The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore

330 Pages·1996·1.17 MB·English

by  Alan Brown

The Face in the Window and Other
title:
Alabama Ghostlore
author: Brown, Alan.
publisher: University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin: 081730813X
print isbn13: 9780817308131
ebook isbn13: 9780585211633
language: English
subject Ghosts--Alabama.
publication date: 1996
lcc: BF1472.U6B74 1996eb
ddc: 133.1/09761
subject: Ghosts--Alabama.
Page i
The Face in the Window and Other Alabama
Ghostlore
Page ii
The face in the window of the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton
is probably Alabama's most famous ghost. See Stories 123a-d. From a
photograph by Marilyn Brown.
Page iii
The Face in the Window and Other Alabama
Ghostlore
Alan Brown
Page iv
Copyright © 1996
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the
United States of America
designed by erin toppin bradley
The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum
requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-
1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Alan, 1950 Jan. 12-
The face in the window
and other Alabama ghostlore / Alan Brown.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8173-0813-X
I. GhostsAlabama.
I. Title
BF1472.U6B74 1996
133.1'09761dc20
95-33572
British Library
Cataloguing-in-Publication
Data available

Page v
Contents
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Central Alabama
1. The Thing with Wings 11
2. It's Cold Down Here! 12
3. The Wailing Ghost 12
4. An Alabama Banshee 12
5. God, the Devil, and the Two by the Gate 12
6. The Woman in White 13
7. Who's Going to Sleep with Me Tonight? 14
8. The Face on the Door 14
9. The Mad Scientist's House 14
10. The Railroad Ghost 15
11. The Blue Ladies 15
12. The Spectral Housekeeper 16
13. The Lady on the Rock 16
14. Reynolds's Ghost 16
15. Trummy's Ghost 17
16. The College Night Kid 17
17. Condie Cunningham 17
18. Bayview Bridge 18
19. The Lady on the Bridge 19
Chapter 2
Northern Alabama
20. The Ghost of the Opera Singer 20
21. The Headless Girl 20
22. The Vanishing Woman 20
23. The Spectral Singers 21
Page vi
24. Sally's Ghost 21
25. Ghost Dog 21
26. The Tate-Ashford House 22
27. The Haunted Schoolhouse 22
Chapter 3
Northeastern Alabama
28. Miss Pokey 23
29. Surprise Homecoming 23
30. The Haunted Plantation 24
31. Goose Ghost 24
32. The Open Grave 25
33. The Dog Man of Eastwood 25
34. The Wailing Waif 26
Chapter 4
Eastern Alabama
35. Gloria's Bridge 28
36. The Laughing Voice (WPA) 28
37. The Haunted Graveyard in Lowndes County (WPA) 29
38. Fishing Peter (WPA) 30
39. Murdered Girl's Spirit Lives (WPA) 30
40. The Haunting of Crommelin Estate (WPA) 30
41. Travling with a Ghost (WPA) 31
42. The "Hanted" House (WPA) 31
43. Buried Money Protected (WPA) 32
44. Old Court Street Church Ghost (WPA) 32
45. Thirteen Bridges Road 33
46 The Moving Beds 33
47 The Red Lady 34
48 The Bachelor's Haunted House (WPA) 34
49 The Haunted Corner 35
50 The Cold Ghost 36