Who's that? Is someone there? A whisper of air brushes your cheek.
Then all is still. Maybe it was just the wind. Or maybe it wasn't.
. . .
Maybe you've just been visited by the late Ida Day lurking in
the basement of Hutchinson's public library or the widow Tarot
staring forlornly from an upstairs window at Fort Scott, or the
phantom Earl floating behind the scenes in Concordia's Brown Grand
Theater. And maybe the horrific Albino Woman truly does haunt
Topeka, turning romantic nights into nightmares. . . . maybe.
Pursuing the stories behind these and other spectral
manifestations, Lisa Hefner Heitz has traveled the state in search
of its ghostly folklore. What she has unearthed is a fascinating
blend of oral histories, contemporary eye-witness accounts, and
local legends. Creepy and chilling, sometimes humorous, and always
engaging, her book features tales about ghosts, poltergeists, spook
lights, and a host of other restless spirits that haunt Kansas.
Heitz's spine-tingling collection of stories raps and taps and
moans and groans through a wealth of descriptions of infamous
Kansas phantoms, as well as disconcerting personal experiences
related by former skeptics. Many of these ghosts, she shows, are
notoriously linked to specific structures or locations, whether it
is an eighteenth-century mansion in Atchison or a deep--some have
claimed bottomless--pool near Ashland.
The evanescent apparitions of these tales have frightened and at
times amused Kansans throughout the state's long history. Yet this
is the first book to capture for posterity the lively antics of the
state's ghostly denizens. Besides preserving a colorful and
imaginative, if intangible, side of the state's popular heritage,
Heitz supplies ghost-storytellers with ample hair-raising material
for, well, eternity. Maybe that person breathing softly behind you
has another such story to share. Oh, no one's there? Perhaps it
really was just the breeze off the prairie.
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