Haunted South Georgia

by Jim Miles

Overview

Each county in the vast territory of southern Georgia has a haunted history. The old Barber-Tucker Inn in Colquitt County and the renovated former Scottish Inn in Bryan County host ghostly guests. A profane spirit disturbed a house's former residents with vile language. The Hairy Man still searches a swamp for his long-lost son. A Dodge County ghost twice saved the lives of a family's children, while one in Liberty County mysteriously extinguished a fire that would have destroyed a historic house. Ghosts in Randolph County and Echols County provided the living with evidence sufficient to convict their murderers. Join author Jim Miles as he recounts stories from the fifty-seven counties of the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625859464
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	10/02/2017
Series:	Haunted America
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jim Miles is author of seven books of the Civil War Explorer Series (Fields of Glory, To the Sea, Piercing the Heartland, Paths to Victory, A River Unvexed, Forged in Fire and The Storm Tide), Civil War Sites in Georgia and two books titled Weird Georgia. Five books were featured by the History Book Club, and he has been historical adviser to several History Channel shows. He has also written seven books about Georgia ghosts: Civil War Ghosts of North Georgia, Civil War Ghosts of Atlanta, Civil War Ghosts of Central Georgia and Savannah, Haunted North Georgia, Haunted Central Georgia, Haunted South Georgia and Mysteries of Georgia's Military Bases: Ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot. He has a bachelor's degree in history and a Master of Education degree from Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus. He taught high school American history for thirty-one years. Over a span of forty years, Jim has logged tens of thousands of miles exploring every nook and cranny in Georgia, as well as at Civil War sites throughout the country. He lives in Warner Robins, Georgia, with his wife, Earline.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Appling County: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night 11

Atkinson County: The Axson Light 13

Bacon County: Ghost of the "Possum, Eater of the Dead 15

Baker County: The Churches on Hard Up Road 17

Ben Hill County: The Heavy Breathers 21

Berrien County: The House in Ray City 23

Brantley County: Bad Divorce Vibes? 25

Brooks County: Whose Child Was That? 28

Bryan Comity: The Spirit of Room XXX 30

Calhoun County: The Transplanted Haunts 31

Camden County: Cumberland Island's Spooks 34

Charlton County: Dead Man Searches for His Loot 36

Chatham County: Native American Spirits Remain on the Coast 38

Clinch County: A Celebrated Haunted House 41

Clay County: Spook Hill 43

Coffee County: The Haunted Chamber of Commerce 45

Colquitt County: Who's There at the Old Bed-and-Breakfast? 47

Cook County: Poltergeist 101 49

Crisp County: Swamp Gas, Will-O'-the-Wisp or Ball Lightning? 51

Decatur County: The Subterranean Ghost Cat 53

Dodge County: A Ghost Watched Over the Children 57

Dougherty County: Headless Assailant and a Haunted Jail 61

Early County: Uncle Jeff, the Newspaper Spirit 64

Echols County: The Headless Spirit Wanted Justice 66

Evans County: Found a Peanut 68

Glynn County: Travels with Wanda 69

Grady County: Ha'nts at the Hawthorne House 72

Irwin County: The Ghostly Sentry 75

Jeff Davis County: The Rachel Knockers 78

Lanier County: Who Burned in the Church? 80

Lee County: Ghost-on-Ghost Violence 85

Liberty County: Case of the Tormented Suitor 87

Long County: The Hairy Man of the Swamp 89

Lowndes County: Ghost's Clear at the Bell House 92

McIntosh County: Brewster Protected His Home and Its Occupants 96

Miller County: The Restless Dead of Pilgrim's Rest 99

Mitchell County: Floral Ghosts 102

Montgomery County: The Ram of Dead River 104

Pierce County: I Don't Want to Die 107

Quitman County: Ghosts at Madame Iturbide's Place 110

Randolph County: A Post-Civil War Ghost Story 111

Seminole County: The Case of the Cheated-On Suicide Ghost 113

Stewart County: Some Guests at the Bedingfield Inn

Never Checked Out 115

Sumter County: The Rylander Theater Ghost 118

Tattnall County: A Hairy Ghost Story 121

Telfair County: Eerie Events at Grandma's House 123

Terrell County: A Ghost, a Bigfoot, UFOs and a Specific Piddle 125

Thomas County: Mansion Ghost in the City of Mansions 129

Tift County: The Knock-Knock Jokester Ghost 132

Toombs County: Where Ghosts and Onions Bloom 134

Turner County: The Old Haunted Jail 136

Ware County: Ghost Lights in the Swampland 141

Wayne County: Poltergeists at Dale 144

Webster County: Profane Farmhouse Ghost 147

Wheeler County: The Ancestral Haunted House 149

Wilcox County: A Realtor's Dilemma 151

Worth County: The Haunted Ghost Investigators 153

Bibliography 155

About the Author 160

Editorial Reviews

"Every county in Georgia has at least one ghost story, and author Jim Miles has gathered them into three books.

"Haunted North Georgia," "Haunted Central Georgia" and "Haunted South Georgia" were published by The History Press on Oct. 2.

Miles traveled

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