Virginia Legends & Lore

For centuries, Virginians have told, retold and embellished wonderful stories of their history. Legends such as the "wild Spanish ponies" of Chincoteague, General Braddock's lost gold, the Mount Vernon Monster and the Richmond Vampire tug at the imagination. Revolutionary War heroes, Annandale's Bunny Man, the enslaved woman who became a Union spy in the White House of the Confederacy and many others left imprints on the Commonwealth of Virginia. Explore secret societies, hidden knowledge and the mysteries of the universe with author Chuck Mills.

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Virginia Legends & Lore

For centuries, Virginians have told, retold and embellished wonderful stories of their history. Legends such as the "wild Spanish ponies" of Chincoteague, General Braddock's lost gold, the Mount Vernon Monster and the Richmond Vampire tug at the imagination. Revolutionary War heroes, Annandale's Bunny Man, the enslaved woman who became a Union spy in the White House of the Confederacy and many others left imprints on the Commonwealth of Virginia. Explore secret societies, hidden knowledge and the mysteries of the universe with author Chuck Mills.

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Virginia Legends & Lore

Virginia Legends & Lore

by Charles A. Mills
Virginia Legends & Lore

Virginia Legends & Lore

by Charles A. Mills

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For centuries, Virginians have told, retold and embellished wonderful stories of their history. Legends such as the "wild Spanish ponies" of Chincoteague, General Braddock's lost gold, the Mount Vernon Monster and the Richmond Vampire tug at the imagination. Revolutionary War heroes, Annandale's Bunny Man, the enslaved woman who became a Union spy in the White House of the Confederacy and many others left imprints on the Commonwealth of Virginia. Explore secret societies, hidden knowledge and the mysteries of the universe with author Chuck Mills.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467149709
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 08/23/2021
Series: American Legends
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Chuck Mills has a passion for history. He is the author of Hidden History of Northern Virginia, Echoes of Manassas, Historic Cemeteries of Northern Virginia and Treasure Legends of the Civil War and has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles on historical subjects. Chuck is the producer and cohost of Virginia Time Travel, a history television show that airs to some 2 million viewers in Northern Virginia. He lives on the banks of the Potomac River on land once owned by George Washington.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Native American Legends and Lore

Legends of the Great Dismal Swamp 13

Natural Bridge 15

Powhatan Legends 18

"He Whose Soul Is White" 22

Colonial Times

Wild Ponies 27

Pirate Treasures 30

General Braddock's Lost Treasure 34

Colonel Chiswell, the Celebrity Murderer 38

The Courtship of Martha Washington 42

From the American Revolution to the War of 1812

George Washington: Legends and Lore 49

Did George Washington Have a Son? 53

The Strange Case of Henry Washington 56

Lord Fairfax and the Lost American Peers 60

The Paul Revere of Virginia 62

1800 to 1900

Henry "Box" Brown 67

The Strange Fate of Wilmer McLean 70

The Legend of Mosby's Lost Loot 73

The Lost Confederate Treasury 77

Virginia Railroad Lore 81

Legendary Women

Pocahontas and Captain John Smith 87

The Witch of Pungo 91

The Female Stranger 95

The Union Spy in the Confederate White House 98

Women Officers in the Confederate Army 101

Unsolved Mysteries

A Murder at Bizarre 107

The Beale Treasure 110

The Strange Case of Edgar Allan Poe 116

The Bruton Parish Mystery 119

UFOs 123

Paranormal Tales

Virginia Superstitions 129

Bigfoot in Virginia 133

Monsters Unmasked 137

Civil War Specters and Other Ghosts 141

Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet" 148

Strange Tales

Presidential Lore 153

The Remeum 160

Studying Reincarnation in Virginia 164

Too Good to Be True 167

Selected Bibliography 169

About the Author 173

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