Nantucket hauntings : twenty-one firsthand encounters with the supernatural / Blue Balliett
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TextPublisher: Camden, Me. : Down East Books, c1990Description: 169 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0892722797Subject(s): Ghosts -- Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island | Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements) -- Maine -- CamdenSummary: A long dead actor returns to his summer retreat; a young woman is haunted by dreams of a house she's never seen yet knows is home; a stern Quaker family of ghosts reluctantly share their house with its modern inhabitants; an invisible "friend" keeps urging a young child to dig for something buried; spectral events disturb the guests and staff at an old hotel-these are just a few of the fascinating accounts in Blue Balliett's second collection of Nantucketers' actual experience with the island's ghosts.
The variety in these accounts is remarkable. Some of the spirits are benign, even protective; others terrorize the unfortunate humans who encounter them. All are memorable.
Nantucket is a "corner of the world that is hard to leave or forget," writes Blue Balliett, "perhaps that is as good as explanation as any for the existence of a very real population of Nantucket ghosts."
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A long dead actor returns to his summer retreat; a young woman is haunted by dreams of a house she's never seen yet knows is home; a stern Quaker family of ghosts reluctantly share their house with its modern inhabitants; an invisible "friend" keeps urging a young child to dig for something buried; spectral events disturb the guests and staff at an old hotel-these are just a few of the fascinating accounts in Blue Balliett's second collection of Nantucketers' actual experience with the island's ghosts.
The variety in these accounts is remarkable. Some of the spirits are benign, even protective; others terrorize the unfortunate humans who encounter them. All are memorable.
Nantucket is a "corner of the world that is hard to leave or forget," writes Blue Balliett, "perhaps that is as good as explanation as any for the existence of a very real population of Nantucket ghosts."
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