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Dark Florida : Animal Attacks, Historic Murders, Deadly Disasters and Other Calamities.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Dr. Alan N.
- Series:
- The History Press Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Florida Description and travel.
- Florida--History.
- Natural disasters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (120 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The History Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Author Alan Brown leads readers on a stomach-churning turn through Florida's dark side.Florida sunshine beckons, but in can be unrelenting, too.And in the shadows, tragedy strikes.Ted Bundy leads a cast of serial killers who wrought havoc on the state.Storms spin onto its shores with landscape altering fury.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Animal Attacks
- Alligator Attacks
- The Florida Panther
- Shark Attacks
- Invasive Snake Species
- 2. Epidemics
- Yellow Fever (1887-88)
- The Great White Plague (1917-15)
- Spanish Flu (1918-1919)
- The COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-22)
- Meningococcal Outbreak (2022-Present)
- 3. Gangsters in Paradise
- The Ashley Gang
- Al Capone
- The Barker-Karpis Gang
- 4. Legendary Deaths
- The Bermuda Triangle
- Calvin C. Phillips's Mausoleum
- The Castillo de San Marcos's Dark Secret
- Death by Anthrax
- Death by Suitcase
- Spontaneous Human Combustion
- 5. Natural Catastrophes
- Florida Keys Hurricane (1906)
- Florida Keys Hurricane (1909)
- Cuba Hurricane (1910)
- Florida Keys Hurricane (1919)
- Okeechobee Hurricane (1928)
- Labor Day Hurricane (1935)
- Miami Hurricane (1948)
- Hurricane Donna
- Hurricane Betsy
- Hurricane Andrew
- Hurricane Irma
- Hurricane Ian
- Hurricane Nicole
- Florida Wildfires (1998)
- The Groundhog Day Tornado Outbreak
- 6. Plane Crashes in the Everglades
- Eastern Flight 401 (1972)
- ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 (1996)
- 7. Serial Killers
- Oscar Ray Bolin
- Ted Bundy
- David Alan Gore
- Bobby Long
- Christine Falling
- Flat-Tire Murders
- Eddie Lee Mosley
- Danny Rolling
- Gerard Schaefer
- Aileen Wuornos
- 8. Strange Burials and Cemeteries
- Captain Tony's Saloon (Key West)
- The Huguenot Cemetery (St. Augustine)
- I-4 Dead Zone (Between Orlando and Daytona)
- Old City Cemetery (Tallahassee)
- Pinewood Cemetery (Daytona Beach)
- St. Paul's Cathedral Cemetery (Key West)
- Tolomato Cemetery (St. Augustine)
- Key West Cemetery (Key West)
- Works Cited
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781439678626
- 1439678626
- OCLC:
- 1414456474
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