Haunted Alabama Black Belt

Author : David Higdon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239924
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Alabama Black Belt written by David Higdon and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the ghosts that wander this historic stretch of the South . . . photos included. There is a place in Alabama, a region that stretches across its lower middle from Georgia to Mississippi. It is a place steeped in history—a place where a people were enslaved, a nation was broken, and a new dream of freedom was born. It is a place where the past is always near at hand. And sometimes, that past takes a moment to whisper in your ear. They call this place the Black Belt. From the Cato-Thorn House in Barbour County to the Snow Hill Institute in Wilcox County, Alabama’s Black Belt has a great number of restless spirits that still haunt it. Join paranormal researcher David Higdon and Bram Stoker Award nominee Brett Talley as they uncover the ghosts and hauntings of one of Alabama’s most historic areas.

Author : Robin McDonald
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318798
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Black Belt written by Robin McDonald and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of the Black Belt offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people.

Author : Edward Pattillo
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 160306138X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier written by Edward Pattillo and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family collects the papers of Elihu Spencer, a fourth-generation New Englander, and his family and Southern descendants, to form a history of the American nation from the point of view of planters and those they held in slavery. The documents in this volume are accounts of a privileged world that was afflicted by constant loss and despair. The families lived as isolated, landed gentry in a society where medical treatment had hardly evolved since the Middle Ages. The papers together form a dramatic narrative of early Americans from the mid-eighteenth century to the harsh years after the Civil War. They created their new society with courage and imagination and tenacity, while never recognizing their own moral blind spot regarding the holding of human beings in slavery. It brought about the collapse of their world--poignantly expressed in these letters.

Author : Shane Black
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440177767
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirits of Athens written by Shane Black and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Athens is a picturesque, quintessential southern town in north central Alabama, full of folklore and history. The town may also have more ghost stories per capita than any other town in the South. This book collects, for the first time, the best ghost stories that Athens has to offer. You'll read about: * the frenzied spirits that beat on the windows of town square buildings in their attempt to escape an 1893 inferno; * the phantom grandfather clock in the George S. Houston Library and House that chimes but cannot be found; * the lonely ghost of Founders Hall whose lantern light travels from window to window as she searches for her lost love; * the forlorn spirit of the Vasser-Lovvorn Home whose recurring screams from the attic pierce the night; * the ghost child of the Donnell House who was frightened to death by Union soldiers during the Civil War invasion of the town; * and many more.

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455626457
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Alabama written by Alan Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama has a historic and haunted side. This book highlights the most interesting sites and stories, from Auburn and Birmingham to Tuscaloosa and Mobile.

Author : Ted M. Dunagan
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588383016
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Yellow Watermelon written by Ted M. Dunagan and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Yellow Watermelon, Ted Dillon, a young white boy, becomes friends with Poudlum, a black boy his own age, despite the racial divides of 1948 Alabama. Through Poudlum and Jake, an escaped black convict, Ted learns of evil forces gathering to deprive Poudlum’s family of their property and livelihood. The boys face great danger as they execute a plan to save Poudlum’s family, set Jake onto a river of freedom, and discover a great, yet simple, secret of enlightenment.

Author : Faith Serafin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239916
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Montgomery, Alabama written by Faith Serafin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the ghosts who wander this Southern capital—photos included! In Montgomery—cradle of the Confederacy and capital city of Alabama—lost highways bring visitors to the grave of legendary country singer Hank Williams and the home of the Jazz Age princess Zelda Fitzgerald. This book reveals the famous, and sometimes infamous, haunted history of Montgomery, digging up the bones on the feather duster murder from the Garden District, and sharing information about which spirits at Huntingdon College make this campus their eternal home. Take a stroll through the Old Alabama Town, listen for the ghost of the Lucas Tavern, and join ghost hunter and folklorist Faith Serafin for a trip through the Heart of Dixie and Montgomery's paranormal history.

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455622915
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunting of Alabama written by Alan Brown and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to the ghost stories and folklore of the Yellowhammer State—from a Confederate captain’s spirit to mansions plagued by the paranormal. Alabama’s haunted history is spotlighted in chapters that cover the ghostly escapades and happenings at Rawls Hotel, Heritage Bible College, the USS Alabama, Bayview Bridge, and Marion Military Institute, to name a few. Each entry provides a history of the establishment and offers the possible motivations behind the hauntings. Vivid descriptions of the setting, along with detailed eyewitness accounts, enable the reader to experience the hair-raising firsthand. Dip into this ghostly guide for a tour of more than forty haunted sites along with stories of their supernatural inhabitants. In each instance, skepticism abounds and the question remains—is there really a ghost?

Author : Bettye Stroud
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 153622104X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend written by Bettye Stroud and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This small snapshot of the protest movement pays homage to both the determination of ordinary folk and the power of Dr. King’s words. . . . An intergenerational story filled with heart and soul.” — Kirkus Reviews When Alex spies a mule chomping on greens in a nearby garden, he can’t help but ask about it. “Ol’ Belle?” says Miz Pettway. “She can have all the collards she wants. She’s earned it.” And so begins the tale of an ordinary mule in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, that played a singular part in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. When African-Americans in a poor community — inspired by a visit from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — defied local authorities who were trying to stop them from registering to vote, many got around a long, imposed detour on mule-drawn wagons. As Alex looks into the eyes of gentle Belle, he begins to understand a significant time in history in a very personal way.

Author : Dale Langella
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239886
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Alabama Battlefields written by Dale Langella and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Civil War history—and supernatural mystery—in this paranormal tour. Includes photos. Alabama is no stranger to the battles and blood of the Civil War, and nearly every eligible person in the state participated in some fashion. Some of those citizen soldiers may linger still on hallowed ground throughout the state. War-torn locations such as Fort Blakely National Park, Crooked Creek, Bridgeport, and Old State Bank have chilling stories of hauntings never before published. In Cahawba, Colonel C.C. Pegue’s ghost has been heard holding conversations near his fireplace. At Fort Gaines, sentries have been seen walking their posts, securing the grounds years after their deaths. Sixteen different ghosts have been known to take up residence in a historic house in Athens. Join author Dale Langella as she recounts the mysterious history of Alabama’s most famous battlefields and the specters that still call those grounds home.