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Haunted heartland / Michael Norman.
Van Pelt Library BF1472.U6 S36 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norman, Michael, 1947 June 29- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghosts--Middle West.
- Ghosts.
- Parapsychology--Middle West.
- Parapsychology.
- Middle West.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 332 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Afleeting figure dressed in a white party dress roams the streets of southwest Chicago. A long-dead Iowa college student treads the staircase in an old building. A ghostly, plaid-shirted workman plays peek-a-boo with a ticket seller in a Minnesota theater. A phantom wolf prowls Ohio's Jackson and Pike Counties. For decades, journalist Michael Norman has been tracking down spine-tingling tales that arise from authentic incidents across the Midwest. In Haunted Heartland he offers more than eighty entertaining, eerie stories from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Are they true in the world that we know, or only in a dark vale of twilight? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- ILLINOIS. The girl on Sheridan Road (Lake Forest)
- Resurrection Mary (Chicago)
- More haunted cemeteries
- Devil baby (Chicago)
- The telltale hand (Chicago)
- Red Rose (Chicago)
- The attic (Equality)
- Cave dwellers (Burton)
- To do good (Kingston)
- The devil's bake oven (Grand Tower)
- Old man Lakey (McLeansboro)
- The reincarnation of Mary Roff (Watseka)
- Lincoln and the supernatural (Springfield)
- INDIANA. Diana of the dunes (Indiana Dunes State Park)
- The haunting of Hannah House (Indianapolis)
- The vigil (Terre Haute)
- One of the family (Evansville)
- Tippecanoe and Tecumseh, too (Warren County)
- Moody's light (Rensselaer)
- The stump (Bloomington)
- IOWA. Gone too soon (southeast Iowa)
- The Guttenberg poltergeist (Guttenberg)
- Mildred Hedges (Indianola)
- The man in the doorway (Oskaloosa)
- Ham House (Dubuque)
- Naughty George (Des Moines)
- Desperado (Winterset)
- KANSAS. Old dog (Emporia)
- Ghost of the purple masque (Manhattan)
- Ménage à trois (Wichita)
- Legend of White Woman Creek (Greeley County)
- Phantom riders of the Pony Express (Hanover)
- A dog's tale (Dodge City)
- The cursed knife (Topeka)
- Elizabeth Polly (Fort Hays)
- MICHIGAN. The soul of Stephen Strand (Battle Creek)
- The schooner Erie Board of Trade (Saginaw)
- Man on the beach (Deer Park)
- Redemption (Detroit)
- The lynching (Menominee)
- The Lake Odessa mystery (Lake Odessa)
- The spurned suitor (Gross Isle)
- MINNESOTA. The ghost wore plaid (St. Paul)
- Now you see them (Rochester and Becker County)
- The luminescent attic (Eveleth)
- The specter priest (Winona)
- Mrs. Moriarity comes calling (St. Paul)
- The invisible homesteader (Monticello)
- The phantom miner (Crosby)
- A house on Summit Avenue (St. Paul)
- The levitation of Archie Collins (Minneapolis)
- MISSOURI. The hornet spook light (Joplin)
- Sentries in the night (St. Louis)
- The midnight rider (Sand Springs)
- The ghost of Paris (Paris)
- The corporal's lady (Columbia)
- Mark Twain, psychic (St. Louis)
- Forever mine (Kirksville)
- The curious visitors (Ste. Genevieve)
- NEBRASKA. Miss Anna (Hastings)
- Terror of Omaha Heights (Omaha)
- Beware the soddy (Phelps County)
- The Bates house (Dakota City)
- A strange interlude (Lincoln)
- OHIO. Girl of the lilacs (Bucyrus)
- H.P. and Son (Cleveland)
- An invitation (Willis)
- Franklin Castle (Cleveland)
- The ethereal innkeepers (Granville)
- The pirate's mistress (Scioto River Valley)
- Old Raridan (Jackson and Pike Counties)
- WISCONSIN. Our three ghosts (Pierce County)
- Everlasting (Shorewood)
- Spirit of Rosslynne Manse (Delafield)
- Mrs. Pickman goes too far (Milwaukee)
- Mr. Sherman pays a visit (Plover)
- The Nodolf incident (Platteville)
- Return of the hanged man (Mineral Point)
- A mother's plea (southwestern Wisconsin)
- The psychic detective (Milwaukee).
- Notes:
- Original edition by Beth Scott and Michael Norman published in 1985.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-332).
- ISBN:
- 9780299315146
- 0299315142
- OCLC:
- 981948551
- Publisher Number:
- 99973938860
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