Download or read book Georgia Myths and Legends written by Don Rhodes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Georgia’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 Georgia history. From the puzzle of lost confederate gold to a woman who mysteriously spent her life waving at more than 50,000 passing ships, this selection of stories from Georgia's past explores some of the Peach State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Download or read book Mysteries and Legends of Georgia written by Don Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Peach State - How did a Scottish American come to champion the Cherokees' cause--and serve as their chief for almost forty years? - What did future U.S. President Jimmy Carter see in the sky in January 1969? What moved him four years later to file an official UFO-sighting report describing the luminous object? - Why in the world did self-taught artist Eddie Owens Martin create his own world called Pasaquan, change his name to St. EOM, and come to believe that his upswept hairstyle was an antenna to the great beyond? Who's to say--but he left behinda historic site that's truly out of this world. From the puzzle of lost Confederate gold to the legend of a woman who spent her life waving a white flag of greeting at more than 50,000 passing ships, Mysteries and Legends of Georgia makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most fascinating and compelling stories.
Download or read book Georgia Legends Lore written by Alan Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settle in for a juicy bushel of Peach State bafflement.
Download or read book Mysterious Georgia written by Sherman Carmichael and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plunge into Georgia history offers no shortage of bewilderment. UFOs, haunted bridges, ghost lights and monsters are just a smattering of the unexplained. At the Jekyll Island Club, a bellhop from the Roaring Twenties does his best to stay busy. A bright golden light hovers above the tracks of Macon and Brunswick Railroad, floating toward spectators before it just...turns off. From the obligatory mountain road 'Squatch sightings to Jimmy Carter's eerie encounter in a stand of Leary pines, Sherman Carmichael leads adventurous readers on a quest through baffling Georgia legends.
Download or read book Georgia s Landmarks Memorials and Legends Under the code duello Landmarks and memorials Historic churchyards and burial grounds Myths and legends of the Indians Tales of the revolutionary camp fires Georgia miscellanies Historic county seats chief towns and noted localities written by Lucian Lamar Knight and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weird Georgia written by Jim Miles and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eerie Georgia written by Jim Miles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia is a thoroughly modern state, known for its vibrant culture and bustling economy. Despite this veneer of normalcy, strange legends lurk around every corner. Former president Jimmy Carter's family consulted a psychic in an attempt to find one of the farm's wayward dogs. A Hall County ranch was plagued by mysterious cattle mutilations made with surgical precision. Eggs, alligators, turtles and frogs have rained down from the heavens across the state, from Columbus to Savannah. Evidence suggests that ancient seafarers regularly visited the Peach State centuries before Columbus reached the New World. Author Jim Miles explores these and many more in a collection of stories that can be found only in the Peach State.
Download or read book Haunted Augusta and Local Legends written by Sean Joiner and published by Llumina Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the shadows of Augusta, Georgia is another world. It's a world of mystery and legend, a world of ghosts who haunt Georgia's second oldest city. In this combination of history and legend, the eerie side of Augusta is revealed.
Download or read book Hard to Believe But True Book of Georgia History Mystery Trivia Legend Lore Humor and More written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weird Georgia written by Jim Miles and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Georgia is the result of twenty-five years of research on strange and unexplained events that have been reported as taking place in the Peach State. Filled with factual accounts, not rehashed folklore, and supported by reputable evidence.
Download or read book In Search of Myths Heroes written by Michael Wood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to a forthcoming PBS series, Wood journeys to some of the remotest places on earth in search of four of mankind's most powerful myths: Shangri-La, Jason and the Golden Fleece, the Queen of Sheba, and King Arthur.
Download or read book Spooky Georgia written by S. E. Schlosser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in the Peach State. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.
Download or read book Giving up the Ghost written by Heather Olson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Sherman has decided to get a life. She wants to come out of her shell and meet new people. One step toward this is interviewing people in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains for an oral history project. She meets a ninety-something lady who has been keeping company with a ghost since she was a little girl, and her sister-in-law, who owns most of the mineral rights to north Georgia. She also meets a rugged mountain man who would like to get his hands on those mineral rights and a handsome geologist who just might have more on his mind than gold. Then odd things start happening. Anna is trapped inside a dirt tunnel gold mine, dropped down a mine shaft, and accused of murder. Can anything else go wrong?
Download or read book Georgia s Unsolved Mysteries written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgia Timeline written by Carole Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted South Georgia written by Jim Miles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each county in the vast territory of southern Georgia has a haunted history. The old Barber-Tucker Inn in Colquitt County and the renovated former Scottish Inn in Bryan County host ghostly guests. A profane spirit disturbed a house's former residents with vile language. The Hairy Man still searches a swamp for his long-lost son. A Dodge County ghost twice saved the lives of a family's children, while one in Liberty County mysteriously extinguished a fire that would have destroyed a historic house. Ghosts in Randolph County and Echols County provided the living with evidence sufficient to convict their murderers. Join author Jim Miles as he recounts stories from the fifty-seven counties of the region.
Download or read book Legends Lore of Columbus Georgia written by Faith Serafin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did a shy country girl named Isabella Burt shapeshift into a beast and steal off into the night to sink fang and claw into unsuspecting bovines? With Burt more than one hundred years in the grave, the question lingers, along with a litany of unsettling Columbus lore. Author Faith Serafin is here to make sure these legends aren't altogether forgotten. There might even be profit in recollecting. Consider the lost gold of the Confederacy, once thought to be housed in what became Iron Bank Coffee. Take a step back and peer into the night sky with young Jimmy Carter to determine for yourself what strange light flashes above the tree line, and dare to parse fact from fiction with the legend of the Brickyard Road Witch. The stories here, multifold and confounding, test the limits of even the most skeptical.
