Haunted Places In The American South
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Tales from the Haunted South
Author | : Tiya Miles |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2015-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469626345 |
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In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.
Haunted Places in the American South
Author | : Alan Brown |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2009-10-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781628469011 |
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Before Alan Brown wrote Haunted Places in the American South, only the locals knew what was lurking in these locations. Slamming doors, eerie lights, and Confederate soldiers' ghosts kept some folks too scared to talk with outsiders. Above Peavey Melody Music in Meridian, Mississippi, children may be heard giggling and running down an abandoned hallway that turns icy cold. At the Jameson Inn in Crestview, Florida, an apparition appears on surveillance tapes after filling the lobby with sweet-smelling cigar smoke. Seldom told and rarely—if ever—printed stories such as these join tales from haunted inns, mansions, forests, ravines, and prisons to create Haunted Places in the American South. The book collects ghost stories from fifty-five historically haunted sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Alan Brown gathered these stories from newspapers, magazines, museum directors, archaeologists, hotel managers, and many others who shared their disturbing experiences. Most of these stories have never appeared in book form, and some, such as the haunting of Peavey Melody Music, have never been published at all. Haunted Places in the American South differs from most other collections of southern ghost stories, for the featured sites include more than just haunted houses. Bridges, forts, governors' mansions, prisons, hotels, woods, theaters, cemeteries, and even a large rock are included as focal points for these tales. The book provides directions to the sites, notes, and a bibliography that will be useful to folklore scholars and to travelers seeking that cold and creepy brush with the supernatural.
Haunted Places in the American South
Author | : Alan Brown |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781604735833 |
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Your guide to the spookiest spots in Dixie
Ghost Stories from the American South
Author | : W. K. McNeil |
Publsiher | : august house |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0935304843 |
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Collects Southern legends and folk tales about haunted houses, supernatural events, and the appearances of ghosts
Haunted Places in America
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781599217062 |
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Stories from the Haunted South
Author | : Alan Brown |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Ghosts |
ISBN | : 1617034835 |
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Ghost stories from various southern states in America.
Haunted Places
Author | : Dennis William Hauck |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2002-08-27 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781440673221 |
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In almost every town in America there are places where strange things happen. The perfect companion to The International Directory of Haunted Places, this revised and updated edition of Haunted Places is both a fascinating and unusual travel guide as well as an indispensable casebook for those interested in the paranormal. From buildings and parks believed to have resident ghosts and poltergeists to areas where Bigfoot or UFO sightings are most frequently reported, Haunted Places will lead you to more than 2,000 sites of paranormal activity across the United States. Organized alphabetically by state, each entry is referenced to an extensive bibliography of sources-with descriptions, addresses, phone numbers, Web sites, and travel directions provided for all locations.
Ghosts of the Southern Mountains and Appalachia
Author | : Nancy Roberts |
Publsiher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2019-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781643360423 |
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Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural. This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who enjoyed her stories and articles, Roberts wrote her first book in 1958. Aptly called a "custodian of the twilight zone" by Southern Living magazine, Roberts based her suspenseful stories on interviews and her rich knowledge of American folklore. Her stories were always rooted in history, which earned her a certificate of commendation from the American Association of State and Local History for her books on the Carolinas and Appalachia.