Weird Georgia: Close Encounters, Strange Creatures, and Unexplained Phenomena
Jim Miles
Interest in unexplained phenomena is at an all-time high, as evidenced by best-selling books, magazine stories, popular movies, television series, and television documentaries. Weird Georgia is a unique contribution to the field. Filled with factual accounts, not rehashed folklore, and supported by reputable evidence, the book is a welcome departure from the usual mundane books about "ghosts."
Bigfoot creatures, and things even stranger, have been reported in the oddest places across Georgia. A giant water serpent has been observed in the Altahama River on numerous occasions. Phantom black panthers and giant dogs, including several seen leaving a UFO, prowl the night. Ghost trains, complete with lights and sounds, rumble along half a dozen rail line, and more than one spectral conductor searches the tracks for his missing head.
Long-vanished Native Americans wail in the predawn at Macon's Ocmulgee Mounts, and Africans who chose death over slavery still sing at St. Simons Island. Photographs reveal the spirits of long-vanished Native Americans, and trash thrown into an ancient ceremonial circle in Habersham County is ejected by invisible guardians. Aliens have been encountered, and unidentified radar images in the sky have been observed by the Air Force. Phantom screamers haunt skyscrapers, elusive hummers torment homeowners, inexplicable odors permeate entire counties, 50,000 birds fall from the sky, as have fireballs, several icebergs, and alligators, and humans have spontaneously combusted. The spirits of unknown Confederate soldiers killed and buried have transmitted their identities, and images of Jesus have appeared on a giant billboard, a communion cloth, and a tree in Columbus.
The author has spent twenty-five years exploring Georgia, poring over hundreds of books about local history and biographies and collections of yellowed newspaper clippings and countless journals for any mention of curious occurrences in the state. Few of the stories have received much publicity, but they all are puzzling and fascinating for anyone interested in close encounters of the first, second, third, and fourth — whatever — kinds.
| JIM MILES is a seasoned battlefield explorer, author, historian, and teacher who has written more than one hundred articles and several books on Southern history, archaeology, and the Civil War. The author of the best-selling WEIRD GEORGIA, Miles lives in Warner Robbins, Georgia. |
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ISBN-10: 1-58182-138-7 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-138-3 (Paperback)
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