Dixie Spirits: True Tales of the Strange and Supernatural in the South (Second Edition)

Like the "Crooked Road in Virginia" guides you through Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, "Dixie Spirits: The Tales of the Strange and Supernatural in the South (Second Edition)" guides you to mysterious haunted houses, hotels and other haunts throughout the south.

This entertaining guide leads you through state after state in the south with the most interesting and eerie ghost tales you have ever heard. Each tale gives you a detailed history of when and why the entity first appears, real life encounters as well as the physical location of today along with address, web address and general directions to the site.

My family has visited the Brown Mountain Lights here in North Carolina several times. Although I have read about their origin from other publications and have heard about them all my life, I have never learned as much detail as I did in reading "Dixie Spirits." We have also been to both the Pirate’s House Inn and the Juliette Gordon Lowe birthplace in Savannah. Although we didn’t see any "going ons" at either, our daughters mentioned that they felt eerie in the Lowe home. My husband and I thought this was a bid odd because we didn’t mention the haunted part – we were there visiting the birthplace of the founder of Girl Scouts of America. Perhaps they felt someone there?

Additional locations you may want to visit and information on any Ghost Tours available are given at the conclusion of each state’s stories. My family has been on several Ghost Tours, including Asheville Ghost Walk here at home, as well as Ghosts and Legends Tour of Savannah which are mentioned here and have learned interesting historical facts and had our skin crawling after each experience. A city, a building, a room that you see during the day can look extremely different on a cloudy evening when given details you absorb in a Ghost Tour.

While planning your trip to visit haunted locations in the south, "Dixie Spirits" can be your all encompassing guide. In closing, the Appendix will give you haunted sites to stay while on your journey. That is if you do not mind sleeping next to a ghost.

Of the thirty-four beautifully detailed accounts "Dixie Spirits" by Christopher K Coleman leads you through; each one is unique in both character and detail. The strangeness and detail of the stories draw the reader in and leave you wanting more – with the lights on and the door locked.

Dixie Spirits
Christopher K Coleman
Cumberland House (2008)
ISBN 9781581826715
Reviewed by Danelle Drake for Reader Views (9/08)

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