Beyond the Shadows Exploring the Ghosts of Franklin County - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Shadows Exploring the Ghosts of Franklin County write by Dan Terry. This book was released on 2007. Beyond the Shadows Exploring the Ghosts of Franklin County available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Haunting Experiences
Haunting Experiences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunting Experiences write by Diane Goldstein. This book was released on 2007-09-15. Haunting Experiences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Ghosts and Shadows
Ghosts and Shadows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghosts and Shadows write by Phil Ball. This book was released on 2012-11-19. Ghosts and Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the time, he would have done anything to escape; only upon reflection years later did he realize that the self-confidence instilled in him by his drill instructors had probably saved his life in Vietnam. A few months after boot camp, Private Ball was shipped out to Vietnam, joining F Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, near Khe Sanh. As a grunt, in the vernacular of the Corps, Ball, like the other youths of F Company, did a difficult and deadly job in such places as the A Shau Valley, Leatherneck Square, the DMZ and other obscure but critical I Corps locales. His--their--fear of death mingled with homesickness. Little did they realize that the horrors of the Vietnam War--horrors that while in-country they often claimed did not even exist--would haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Haunted Roanoke
Haunted Roanoke - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunted Roanoke write by L.B. Taylor. This book was released on 2013-05-28. Haunted Roanoke available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of The Big Book of Virginia Ghost Stories focuses on the “Scare City”: “If you believe in ghosts, this is the book for you” (The Roanoke Times). Roanoke, in the heart of southwestern Virginia, is one of the most haunted cities in the commonwealth. The Star City is brimming with eerie and unexplainable stories, such as the legendary “Woman in Black,” who appeared several times in 1902, but only to married men on their way home at night. There are also macabre stories in many of Roanoke’s famous landmarks, such as the majestic Grandin Theatre, where a homeless family is said to have lived—and the cries of their deceased children can still be heard. Travel beyond the realm of reality with author L.B. Taylor Jr. as he traces the history of Roanoke’s most unique and chilling tales. Includes photos! “I like the ghost story books of L.B. Taylor, Jr., a Virginia author, because he blends history and true ghost stories so wonderfully. He doesn’t make judgments about each ghost story, but presents the facts and lets you decide for yourself. . . . So if you’re in a ghostly mood this October—or if you’re just a history lover—Taylor’s books are well worth your time.” —Eagle-Eyed Editor
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales write by Ruth Ann Musick. This book was released on 2010-09-12. The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. " West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
