Piedmont Phantoms
Piedmont Phantoms

Author: Daniel W. Barefoot

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780895874573

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Piedmont Phantoms offers 40 tales from the state's populous midsection. "Capitol Haunts," the Wake County story, tells of strange doings at the State Capitol-an unoccupied elevator moving from floor to floor, an unseen hand touching a security guard, the sounds of books falling off shelves and barrels rolling down stairs. "Ghostly Legacy of the Swamp Fox," the Robeson County story, introduces the spirits of the traitor who betrayed Revolutionary War general Francis Marion and the Highland Scot girl who made him do it. "The Hunter at the Zoo," the Randolph County story, describes the ghost of the Confederate recruiter who once hunted human prey at what is now North Carolina Zoological Park.

Ghosts of the Triad
Ghosts of the Triad

Author: Michael Renegar

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-08-23

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1625841620

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“A fantastic job of storytelling to the point that it literally sends shivers down the reader’s spine . . . entertaining and informative” (YES! Weekly). Don’t be fooled by the scenic beauty of North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad—the ghosts of the past haunt these rolling hills and unique cities. From the smallpox-stricken ghost that haunts Salem Tavern in Winston-Salem to the slain Revolutionary War soldiers who linger in the park surrounding Guilford Courthouse in Greensboro, these phantoms all have a tale to tell. Some ghosts even support education. Take Jane, the lonely spinster who haunts Aycock Auditorium at the UNC-Greensboro campus, or Herschel, High Point University’s ghost of the former Memorial Theater. And though Spookywoods Haunted Attraction in Kersey Valley often frightens and astounds, some of the resident ghosts aren’t just special effects. Join Camel City Spirit Seekers Michael Renegar and Amy Spease as they reveal the eerie and chilling stories from the heart of the Piedmont. Includes photos! “If you want some spooky ghost stories to get you in the mood for Halloween, Triad ghost-hunters/authors Michael Renegar and Amy Spease may have just what you’re looking for.” —The News & Record

Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont

Author: Georgann Eubanks

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010-10-15

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0807899526

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Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture--insights rarely found in travel guidebooks. Featured authors include O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, and David Sedaris. Literary Trails is an exciting way to see anew the places that you already love and to discover new people and places you hadn't known about. The region's rich literary heritage will surprise and delight all readers.

Haunted North Carolina
Haunted North Carolina

Author: Patty A. Wilson

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0811735850

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Rich in Native American, Colonial, and Civil War history, North Carolina harbors ghosts from tidewater to mountains.

Spooky North Carolina
Spooky North Carolina

Author: S. E. Schlosser

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-08-18

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0762756225

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Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in North Carolina.

Cursed in the Carolinas
Cursed in the Carolinas

Author: Patty A. Wilson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1493022229

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In Cursed in the Carolinas, Patty A. Wilson recounts tales of genuine maledictions intended to invoke evil and unease across both North and South Carolina. The pages will bring to life these stories, letting you decide whether the resulting tragedies were simply bad luck, coincidences…or something far more sinister.

Gone on Vacation
Gone on Vacation

Author: Sylvia Shults

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Ah, vacations. There's nothing like getting away from it all, taking in a change of scenery, and maybe visiting a museum. Or enjoying animal antics at a zoo. Or scaring yourself silly on a rollercoaster at an amusement park. But the unseen can linger even in these pleasant places. Join award-winning paranormal reporter Sylvia Shults for a look at the darker side of your summer vacation.

Phantoms of Remembrance
Phantoms of Remembrance

Author: Patrick J. Geary

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1400843545

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In Phantoms of Remembrance, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both their written and nonwritten ways of preserving the past. Women praying for their dead, monks creating and re-creating their archives, scribes choosing which royal families of the past to applaud and which to forget: it is from such sources that most of our knowledge of the medieval period comes. Throughout richly detailed descriptions of various acts of remembrance--including the naming of children and the recording of visions--the author unearths a wide range of approaches to preserving the past as it was or formulating the past that an individual or group prefers to imagine.

Haunted Halls of Ivy
Haunted Halls of Ivy

Author: Daniel W. Barefoot

Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13:

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If you're touring Flagler College in historic St. Augustine, look for an old man in a straw hat who wanders away from your group. He is Henry Flagler, railroad magnate, co-owner of Standard Oil, and perhaps the man most responsible for the Florida boom. He built the spectacular, 540-room, Moorish Revival palace that now houses his namesake college. And he died back in 1913. The glow around the door of the unoccupied room on the third floor is the spirit of Henry Flagler's second wife. The phantom footsteps on the marble stairs to the mezzanine are the wraith of his third wife. The woman in black beckoning from the fourth floor is the ghost of his mistress, said to be imprisoned there. Haunted Halls of Ivy contains thirty-nine supernatural tales from colleges and universities throughout the South. Some of the region's oldest, largest, and most famous institutions are represented here, as are smaller, well-respected schools. This isn't the dull, archetypal stuff you had to learn in Professor Staff's Paranormal Events 101 class back at State Tech U.