CARNTON PLANTATION GHOST STORIES: TRUE TALES OF THE UNEXPLAINED FROM TENNESSEE'S MOST HAUNTED CIVIL WAR HOUSE
 
FROM THE FOREWORD: In Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories Lochlainn Seabrook does an amazing job of describing each story in such great detail that it not only feels like I am reading the story, but I am in the story. This book really hit home for me . . . literally. Because I grew up only miles away from Carnton Plantation! Being the history and paranormal researcher (nerd) that I am, before I read this book I thought I knew about every one of Carnton’s supernatural anomalies. Oh how I was mistaken! One thing I really love about Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories is that it not only provides narratives of some fascinating other worldly occurrences, but it chronicles the rich history of a place that should never be forgotten.” - AUSTIN COOK, team leader of SyFy Channel’s hit TV series Killer Contact
 
AUTHOR: Lochlainn Seabrook
FOREWORD: Austin Cook (team leader of SyFy Channel's hit TV series Killer Contact)
CONTENT: adult nonfiction
SUBJECTS: paranormal, ghosts, American Civil War, Southern history, Confederate society
ILLUSTRATED: yes (b/w)
SIZE: 5.5” x 8.5”
LENGTH: 252 pages
COVER: paperback/perfect bound/gloss finish; hardcover/case laminate/matte finish
PUBLISHER: Sea Raven Press
ISBN: 978-0-9821899-6-2 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-943737-16-1 (hardcover)
 
With its 100-year history of infant mortality, violence, murder, war, surgical amputations, political intrigue, thousands of ghastly deaths, and a long streak of truly bad luck, it's little wonder that Carnton Plantation is haunted, or that thousands travel each year to visit its hallowed grounds in the hopes of spotting a ghost themselves. What is perhaps more surprising is that no one has thought to chronicle the accounts of Carnton's many ghost stories, and put them in a book for readers of all ages.
 
Award-winning scholar-historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook, a former Carnton tour guide and the author and editor of over 100 books, has rectified this situation by providing us with the first nonfiction book ever written about the goblins of Tennessee's most haunted Civil War house.
 
Carnton Plantation Ghost Stories is loaded with both fun and serious facts touching on numerous topics, from the American Civil War, plantation life, and Victorian culture, to 19th-Century medicine, genealogy, and slavery. And all is written from the South's point of view, a refreshing perspective that enriches an already fascinating subject: a Southern plantation full of Civil War ghosts!
 
Included is a complete list of the dead Rebel soldiers buried at the McGavock Confederate Cemetery, over 100 photos and illustrations of paranormal energies, Carnton Mansion, and the grounds, maps of the property, a wonderful and useful "Ghostly Glossary," a history of both Carnton and the Battle of Franklin II, and factual discussions on Lincoln's War.
 
Additionally, Colonel Seabrook, who is related to the founders and owners of Carnton, has thoughtfully included a family tree for the plantation clan. Entertaining yet educational, diverting yet gripping, this is a book that everyone from ghost-hunters to Civil War buffs will want on their shelf. The foreword is by Austin Cook, team leader of SyFy Channel’s hit TV series, Killer Contact.
 
Available in paperback and hardcover. All text and images copyright © Sea Raven Press.
 
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