Unknown Civil War Soldier memorial tombstonemarker

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Most cemeteries contain at least one mystery, and the Rest Haven Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee, is no different. It contains the remains of an unknown Civil War soldier whose family and friends likely mourned him but never knew what exactly had happened to him. However, beyond an unknown identity, there’sContinue Reading

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I’ll never forget the moment Carl and Angie told me the name of the historic house they live in and are now renovating: The Looney Jones House. I couldn’t wait to replay our video-recorded conversation to see what kind of face I’d made upon hearing that. Or what I’d said.Continue Reading

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But lo! there surges forth a shriek, From hill to hill, from creek to creek- Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland! My Maryland! –from Stanza VII, “Maryland, my Maryland” by James Ryder Randall (1861), state song of Maryland since 1939.  Point Lookout State Park 11175 Point Lookout Road Scotland, Maryland Where the PotomacContinue Reading

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“Peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts”—A Grand Tour of Southern Ghosts The weather was raw and freezing on that fateful January day in a remote valley called Shelton Laurel in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The Civil War had been raging for two long years and the tensions amongContinue Reading

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We are excited to announced that Kathryn Hohmann, author of Soldiers Rest, has offered to write a guest blog for Haunt Jaunts. Here’s part of the pitch she sent me: I’m author of Soldiers Rest, a mystery story that’s based on a true story about Rebels who disappeared in theContinue Reading

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This is the third in a four part Haunted Georgia series of guest blogs by Lewis Powell IV. Also be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2.  11. Georgia’s Civil War Battlefields For part of the Civil War, Georgia was insulated from the fighting. It wasn’t until the latter yearsContinue Reading

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This is the second in a four part Haunted Georgia series of guest blogs by Lewis Powell IV. Find Part 1 here. 6. Georgia’s Civil War Prisoner of War Camps—Sumter and Lawton The Civil War left gaping wounds on the landscape and psyche of the nation. Certainly, many of those woundsContinue Reading

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This past weekend saw the Middle Tennessee area hosting two biggies in the paranormal investigation field. Well, four really. Chris Fleming was in town to do an event, and the Ghost Adventures boys (Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin) were in Nashvegas for a lock down. (Why they callContinue Reading

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Apparently I have ethics on the brain. Yesterday I wrote about LiveParanormal.com’s Town Hall meeting on ethics that’s happening tomorrow. Today I’m going to talk about another side of the ethical coin: preservation. It’s been a couple of weeks now, but two people I greatly admire in the paranormal realm,Continue Reading