Prominent American Ghosts

by Susy Smith

Paper Book, 1967

Status

Available

Call number

133.1097

Collection

Publication

Cleveland, World Pub. Co. [1967]

User reviews

LibraryThing member antiquary
This book is by an experienced journalists and, according to her, psychic, who has visited many well-known American haunted houses and done some serious research on their backgrounds. She describes the cases from the viewpoint of a beliver in ghosts and as she describes them, some cases sound very
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credible, but she honestly admits some of them were regarded with skepticism in their time. She also includes some Hawaiian stories about supernatural beings I would not call ghosts -- gods and little people.
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LibraryThing member flying_monkeys
While I was familiar with several ghosts included: Bell Witch, The Whaley House, Winchester House, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of haunts I hadn't heard of, at least don't remember hearing before now. Though, I was not surprised by the problematic bits - it was written in 1967 after
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all, but one always hopes...

The longest entries are "The Bell Witch" and "Miami's Pertinacious Poltergeist."
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Physical description

x, 170 p.; 24 cm
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