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Tales told in the shadows of the White Mountains, Charles J. Jordan

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Tales told in the shadows of the White Mountains

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Charles J. Jordan

"A spine-tingling collection of real and surreal tales of northern New Hampshire's supernatural." --Back coverCharles Jordan has spent many years keeping his ear to the ground for stories of the weird and wonderful of northern New Hampshire. Now, in this singular volume, he has collected tales varying from Native American apparitions, witches, ghosts, local characters and cranks, to murder and even the apocalypse! As writer and editor of Northern New Hampshire Magazine, Jordan has covered many stories concerning strange, eerie, and supernatural tales of the region. Tales Told in the Shadows of the White Mountains presents fourteen stories featuring unsolved mysteries, supernatural meanderings, and other tales of intrigue?some well known and the stuff of local legend, others newly unearthed and offered to the reader for the first time. Petrified yet? This collection is sure to put you into a granite state. --, Back cover

1. "Lightning Blast Your Crops!": Legends as Old as the Hills -- 2. Knock Knock, What's There?: The Spirits Move into Town -- 3. Of Prophets and Gatekeepers: Millerites Take Sugar Hill and Nazro Claims Mount Washington -- 4. From Out of the Blue: The Electric Lady and Apparitions in the Sky -- 5. Letters from the Dead: Spirit Writing in Stratford -- 6. Written in Stone: Carved Pathos and the Mystery of the Fingers Pointing Down -- 7. Was It Murder?: The Bugbee-Towne Mystery -- 8. Strange Brew: Witches of the White Mountains -- 9. Forbidden Waters: "Any Use of the Waters of the Great Spirit for Profit Will Never Prosper" -- 10. Mountain Characters: Jack the Hermit, Edward Norton, the Mollers, and Shiff the Gunman