Download or read book Swamped by Ghosts written by J. Katherine Till and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in this book actually happened and is portrayed according to the recollection of those involved. Many unusual things have occurred in my family, and some of them are of a paranormal origin. All of them took place in the marshy lands of southern Louisiana, thus giving the title of the book, Swamped by Ghosts, two meanings. I did not intend to write this book. I initially wrote some ghost stories to put in a genealogy book that I was writing about my family, but then I realized that there were enough ghost stories to create a separate book—which eventually became the first printing of my book, Haunted House of the Rising Sun. This book was composed of stories about a beautiful mansion in the New Orleans area that I lived in with my first husband and our two children. What started out as a dream come true became more like a nightmare, as we witnessed hauntings almost every day of the four years we lived there. People who enjoyed reading Haunted House of the Rising Sun asked if I had other ghost stories. Without knowing this, my brother Joseph Adair and then my cousin Nora Jewell both suggested that I write a book about our childhood experiences. This inspired me to write the book you are now reading, Swamped by Ghosts. Ghost encounters of other family members have also been included in this book. Some of the stories in both of these books are funny, a few seem unbelievable, and several are downright frightening—but all of them are true. So sit back and try to relax as you share this journey with me through incredible accounts of the supernatural.
Download or read book The Ghost Orchid Ghost written by Doug Alderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida's famous swamps—from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell—serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses; the swamp can be a refuge or a nightmare. Mysterious things just happen in swamps. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses; the swamp can be a refuge or a nightmare. Where else can you find a ghost baby, or an angry specter, or a lost soul? How about a ghost who is obsessed with the ghost orchid, or an alluring snake woman? Throw in a skunk ape or two and you've got the ingredients for many entertaining hours sharing these stories around a campfire or reading them to yourself or out loud. From the Author's Notes at the end of each story, you can learn a thing or two about Florida's swamps, creatures, and history, along with storytelling tips. Florida is rich in history, natural beauty, and ecological and cultural diversity. To protect what is special about our state it is important to educate the people who live here and our visitors. In this unique book you'll find tales of mystery and intrigue interwoven with important facts and lessons of natural history. Who but a naturalist can really scare you about what lurks in the swamp? Doug Alderson has been there and knows. In writing tales for this book, Doug Alderson drew upon many years of entertaining young people as a summer camp counselor and storyteller, and also from decades as a swamp explorer. He is a former associate editor of Florida Wildlife magazine. To learn more about his writing and photography, check out his website at www.dougalderson.net.
Download or read book Ghosts of the Green Swamp written by Lee Gramling and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tate Barkley is back setting out to the vast and ominous swampland west of Orlando. Tate meets up with the odd and ornery little bald “perfessor" named Monk, who sells elixirs from his odd contraption of a wagon. Tate and Monk—and an odd assortment of other characters—follow a trail that draws them ever deeper into that vast forbidding swampland near the headwaters of the Withlacoochee River. This Cracker Western will have your spine tingling as it races on to the final all-out showdown
Download or read book Spooky Stories from the Swamp written by Doug Alderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida's famous swamps—from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell—serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses; the swamp can be a refuge or a nightmare. Mysterious things just happen in swamps. Maybe it's because they are often wet, shadowy places of wild beauty where few people dare to penetrate. They are havens for snakes, alligators, black bears, wildcats, and who knows what. People on the run have often hidden in swamps, while others have gotten lost in the watery expanses; the swamp can be a refuge or a nightmare. Where else can you find a ghost baby, or an angry specter, or a lost soul? How about a ghost who is obsessed with the ghost orchid, or an alluring snake woman? Throw in a skunk ape or two and you've got the ingredients for many entertaining hours sharing these stories around a campfire or reading them to yourself or out loud.
Download or read book Swamp of Lost Souls written by Thomas Kingsley Troupe and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchac Swamp in New Orleans, Louisiana, is rumored to be haunted, but Josh doesn’t believe it. When his coworker crashes their airboat, leaving them stranded, they find the souls of a long-ago town. Will the boys find their way out, or will they join the lost souls of Manchac Swamp?
Download or read book Ghost Swamp Blues written by Laraine Herring and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to protect someone you love? Nothing is black or white in the murky town of Alderman, North Carolina, no matter how much the human and ghostly residents of Idyllic Grove Rice Plantation would like it to be. In 1949, fourteen-year-old Lillian Green witnesses the unthinkable. Her choice to remain silent about what she saw ripples into the swamp water surrounding her family s home, awakening the ghost of Roberta du Bois, former rice plantation mistress, who drowned herself in the swamp in 1859. Roberta and Lillian forge a bond based on shame, silence, and an impenetrable loneliness. When Lillian s daughter Hannah is born into the maze of haunted hallways, Lillian has no interest in raising her. Left alone, Hannah discovers Roberta as well as her own exceptional singing voice. The tangled storylines of the three women rooted to this Southern landscape pull the reader into the layers of racism, family loyalties, and hidden relationships that intertwine as naturally as the kudzu that covers the trees where the Swamp Sirens sing. When the truth about what Lillian saw surfaces, no one, living or dead, can prevent what must come next.
Download or read book Alabama Swamp Ghosts written by Larson Edge and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in rural Alabama Seth Young's world is filled with bicycles, sunny afternoons and skinny dipping, until he and his friend, Frankie Parker, stumble onto an object that has been hidden for years in the depths of Boiling Springs. Seth and his "Bike Commandos" take on the mysteries surrounding the town of Clarksville and investigate the meanest man they ever knew, Constable Jake Marlowe. Their desires for Friday night football games and Sunday fried chicken dinners vanish when they uncover the secrets of Varner's Swamp. In his book, "Alabama Swamp Ghosts," Larson Edge explores the adventure of growing up the 1950s rural South. Seth and his "Bike Commandos" take on the mysteries surrounding the town of Clarksville and investigate the meanest man they ever knew, Constable Jake Marlowe. Their desires for Friday night football games and Sunday fried chicken dinners vanish when they uncover the secrets hidden in Varner's Swamp. In his book, "Alabama Swamp Ghosts," Larson Edge explores the adventure of growing up the 1950s rural South.
Download or read book Whispers from the Swamp written by C. A. Varian and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The swamps near New Orleans harbor more than snakes and gators... There are monsters of legend... and the spirits left behind whisper in your ear. Many changes are happening in the life of Hazel Watson... good changes... but the demands of the spirit world remain the same. The exhausting, stressful obligations she's dealt with since she was a child. Helping them is inescapable. So, when the bodies of two women are discovered in the swamps of South Louisiana, the people of New Orleans are shocked... but not Hazel. She had been seeing the faces of those same two women in her dreams for weeks, haunting her and beckoning her to find their killer. Having never been comfortable with sharing the nature of her abilities with others, Hazel struggles with having to do just that when she receives a ghostly warning about the impending abduction of another woman. Can Hazel overcome her fear of being exposed, and of the swamp itself, before more women fall victim to the killer who stalks the Louisiana wetlands?
Download or read book The Haunting of the Hockomock Swamp written by H. E. Kline and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janie Williams falls upon a sensational news story involving a childhood epilepsy epidemic raging across several towns in Massachusetts abutting The Hockomock Swamp. Problem is: she's a newbie and her bosses don't think this story is quite “newsworthy.” However, nothing is as it seems. As the children convulse, they step into an alternate dimension as they follow an Indian ghost named Metacom deep into the woods within The Hockomock Swamp. Metacom shapeshifts into a three-headed dragon that showers the children in rainstorms of blood, metamorphoses into a flying pterodactyl dropping the children into the swamp, shows them horrors that plague their young minds. Metacom is trying to show the children something, but what is Metacom trying to show them? As Janie investigates and researches this phenomenon, she falls deeply in love and experiences her first orgasm. Suspenseful, erotic, and provocative, The Haunting of The Hockomock Swamp will captivate your imagination as you follow an Indian ghost deep into the woods.
Download or read book Epistemic Cultures written by Karin Knorr Cetina and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology. Her work highlights the diversity of these cultures of knowing and, in its depiction of their differences--in the meaning of the empirical, the enactment of object relations, and the fashioning of social relations--challenges the accepted view of a unified science. By many accounts, contemporary Western societies are becoming knowledge societies--which run on expert processes and expert systems epitomized by science and structured into all areas of social life. By looking at epistemic cultures in two sample cases, this book addresses pressing questions about how such expert systems and processes work, what principles inform their cognitive and procedural orientations, and whether their organization, structures, and operations can be extended to other forms of social order. The first ethnographic study to systematically compare two different scientific laboratory cultures, this book sharpens our focus on epistemic cultures as the basis of the knowledge society.
Download or read book Dead Lee s 2015 Guide To Haunted Chicago written by John Petz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Haunted Chicago book series turns 10 years old this year (Oct 2015) and to celebrate I'm releasing this special anniversary edition packed full of wicked goodies. All of the classics and favorites are back, completely updated as well as multiple brand new locations. I'm also giving you a super special treat... for the very first time I give to you the complete, unedited version of Pop Rocks, Myths and Madmen, featuring all 6 stories... how cool is that? Be warned this special edition has all of my whit, charming personality, twisted sense of humor and wicked commentary... turned up to eleven. If you are easily offended may I suggest the Family Friendly Edition.
Download or read book Swamp Lore Campfire Legends written by Sean Terrence Best and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a curtain of uncertainty over the future. The wolf howls, the flower ebbs, the scarlet glow of autumn tinges the soul of the lovelorn with fading echoes of petal-soft promises whispered amid silvery shimmers of lost bewitching moonlight.
Download or read book Shadows and Cypress written by Alan Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bewitching convocation of Dixie's most frightening ghost tales From backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories. "Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories" is a Dixie s(r)ance that summons ghost tales from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Collecting more than a dozen stories from each state, this book channels the South's entire panorama of creepy locales into one volume. The limestone caves of Kentucky, the swamps of Louisiana and Florida, the pine hills and hollows of Appalachia, and the plains of Texas -- these are perfect haunts for a host of narratives about visitors from the spirit world. The many cultures that converged in the American South enriched the region's ghost stories. "Shadows and Cypress" taps African American, French, Hispanic, and Scotch-Irish storytelling traditions to capture the distinctive signatures that each has left on ghostlore. Throughout the region, the southern ghost story is hardly a curio from the crypt. It's still alive and well. Folklorist Alan Brown draws stories from crannies as contemporary as the college dormitory or cars parked on a lover's lane. To give the reader the unique experience of hearing a classic ghost story told, Brown presents these tales exactly as they were recorded in his field research or as archived in the trove of the WPA oral collections. A wide variety of spectres found only in this region arise in "Shadows and Cypress." The fillet and loogaru from Louisiana, plat-eye from South Carolina, and haints from across Dixie are among the creatures bumping in the night. Beginning with the Revolutionary War and continuing to present day, this generous gathering of tales will chill and delight readers and long haunt shelves as a comprehensive sourcebook of the region's supernatural allure. Alan Brown is a professor of English at the University of West Alabama. He has published several books, including "Dim Roads and Dark Nights" (1993) and "The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore" (1996).
Download or read book Ghosts Apparitions and Poltergeists written by Brian Righi and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skeletal remains rotting behind cellar walls, temple priests removing brains with iron hooks, phantom locomotives roaring across midnight plains—Brian Righi isn't making this stuff up. The ghost stories he finds in history are far more chilling than any Hollywood horror scene. Join the seasoned paranormal investigator on a tour through mankind's millennium-old obsession with death and the afterlife. Ghosts, Apparitions and Poltergeists surveys 4,000 years of hauntings and ghost huntings—from the embalming rituals of ancient Egypt to the Ouija boards and séances of nineteenth century Spiritualism—highlighting a few outlandish tales and colorful characters along the way. Once you've learned the history, launch a paranormal investigation of your own with Righi's guide to modern ghost hunting, full of detailed advice culled from his seven years of experience in the field.
Download or read book Haunted Jersey Shore written by Charles A. Stansfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder ... let your imagination run wild as you read about the Jersey Shore's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of the New Jersey Devil or the pirate ghosts at Cape May Point, but perhaps you haven't heard about: Captain Kidd's treasure, which sits guarded on the beach by the ghost of Timothy Jones, who lays in wait to get revenge on the pirate who back stabbed him; the Ghost Towns of the Pinelands, which sit abandoned and haunted only miles from busy tourist destinations; and the Confederate ghosts of Finn's Point, who can be seen marching on foggy nights, bitter and vengeful.
Download or read book Dead Lee s Family Friendly Guide To Haunted Chicago written by John Petz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Haunted Chicago book series turns 10 years old this year (Oct 2015) and as part of that celebration I'm releasing this fan requested special edition ahead of the regular release due out later this year. For years you people have asked for a family friendly entry into this series, so here it is... almost completely devoid of my whit, charming personality, twisted sense of humor and wicked commentary... in short a Dead Lee book without Dead Lee. To achieve this, this book has been aggressively edited down to a rather anemic 88 locations and 317 pages. Outside of a few stray words here and there, this is as close to family friendly as I can get.
Download or read book Ghosts from Our Past written by Erin Gilbert and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen in the Sony Pictures 2016 film Ghostbusters, the ultimate guide to identifying, understanding, and engaging with any paranormal activity that plagues you Years before they made headlines with the Ghostbusters, Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates published the groundbreaking study of the paranormal, Ghosts from Our Past. Once lost to history, this criminally underappreciated book is now updated for the new century. According to Gilbert and Yates, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” and whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, you’ll find the information you’re seeking right here in this extraordinary book, including: • The childhood experiences that inspired Erin and Abby’s lifelong passion for the scientific study of the paranormal • The history of ghosts and other supernatural entities, the science that explains their existence, and profiles of the groundbreaking paranormal researchers who have investigated them • An illustrated guide to Class I through Class VII ghosts • Helpful sidebars like “A Ghost by Any Other Name” and “Ectoplasm Cleanup Tips” • Updates including “The Ghostbusters’ Arsenal” by Jillian Holtzmann and “Haunted History” by Patty Tolan • A new Ghostbusting Resources appendix, featuring the “Paranormal Quickstart Guide”, “Is It a Ghost? A Handy Quiz”, “A Supernatural Stakeout Journal”, “The Devil’s Dictionary: Paraterminology You Need to Know” With this helpful—and hilarious—official Ghostbusters guide in hand, you’ll be prepared for almost any spirit, spook, or spectre that comes your way. As for the rest, you know who to call.
