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1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780813174501
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0813174503
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9780813174518
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0813174511
Inhalt:
Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, and Beaux Arts mansions, current residents trade riveting stories about their historic homes. Many of these tales defy rational explanation. When David DominE moved into one of these houses, he dismissed local rumors of a resident poltergeist named Lucy. However, before long, unnerving, disembodied footsteps and mysterious odors caused him to flee his home in the middle of the night. Since that night, DominE has not only opened his mind to the idea of paranormal phenomena but also turned it into popular tours and a bestselling collection of books, which have brought new attention to this iconic neighborhood. In Haunts of Old Louisville, he takes readers inside the opulent Ferguson Mansion -- where a phantom tosses books off shelves -- and introduces them to the spectral stable hand who lurks around Campion House. He also examines historic tales pulled out of the headlines and even explores the claim that a winged demon haunts the ornate towers of Walnut Street Baptist Church. These tales of things that go bump in the night not only reveal why Old Louisville is considered the "most haunted neighborhood in America," but also help to preserve this historically and architecturally significant community
Anmerkung:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; Even More About Old Louisville; Map, Haunted Louisville; Chapter 1 -- The Ferguson Mansion; About Bockee Manor; About Kentucky's First Embalmer; About the Old Filson Club; Chapter 2 -- The Bowen House; About the Armstrong Mansion; Chapter 3 -- The Walnut Street Baptist Church; About Spring Heeled Jack; About Old Louisville's Holiest Block; About the Neuman House; Chapter 4 -- The Samuel Culbertson Mansion; About the Stewart Culbertson Mansion; About the Stewart Culbertson Carriage House.
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Chapter 5 -- The Campion HouseAbout Churchill Downs; Chapter 6 -- The Charles L. Robinson House; About Louisville's Most Infamous Resurrectionist; Chapter 7 -- The Charles P. Robinson House; Chapter 8 -- The Rocking Horse Manor; About the Queen of America; Chapter 9 -- The Columbine; About Orbs; About the Witch's Tree; Chapter 10 -- The Russell Houston House; About Fourth Street's One-Armed Specters; Afterword; Acknowledgements.
Sprache:
Englisch
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