Author: Margaret M. Langley
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781453806128
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Welcome to more spine-tingling stories from a historic mental institution, Broughton Hospital. From legends to first-hand experiences, this book takes you to different areas of the hospital that are downright haunted. This book is a continuation of the original one, with paranormal activities, hauntings, and true events being collected and shared by a person who has spent 16 years of her life working in a mental institution. Through research of the hospital itself, and interviews with people who told their stories, Margaret Langley again weaves a book of tales that is easy to read, and hard to put down!
Author: Violet Tweedale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Rhoda Broughton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghost stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Jennifer Westwood
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959533
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 601
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Watch out for a ghostly ship and its spectral crew off the coast of Cornwall Listen for the unearthly tread and rustling silk dress of Darlington's Lady Jarratt Shiver at the malevolent apparition of 50 Berkeley Square that no-one survives seeing Beware the black dog of Shap Fell: a sighting warns of fatal accidents England's past echoes with stories of unquiet spirits and hauntings, of headless highwaymen and grey ladies, indelible bloodstains and ghastly premonitions. Here, county by county, are the nation's most fascinating supernatural tales and bone-chilling legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesome Man-Monkey of Shropshire to the phantom congregation who gather for a 'Sermon of the Dead' ...
Author: Larry Richard Clark
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781094657394
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Broughton Hospital is a product of history, and to follow its story is to discover an engaging tale about the dramatic changes in public mental health services and treatments in the United States and North Carolina. Today, Broughton is facing another chapter in its 134 year history as it prepares to move into a new facility only a few hundred yards from its original campus. Beyond this exciting event, a proposed 10-year "Broughton District Master Plan" envisions a project of 800 acres involving the City of Morganton, County of Burke, other state agencies and a western N.C. School of Science and Mathematics, a two-year residential high school to compliment the NCSSM in Durham. With all of this happening around the old Broughton Hospital and the new Broughton Hospital, one can only guess what the future holds for its continuing, outstanding service to some of the most needy people in North Carolina. "Insanity is a disease to be treated in a hospital and is in no sense a crime for which the sick man is to be sent to a prison.... Let us get rid of this idea and remember that the insane are persons with a tangible disease. -- Dr. Patrick L. Murphy, 1890
Author: Derek Johnston
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137298952
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide a necessary seasonal pause for reflection on our fears.
Author: Elaine Mercado
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780738700038
Category : Ghosts
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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You leave us alone; we'll leave you alone. When Elaine Mercado and her first husband bought their home in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1982, they had no idea that they and their two young daughters were embarking on a thirteen-year nightmare. thin a few days of moving in, Elaine and her older daughter began to experience the sensation of being watched. Then came scratching noises and weird smells, followed by voices whispering, maniacal laughter, shadowy figures scurrying along baseboards, and small balls of light bouncing along the ceilings. From the beginning of the haunting, "suffocating dreams" were experienced by everyone except the younger daughter. These eventually accelerated to physical aggression directed at Elaine and both the girls. This book is the true story of how one family tried to cope with living in a haunted house. It also describes how, with the help of parapsychologist Dr. Hans Holzer and medium Marisa Anderson, the family discovered the tragic and heartbreaking secrets buried in the house at Grave's End. I struggle to open my eyes, but achieve nothing but frustration and failure. I am not asleep. I am fully conscious, in a state of panic unthinkable during the day intolerable in the dark of night, held prisoner by some tortured, invisible presence, insistent on abruptly invading my slumber. The more I struggle toward freedom, the more I am pushed into the mattress, perspiring, heart palpitating, a scream involuntarily silenced within my throat. Some nights I experience my skin being stroked while I fight to regain control of my body, my sight. Thank God, this was not one of those nights. Tonight it lets me open my eyes, shaken but unviolated, frightened, but not as frightened as I know I can become. First Runner up for the 2001 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Award for Best Biographical/Personal Book
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744030935
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Classic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre expert John Landis. This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; others are long-lost treasures, awaiting rediscovery. The selection includes tales of terror by Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and Percival Landon; studies of creeping dread by Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James; short, sharp shockers by Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James and Lafcadio Hearn; and comedic masterpieces by Oscar Wilde and Saki. Mr. Landis' own introduction explores each tale's fascinating impact on the contemporary horror genre. Step inside these ghost-ridden repositories of supernatural evil, if you dare... "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." H. P. Lovecraft
Author: Luke Dennis Broughton
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5872630514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Astrological observations on the nativity of Abraham Lincoln and the fate of the nation.
Author: Kathryn Tucker Windham
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The first of six Jeffrey ghost story books centers on Jeffrey's favorite 13 ghostly tales set in Alabama.
