Type: Paperback
Condition: Used, Good. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover, spine and page edges. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.
Details: Haunted Wilmington and the Cape Fear Coast, author Brooks Newton Preik. A collection of "true" ghost stories
ISBN: 0-9635967-3-X
Published: 1995
These fourteen tales of ghostly sightings date from the early
1800's to the present ..some horrifying, some whimsical, some
bizarre. All, according to the people who witnessed them, true.
-A distraught mother is comforted when her grown son returns
from a perilous sea journey... until she realizes she is looking at an
apparition.
-A riverboat pilot spends a harrowing Christmas Eve on turbulent
waters, battling not just the storm but the phantoms it brings with it.
A band of ghostly thespians help to run a busy theatre.
-A mother dies in childbirth, but her spirit returns to watch over
her house.
-A young man falls from his horse and is pronounced dead... only
to appear to his best friend and insist he's been buried alive.
A host of Wilmington's stateliest old homes harbor ghostly
inhabitants.
And manv more!
Brooks Newton Preik is a lifelong resident of the Cape Fear Coast.
She co-authored the guidebook, What Locals Know About Wilmington
and Its Beaches, and writes tor many regional magazines.