Petrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history.
Writing for the Georgia Historical Commission, Miss Bessie Lewis quips in her preface to this beloved collection, "Who should be better able to tell of happenings long past than the Ghosts of those who had a part in them?".
Convicted--many thought wrongly--of war crimes, Wirz\'s restless ghost still perambulates the highways of south Georgia.
A plaque there still recounts the tale of Swiss immigrant and Confederate captain Henry Wirz.
In "The Ghost of Andersonville," Windham takes visitors near the woebegone Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.
The melancholy strains of Tattnall\'s dinner guests still echo through Bonaventure\'s ancient oaks on moonlight nights.
Tattnall, exhibiting his cool head and impeccable manners, ordered the massive dinner table carried out to the garden where he enjoined his holiday revelers to continue their stately meal.
One holiday eve, when the mansion was bedecked with magnolia and holly and crowded with visitors, a fire too large to control swept through the old house.
Young Josiah Tattnall eventually returned to fight in the Revolution, restored Bonaventure, and later became Georgia\'s governor.
At the onset of the Revolution, the Tattnall family abandoned Bonaventure and slipped away to England.
Evoking Georgia\'s colonial era, "The Eternal Dinner Party" explains why the sounds of an elegant dinner soiree still waft from the grove of Savannah\'s Bonaventure estate.
The South\'s most prolific raconteur of revenants, Windham, giving new meaning to the phrase "ghost-writer," does more than tell ghost stories--she captures the true spirit of the place.
Windham won hearts across the nation in her regular radio broadcasts and many public appearances.
In Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduce Thirteen of Georgia\'s most famous ghost stories.
Petrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history
