A Haunted History Of Louisiana Plantations

Author : Cheryl H. White
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625854021
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Haunted History of Louisiana Plantations written by Cheryl H. White and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626349
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Haunted South written by Tiya Miles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Darrell Overdyke
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Plantation Homes, Colonial and Antebellum written by William Darrell Overdyke and published by Crown. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jill Pascoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975474600
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Louisiana's Haunted Plantations written by Jill Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this collection of thirteen chilling tales you will explore ghosts along the River Road at some of Louisiana's best known plantations, and also along the back bayous of the state. You will encounter the ghosts of the most haunted house in America, meet ladies in white and black who refuse to leave, learn of spectral children who continue to play, Civil War soldiers trapped where they died, pirates guarding buried treasure, and even the ghost of homes that met a fiery end. These true tales will delight and frighten you during your unique journey through the bayou state"--Back cover.

Author : Frances Kermeen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780446592321
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myrtles Plantation written by Frances Kermeen and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former owner of Louisiana's Myrtles Plantation--recognized as America's most haunted house--reveals the spine-tingling story of how she was drawn to the former plantation, its bone-chilling history, and the incredible ghostly occurrences that forever changed her beliefs about the supernatural. Original.

Author : Cheré Dastugue Coen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239940
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana written by Cheré Dastugue Coen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover this Cajun and Creole city where ghost stories abound . . . photos included! The Hub City boasts a multitude of spirits and specters, from those lost in Civil War skirmishes and fever outbreaks to those souls that simply can’t say goodbye. Today, they wander the halls of bed-and-breakfasts and restaurants and linger along back roads and cemeteries. Pirates are rumored to guard buried treasure, and ancient French legends hide in the swamps, bayous, and woods. Join journalist and ghost seeker Cheré Dastugue Coen as she visits Lafayette’s haunted sites and travels the countryside in search of ghostly legends found only in South Louisiana.

Author : Frances Kermeen
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446510726
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myrtles Plantation written by Frances Kermeen and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. They would all converge with the paranormal phenomena around her into one cataclysmic event...

Author : Jason Hawes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416571515
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Hunting written by Jason Hawes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlantic Paranormal Society, also known as T.A.P.S., is the brainchild of two plumbers by day, paranormal investigators by night: Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. Their hair-raising investigations, fueled by their unique abilities and a healthy dose of scientific method, have made them the subject of a hit TV show: the SCI FI Channel's Ghost Hunters. Now their experiences are in print for the first time, as Jason and Grant recount for us, with the help of veteran author Michael Jan Friedman, the stories of some of their most memorable investigations. The men and women of T.A.P.S. pursue ghosts and other supernatural phenomena with the most sophisticated scientific equipment available -- from thermal-imaging cameras to electromagnetic-field recorders to digital thermometers -- and the results may surprise you. Featuring both cases depicted on Ghost Hunters and earlier T.A.P.S. adventures never told before now, this funny, fascinating, frightening collection will challenge everything you thought you knew about the spirit world.

Author : Michael Norman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466805153
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Haunted America written by Michael Norman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the success of the nationally acclaimed Haunted America, Historic Haunted America is a further investigation into North American ghost legends. This chilling collection documents yesterday's and today's most terrifying hauntings in the United States and Canada in more than seventy-five shocking stories! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : George W. Cable
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734019362
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange True Stories of Louisiana written by George W. Cable and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable