Phantom Army of the Civil War and Other Southern Ghost Stories

by Spaeth, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780785812876
• ISBN10: 0785812873
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Book Sales

Summary

This is a haunting collection of personal encounters with the spirit world as they appeared in FATE magazine. These are tales handed down over the years that have their basis in the horrors of the Civil War.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Phantom Army of the Civil War	1	(6)
Alabama
If Ghosts Could Kill	7	(8)
The Ghost Who Graduated	15	(4)
The Uneasy Dead at Fort Mims	19	(9)
The Haunted Capitol	28	(4)
The Face in the Courthouse Window	32	(5)
Arkansas
20 Years Later	37	(6)
Poltergeist or Prankster?	43	(6)
Florida
The Ashley's Restaurant Investigation	49	(10)
The Ghost of Odka	59	(6)
Our Ghost Did Not Approve	65	(9)
The Trouble with Eden	74	(7)
Georgia
Georgia's Supernatural Sites	81	(7)
Haunts of Hell's Holler	88	(8)
The Ghost of Miss Mary	96	(3)
Louisiana
Ghosts of the Old New Orleans Jail	99	(4)
My Friend, the Black Ghost Child	103	(5)
Noisy Phantom of the Louisiana Swamp	108	(5)
Maryland
Detente with a Ghost	113	(8)
Our Friendly Peg-Legged Poltergeist	121	(5)
The Pottery Went A-Dancing	126	(7)
South Carolina
The Ghost of Mr. Cheatham	133	(5)
The Plantation's Loving Ghost	138	(6)
Haunted House in South Carolina	144	(13)
Tennessee
The Ghost of Brinkley College	157	(11)
Murderer Reappears After 200 Years	168	(6)
The Ghost of Crazy Horse Hollow	174	(11)
Texas
The Ghost of the Alamo	185	(3)
Mama Buried the Haunted Bone	188	(6)
Spectral Nun Warns of Death	194	(5)
Virginia
We Live with Restless Spirits	199	(9)
The Ghost with the Golden Hair	208	(5)
The Ghost with the Rose in Her Hair	213	(8)
West Virginia
Ghosts Who Named a Town	221	(6)
I Guess I Saw a Ghost	227