Catch Ghost, Signed (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; SIGNED by author of half-title ; ISBN 9780898652017, 0898652014 ; OCLC 9080972 ; LCCN 82023455; LOC No BF1472.U6 D42 2000 ; Dewey 133.1/09758/724 ; Color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; "Savannah and the Georgia coast, with its old plantations, huge ancient oaks hung with Spanish moss, and tales of pirates, wars, fevers, African voodoo, and other supernatural doings, has always been a legendary and tragically romantic place. In this book, antebellum estates, house museums, long-conquered forts, and restored townhouses are visited with a noted psychic investigator in order to learn what it is like to live and work in these places today. The result is some seventy stories, skillfully interwoven with the heritage of the area's colorful past, and illustrated with over thirty photos and sketches by local artists. Incidents of precognition, extrasensory perception, deja vu and possible reincarnation are included in this personal and highly readable account of a search for the deeper meaning of life and death through psychic experience." ; Contents: The door opens - The man with a knife - Reflections on a mixed blessing - The restless past: shadows in a new house - Seance at the Pirates' House - Coldbrook:Can this plantation be saved? - That House on east St. Julian Street - Willie and Nellie:a love story - The case of the missing marbles - Grove Point Plantation: rumors of war and piracy - The faithful nurse of the Old Pest House - The house on Victory Drive - To catch a ghost, try a drawing - The message on the chimney - Crashing a seance - The most beautiful house in America - Mary Telfair's Museum - A spectral cat at the Davenport House - A rocking ghost at the Scarborough House - The Doll Museum's uninvited guest - The haunted Rectory - The presence in the church - Unrequited love at the 17Hundred90 - Ghosts a la carte - A house on Monterey Square - A determined Victorian presence - Uncle Wilbert, the loyalist ghost - The ghosts of Fort Pulaski - Remebering Major Gallie - Full moon at Fort Screven - The presences on the parade ground - Ghost-hunting at Race Path School - Brief encounters: a few more Savannah ghosts - The girl in the bathroom - The scent of roses, the swiss of taffeta -- The chill on the stairs - The calculating ghost on West Perry StreetThe woman in the bedroom - Animals, ghosts and ESP - Shades of the men in grey - A Children of PRide ghost story - THe girl who came back - The woman in the chair - The littl ehouse that is now at peace - Deja vu at Candler Hospital - An evening with a psychic - A Savannah House of Usher - The phantom Tunderbird - Bonaventure: the most elegant graveyard - The honest ghost of Greenwich - The haunted library - Sunlight and shadow at Colonial Cemetery - Echoes from Laurel Grove Cemetery - Memories of a shipbuilder - The psychic life of John Wesley - Who is Lady Huntingdon, and why is she walking at Bethesda? - The possessive presence at the Pink house - Closed encounters of the spectral kind on Jones Street - Enough ghosts on which to build a reputation - Shadows on the brick - Through the eyes of children - Sometimes they want to help you - A few more selected Savannah ghosts - Long-distance farewells : premonitions of death - Flowers from the dead - To lay a ghost - Reincarnation: the second chance? - ESP: A bond across time and space - Such stuff as dreams are made of - Rapping with the spirits - A spectral jest - The man who cursed Savannah - Spectres: in conclusion" ; FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1995 reprint ; 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm ; ISBN: 0898652014 ((pbk.)); 9780898652017 ((pbk.)) LCCN: 82-23455 ; LC: BF1472.U6; Dewey: 133.1/09758/724 ; OCLC: 9080972 ; SIGNED by Margaret Wayt DeBolt on flyleaf ; "Savannah and the Georgia coast, with its old plantations, huge ancient oaks hung with Spanish moss, and tales of pirates, wars, fevers, African voodoo, and other supernatural doings, has always been a legendary and tragically romantic place. In this book, antebellum estates, house museums, long-conquered forts, and restored townhouses are visited with a noted psychic investigator in order to learn what it is like to live and work in these places today. The result is some seventy stories, skillfully interwoven with the heritage of the area's colorful past, and illustrated with over thirty photos and sketches by local artists. Incidents of precognition, extrasensory perception, deja vu and possible reincarnation are included in this personal and highly readable account of a search for the deeper meaning of life and death through psychic experience." ; Contents: The door opens - The man with a knife - Reflections on a mixed blessing - The restless past: shadows in a new house - Seance at the Pirates' House - Coldbrook:Can this plantation be saved? - That House on east St. Julian Street - Willie and Nellie:a love story - The case of the missing marbles - Grove Point Plantation: rumors of war and piracy - The faithful nurse of the Old Pest House - The house on Victory Drive - To catch a ghost, try a drawing - The message on the chimney - Crashing a seance - The most beautiful house in America - Mary Telfair's Museum - A spectral cat at the Davenport House - A rocking ghost at the Scarborough House - The Doll Museum's uninvited guest - The haunted Rectory - The presence in the church - Unrequited love at the 17Hundred90 - Ghosts a la carte - A house on Monterey Square - A determined Victorian presence - Uncle Wilbert, the loyalist ghost - The ghosts of Fort Pulaski - Remebering Major Gallie - Full moon at Fort Screven - The presences on the parade ground - Ghost-hunting at Race Path School - Brief encounters: a few more Savannah ghosts - The girl in the bathroom - The scent of roses, the swiss of taffeta -- The chill on the stairs - The calculating ghost on West Perry StreetThe woman in the bedroom - Animals, ghosts and ESP - Shades of the men in grey - A Children of PRide ghost story - THe girl who came back - The woman in the chair - The littl ehouse that is now at peace - Deja vu at Candler Hospital - An evening with a psychic - A Savannah House of Usher - The phantom Tunderbird - Bonaventure: the most elegant graveyard - The honest ghost of Greenwich - The haunted library - Sunlight and shadow at Colonial Cemetery - Echoes from Laurel Grove Cemetery - Memories of a shipbuilder - The psychic life of John Wesley - Who is Lady Huntingdon, and why is she walking at Bethesda? - The possessive presence at the Pink house - Closed encounters of the spectral kind on Jones Street - Enough ghosts on which to build a reputation - Shadows on the brick - Through the eyes of children - Sometimes they want to help you - A few more selected Savannah ghosts - Long-distance farewells : premonitions of death - Flowers from the dead - To lay a ghost - Reincarnation: the second chance? - ESP: A bond across time and space - Such stuff as dreams are made of - Rapping with the spirits - A spectral jest - The man who cursed Savannah - Spectres: in conclusion" ; FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.