Download or read book Ghosts in the Cemetery written by Stuart L. Schneider and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question always asked of spirit photographer Rebecca Benjamin is: Are the photographs real? The answer? Yes! In many cultures, spirits of the dead return to visit. They choose a time to return when the "veil," or separation between life and death and
Download or read book Ghosts of Graveyards Past written by Laura Briggs and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A search for historic secrets may uncover a present day loveWriter-historian Jenna Cade has spent her life in search of the past, particularly with her latest quest to document abandoned cemeteries of the South and the stories behind the stones. But her search for a forgotten graveyard in quaint Sylvan Spring leads her to more than the ghosts of graves untended by human hands—it leads her to the doorstep of reclusive stone carver Con Taggart. Still grieving his wife's death, Con has shut himself away from the world, but then a beautiful historian shows up at his door seeking a link between mysterious burial stones and a legend that lingers in the town's history. Working together to uncover the truth behind the lost cemetery may form a deeper connection between them than either realizes. Can the ghosts of graveyards past show these two how to trust in God and to find a love more tangible than any legendary tale of apparitions?
Download or read book Haunted Cemeteries written by Tom Ogden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody knows better. Yet from the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries there have been countless stories of ghost encounters at churchyards, secular cemeteries, ancient burial grounds, and isolated graves. The second edition of Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than 200 haunted happenings from restless graveyard ghosts in cemeteries across each of the fifty states and Washington, DC, including: Nevermore!: At least four entities, including the spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, haunt Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore. And just who is the mysterious Man in Black that shows up every year on January 19, the writer’s birthday?. The Resurrection Apparition: A “hitchhiking ghost” outside Justice, Illinois, vanishes from the car she’s riding in as it passes Resurrection Cemetery—earning her the nickname Resurrection Mary. The Queen of Voodoo: The restless spirit of Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century Queen of Voodoo, is said to appear in New Orleans’s St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in the form of a gigantic black crow or a phantom black hellhound—when she’s not walking through the French Quarter.
Download or read book The Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
Download or read book Graveyards of Chicago written by Matt Hucke and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.
Download or read book True Hauntings written by Hazel M. Denning and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do spirits feel & think? Does death automatically promote them to a paradise-or as some believe, a hell?
Download or read book Graveyard written by Ed Warren and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2014-10-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ghosts are always hungry,” someone once said—and no one knows how ravenous they really are more than Ed & Lorraine Warren, the world’s most renowned paranormal investigators. For decades, Ed and Lorraine Warren hunted down the truth behind the most terrifying supernatural occurrences across the nation... and brought back astonishing evidence of their encounters with the unquiet dead. From the notorious house immortalized in The Amityville Horror to the bone-chilling events that inspired the hit film The Conjuring, the Warrens fearlessly probed the darkness of the world beyond our own, and documented the all-too-real experiences of the haunted and the possessed, the lingering deceased and the vengeful damned. Graveyard chronicles a host of their most harrowing, fact-based cases of ghostly visitations, demonic stalking, heart-wrenching otherworldly encounters, and horrifying comeuppance from the spirit world. If you don’t believe, you will. And whether you read it alone in the dead of night or in the middle of a sunny day, you’ll be forever haunted by its gallery of specters eager to feed on your darkest dread. Don’t miss the Warrens’ latest film “Annabelle” in theaters now.
Download or read book Haunted Graveyards of the Ozarks written by David E. Harkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrifying tour of cemeteries where ghosts of Civil War soldiers, criminals, and others wander the grounds . . . includes photos! From the neatly tended urban necropolis to the long-forgotten family plot at the end of a winding gravel road, these “quiet cities” of the Ozarks have the power to send chills up and down the spine of the most hardened skeptic. Be it the restless Civil War soldiers of Greenbrier, the mass murderer who stalks Peace Church, or the red eyes that persecute visitors to Robinson, tales of ghostly activity abound in every burial ground carved out of the ancient Ozark hills. Follow Dave Harkins as he explores the fascinating history and unsettling lore clinging to these haunted graveyards.
Download or read book The Ghost and the Graveyard written by Genevieve Jack and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left destitute by her unscrupulous ex-boyfriend, Grateful Knight accepts her father's offer of a rent-free house despite the fact that a graveyeard touches the home's back door. But the gorgeous cemetary caretaker, Rick, is set on helping her feel at home, and she can't keep her hands off him. And then a sexy ghost with a dark secret enters the home. Can she solve the mystery of the ghost and decide whether to give her love to Rick or to the ghost?
Download or read book Whistling Past the Graveyard written by Susan Crandall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip. Whistling past the graveyard. That’s what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear... In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home. Starla’s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is—as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.
Download or read book True Ghost Stories written by Zachery Knowles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a Scare? Then Read These 22 Spine-chilling Stories Are you interested in reading true stories of haunted cemeteries from across the world? Think about what it would be standing in a cemetery when you are suddenly hit by a wind so powerful, it knocks you to the ground, yet the nearby trees are not moving at all. Or as one gentleman whom had has picture taken at an infamous Old West Cemetery, only to have it developed and discover someone else was in the picture, too-holding a knife. Envision yourself walking along in a cemetery when a tall, handsome young man approaches asking for the location of a crypt. When you politely respond in the negative, he politely thanks you, turns, and disappears. Be cautious visiting a cemetery at dusk for a pack of large, dark-colored hellhounds with fiery red eyes might pass right through the trees as they are running toward you, barking and baying in a terrifying fashion. These stories and more fill the pages of this book. Included are cemetery hauntings from all over the world, including the United States, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Egypt, Argentina, Mexico, and Czechoslovakia. Infamous hauntings from Greyfriars Kirkyard and Stull Cemetery, as well as countless lesser-known hauntings are guaranteed to unnerve even the bravest of readers. Ghosts of criminals, police chiefs, murder victims, innocent young children, distraught mothers, lonely bachelors, forlorn lovers, a cursed pharaoh and many more are described in this book. All sorts of manifestations are also integrated including ghostly animals, shadows cast by a hangman's tree no longer there, a screaming skull encased in concrete...these are just a few of the ghostly manifestations you will learn of within these pages. Be prepared to view cemeteries in a whole new light. Don't read this without all the lights on and think twice before visiting any of these cemeteries without showing the proper respect-you may not come out with your sanity intact. Ready to scare yourself senseless? Scroll to the top of the page and hit buy!
Download or read book Haunted History written by Cameron Banks and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses historic locations that are reputed to be haunted, including sites in Philadelphia, Savannah, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and San Francisco.
Download or read book A Fine and Private Place written by Peter S. Beagle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Rebeck is homeless. Bankrupt. He has dropped out of society and has been living quietly in a local cemetery, under the care of a raven who is quite good at stealing sandwiches. Far from being lonely, Jonathan is able to converse with the ghosts around him, and finds himself following two spirits who are new, and falling in love with each other. When a visiting widow stumbles across him, will the living world begin to intrude on this fine and private place?
Download or read book Cemetery Stories written by Katherine Ramsland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of the dead as Katherine Ramsland talks to mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and more, and find out about: Stitching and cosmetic secrets used on mutilated bodies Embalmers who do more than just embalm The rising popularity of cremation art Ghosts that infest graveyards everywhere If you've ever scoffed at the high price of burying the dead, or ever wondered how your loved ones are handled when they die, or simply stared at tombstones with morbid fascination, then take a trip with Katherine Ramsland and learn about the booming industry -- and strange tales -- that surround cemeteries everywhere.
Download or read book Ghosts in the Graveyard written by Robert Ropars and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some games only children should play... Ten years ago, three girlfriends set out to play an innocent child's game: Ghosts in the Graveyard. They knew they shouldn't sneak into a cemetery on Halloween night, but the twins, Lisa & Louise Grady, and Ari West were always up for some mischief. When one of the twins disappears without a trace that night, her sister and best friend never recover from that loss. Now Ari must race against time to find out what really happened to her lost friend. In this spellbinding Gothic horror story, Ari and her family become convinced something is trying to possess her. As they experience increasingly violent psychic phenomena, will she learn what really happened ten years ago before history repeats itself and her soul is lost forever?
Download or read book American Hauntings written by Troy Taylor and published by Whitechapel Productions. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mediums of Spiritualism's golden age to the ghost hunters of the modern era, Taylor shines a light on the phantasms and frauds of the past, the first researchers who dared to investigate the unknown, and the stories and events that galvanized the pubic and created the paranormal field that we know today.
Download or read book Wish You Were Here written by Loren Rhoads and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every tourist destination has a graveyard. Over the past two and a half decades, Loren Rhoads has visited literally hundreds of graveyards. She's traveled to London's Highgate Cemetery, strolled through the Paris Catacombs, seen Hollywood Forever pulled back from the brink of destruction, studied Native American graveyards in Michigan, explored a circuit minister¿s churchyard on Maui, delved into the Protestant Cemetery of Rome and Zoshigaya Reien in Tokyo, and made stops in Venice, Boston, Los Angeles, Hiroshima, Yosemite, Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, and New Orleans along the way. Come along on her adventures in cemeteries around the world.
