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Coastal Ghosts: Haunted Places from Wilmington North Carolina to Savannah Georgia

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I found the stories in this book to be facinating. Although some could have used a bit more detail. The stories were short and easy reading but did cause you to wonder what it was that went bump in the night!

To give this book all of the credit that I can I will say that the directions offered at the end of each story look pretty explicit and could help someone to find the locations in question. I will also say that the last two stories in the book are pretty good even if they are very short. Otherwise, this book was a complete disappointment.

Only the last two stories contain any recent eyewitness accounts and most of these stories would barely qualify as ghost stories. Many of the stories included have nothing at all to do with ghosts but deal instead with old legends that include a bunch of cursed skulls and a body that was pickled at sea. When the stories deal with ghosts at all the author doesn't choose to deal with them much. In story after story the history of the haunt in question goes on and on and the ghost itself only gets mentioned in the final paragraph. In one instance, the ghost only gets one sentence. Fortunately, most of the stories told here can also be found in other books that do a much better job of telling the story. A blurb on the back cover refers to this book as, "light", which I would say is a very kind way of putting it.

Add to this the fact that the stories are way to short, covering twenty-five stories in just one hundred eighty-four pages and that includes several pages of photos and you really don't have much of a book. To make things even worse, the writing while sometimes very good is also often disjointed and the reader is forced to go back and read certain sections over in order to figure out what the author is talking about. Whatever it is that she is talking about however, I can assure you that it has very little to do with ghosts.