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Haunted Homeland (Haunted America) | 
enlarge | Author: Michael Norman Publisher: Forge Books Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 1355402
Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 448 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7 Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0765301725 Dewey Decimal Number: 133.10973 EAN: 9780765301727 ASIN: 0765301725
Publication Date: September 19, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! NEW Book! May have remainder mark. Most orders ship within 1 BUSINESS DAY with ORDER CONFIRMATION.
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Product Description
Trapped miners from cave-ins long ago still calling for help. Ghostly women lurking in the shadows of city streets. Spectral holy men and outlaws from America's Spanish past making appearances in our modern age.
They are all citizens of Haunted America, and this is
HAUNTED HOMELAND.
From a haunted castle in the wilds of Alaska to phantom clergymen in the Southwest and mysterious bouncing lights on the East Coast, this latest volume covers the places, the people, and the things that belong to the earthbound realm of the fantastic. Michael Norman has gathered together spectral events of all kinds--apparitions of the famous like Mary Surratt, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Mad Anthony Wayne; haunted crime scenes in Chicago and along the Indiana byways; as well as banshees, poltergeists, and even a ghost named George who has become an accepted resident in a house in North Carolina.
Some of these tales date back to America's early days, such as the screaming woman of Marblehead, Massachusetts, while others rise from more contemporary sources, like noted mystery writer Mary Robert Rhinehart's encounter with ghost at a house on Long Island.
A ghostly Supreme Court Justice, a specter known as The Texan, an abandoned Canadian bride reminiscent of Dickens's Miss Haversham, and many others make an appearance in this latest chronicle of the Haunted American landscape.
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Slow Going September 22, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is mainly a collection of folklore rather than an attempt at scientific documentation of ghosts. The stories are related in a "storytelling" style intended to entertain more than inform, with lots of embellished detail bordering on fiction.
I found some of the stories mildly interesting, although overall the book was a slow read for me and I kinda forced myself to finish it.
Boring. December 4, 2007 3 out of 5 found this review helpful
What a disappointment. I wonder if the majority of "Haunted Homeland" stories were rejects from the earlier books research?
TAKE THE OLD ROAD !!!! June 11, 2007 1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Its a road map to the other side. Take a left at the Cemetery. Go Down Highway 666 until you hit a dead end. Then your there. Haunted Homeland Is a Very Good Read. I have read all of Michael Norman's Books, and I must say he is the best in this field of study.
Haunted Fables December 28, 2006 3 out of 7 found this review helpful
A poor excuse of haunted works designed mainly to confuse the reader. This book attempts to take folklore and legend and connected it to actual hauntings. There is no bona fide research done, unless you call speculation research. I'm really surprise the publisher conceded to label the book non-fiction. I have studied and read several books connected to paranormal research and experience, and this book falls way shy of delivering what the title professes. Save your money for a real paranormal research book!
Complete cop out of a book. November 27, 2006 5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Little (if anything) new or original, much less personally investigated by the author here, from what I could tell. Of course, I didn't read past the first few chapters because I was so disappointed in this book. Anybody with access to a libray of old ghost stories and legends could have churned it out. Don't waste your money. I hate to rate any book this low, but I feel this one is nothing but an attempt to separate people who collect ghost books from their money.
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