Author: W. B. Alexander
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482377897
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
William Alexander is a 13th generation Nantucket Native with ties back to the founding members of the original settlers of Sherburne. He has been looking into ghosts since his first paranormal experience at the age of eight. By thirteen he was performing ghost hunts on Nantucket and has since continued to do so nationwide. From 2003 to 2005, he wrote, produced and performed a one man show called The Nantucket Haunted Hike which garnered him recognition from celebrities, politicians and the general public. In 2005, he penned the book, "Haunted Nantucket Island" as a supplement to his tour. Now, after having been available for Kindle for a few years, the new edition of the book is here complete with a new story collected from another islander, stories as he had once told them on his tour, and an essay the author wrote for an online paranormal magazine. This new version of the book will delight, chill, and if you were ever a member of his tour group, bring back memories much like a ghost brings back a memory of a bygone era.
Haunted Nantucket Island
Author: W. B. Alexander
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482377897
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
William Alexander is a 13th generation Nantucket Native with ties back to the founding members of the original settlers of Sherburne. He has been looking into ghosts since his first paranormal experience at the age of eight. By thirteen he was performing ghost hunts on Nantucket and has since continued to do so nationwide. From 2003 to 2005, he wrote, produced and performed a one man show called The Nantucket Haunted Hike which garnered him recognition from celebrities, politicians and the general public. In 2005, he penned the book, "Haunted Nantucket Island" as a supplement to his tour. Now, after having been available for Kindle for a few years, the new edition of the book is here complete with a new story collected from another islander, stories as he had once told them on his tour, and an essay the author wrote for an online paranormal magazine. This new version of the book will delight, chill, and if you were ever a member of his tour group, bring back memories much like a ghost brings back a memory of a bygone era.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482377897
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
William Alexander is a 13th generation Nantucket Native with ties back to the founding members of the original settlers of Sherburne. He has been looking into ghosts since his first paranormal experience at the age of eight. By thirteen he was performing ghost hunts on Nantucket and has since continued to do so nationwide. From 2003 to 2005, he wrote, produced and performed a one man show called The Nantucket Haunted Hike which garnered him recognition from celebrities, politicians and the general public. In 2005, he penned the book, "Haunted Nantucket Island" as a supplement to his tour. Now, after having been available for Kindle for a few years, the new edition of the book is here complete with a new story collected from another islander, stories as he had once told them on his tour, and an essay the author wrote for an online paranormal magazine. This new version of the book will delight, chill, and if you were ever a member of his tour group, bring back memories much like a ghost brings back a memory of a bygone era.
Nantucket Ghosts
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 0892728345
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Nantucket Island has just more than 10,000 year-round residents — and a sizeable population of very real ghosts. The 44 tales in this book were collected as oral history. Some of these spirits are benign, even protective; others terrorize the humans who encounter them. All are memorable.
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 0892728345
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Nantucket Island has just more than 10,000 year-round residents — and a sizeable population of very real ghosts. The 44 tales in this book were collected as oral history. Some of these spirits are benign, even protective; others terrorize the humans who encounter them. All are memorable.
Dangerous Shallows
Author: Eric Takakjian
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493042319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Dangerous Shallows tells the story of a quest to solve maritime cold-cases. The odyssey takes the reader along for a moment-by-moment look at the events surrounding the loss of more than twenty different ships, and includes the stories of discovering their wrecks and learning about the final hours of each of these ships.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493042319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Dangerous Shallows tells the story of a quest to solve maritime cold-cases. The odyssey takes the reader along for a moment-by-moment look at the events surrounding the loss of more than twenty different ships, and includes the stories of discovering their wrecks and learning about the final hours of each of these ships.
Out of the Wild Night
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545867584
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vemeer an unforgettable story about an island haunted by the past . . . and the ghosts who must help with the present. Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket. You can hear them in the wind, and in the creaks of the old homes. They want to be remembered. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. The ghosts seem to have chosen a few local kids to be their messengers -- and to help save the island. But in this mystery, the line between those who haunt and those who are haunted is a thin one -- and the past and the present must come to terms with one another in order to secure the future.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545867584
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vemeer an unforgettable story about an island haunted by the past . . . and the ghosts who must help with the present. Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket. You can hear them in the wind, and in the creaks of the old homes. They want to be remembered. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. The ghosts seem to have chosen a few local kids to be their messengers -- and to help save the island. But in this mystery, the line between those who haunt and those who are haunted is a thin one -- and the past and the present must come to terms with one another in order to secure the future.
Tom Never's Ghost
Author: Jack Warner
Publisher: Netsource Distribution
ISBN: 9780977805600
Category : Nantucket Island (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Almost everyone who has visited this legendary island can recite Nantucket's official history as a whaling empire and premier resort destination. But very few know the true reasons why things turned out as they did and how they really came to pass. In Tom Never's Ghost, you'll gain a fresh new understanding of the Island's history, both past and present, in a lively historical narrative that goes well beyond a straight history to connect all the dots. Based on nearly five years of research, it details much th at has never been reported before, and much that surprises, including the real reasons why Nantucket eclipsed all other ports in whaling wealth and why its fortunes ultimately fell. The true mission of the top secret navybase at tom Nevers and attempted federal takeover of the whole island in 1972 and the three unrelated events that triggered nantucket's current real estate feeding frenzy. In tom never's ghost you'll learn all this plus much more.
Publisher: Netsource Distribution
ISBN: 9780977805600
Category : Nantucket Island (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Almost everyone who has visited this legendary island can recite Nantucket's official history as a whaling empire and premier resort destination. But very few know the true reasons why things turned out as they did and how they really came to pass. In Tom Never's Ghost, you'll gain a fresh new understanding of the Island's history, both past and present, in a lively historical narrative that goes well beyond a straight history to connect all the dots. Based on nearly five years of research, it details much th at has never been reported before, and much that surprises, including the real reasons why Nantucket eclipsed all other ports in whaling wealth and why its fortunes ultimately fell. The true mission of the top secret navybase at tom Nevers and attempted federal takeover of the whole island in 1972 and the three unrelated events that triggered nantucket's current real estate feeding frenzy. In tom never's ghost you'll learn all this plus much more.
The Nantucket Haunted Hike Presents: Haunted Nantucket Island Twenty-Two True Nantucket Ghost Stories
Author: WB Alexander
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462804098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Nantucket Haunted Hike Presents: Haunted Nantucket Island is the culmination of two years of interviews and research as made by author WB Alexander in the field of Nantucket ghost stories. All twenty two you will find in this book are true and told by those who witnessed the occurrances.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462804098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Nantucket Haunted Hike Presents: Haunted Nantucket Island is the culmination of two years of interviews and research as made by author WB Alexander in the field of Nantucket ghost stories. All twenty two you will find in this book are true and told by those who witnessed the occurrances.
Nantucket Slay-Ride
Author: W. B. Alexander
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530118663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
From 2003 to 2007, Nantucket Island had a walking tour unlike any other. The Nantucket Haunted Hike was a ghost tour beloved by many but tormented by a town that bowed down to the wealthy that wanted it gone due to prejudicial attitudes. The guide fought by whatever means necessary to stay afloat. Even with famous actors plugging for him, the town decided to put roadblocks in his way year after year in order to put him out of business. This is the true story of The Nantucket Haunted Hike and the living nightmare it went through in it's four years in business.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530118663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
From 2003 to 2007, Nantucket Island had a walking tour unlike any other. The Nantucket Haunted Hike was a ghost tour beloved by many but tormented by a town that bowed down to the wealthy that wanted it gone due to prejudicial attitudes. The guide fought by whatever means necessary to stay afloat. Even with famous actors plugging for him, the town decided to put roadblocks in his way year after year in order to put him out of business. This is the true story of The Nantucket Haunted Hike and the living nightmare it went through in it's four years in business.
Maynard's House
Author: Herman Raucher
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1626818096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
“Told with icy precision of eye and ear and a wink of wicked humor . . . First-rate haunted-house creepiness” from the bestselling author of Summer of ’42 (Kirkus Reviews). Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of a brother-in-arms—a fellow soldier and confidante, Maynard Whittier, killed in action by a wayward mortar shell. The rugged landscape of Maine is an intoxicating blend of claustrophobic interiors and endless frozen wastelands. Little by little, the mysterious force in the house asserts itself until Austin isn’t exactly sure what is in his mind and what is real. And just when our hero’s had enough and is ready to quit the place, a blizzard arrives and the real haunting begins. “An unsettling experience . . . Confounding, touching and well-written.” —The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1626818096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
“Told with icy precision of eye and ear and a wink of wicked humor . . . First-rate haunted-house creepiness” from the bestselling author of Summer of ’42 (Kirkus Reviews). Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of a brother-in-arms—a fellow soldier and confidante, Maynard Whittier, killed in action by a wayward mortar shell. The rugged landscape of Maine is an intoxicating blend of claustrophobic interiors and endless frozen wastelands. Little by little, the mysterious force in the house asserts itself until Austin isn’t exactly sure what is in his mind and what is real. And just when our hero’s had enough and is ready to quit the place, a blizzard arrives and the real haunting begins. “An unsettling experience . . . Confounding, touching and well-written.” —The New York Times Book Review
Haunted Cape Cod & the Islands
Author: Mark Jasper
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0971954720
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring nearly 50 paranormal events throughout the region, this book has the power to make even the most skeptical among us vulnerable to visits by uninvited guests. Best read by a crackling fire in a house that creaks on a howling snowy night, this collection explores Cape Cod and the Islands that were thought to no longer exist.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0971954720
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Featuring nearly 50 paranormal events throughout the region, this book has the power to make even the most skeptical among us vulnerable to visits by uninvited guests. Best read by a crackling fire in a house that creaks on a howling snowy night, this collection explores Cape Cod and the Islands that were thought to no longer exist.
The Ghosts of Nantucket
Author: Blue Balliett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892721917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Nantucket residents describe their firsthand encounters with paranormal phenomena in this unusual book. Their accounts are both surprising and entertaining, for Nantucket's ghosts are as individualistic as today's flesh-and-blood inhabitants.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892721917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Nantucket residents describe their firsthand encounters with paranormal phenomena in this unusual book. Their accounts are both surprising and entertaining, for Nantucket's ghosts are as individualistic as today's flesh-and-blood inhabitants.