01686nam a2200253Ia 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000130007502000150008803500170010304000140012004300120013410000350014624500980018126000440027930000230032333600260034633700280037233800270040052008940042765000440132165000670136523729032MeVbMML20250807135110.0910510s1990    mau           000 0 eng d  a90081834  a0892722797  amrg91-669483  cAJM dAJM  an-us-ma1 aBalliett, Blue,d1955-eauthor10aNantucket hauntings :btwenty-one firsthand encounters with the supernatural /cBlue Balliett  aCamden, Me. :bDown East Books, cc1990  a169 pages ;c21 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aA 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." 0aGhostszMassachusettszNantucket Island 0aImprints (Publishers' and printers' statements)zMainezCamden