Ghost Stories of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County: Remnants of the Past in a New South

GHOST STORIES OF CHARLOTTE & MECKLENBURG COUNTY offers twenty frightening but true supernatural encounters. The ghostly handprint of a child appears on a window pane. A long-dead bootlegger leaves wet footprints on stairs. A pair of haunting eyes keeps watch in a costume shop. Think things like that don't happen in an active, modern city like Charlotte? Think again! Read about feeling an unseen hand touch your back. Or hearing the clump of a peg-legged Civil War officer coming down the stairs. One house is filled with a darkness like liquid, so thick that light can't even penetrate it. Then there's a ghost chain that rises beside the railroad tracks. Queen City native Stephanie Burt Williams describes familiar sites--houses, restaurants, movie theaters--that hold chilling, unforgettable inhabitants.