Ghosts of Mississippi's Golden Triangle

by Alan Brown

Overview

The Golden Triangle is an institutional hub, but restless spirits of Native Americans, Civil War soldiers and slaves also wander this region. Tales of a mysterious watchman who patrols the railroad tracks between Artesia and Mayhew haunt curious locals. Ed Kuykendall Sr. is rumored to manage Columbus's Princess Theater from beyond the grave. A young girl who died while attempting to free her head from a stair banister is said to still wander the halls of Waverly. Author Alan Brown uncovers the eerie thrills and chills within Mississippi's Golden Triangle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467136068
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/26/2016
Series:	Haunted America
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	671,403
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Dr. Alan Brown has been a professor of English at the University of West Alabama since 1986. For the past few years, Dr. Brown's interest in Southern folklore has manifested itself in over seventeen publications of Southern ghost stories. He has served as president of the Alabama Folklife Association, a member of the American Ghost Society, Ghost Chasers of Mississippi and of the Mississippi Writers' Guild.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

Aberdeen

The Gregg-Hamilton House 13

Artesia

The Artesia Light 17

Columbus

Hickory Sticks 19

Commercial Dispatch 21

Friendship Cemetery 24

Arbor House 28

The Princess Theater 30

Rosedale 32

Aldan Hall 35

Whitehall 36

Ole Magnolia 39

Dowsing-Banks-Foote-Mahon-Hudson Home 42

White Arches 43

The Lincoln Home 46

Liberty Hall 49

Highland House 51

Wisteria Place 53

Calloway Hall 55

"Three-Legged Lady Road" 60

Armstrong Road 62

The Legend of Black Creek 64

The Ghostly Dragoons of Military Road 65

The Amzi Love House 66

Hollyhocks 70

The Stephen D. Lee Home 74

Errollton 81

Temple Heights 85

The Barker-Bunch House 92

Lowndes County

Joe Eubanks Plantation 95

Prairie

The Gulf Ordnance Munitions Plant 97

Starkville

George Hall 103

Montgomery Hall 105

West Point

Waverly 107

Bibliography 123

About the Author 128

Editorial Reviews

"Brown explores tales such as the legend of a mysterious watchman who patrols the railroad tracks between Artesia and Mayhew, and stories of a young girl who died while attempting to free her head from a stair banister at Waverley Mansion.

Brown's interest in Southern folklore has manifested itself in more than 17 publications of ghost stories.

He has served as president of the Alabama Folklife Association and as a member of the American Ghost Society, Ghost Chasers of Mississippi and the Mississippi Writers' Guild." The Dispatch

"Dr. Alan Brown's newest collection of stories involves a couple of places in Monroe County, namely the Gregg-Hamilton House in Aberdeen and the remains of the Gulf Ordnance Plant in Prairie... [in] the Golden Triangle, he found plentiful resources of historical information." Monroe Journal

"The English professor at the University of West Alabama is a lover of Southern folklore and a part-time ghost hunter - the better to hear ghost stories, he said. "Ghosts of Mississippi's Golden Triangle" is the latest of his books featuring ghost stories from around the South. Brown's not entirely sure he believes in ghosts, but after 15 years of visiting allegedly haunted buildings around the South, he keeps an open mind.

Mostly, though, he likes to hear ghost stories and put them in historical context for audiences."

"I have taken the approach that ghost stories are more convincing if you give the historical background first," he said during his talk. "Then when you start telling ghost stories, there's that line between fact and fiction that kind of blurs. And that's when goosebumps rise up on your arm and you ask yourself, 'Hmm, can this really have happened? Is this possible?'" The Dispatch

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