01825nam a2200301Ia 4500 23729032 MeVbMML 20250807135110.0 910510s1990 mau 000 0 eng d 90081834 0892722797 mrg91-669483 AJM AJM n-us-ma 133.1 B192n 1990 Balliett, Blue, 1955- author 18270 Nantucket hauntings : twenty-one firsthand encounters with the supernatural / Blue Balliett Camden, Me. : Down East Books, c1990 169 pages ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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." Ghosts Massachusetts Nantucket Island 18271 Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements) Maine Camden 18272 .b25670293 ddc BOOK 30044 30044 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2024-09-12 9.99 0 133.1 BALL 66500 2024-09-12 2024-09-12 BOOK 1