Dixie Spirits

Dixie Spirits by Christopher Kiernan Coleman Download PDF EPUB FB2

Some of the best tales of ghosts, mysterious lights, rumors of curses that seem to follow Southern families to their ruin, and even the exploits of Voodoo queens; Dixie Spirits travels through the South sharing the wealth of supernatural tales that make up the history of each state/5.

Dixie Spirits explores this uncanny aspect of the South in depth. A collection of authentic Southern "haint" tales and other accounts of the unexplained, the stories are set in the land below the Mason-Dixon Line - Alabama, Arkansas, Dixie Spirits book, Kentucky (Transylvania), Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina (Old North State), South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.5/5(1).

Dixie Spirits is a collection of ghost stories from the American south. Some of the stories in this book are hauntings that are very familiar to anyone who likes to read this type of books. The gray man, the Brown Mountain lights, and the Myrtles plantation are found within the pages of this book and just about any book about southern ghosts that one chooses to read/5(7).

Skip to main content. Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart/5(7). The sixty-two stories in Dixie Spirits are organized into sections by state. Although the tales are about the dead (and undead), they are as much about life and living as they are about : Dixie Spirits explores this uncanny aspect of the South in depth.

A collection of authentic Southern "haint" tales and other accounts of the unexplained, the stories are set in the land below the Mason-Dixon Line - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky (Transylvania), Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina (Old North State), South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The sixty-two stories in Dixie Spirits are based on factual, historical incidents involving real people and places. It also includes ghost tours, haunted hotels, and other fun and mysterious travel spots. Spirits of Wickland Mansion is a permanent record of these guided tours fromtranscribed from audio and handwritten notes of the conversations between the living and those now passed on.

This 6x9-inch, hardbound edition will include pages with a full-color dust jacket the only permanent record available of the conversations held at Wickland Mansion with those who have left this life!5/5(2). Colonel Elmer E Ellsworth was a personal friend of Lincoln’s and leader of the elite New York “Fire” Zouaves.

In Dixie Spirits we investigated the Custis-Lee Mansion, also known as Arlington House, which still stands near Alexandria, Virginia, but we did not explore the many ghosts and haunts of Alexandria let’s take a quick look at a famous Civil War ghost down in town. Spirit Airlines is the leading Ultra Low Cost Carrier in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Spirit Airlines fly to 60+ destinations with + daily flights with Ultra Low g: Dixie spirits. In his book Dixie Spirits, Coleman explores the realm of the Old South’s most haunted locales. From Alabama east to Georgia and upward to the Virginias, he includes 62 spine-chilling vignettes from the historically turbulent South.

"Dixie Spirits: True Tales of the Strange and Supernatural in the South" is a wonderful book for anyone interested in "haunted hotels and mansions, diabolical curses, mysterious monsters, and assorted fearsome phenomena" (from the back cover). It would make an excellent reference book for those interested in traveling to these areas/5(5).

For more true ghost stories, see Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground, Dixie Spirits, and Ghosts and Haunts of Tennessee; all are available at better book stores. Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground chronicles true stories of unexplained phenomena in the Mid South.

Ghosts and Haunts of Tennessee. True haunting tales of the Mid South. I currently have six books in print: Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground, Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War, Dixie Spirits, Ghosts and Haunts of Tennessee, and The Paranormal Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, a factual history of some more esoteric--and hitherto overlooked.

Spirit's Key is a mystery with a bit of magic for fans of Savvy and Because of Winn Dixie. By now, twelve-year-old Spirit Holden should have inherited the family gift: the ability to see the future.

But when she holds a house key in her hand like her dad does to read its owner's destiny, she cant see anything.4/5. The sixty-two stories in Dixie Spirits are organized into sections by state. Although the tales are about the dead (and undead), they are as much about life and living as they are about death.

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Dixie Spirits: True Tales of the Strange and Supernatural in the South at Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users/5(7). Alabama apparitions --Arkansas arcana --Ghosts and haunts of Georgia --Transylvania tales --Louisiana lore and gore --Mississippi mysteries --Mystic Missouri --Haints of the old north state --South Carolina spirits --Tennessee terrors --Virginia: the dark dominion --West Virginia weirdness --Appendix: Haunted hotels of Dixie.

Anyone familiar with either or all of my books, Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground, Dixie Spirits or Ghosts and Haunts of Tennessee will know I have an abiding interest in Cryptozoology.

It is my belief that, more often than not, these legends of strange or uncanny creatures do have a basis in fact. Christopher K. Coleman has written several books devoted to Southern ghost lore, including Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War, Dixie Spirits, and Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground.

He received his B.A. in history from St. Anselm College and is a member of the Tennessee Folklore : Blair. Editorial Reviews.

An easy-to-read story about a little girl's dream of playing Dorothy with her own dog, Dixie, in the role of Toto. Dixie is initially excited when Emma, her owner, is chosen to be the star of the school production ofThe Wizard of ng that makes Emma happy makes Dixie /5().the immortality of the soul: the nature of spirits and their relations with men; the moral law: the present life, the future life, and THE DESTINY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF SPIRITS OF HIGH DEGREE, TRANSMITTED THROUGH VARIOUS MEDIUMS.Dixie Spirits does have a North Carolina section, but (as is often the case with these regional ghost story books), it’s a bit thin and the lore obvious.

This is the second, revised version of the book (the original came out in ). Contrary to the image of the Antebellum plantation house on the cover, Coleman addresses a pretty wide.