| Piedmont Phantoms Contributor(s): Barefoot, Daniel W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0895872587 ISBN-13: 9780895872586 Publisher: Blair OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: From the mountains to the sea, North Carolina's 100 counties have a wealth of creepy stories to tell. These three volumes present a ghostly tale from each county. Though folklore fans may recognize a few new twists on old favorites, the great majority of the stories have not previously been told in print. Seaside Spectres offers tales from 33 counties in eastern North Carolina. "Betty" tells about a Lenoir County orphan who consoles himself over the loss of his parents by imagining that people in heaven are given white horses to ride to visit loved ones -- a fantasy that proves more real than he could have imagined. "The Fraternity of Death" tells of a society of sacrilegious freethinkers in New Hanover County who begin to die mysteriously after they stage a mocking imitation of the Last Supper; it is a true-life tale that may have inspired a Robert Louis Stevenson story. Piedmont Phantoms includes 39 counties from the state's populous middle section. In "The Incident at Settle's Bridge, " readers will meet Tilda Carter, who was convicted of murder and hanged, whose lifeless body was kept overnight on a Rockingham County covered bridge during bad weather, and whose ghost later haunted that picturesque site. In "The Hunter at the Zoo, " they'll encounter the spirit of the Confederate recruiter who once hunted human prey where the North Carolina Zoological Park now stands in Randolph County. Haints of the Hills features 28 counties in North Carolina's mountainous west. If you walk the right road in Avery County, you might meet the ghost of seven-foot-tall Revolutionary War hero Robert Sevier, as related in "The Long Trek Home." If you climb the right mountain in Macon County, you'llreach the former stomping ground of the notorious witch Old Nance, as told in "Mile-High Witch." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Special Interest - Haunted & Unexplained |
| Dewey: 133.109 |
| LCCN: 2002003357 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 204 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Barefoot, Daniel W.: - Dan Barefoot was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on March 18, 1951. He is a 1973 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of law. Dan Barefoot is the author of four travel guides, Touring the Backroads of North Carolina's Upper Coast, Touring the Backroads of North Carolina's Lower Coast, Touring South Carolina's Revolutionary War Sites, and Touring North Carolina's Revolutionary War Sites; the biography of esteemed confederate general Robert Hoke entitled General Robert F. Hoke: Lee's Modest Warrior; and a trilogy of ghost stories representing all of North Carolina's 100 counties, Seaside Spectres, Piedmont Phantoms, and Haints of the Hills. Barefoot's most recent books are Haunted Halls of Ivy: Ghosts of Southern Colleges and Universities, Let Us Die Like Brave Men, Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices, and Spirits of '76. From 1998 until 2002, Barefoot served three terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the 44th district. He has also served on numerous boards and is active in his church and community. Barefoot currently serves as the city attorney for Lincolnton, North Carolina. He is a frequent speaker to cultural, civic, and church groups throughout the Southeast. |