Download or read book East Coast Ghosts written by Charles Gordon Waugh and published by B B& A Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrills, tears, and laughter await the reader in this Devil's dozen of delights by such authors as John D. MacDonald, Henry James and Ambrose Bierce. On the rocky coast of Maine you climb into horror as a peglegged lighthouse keeper probes his employer's secret. In primordial swamps of Florida, you itch with excitement as an elusive hotrodder knifes through roadblocks like a phantom. In between, you dodge a small psychic vampire in New Enlgand, are hassled by the premature ghost of your girlfriend in New Jersey, investigate a luminescent presence in Pennsylvania coal mine and much more!
Download or read book Ghosts of America s East Coast written by Jackie Eileen Behrend and published by Mystery Writers of America Presents. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's historical towns are full of legends, lore, and countless stories of lingering ghosts. Jackie Behrend, author of "The Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown," has uncovered thirty-four chilling stories from every state along the eastern seaboard. "The Ghosts of America's East Coast" includes tragic stories of romance, of guardian angels, and of American heroes, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Blackbeard the pirate. Includes never-before-seen photographs of selected East Coast spirits! Settle in for a trip to the supernatural worlds of… • Skipper, the Ghost Dog of Concord • The Ghost of Jennie Wade • The Phantom Troops of Pickett's Charge • Ocean City's Haunted Hotels • The Long Lost Child of the Powder Magazine … and twenty-nine more!
Download or read book Pirates and Ghosts of the Carolinas Coast written by Cynthia Moore Brown and published by Schiffer + ORM. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 21 tales of pirates and ghosts from along the North Carolina coast Haunted houses, graveyards, and other favorite places are are featured Some stories told for the first time and involving people who really lived
Download or read book Haunted Places written by Dennis William Hauck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes over 2,000 sites of supernatural occurances in the United States, including places visited by ghosts, UFOs, and unusual creatures.
Download or read book Ghost Hunter s Handbook written by Liza Gardner Walsh and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Hunter's Handbook is for kids and families who love to explore the world of the supernatural. It presents a range of ghost and supernatural themed stories and activities that will keep kids enthralled for hours.
Download or read book Ghost Hunter s Guide to Portland and the Oregon Coast written by Jeff Dwyer and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts and spirits abound in western Oregon. The imprints of pioneers, soldiers, prostitutes, and murder victims haunt the places they trod in life, searching for loved ones, reliving joyful times, protecting favorite haunts, and seeking revenge. This guide, history, and comprehensive how-to offers tantalizing information about the lives, deaths, and locales of the Portland area's lingering past. Areas include Central Portland, East Portland communities, Vancouver and North Portland, communities south of Portland, and Oregon's coastal communities. The infamous Shanghai Tunnels have long reverberated with the screams of kidnapped victims, doomed to a brief life of forced servitude. Lone Fir Cemetery is visited to this day by the spirits of the Chinese laborers, mental asylum inmates, and Civil War veterans who rest there. Thelma Taylor can sometimes be felt in Cathedral Park, under the St. John Bridge. Historical hotels still host the spirits of guests who died, sometimes by their own hand. Opera houses and ballrooms tell a happier story: the imprints left by decades of entertainment and energy can be felt even now. These sites, and many others, are vividly described, and entries include locations and contact information. Informative sections cover what a ghost is, how it can manifest, ideal ghost sighting conditions, and types of imprints. Techniques included are preliminary historical research, physical and mental preparation, and the two primary schools of ghost hunting: the technical and psychic methods. The technical method section covers equipment use and suggestions, and the psychic method section discusses using your intuition and sensitivity to sense phenomena. Helpful appendixes include a sighting report form; suggested readings, videos, and websites; a list of tours and events; and a collection of area museums and historical societies.
Download or read book Haunted Eastern Shore written by Mindie Burgoyne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrifying tales of the ghosts that roam the marshes, swamps, and waterways of the nine counties on Maryland’s eastern shore. They walk beside the murky waters of the Chesapeake Bay, linger among the fetid swamps and roam the manor halls. These are the tormented souls who refuse to leave the sites of their demise. From pitiless smugglers to reluctant brides, the ghostly figures of the Eastern Shore are at once terrifying and tragic. Mindie Burgoyne takes readers on a spine-tingling journey as she recounts the grisly events at the Cosden Murder Farm and the infamous legend of Patty Cannon. Tread the foggy lanes of Kent Manor Inn and linger among Revolutionary War dead to discover the otherworldly occupants of Maryland’s most haunted shore. Includes photos! “A compilation of tales of hauntings and mysteries in the Eastern Shore area . . .The response to the book was so overwhelming, Burgoyne began organizing bus tours that travel to the sites, allowing her fans to see firsthand the location of the hauntings.” —Cumberland Times-News
Download or read book Gods Ghosts and Gangsters written by Avron Boretz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demon warrior puppets, sword-wielding Taoist priests, spirit mediums lacerating their bodies with spikes and blades—these are among the most dramatic images in Chinese religion. Usually linked to the propitiation of plague gods and the worship of popular military deities, such ritual practices have an obvious but previously unexamined kinship with the traditional Chinese martial arts. The long and durable history of martial arts iconography and ritual in Chinese religion suggests something far deeper than mere historical coincidence. Avron Boretz argues that martial arts gestures and movements are so deeply embedded in the ritual repertoire in part because they iconify masculine qualities of violence, aggressivity, and physical prowess, the implicit core of Chinese patriliny and patriarchy. At the same time, for actors and audience alike, martial arts gestures evoke the mythos of the jianghu, a shadowy, often violent realm of vagabonds, outlaws, and masters of martial and magic arts. Through the direct bodily practice of martial arts movement and creative rendering of jianghu narratives, martial ritual practitioners are able to identify and represent themselves, however briefly and incompletely, as men of prowess, a reward otherwise denied those confined to the lower limits of this deeply patriarchal society. Based on fieldwork in China and Taiwan spanning nearly two decades, Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters offers a thorough and original account of violent ritual and ritual violence in Chinese religion and society. Close-up, sensitive portrayals and the voices of ritual actors themselves—mostly working-class men, many of them members of sworn brotherhoods and gangs—convincingly link martial ritual practice to the lives and desires of men on the margins of Chinese society. This work is a significant contribution to the study of Chinese ritual and religion, the history and sociology of Chinese underworld, the history and anthropology of the martial arts, and the anthropology of masculinity.
Download or read book Haunted Heritage written by Michele Hanks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Haunted Heritage, author Michele Hanks draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork to delve into the anthropological, sociological, political, historical, and cultural factors that drive the burgeoning business of ghost or paranormal tourism.
Download or read book Ghost Hunters written by Q. L. Pearce and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For as long as humans have considered life and death, they have considered the after-world. Phantoms, spirits, ghouls, and ghosts have been there all along as well. This book provides eyewitness accounts, paired with alternative explanations to introduce readers to those who truly believe in ghosts, and who actually hunt them.
Download or read book Ghosts of Cambridge written by Sam Baltrusis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the paranormal history of this Massachusetts city—photos included. As one of the nation’s oldest cities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a tumultuous history filled with Revolutionary War beginnings, religious persecution, and centuries of debate among Ivy League intelligentsia. It should come as no surprise that the city is also home to spirits that are entangled with the past and now inhabit the dormitories, local watering holes and even military structures of the present. Discover the apparitions that frighten freshmen in Harvard’s Weld Hall, the Revolutionary War ghosts that haunt the estates of Tory Row, and the flapper who is said to roam the seats of Somerville Theatre. Using careful research and firsthand accounts, author Sam Baltrusis delves into ghastly tales of murder, crime, and the bizarre happenings in the early days of Cambridge to uncover the truth behind some of the city's most historic haunts.
Download or read book Scientifical Americans written by Sharon A. Hill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena. By 2010, roughly 2000 amateur research and investigation groups formed in the U.S.—ghost hunters, Bigfoot chasers and UFO researchers, using an array of (supposedly) scientific equipment and methods to prove the existence of the paranormal. American culture’s honorific regard for science, coupled with the public’s unfamiliarity with scientific methods, created a niche for self-styled paranormal experts to achieve national renown without scientific training or credentials. The author provides a comprehensive examination of the ideas, missions and methods promoted by these passionate amateurs.
Download or read book Haunted Las Vegas written by Janice Oberding and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Vegas has a historic and haunted side. This book highlights the most interesting sites and stories, from haunted casinos to Hoover Dam.
Download or read book Chicken Coop for a Rubber Sole written by Col. Layton Park and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of 36 humours short stories about everyday life. Topics cover: how to Stay Young Forever, The East Coast Ghost, Home Invasion, The Sex Diet, Santa and the Happy Hooker, I am Dying of Baldness, Your Mate as a Vehicle, The Dancer and the Border Cops, What is Your Sexual Number and many more.
Download or read book Weird Ghosts written by Joanne Austin and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afully illustrated, award–winning collection of tales about haunted places—some of which you can visit. If you're fascinated by haunted houses, ghostly graveyards, historic haunts, institutional apparitions, or spirited saloons, this spooky and spine-tingling collection of supernatural stories from across the U.S. will tantalize your paranormal palate. Some of these hot spots are open to the public (and we include their address and website information), while others are private residences with no visitors allowed. In this bone-chilling volume, witnesses tell terrifyingly true tales of cursed roads, ghoulish schools, eerie eateries, and more—so expect to be frightened out of your wits!
Download or read book Haunted Georgia written by Alan Brown and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Atlanta to the Coastal Plain, Georgia is rich with tales of the supernatural drawn from the state's historic past.
Download or read book The Haunted Fort written by Liza Gardner Walsh and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2013-06-16 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year visitors flock to Maine’s Fort Knox near the mouth of the Penobscot River. They are drawn by the thousands for its glimpse into Maine’s military past, but also for it's haunted aspects. The fort was catapulted to national attention when the prime-time TV show Ghost Hunters filmed an episode there. Since no shots were ever fired from the fort, who might the ghost or ghosts be? Now, Gardner Walsh delves into the creepy nature of the fort to find the answer. She explores the history of the fort and some of the Indian legends of the area from before the fort was built; provides interviews of staff and eye-witness accounts of ghost sightings at the fort; and she offers a fun look at how the fort makes the most of its attention by hosting its annual Fright at the Fort—called the "best Halloween experience in Maine”—and the summer Paranormal Faire. Woven throughout, Walsh recounts her own haunted adventure when she spent a night locked in the fort with the East Coast Ghost Trackers.
