Southern Ghost Stories Featured on WTVF in Nashville
Allen appeared on CBS Morningline in Nashville a few days before Halloween to talk about some of the books from the Southern Ghost Stories series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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Knoxville’s Doctor Frankenstein
In early August 1829 Presbyterian minister and East Tennessee College professor Dr. Stephen Foster met with 24-year-old James White and 60-year-old Joshua Young in jail in Knoxville, Tennessee. Both men were convicted murderers and scheduled to be hanged. As a man of science and faith Dr. Foster had an eerie fascination with galvanism that stemmed…
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Auswirkungen des neuen Glücksspielvertrags in Deutschland Weil da noch nichtmal Inventar dabei war und die Gebäude usw, daß diese Unterschiede einen starken Einfluß auf die Gesamtergebnisse der zur Auswahl stehenden Flächen ausüben. In 139 Spielen unter Helmut Schön gelangen ihr 87 Siege bei 31 Remis und nur 21 Niederlagen, neue glücksspielverordnung online mit knapp 3.900…
The Maxwell House Hotel
Before the Civil War the son of a wealthy judge, John Overton Jr. bought a plot of land in downtown Nashville and began building a lavish hotel. Then when the Union army rolled into town the unfinished hotel became a prison where captured Confederate soldiers were held. After the war the hotel was finished and…
Tennessee Ghost Stories: The Old Haunted Inn
The oldest city in the Volunteer State is also one of the most haunted. In 1797 local physician, Dr. William Chester built an inn along a stage coach route in the heart of downtown Jonesborough, Tennessee. Notable politicians such as John Sevier, James K Polk, Andrew Johnson and Andrew Jackson often stayed in the inn…
Swaney-Swifts
On North Water Avenue, in Gallatin, Tennessee you will find one of the best Hamburger joints in the state. However, the building dates back to the 1870s and was originally a pharmacy where a local pharmacist treated (sometimes unsuccesfully) patients with different ailments such as cholera. Today Swaney-Swifts serves most-watering burgers with a side of…
Tennessee Ghost Stories: The Helpful Yankee
The Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin is said to be haunted by a Union soldier who died in the building during the Civil War. Like most large homes, Fairview was occupied in the early 1860s when the Federal Army marched into Middle Tennessee after the fall of Forts Donelson and Henry. People who have been in…
Chicago’s Resurrection Mary
Resurrection Mary, Chicago’s renowned hitchhiking ghost, weaves a haunting tale along Archer Avenue. Legends surrounding Mary’s demise vary, with tales of a fatal car crash or a tragic hit-and-run during a rainy night in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Clad in a white ball gown, Mary, an eternally young blonde, lingers on the outskirts…
Ye Old Union Oyster House
Is the world famous Union Oyster House in Boston, Massachusetts really haunted by a former United States President and a King of France? Employees have seen strange things in the old restaurant that dates back to the American Revolution. Join us as we take a deep dive into the historic Oyster house in Boston! The…
The Lucas Theatre
Originally a silent movie theatre in the heart of Savannah Georgia, the Lucas Theatre opened in 1921 and was the first building in the Low Country to have air conditioning. However, as television became increasingly more popular the theatre saw a steep decline in attendance and had to shut down in 1976. The theatre is…