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Author | : Deborah Carr Senger |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2016-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439657602 |
Discover the haunting history—and supernatural mysteries—of this Midwestern city and its resident ghosts. Includes photos! From the clamor of bygone parades to the phantom scent of burned rubber on Route 66, ghoulish and supernatural visions flourish in Bloomington-Normal . . . Claimed by a devastating fire in 1859, the spirit of a young girl haunts Kelly’s Bakery. Visitors to Kemp Hall report seeing the specter of a lady in red. Cantankerous pitcher Charles “Old Hoss” Radhourn trolls Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. In this spooky book, Deborah Carr Senger embarks on a tour of Bloomington-Normal’s haunted heritage.
Author | : Deborah Carr Hollingsworth, Foreword by |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467144207 |
Sumter County's serene beauty is cloaked by mystery--a Seminole sage's timeless spell, a lurking swamp monster, a family's spirited legacy and the ghostly cries of brokenhearted souls. Floridian bad boys, mobsters and bank robbers line the pages of Sumter County's criminal past. Murder, mayhem and mystery are embedded in our cultural timeline, from the indigenous eradication to the present-day retirement utopia. Step into the paranormal possibilities swirling inside the historic Baker House in Wildwood. Sense the residual energy that sways from Sumter County's courthouse front steps. Feel the county's macabre history come alive as Deborah Carr Hollingsworth churns up chilling tales from our mysterious past.
Author | : Sylvia Shults |
Publisher | : Crossroad Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2022-07-16 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : |
Welcome to the first volume of an exciting new series, Grave Deeds and Dead Plots. These collections feature spine-tingling tales of true crime ... with added ghosts. Each story is a tale of murder, passion, or cold-blooded killing—and each case has resulted in an eerie haunting. Do the victims of true crime remain to tell the tales of their untimely demise? Are the dead still crying out for justice? Do the departed have stories to share? Find out in the first installment of Grave Deeds and Dead Plots, a new series by award-winning* author Sylvia Shults." *First Place in the Spring 2022 BookFest Awards, for Days of the Dead: A Year of True Ghost Stories
Author | : Diane Goldstein |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2007-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0874216818 |
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Author | : Troy Taylor |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1493045776 |
Hauntings are believed to be created from violence and bloodshed. And from the beginning, the Prairie State was a place where death thrived, and mysteries became commonplace. Illinois was the home of ancient peoples know as Moundbuilders whose only legacy is silent graves and many unsolved mysteries. The French left behind their own ghostly stories after their displacement by the Americans in the 1700s and countless slaughters such as the Dearborn Massacre gave birth to tales of horror that live on in the history of Illinois. Eerie occurrences, spooky events, unsolved mysteries, and terrifying specters haunt Illinois. Tales of headless horsemen, haunted castles and a penitentiary occupied by ghosts chill the spines of visitors. Haunted Illinois explores the Prairie State’s paranormal side and serves as a guide to its haunted places.
Author | : James Houran |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780810850545 |
"The writers of From Shaman to Scientist take the approach that there is no such thing as the supernatural, only things we don't yet understand. The ghost experience is examined through case studies; forms and functions ghost hunters have taken throughout history; key historical figures and their influence on the research of ghostly phenomena: ghost hunting in the twenty-first century, including the exploding trend of Internet ghost-hunting organizations; and the advances in the theory and technology of the parapsychology field. For those who are skeptical about the reality of ghosts but want to understand how so many individuals claim to have anomalous experiences, this collection reviews the data, offers insight into logical explanations, and discusses why this is - and has been for centuries - such an important and intriguing issue."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jeffrey Sconce |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780822325727 |
Examines the repeated association of new electronic media with spiritual phenomena from the telegraph in the late 19th century to television.
Author | : John Weiss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Historic sites |
ISBN | : 9780960457632 |
Author | : Ruth Ann Musick |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1965-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780813101361 |
" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
Author | : Troy Taylor |
Publisher | : Whitechapel Productions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-12 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781892523082 |
Readers can take a trip back in time and discover the people and places of yesteryear and find out why Alton, Illinois, has been named one of the most haunted regions in America. Explore its early history, then prepare for a spine-tingling look at the area's legends, lore, ghosts and hauntings.