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Haunted Kansas : Ghost Stories and Other Eerie Tales / Lisa Hefner Heitz.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Heitz, Lisa Hefner, author.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Ghosts--Kansas.; Ghosts.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (233 pages)
Edition:: 1st ed.
Place of Publication:: Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Summary:: Who's that?Is someone there?A whisper of air brushes your cheek.Then all is still.Maybe it was just the wind.Or maybe it wasn't....Maybe you've just been visited by the late Ida Day lurking in the basement of Hutchinson's public library or the widow Tarot staring forlornly from an upstairs window at Fort Scott, or the phantom Earl floating.
Contents:: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; House Ghosts (Haunted Houses &amp; Buildings); The Old Stone House; The Haunted Farm; The Blue Handkerchief Ghost of Carey House Square; Herbie the Bakery Ghost; The Ghost of Ida Day; Emporia Country Club Ghosts; The Haunted Duplex; Fort Ghosts; The Watching Widow; Custer's Ghost; The Haunted Teddy Bear; The Well-Ghost; More Frontier Ghosts; The Ghost of Father Fred; The Ghost of Catherine Sutler: The Lost Children; The Lady in Black; The Ghost of Custer; The Ghosts of the Rookery; The Face in the Fire; And the Rest; School and Theater Ghosts; The Oxford Middle School Ghost; The Ghostly Trumpeter of Paola High School; Death Takes a Holiday: The Salina Central High Stage Ghost; George and the Night Nurse: Kansas State University; Virginia, the Ghost of Sigma Nu: University of Kansas; The Musical Ghost of McCray Hall: Pittsburg State University; Earl, the Brown Grand Theater Ghost; Graveyard Ghosts; The Albino Woman; The Blue-Eyed Monster of Clearwater Cemetery; The Demonic Church; The Caretaker Ghosts; The Glowing Tombstone; Ghosts on the Range; The Ghost of the Cimarron; The Hamburger Man; Theorosa's Bridge; A Ghostly Sisyphus; Kate Coffee and Her Ghouls; The Legends of Witches Hollow; The Holmes Ghost Light; St. Jacob's Well: The Cowboy Ghost and His Ghost Horse; Ghostly Oddities; Mystic Cow Lights; The Phantom Cat; Angel over Greensburg; The Haunted Mattress; The Haunted Hayloft; The Singing Ghost; The Most Haunted Town in Kansas: Atchison; The Ghost of Sallie the Man-Hater; The Haunted Villa: The Ghost in the Tower; The Tea-Making Ghost with a Toothache; The Skirt-Tugging Ghost; The Ghost of Anna; The Suitcase-Throwing Ghost.; The Ghost of the Bride Trapped in the Trunk; A Quartet of Ghosts; The Legend of Molly's Hollow in Jackson Park; Epilogue; Notes and Sources; Additional Resources; Index; Back Cover.
Notes:: Includes index.; Description based on print version record.; Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:: 9780700634439
OCLC:: 1374296002

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