georgia
Here are true stories from folks who did not much believe in ghosts until they met one.
- Ghostly American Places : A Ghostly Guide to America's Most Fascinating Haunted Landmarks
Outlining more than forty documented cases of ghostly encounters in the United States, an enthusiast's tour includes witness interviews, photographs, and the stories behind famous and lesser-known cases.
- America's Most Haunted Places
- Ghosts and Haunted Houses of Maryland
When one thinks of ghosts, an association with Maryland is slow to come to mind. There's no reason to think the U.S.'s seventh state would be void of them; it's been heavily populated for at least 300 years and it has had its share of trauma. GHOSTS & HAUNTED HOUSES OF MARYLAND collects 25 of its best known tales of the netherworld to entertain and inform its readers. It is ghost folklore narrated in a classic style.
- The Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown
Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown comprise Virginia's historic triangle. Some of the most important chapters of America's history unfolded in these settlements. The region has been the scene of violent confrontations between settlers and the original natives, an emotional struggle for independence, a bitter civil war, and, most recently, a transformation into one of the country's finest examples of historic restoration. Some parapsychologists believe that spirits can be awakened by a sudden flurry of activity. With so much activity occurring throughout the area's history, it is little wonder that there are so many documented sightings of ghosts in this triangle.
- Ghosts of Williamsburg
Published in 1993, this book details reported sightings of ghosts in the "Old Dominion."
- Haunted Highway : The Spirits of Route 66
A first of its kind book, Haunted Highway combines the love of America's favorite highway (Route 66) with true ghost stories or hauntings along its 2400 miles, starting in Chicago and covering all eight states and finally ending in Santa Monica. In addition, each site has tourist information listed for those who wish to get their kicks with the spirits of Route 66!
- Haunted Illinois
A wonderful piece of Illinois history, with true accounts and some very decent photos.
- Chicago Haunts : Ghostly Lore of the Windy City
This book is as thoroughly compelling and insightful as it is entertaining and frightening. It is quite obvious that the author is well-versed in the ghostlore and history of her big-shouldered hometown.
- Haunted Ohio II : More Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State
If you like true ghost stories, you can't miss this book!
- Ghosts of the Carolinas
When packing for your next camping trip, be sure to include a few stories to tell around the campfire. Many of the tales in Ghosts are retellings of old standbys such as "The Gray Man" or "The Hound of Goshen," and sprinkled among these familiar tales are stories of past and present Carolinian hauntings which will send a satisfying chill down the spine of the ghost story aficionado. Roberts narrates her stories with a casual Southern voice reminiscent of a front porch social on a warm summer evening.
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Famous Ghosts
- Hollywood Haunted : A Ghostly Tour of Filmland
Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hughes, Sharon Tate, Bela Lugosi and many more celebrities plus ghosts of mobsters, lovers and bandits in Filmland studios, nightclubs,theaters and more. Learn how the ghost of Ozzie Nelson proves there's sex after death! Kenneth Turan of the L.A. Times says, "It gets the blood flowing!"
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True Stories
- HAUNTED HOUSES, 3rd Edition
- Haunted Places : The National Directory : Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, Ufo Landings, and Other Supernatural Locations
From Maine to Hawaii, this fascinating book leads readers to more than 2,000 haunted places, many of them open to the public, in all 50 states. Listed alphabetically by state, city, and then location, each entry contains a synopsis, an address, a telephone number, and travel directions. Readers will shiver when they learn that no matter where they are, there is a haunted place nearby. Photos.
- Living With Ghosts : True Tales of the Paranormal
A fascinating collection of true stories about hauntings, ghosts, and other paranormal events. Is there life after death? Can ghosts be photographed?
- I Never Believed in Ghosts Until... : 100 Real-Life Encounters
Good ghost stories can make your hair stand on end, but there's nothing scarier than a true ghost story. Last Halloween USA Weekend asked readers to share their most mysterious encounters. This spellbinding collection presents the 100 best entries and includes tales of haunted houses, possessed objects, ghosts, unseen spirits, and more.
- Haunted America
A tour of some 70 hauntings throughout the United States and Canada, from tales of battlefield specters at Little Big Horn to reports of a ghostly projectionist in a Florida movie palace. Based on the authors' interviews with witnesses and accounts from archives and newspapers.
- Historic Haunted America
These are some of the most compelling true ghost stories from North America. While some of the ghosts written about here have settled down or moved on, many of them are still active. While not exactly terrifying, these tales are fascinating in the fact that they are all true, backed up with eyewitness testimony. If you prefer a book which you can use as a reference source rather than a caffeine substitute, this is one you should pick up.
- Haunted Heartland
More than 150 true stories of the supernatural Midwest. Readers will enter an America they never knew existed--that of ghosts, haunted houses, possession and exorcism, of vanishing people and ships, mystery lights, premonitory dreams and more.
- Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends
This collection of tales focuses on the restless souls left in the wake of the War Between the States. Roberts gathers history from both sides of the lines, from Georgia to New York to Texas, and presents it from viewpoints both historical and present.
- Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War : Authentic Accounts of the Strange and Unexplained
This book is a beautifully written blend of history and the supernatural.
- Spirits of the Civil War
If you like history and you like ghost stories and legends, this is the book for you!
- Battlefield Ghosts
Riveting, contemporary tales of haunts on America's Revolutionary & Civil War battlefields. Witness a once-in-a-lifetime phantom battle at Kernstown, Virginia, hear the piercing cries of the War Eagle at Vicksburg, or salute the spectral lieutenant guarding Fort Pulaski. These eyewitness accounts will keep you apellbound from cover to cover.
- <Agatha's Journey: 1828 - 1998
Our family lives in a house populated by spirits. This is the story told to the author by one of them.
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Interesting Fiction
- Salem's Ghosts
The lure of the history of the Salem Witch Trials brings thousands of tourists to the city of Salem, MA, evey year. What the tourists and residents of Salem don't know is that there is a subculture of ghosts living among them from the hangings of 1692.
- The Sweet By and By
The strange-but-true history of Maggie Fox, 19th-century founder of the
American Spiritualist movement, haunts a 20th-century journalist in this
double-barreled tale of love and loss. Intelligent if predictable in its setup, the
novel pays homage to two strong women separated by history but united in spirit.
- Spookshow
A modern-day roleplaying game combining espionage and the supernatural: "At the end of life, there is death. Only, sometimes, the dead just won't go away. These are the ghosts. Now, some of the ghosts have learned how to take on mortal guise again, for short periods of time. They walk the earth once more, pretending to be human. They even have jobs. But why go back to being a baker, or a carpenter? These ghosts want adventure, excitement, intrigue -- someplace where their special "skills" will be appreciated. And they've found the perfect career. Welcome to espionage."
- Five Mile House
Karen Novak's remarkably polished first novel is a story of two women separated
by a century and linked by the suspicion of madness and the lingering traces of
guilt. Skillfully interweaving its 19th- and 20th-century tales, accelerating toward a simultaneous revelation of treachery and murder, Novak's ghost story is astonishingly well-balanced, elegant, and spooky. The author's deft touch imbues the novel with a dark gothicism that never veers toward the eye-rolling, shoulder-shrugging absurd. Her first effort should win Novak a legion of fans.
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