Dixie Spirits : True Tales of the Strange and Supernatural in the South

by Coleman, Christopher K.

• ISBN13: 9781581822939
• ISBN10: 1581822936
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Cumberland House

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
ALABAMA APPARITIONS
The Face in the Courthouse Window	3	(6)
Athens Apparitions	9	(4)
Graveyard Shift: The Haunting of Sloss Furnaces	13	(10)
ARKANSAS ARCANA
Crescent Hotel Hauntings	23	(8)
Fouke Lore	31	(8)
The Day the Devil Came Down to Arkansas	39	(6)
GHOSTS AND HAUNTS OF GEORGIA
The Barnsley Curse	45	(12)
Savannah Specters	57	(8)
The Haunted Pillar	65	(4)
TRANSYLVANIA TALES
Mysteries of Mammoth Cave	69	(8)
The Happy Hollow Horror	77	(6)
The Late Mrs. Varick: The Gray Ghost of Liberty Hall	83	(8)
LOUISIANA LORE AND GORE
The `Most Haunted' Myrtles	91	(8)
The Witch Queen of New Orleans	99	(12)
At the Werewolves Ball	111	(10)
MISSISSIPPI MYSTERIES
The Great International Hoodoo Conspiracy and Other Tales of the Black Art	121	(6)
Curse of the Singing River	127	(6)
The Devil's Backbone: Ghosts and Haunts of Natchez and the Natchez Trace	133	(10)
MYSTIC MISSOURI
The Devil's Promenade: The Hornet Ghost Light	143	(6)
The Lemp Curse: Lavender Lady, Monkey Boy and the Bucolic Brewmeisters	149	(8)
HAINTS OF THE OLD NORTH STATE
The White Doe: The Mystery of Virginia Dare	157	(8)
Belinda and the Brown Mountain Lights	165	(8)
A Night on Bald Roan Mountain	173	(6)
SOUTH CAROLINA SPIRITS
An Affair of Honor	179	(6)
The Gray Man	185	(6)
South Battery Hauntings: The Battery Carriage House Inn	191	(6)
TENNESSEE TERRORS
The Haunting of Reelfoot Lake	197	(10)
Clara and Lizzie: A Memphis Mystery	207	(12)
The Oak and the Hackberry	219	(10)
VIRGINIA: THE DARK DOMINION
The Devil's Dominion	229	(10)
The Haunted Homes of Robert E. Lee	239	(10)
The Trouble with Martha	249	(6)
WEST VIRGINIA WEIRDNESS
Cornstalk's Curse: The Mothman Enigma	255	(16)
Incident at Flatwoods: Close Encounter of the Weird Kind	271