Download or read book Legends of Spook Hollow written by Mary L. Shofkom and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spook Hollow runs its unexplainable horror through an eight-mile, sharply cut valley. The lay of the land leaves an unwelcome sense of a moral freight to any who dare challenge its existence. Charlie, also known as Gramps, lives right near Spook Hollow and witnesses first-hand the horrors the hollow has to offer. Full of trepidation and intrigue, Legends of Spook Hollow contains family legends founded around a campfire, of people never to be the same after experiencing the monstrosities of Spook Hollow. About the Author Mary L. Shofkom lives a very full life with her family, and working outside the home as a school monitor. Her classroom is a calming sanctuary where students come for a break. Shofkom has coached varsity cheerleading for 20 years. She has also bartended at the same establishment for over 20 years. Shofkom enjoys crafting with her friends, camping with her husband, and riding motorcycles. Shofkom and her husband both have their own Harleys, and they love to travel together. Shofkom’s children and grandchildren are a huge part of her life. Shofkom loves to write when she gets a chance.
Download or read book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: ...lins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy!But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night! With what wistful look did he eye every trembling raClose...
Download or read book The Big Book of Ohio Ghost Stories written by James A. Willis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the heart of America Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author James A. Willis shines a light in the dark corners of Ohio and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From ghostly soldiers that still haunt Fort Meigs to the eerie Franklin Castle, there’s no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up at night. There’s even a carved tombstone of an infant at Cedar Hill cemetery, whose ghostly eyes keep watch over those wander too close. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.
Download or read book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Large Print written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Large PrintBy Washington Irvingand haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy!
Download or read book Haunted Files from the Edge written by Philip J. Imbrogno and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange, the Bizarre, and the Unexplained Just when you think Philip Imbrogno’s infamous files have been exhausted, he presents us with another collection of spooky cases of unexplained strangeness. Pulled from more than thirty years’ worth of investigations, these never-before-published cases involve run-ins with angry spirits, phantasms, monsters, and poltergeists. Through detailed on-scene investigations and historical research, Haunted Files from the Edge takes you on a creepy tour of notorious specters, haunted places, and legends such as the Ghosts of Sleepy Hollow, the Curse of the Green Witch, the Ghosts of the Alamo, and the Curse of Owlsbury. Using state-of-the-art tools and special imaging techniques, Imbrogno has been able to find rational explanations for 73 percent of the cases he has investigated. The mystifying cases presented here, supported by eyewitness testimony and photographic evidence, are among those that defy explanation.
Download or read book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Shalini Saxena and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving's scary Headless Horseman has become a notorious fictional character. This appealing book, highlighting a popular example of early American fiction, features fun facts about the legend and its author as well as carefully chosen photographs and illustrations. Readers will love getting to know Ichabod Crane, the superstitious schoolteacher; Brom Bones, his adversary; and the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel in this gripping retelling of the early nineteenth century story.
Download or read book Haunted Travels of Michigan Volume 2 History Mystery Haunting written by Kathleen Tedsen and published by Thunder Bay Press (MI). This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interactive book and Web site experience presents evidence of ghosts and haunted places found in Michigan and offers readers the experience of becoming part of the ghost hunt with select groups of Michigan paranormal investigative teams on the cases.
Download or read book Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley written by Jonathan Kruk and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storyteller examines Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and the lore that inspired it, as well as other local legends of the Hudson Valley. The story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman is one of America's best-known fables, but what other stories does the Hudson Valley hold? Imps cause mischief on the Hudson River, a white lady haunts Raven Rock, Major Andre’s ghost seeks redemption and real headless Hessians search for their severed skulls. These mysterious and spooky tales from the region’s past inspired Irving and continue to captivate the imagination to this day. “Kruk has been enchanting audiences with his dramatic, enticing storytelling ability for 20 years.” —Suzanne Rothberg, Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch
Download or read book Weird Missouri written by James Strait and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each fun and intriguing volume in the award-winning series offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture: the oddball curiosities, ghostly sites, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions.
Download or read book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Illustrated written by Washington Irving and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale is about in 1790 with inside the geographical region across the Dutch agreement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen acknowledged as Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting ecosystem that pervades the imaginations of its population and visitors. Some citizens say this metropolis became bewitched during the early days of the Dutch agreement, even as others declare that the mysterious ecosystem became resulting from a vintage Native American chief, the "wizard of his tribe ... earlier than the USA became observed through Master Hendrik Hudson." The maximum notorious specter with inside the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head has been shot off through a stray cannonball during "a few anonymous struggle" of the Revolution, and who "rides forth to the scene of struggle in nightly quest of his head". The "Legend" relates the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extraordinarily superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Broom Bones" Van Brunt, the metropolis rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-vintage Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole toddler of wealthy farmer Balta's Van Tassel. Ichabod Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina as a way of purchasing Van Tassels extravagant wealth. Bones, the nearby hero, not able to pressure Ichabod into a bodily showdown to settle things, performs a chain of pranks on the superstitious schoolmaster. The anxiety a number of the 3 keeps for a few time and is quickly introduced to ahead. On a placid autumn night, the ambitious Crane attends a harvest birthday celebration on the Van Tassels homestead. He dances partakes with inside the feast and listens to ghostly legends advised through Broom and the locals, however, his real intention is to recommend to Katrina after the visitors leave. His intentions, however, are ill-fated.After having failed to stable Katrina's hand, Ichabod rides domestic on his temperamental horse (named Gunpowder) "heavy-hearted and crestfallen" thru the woods between Van Tassels farmstead and the farmhouse in Sleepy Hollow wherein he's quartered on the time. As he passes numerous purportedly haunted spots, his active creativeness is engorged through the ghost stories advised at Baltus harvest birthday celebration. After nervously passing a lightning-stricken tulip tree purportedly haunted through the ghost of British spy Major André, Ichabod encounters a cloaked rider at an intersection in a menacing swamp. Unsettled through his fellow tourist's eerie size and silence, the trainer is horrified to find out that his partner's head is now no longer on his shoulders, however on his saddle. In a frenzied race to the bridge adjoining to the Old Dutch Burying Ground, wherein the Hessian is stated to "vanish, in line with the rule, in a flash of hearth place and brimstone" earlier than crossing it, Ichabod rides for his life, desperately goading Gunpowder down the Hollow. However, even as Crane and Gunpowder are capable of pass the bridge beforehand of the ghoul, Ichabod turns lower back in horror to look at the monster rears his horse, and hurl his severed head immediately at him with a fierce motion. The schoolmaster tries to dodge, however is simply too late; the missile moves his head and sends him tumbling headlong into the dirt from his horse.
Download or read book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Virginia Ghost Stories Legends and Haunts written by Jannette Quackenbush and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the spookier side of West Virginia with over 85 ghost stories, legends, and haunts from Harpers Ferry, where Screaming Jenny still never outruns the trains, to Hatfield-McCoy Country where Devil Anse Hatfield rises from the grave along with his sons. Explore Moundsville Prison and see the shadow man, then investigate the death and ghostly hereafter of Mamie Thurman, the housewife with a secret life who haunts 22 Mine Road. Follow the Rail Trail to get a glimpse of the ghost of the Silver Run Tunnel and take a thrill-ride through one of the most haunted tunnels-Dingess Tunnel. There's the Headless Ghost Rider of Powell Mountain and a woman who still walks the Ohio River shoreline of Blennerhassett Island long after her death.
Download or read book Haunted Kansas written by Lisa Hefner Heitz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ghost stories and narration unique to the state of Kansas. The stories are a blend of mystery and menace. The ghosts are shown are to notoriously linked to a specific structure or landscape, whether it be an 18th century mansion or a bottomless pool.
Download or read book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head."
Download or read book History and Legend written by Charles Gilbert Hine and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hoosier Folk Legends written by Ronald L. Baker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984-08-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spine-tingling and funny, Hoosier Folk Legends is a collection of over 300 legends gathered throughout tthe state of Indiana. Ronald L. Baker includes ghost stories, stories of the evil eye, and stories of bloodstopping. He relates legends of Jesse James, Al Capone, and John Dillinger and tells the sad story of the ghost of Diana of the Dunes. Hoosier Folk Legends explains the derivation of the names of Hobart, Jasper, Loogootee, and the Shake Rag School. Also included are a number of legends that did not originate in Indiana but are widely circulated in the Hoosier state, such as "The Baby-Sitter and the Phone Call," "Hook Man," and "The Vanishing Hitchhiker.'' Hoosier Folk Legends demonstrates the persistence and vitality of oral folk traditions. It is a book for students of folklore and anyone interested in old-time yarns
Download or read book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Peter Bloedel and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's first great ghost story, Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows the quirky and superstitious antics of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, who is haunted by the dreaded Headless Horseman. This imaginative adaptation stays true to the world that Irving creates in this American gothic tale, but adds a lyrical quality that further enhances the humor, the magic, and the terror.
