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Ozark Ghost Stories

Ozark Ghost Stories
Author: Richard Young
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Ghost stories, American
ISBN: 9780874834109

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A collection of short horror stories from the Ozark region, told by performing storytellers from Branson, Missouri.


Ozark Tales of Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, and Monsters

Ozark Tales of Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, and Monsters
Author: W. C. Jameson
Publisher: Goldminds Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781942905578

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Who has not been thrilled and not a little frightened by tales of ghosts, spirits, hauntings, and monsters? Some of the most fascinating accounts come from the dark hollows of the Ozark Mountains. For generations, these scary, mystifying legends have been told around campfires and family gatherings and handed down through the generations. Now, for the first time, the best of these tales have been gathered together and presented in this volume. Award-winning author W.C. Jameson spent years collecting and researching these spellbinding yarns.


Ozark Superstitions

Ozark Superstitions
Author: Vance Randolph
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473388244

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The people who live in the Ozark country of Missouri and Arkansas were, until very recently, the most deliberately unprogressive people in the United States. Descended from pioneers who came West from the Southern Appalachians at the beginning of the nineteenth century, they made little contact with the outer world for more than a hundred years. They seem like foreigners to the average urban American, but nearly all of them come of British stock, and many families have lived in America since colonial days. Their material heirlooms are few, but like all isolated illiterates they have clung to the old songs and obsolete sayings and outworn customs of their ancestors. Sophisticated visitors sometimes regard the “hillbilly” as a simple child of nature, whose inmost thoughts and motivations may be read at a glance. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The hillman is secretive and sensitive beyond anything that the average city dweller can imagine, but he isn’t simple. His mind moves in a tremendously involved system of signs and omens and esoteric auguries. He has little interest in the mental procedure that the moderns call science, and his ways of arranging data and evaluating evidence are very different from those currently favored in the world beyond the hilltops. The Ozark hillfolk have often been described as the most superstitious people in America. It is true that some of them have retained certain ancient notions which have been discarded and forgotten in more progressive sections of the United States. It has been said that the Ozarker got his folklore from the Negro, but the fact is that Negroes were never numerous in the hill country, and there are many adults in the Ozarks today who have never even seen a Negro. Another view is that the hillman’s superstitions are largely of Indian origin, and there may be a measure of truth in this; the pioneers did mingle freely with the Indians, and some of our best Ozark families still boast of their Cherokee blood. My own feeling is that most of the hillman’s folk beliefs came with his ancestors from England or Scotland. I believe that a comparison of my material with that recorded by British antiquarians will substantiate this opinion.


Ghost of the Ozarks

Ghost of the Ozarks
Author: Brooks Blevins
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0252094115

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In 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiancée captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression. National press from coast to coast ran stories of the sensational exploits of night-riding moonshiners, powerful "Barons of the Hills," and a world of feudal oppression in the isolation of the rugged Ozarks. The ensuing arrest of five local men for both crimes and the confusion and superstition surrounding the trial and conviction gave Stone County a dubious and short-lived notoriety. Closely examining how the story and its regional setting were interpreted by the media, Brooks Blevins recounts the gripping events of the murder investigation and trial, where a man claiming to be the murder victim--the "Ghost" of the Ozarks--appeared to testify. Local conditions in Stone County, which had no electricity and only one long-distance telephone line, frustrated the dozen or more reporters who found their way to the rural Ozarks, and the developments following the arrests often prompted reporters' caricatures of the region: accusations of imposture and insanity, revelations of hidden pasts and assumed names, and threats of widespread violence. Locating the past squarely within the major currents of American history, Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South paints a convincing backdrop to a story that, more than 80 years later, remains riddled with mystery.


Haunted Ozarks

Haunted Ozarks
Author: Janice Tremeear
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625841736

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The hills have scares in this haunted history of the Ozark Mountains from the paranormal investigator and author of Missouri’s Haunted Route 66. Tourists flock to the Ozarks region every year to dip their paddles in the pure waters of its wilderness, or to lose themselves in the happy bustle of its theme parks. But the serene hills and hollows often hide something darker. The Civil War and the Trail of Tears left their marks on the region, as did the James-Younger Gang and the Baldknobbers. Ghosts linger in resorts and penitentiaries, while UFO’s and buried treasure rest in uneasy graves. Those startled by seeing a hellhound run through their backyard, however, might also catch a glimpse of author Janice Tremeear and her team of researchers in hot pursuit of the mysteries of the Ozarks.


Ozark Ghost Stories

Ozark Ghost Stories
Author: Vance Randolph
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1944
Genre: Folklore
ISBN:

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Haunted Graveyards of the Ozarks

Haunted Graveyards of the Ozarks
Author: David E. Harkins
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625840527

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A terrifying tour of cemeteries where ghosts of Civil War soldiers, criminals, and others wander the grounds . . . includes photos! From the neatly tended urban necropolis to the long-forgotten family plot at the end of a winding gravel road, these “quiet cities” of the Ozarks have the power to send chills up and down the spine of the most hardened skeptic. Be it the restless Civil War soldiers of Greenbrier, the mass murderer who stalks Peace Church, or the red eyes that persecute visitors to Robinson, tales of ghostly activity abound in every burial ground carved out of the ancient Ozark hills. Follow Dave Harkins as he explores the fascinating history and unsettling lore clinging to these haunted graveyards.


Ozarks Ghosts and Hauntings

Ozarks Ghosts and Hauntings
Author: Bud Steed
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2013-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781502840950

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The rocky hills and dark valleys of the Ozark Mountains hold many secrets for those bold enough to go in search of them. From the grieving ghost of the Ozark's Madonna to the dangerous apparition who haunts the Irish Wilderness, ghosts and legends abound in the Ozarks. A long settled land, the Ozarks has seen its fair share of tragedy and turmoil; from accidents to civil war battles the Ozarks holds more than her fair share of ghosts and hauntings, the stories told and retold down through the generations, a huge part of the hill country folklore. Join Para-historian and author Bud Steed as he retells some of the best ghost stories of the Missouri Ozarks and debunks a popular legend that has been told since the 1940's; a legend that has been the cause of several deaths itself. Take a ghostly trip through the communities and hills that make up the Missouri Ozark Mountains and experience the spirits and entities that call it home.


Haunted Ozark Battlefields

Haunted Ozark Battlefields
Author: Steve Cottrell
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781589808775

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A look at various Civil War battlefields and the hauntings now reported from them.


Ghost Stories from the American South

Ghost Stories from the American South
Author: W. K. McNeil
Publisher: august house
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1985
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780935304848

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Collects Southern legends and folk tales about haunted houses, supernatural events, and the appearances of ghosts