[PDF] Haunted Plantations Of The South eBook

Author : Geordie Buxton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738525013

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A shackled West African tribe drags themselves off a slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy triggers a heart attack in a city museum. These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America's past--real lives of people on plantations from Savannah and the coast of the Carolinas. Most deal with the hub of the East Coast slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina. All are richly illustrated with both historic and contemporary images. Dwelling in the affairs of plantation life is to tread the fires of emotionally raw history. Sifting through the folklore and legends, the old hushed embers of the south ignite once again in this collection. While these stories relate encounters with the supernatural, readers will find that what actually happened here doesn't always need a ghost to be disquieting.

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1469626349

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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.

Author : Richard Southall
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738745561

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Step into the mysterious world of haunted plantations, where you'll meet the restless spirits of soldiers, slaves, and owners who roam the antiquated halls. Presenting majestic homes from seven southern states, this remarkable guide contains dramatic history and true stories from the days before and during the Civil War. Join paranormal expert Richard Southall on an awe-inspiring journey through each plantation, exploring grand houses and their ghastly ghouls. Haunted Plantations of the South presents fascinating research, in-depth interviews with ghost hunters, and unforgettable encounters full of paranormal activity and evidence. Discover the phantom casket of the Sweetwater Plantation, the Man in Black who haunts Bellamy Mansion, and many more compelling ghost stories along the way.

Author : Deran Gray
Publisher : Deran Gray
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2020-04-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :

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The historic South was one that was doted with grand palatial plantation estates. However, the riches found in the cash crops at the time were often built off of human suffering. Which might explain why many of these houses are said to be some of the most haunted locations in America. Join author Deran Gray as he takes you on tour of some of the most haunted plantations of the American South and meet some of the ghost's that haunt them.

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 160473583X

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Your guide to the spookiest spots in Dixie

Author : Cheryl H. White
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1625854021

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Stories of ghosts and strange happenings at these historic Southern homes—with photos included. Louisiana plantations evoke images of grandeur and elegance, but beyond the facade of stately homes are stories of hope and subjugation, tragedy and suffering, shame and perseverance and war and conquest. After sixteen workers axed most of the Houmas House’s ancient oak trees, referred to as “the Gentlemen,” eight of the surviving trees eerily twisted overnight in grief over the losses wrought by a great Mississippi River flood. An illegal duel to reclaim lost honor left the grounds of Natchez’s Cherokee Plantation bloodstained, but the victim’s spirit may still wander there today. A mutilated slave girl named Chloe still haunts the halls of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville. In this book, Cheryl H. White and W. Ryan Smith reveal the dark history, folklore, and lasting human cost of Louisiana plantation life.

Author : Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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The first of six Jeffrey ghost story books centers on Jeffrey's favorite 13 ghostly tales set in Alabama.

Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1416553444

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The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by an all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves.

Author : Colin Dickey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 1101980192

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An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places--and deep into the dark side of our history.

Author : Frances Kermeen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0446510726

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Welcome to The Myrtles, the most haunted house in America. Broken clocks tick...beds rise in the air...paintings fly across the room...locked doors fling open...crystal chandeliers shake...heavy footsteps and eerie piano music sound in the dead of night -- and that's just for starters. Welcome to the Myrtles Long. Recognized as America's most haunted house both by parapsychologists and the media, The Myrtles is a twenty-eight-room Louisiana bed-and-breakfast once owned by Frances Kermeen. In this spine-tingling chronicle, Frances tells the story of how she was drawn to this former plantation mansion, its bone-chilling history, and the incredible encounters of the ghostly kind she had that forever changed her beliefs about the supernatural -- and just may change yours. Along with the sometimes terrifying, sometimes benevolent hauntings, her years at The Myrtles also brought death threats from the Ku Klux Klan, the tragic loss of friends, a catastrophic betrayal, and other personal challenges. And they would all converge with the paranormal phenomena around her into one cataclysmic event...