| Ghost Stories of Virginia Contributor(s): Asfar, Dan (Author) |
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ISBN: 9768200197 ISBN-13: 9789768200198 Publisher: Ghost House Books OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: Discover centers of paranormal lore in Richmond, Norfolk, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Martinsville, Danville and Fredericksburg or learn about stubborn yet genteel ghosts obsessed witht he survival of Old Dixie. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Unexplained Phenomena - Reference |
| Dewey: 398.209 |
| Series: Ghost Stories |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.28" W x 8.24" (0.45 lbs) 206 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Virginia's history is as rich as it is long: the first English settlement was established at Jamestown; Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War; the Civil War ended only when Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, fell. With a history such as this, it is appropriate that the Old Dominion State has a wealth of supernatural folklore to go with it. The spine-tingling tales that make up this collection span the 400 years of Virginia's past to its present: * The spirits of two young lovers torn apart by tragedy but reunited in death reside at the bottom of a well on one of Virginia's first plantations. * Blackbeard may not have come back to haunt anyone, but the same cannot be said for 13 of his fellow pirates who died on Gallows Road. * Ghosts of Union soldiers killed in one of the first battles of the Civil War cannot leave the place where they died. * An encounter with a witch in the Virginia Appalachians spooks a group of campers. * The origins of the Wampus Cat, the mysterious, cat-like creature that roams the wilds of Virginia, form the basis of much speculation. |