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A fleeting figure dressed in a white party dress roams the streets of southwest Chicago. A long-dead Iowa college student treads the staircase in an old building. A ghostly, plaid-shirted workman plays peek-a-boo with a ticket seller in a Minnesota theater. A phantom wolf prowls Ohio's Jackson and Pike Counties. For decades, journalist Michael Norman has been tracking down spine-tingling tales that seem to arise from authentic incidents in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, show more Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. In Haunted Heartland he offers more than eighty entertaining, eerie stories. Are they true in the world that we know, or only in a dark vale of twilight? show lessTags
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I can't speak towards the entire collection of short stories from across the midwest but I saw a paperback copy of this book in a B&N back in about 1998 and was struck by one of the very stories that were whispered about on my college campus at the time. I also experienced a disturbance referenced at one of the locations in the story while living on campus. I have since found original newspapers from the 1920's, 1950's, and 1970's that were referenced in the story. The story in this book is almost exactly as whispered by students back in the 1990's on campus and corroborated in newsprint...
This was a bunch of short stories about haunted places. It is written in documentary form (which I dislike very much). The only thing that saved this from being 1 star is the fact that there were a few really good stories.
It's interesting, but I don't think there's enogh evidence to prove that much of it is real. I just kept thinking the whole time, who told her that? Maybe I'm just cynical...
1966 Haunted Heartland, by Beth Scott & Michael Norman (read 16 Dec 1985) This is a collection of ghost stories, but written chattily, with no effort to be investigative. It was not worth reading.
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- Original publication date
- 1985
- Important places
- Illinois, USA; Indiana, USA; Iowa, USA; Kansas, USA; Michigan, USA; Minnesota, USA (show all 10); Missouri, USA; Nebraska, USA; Ohio, USA; Wisconsin, USA
- Epigraph
- The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. --H. P. Lovecraft
- Dedication
- To Janell and Larry, and also to Jonathan, Jeffery, James and Rosemary - these writers are forever grateful that your forbearance and understanding know no bounds...
- First words
- Preface: With a wisp of time in the geological calendar, humanity has moved from Pascal's cautious acceptance of entities unseen to the pervasive skepticism of the "supernatural," characterized by the twentieth century.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The man who had called Milwaukee home for nearly fifty years was buried the following Friday in Wanderer's Rest Cemetery, ending the career of America's most amazing psychic detective.
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 133.0977
- Canonical LCC
- BF1472.U6
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
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- (3.45)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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