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Title: GHOSTS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
By: Alan Brown
Format: Hardback

List price: £68.50


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ISBN 10: 1617031437
ISBN 13: 9781617031434
Publisher: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Pub. date: 1 September, 2011
Pages: 208
Description: Some of the US's most compelling ghost stories owe their origin to "The Father of Waters". Ghosts along the Mississippi River is the first book-length collection of ghost tales from the small towns and bustling cities that have grown up along its banks. The states represented in this book include Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
Synopsis: Some of the nation's most compelling ghost stories owe their origin to ""The Father of Waters."" Ghosts along the Mississippi River is the first book-length collection of ghost tales from the small towns and bustling cities that have grown up along its banks. The states represented in this book include Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Unlike most collections of ""true"" ghost stories, Ghosts along the Mississippi River draws from the folk traditions of the northern and the southern United States. These tales are populated with Federal and Confederate soldiers, Native Indians, wealthy entrepreneurs, actors, college students, hotel owners, preachers, slaves, and planters. According to some paranormal investigators, the large number of ghost stories from the Mississippi's river towns, and from watery sites all over the world, are proof that large bodies of water are conductors of psychic energy. Granted, no concrete proof exists that there is a definite connection between the river and any actual ghosts or spiritual phenomena. What is indisputable, though, is the fact that the ghost stories included in Ghosts along the Mississippi River are an invaluable record of the values, dreams, fears, and lives of the people who have called the river home.
Publication: US
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Returns: Returnable
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