Indiana, Crossroads of America, is known as a place rich in folklore, where spirits and ghosts intermingle with the lives of ordinary Hoosiers, often with strange and frightening consequences. Shrunken heads, a peculiar hidden altar and chilling screams in the night in an Indiana University residence lead the tenants to hold a séance. The mischievous ghost of former football hero George Gipp spooks students at University of Notre Dame's Washington Hall. Amelia Earhart's spirit returns to spend time at her old haunt, Purdue University.

Ghost Stories of Indiana (Ghost Stories, 8)

Religion & Spirituality

Thay, Edrick

Occult & Paranormal

Ghost House Books

Anorak, butter tart, ballicatter, kayak, stubby, toonie--these are familiar Canadian words. But where did they come from? What quirks of language and fate have made them truly Canadian? Even though we speak the same language as the Yanks and the Brits, Canadians have a unique dialect that is recognized around the world, and each province has its own eccentricities.Edrick Thay presents well-known and obscure Canadianisms in this often-humorous glossary of words from across the country:• all-Canadian words--Canuck, hockey, loonie, Medicare, tuque and the ubiquitous eh• Québècois words--tourtiére, cretons, shivaree and Bombardier• words from Ontario--BeaverTails, reeve, Wonderbra and zipper• West Coast terms--potlatch, hooch, Nanaimo bar and skookum• words of the sea-faring Atlantic provinces--screech, ballicatter, slob ice and blue nose• aboriginal words--skookum, potlatch, chinook and high muckamuck• western Canadianisms--canola, Bloody Caesar, bunnyhug, Métis and stubble jumper• and words of the North--inuksuk, Klondike, mukluk, pingo and toboggan.

Weird Canadian Words: How to Speak Canadian (Great Canadian Stories)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Folklore Publishing

Ghost Stories of Indiana

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Crack open this book and you'll enter the strange world of Ohio's paranormal legacy. As revenge against his faithless fiancee, an Egypt Pike man spends his afterlife terrifying contented lovers who cross the bridge where he took his own life. At the site of a horrific train wreck that claimed nearly 100 lives, the ghosts of victims return in search of answers. The inspiration behind a motion picture, a mysterious mothman baffles terrified witnesses on the Ohio-West Virginia border. For anyone interested in the paranormal, GHOST STORIES OF OHIO is sure to prove chilling and unforgettable.

Ghost Stories of Ohio

Contemporary

A fright-filled collection of out-of-this-world Americana, GHOST STORIES OF AMERICA draws on the folklore of 50 states to weave its magic. Check out the Red Onion Saloon in Alaska, where the spirits of former prospectors and courtesans continue to relive the fleeting glory of the Klondike Gold Rush. The ghost of Chicago mobster Al Capone is still said to be serving time in Alcatraz, considered one of the most haunted places in America. And Hawaiian patriot Queen Liliuokalani, melancholy in life, now is said to be a spirit overjoyed at her state's resurgent pride. All this and much more in GHOST STORIES OF AMERICA.

Ghost Stories of America: Volume I

Asfar, Dan

The four years of the U.S Civil War claimed the lives of 600,000 Americans and left much of the country in ruins. Authors Dan Asfar and Edrick Thay have collected many of the stories about still restless spirits for whom the war is not yet over: · eyewitnesses swear they've seen the ghosts of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Edgar Allan Poe at Fort Monroe, one of the few Union forts in the Confederate South · "Old Green Eyes," the disembodied head of a fallen soldier, terrifies visitors to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia · in the cemetery of a former Ohio war prison, a battalion of Confederate dead rise from their anonymous graves. ...and many more haunting tales.

Ghost Stories of the Civil War

The Old South has a rich and fascinating history, filled with extravagant personalities. This collection from ghost researcher Edrick Thay explores centers of paranormal lore, such as Savannah, Charleston and New Orleans, as well as 32 spine-tingling stories from Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Virginia. * The spirits of Marie Laveau and her daughter lead a group of ethereal followers to Bayou St. John in New Orleans, where they practice voodoo. * Security guards hear ghostly voices in the Tennessee State Capitol, where two of the original building planners, long since dead, still quarrel over the details. * The scandalous tale of John McGee Parkman culminates in the haunting of his former residence in Selma, Alabama. * Still mourning the loss of her true love, the ghost of Helen Johnstone returns to the Chapel of the Cross in Madison, Mississippi. * The ghosts of two star-crossed lovers materialize in Castillo de San Marcos in Florida, the first permanent European settlement in the United States.

Ghost Stories of the Old South

It's not true that dead men tell no tales. You can hear their haunting stories on the fog-shrouded banks of Newfoundland, in the aging brick manses of Upper and Lower Canada, on the wind-beaten flatlands of the prairies and among the misty mountains of the far west. This entertaining collection features tales of ghosts and other unexplained phenomena that have found their way into Canadian folklore.

Canadian Ghost Stories: Volume II

Smitten, Susan

Jarvis, Dale

The most haunted real estate in America is explored in this volume of chilling tales. In Amityville, New York, an ordinary family is terrified by poltergeists in one of America's most controversial haunted houses. Abraham Lincoln, whose wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was deeply interested in the paranormal, is said to haunt the White House in Washington, DC. In Galveston, Texas, a fiercely independent yet forlorn woman haunts Ashton Villa, a mysterious structure that survived a massive hurricane. Lalaurie Mansion in New Orleans, once owned by a sadistic southern mistress, is home to some tragic spirits who perished within. Discover these and dozens more remarkable accounts in Haunted Houses.

Haunted Houses (Ghost Stories)

Since the dawn of time, people have experienced premonitions. Some foretell disasters, while others help to prevent horrible crimes or accidents. Join author Edrick Thay as he explores the remarkable effects of superhuman perception on the lives of ordinary people. - A soldier who can smell emotions and see death helps his troop avoid a military ambush in the jungle. - On a prairie highway, a woman encounters an eyeless hitchhiker who bears more than a passing resemblance to her ailing aunt. - A vision of twisted metal and broken glass saves a reckless girl from a car accident.

Premonitions and Psychic Warnings: Real Stories of Haunting Predictions (Ghost Stories)

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