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978-0-89587-257-6
0-89587-257-9
$7.95 paperback
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From the mountains to the
sea, North Carolina's 100 counties have a wealth of creepy stories to
tell. These three volumes present a ghostly tale from each county.
Though folklore fans may recognize a few new twists on old favorites ,
the great majority of the stories have not previously been told in
print.
Piedmont Phantoms
includes 39 counties from the state's populous middle section. In
"The Incident at Settle's Bridge," readers will meet Tilda
Carter, who was convicted of murder and hanged, whose lifeless body was
kept overnight on a Rockingham County covered bridge during bad weather,
and whose ghost later haunted that picturesque site. In "The Hunter
at the Zoo," they'll encounter the spirit of the Confederate
recruiter who once hunted human prey where the North Carolina Zoological
Park now stands in Randolph County.
about the author
Historian-turned-folklorist Daniel W. Barefoot is the author of five
previous books. Barefoot is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill
and a graduate of UNC School of Law. A former member of the North
Carolina House of Representatives, he lives in Lincolnton, NC.
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