Readers of this book will venture deep into the dark and mysterious side of the American South and discover the heart-palpitating, eyewitness accounts of ghosts, poltergeists, and voices from beyond the grave which still linger. Included are the horrifying stories that have left their blood-stained imprints on North Carolina's history, as well as modern, never-before-told hauntings from prominent individuals, businesses, and other locations.
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These stories have the making for great terror films.Sara Karloff, daughter of horror icon Boris Karloff James Parker is a skilled storyteller who creates intriguing narratives enhanced by atmospheric trappings, especially well suited to the ghost story genre. In addition, he brings a historians gift for research that gives his stories a verisimilitude which makes them even more hauntingly believableand unsettling.Robert Pohle, official biographer to Sir Christopher Lee
Table of Contents
Introduction
About the Research
Live in Fear
Class Is in Session: Asheville, Buncombe County
Witch of the Woods: Creston, Ashe County
Dear Lydia: Jamestown, Guilford County
The Last Call: Smithfield, Johnston County
The Howell Theatre: Smithfield, Johnston County
Revival 1869: Clayton, Johnston County
The Show Must Go On: Benson, Johnston County
The Silenced Boy: Clayton, Johnston County
The Poltergeists at Riverside: Smithfield, Johnston County
The Blood-Stained Basement: Benson, Johnston County
The Secret Beneath the Bridge: Mill Creek, Johnston County
The Creaking of the Gallows: Hannahs Creek Swamp, Johnston County
The Unseen Bystanders: Bentonville, Johnston County
I Live in a Haunted House: Benson, Johnston County
Dorothea Dix Mental Hospital: Raleigh, Wake County
Fort Macon: Carteret County
The Cotton Exchange: Wilmington, New Hanover County
Dead Men Tell No Tales: Wilmington, New Hanover County
Index
Being the son of two horror television hosts, James M. Parker has combined his academic and professional experience in psychology and history with his morbid fascinations to bring about this collection of true ghost encounters. He lives in Johnston County, North Carolina.
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