Available Now! Haunted Mansions in the Heart of Dixie by Debra Glass

Authentic Accounts of Restless Spirits in the Spooky South

There is something about an antebellum mansion that whispers ghost. From the rolling cotton fields of Colbert County, Alabama to the haunted hills of Tennessee, there is hardly a pre-Civil War dwelling that cannot boast of some resident spirit or similar unexplained phenomena. Steeped in history, Haunted Mansions in the Heart of Dixie is a collection of true Southern haint tales set in the fertile Tennessee Valley. From the mysterious Bell Witch to the inexplicable events at Belle Mont Mansion, these tales recount some of the most infamous Southern hauntings of all time. Explore the dark history of Dixie with spirits who loved their homes so much that even in death they refuse to leave, and unearth other more diabolical specters hell-bent on the settling of old scores. All the tales within are authentic. Proceed, therefore, into the haunted Heart of Dixie with caution. . .

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235 pages packed with southern haints, haunting photographs, and history!
Contents include:
The Grinning Stable Boy
Horror at Rocky Hill Castle
A Proper Tombstone
The Forks of Cypress and Ghost Bridge
A Ghost in the Green Room
Parthenia
The Ghost of the Governor's Wife
Belle Mont Mansion
A Haint in the Guy Home
The Toppled Tombstone
The Cherry Mansion
Restless Spirits of Rippavilla Plantation
Home At Last
The Valley of Death
Bloodstains on the Stairs
Spirits of Pickett Place
Civil War Shades of Woodlawn Plantation
Pope's Tavern
The Spirits of Sweetwater Mansion
The Lady Spirit of Coby Hall
The Bell Witch

Debra Glass - Booksigning At Pope's Tavern Frontier Days Celebration June 7 - 8, 2008

I will be dressed in period costume to sign my best-selling regional ghost story books, including my two new books, Skeletons On Campus and Skeletons of the Civil War, at the Pope's Tavern Frontier Days Celebration on June 7 and 8, 2008. Come out and support local history and folklore!

Pope's Tavern was filled with heavy hearts during the Civil War. Andrew Jackson kicked the mud off his boots there. Homesick soldiers died in hospital beds there. Sweaty horses, stagecoaches, travelers who'd fought underbrush, pock-marked roads, and fear of assault pulled in for a night's rest there.

It was a time when all men ages 16 to 60 were ordered to volunteer for battle. The wealthy were wanting for bread, and salt was so rare that people boiled the dirt from smokehouse floors to get it. Union and Confederate hands wrenched the city from each other 40 times. Though Florence was hard-hit, scarred, and bruised by the Civil War, many historic places still stand, preserved for your tour-like Pope's Tavern & Museum filled with antiquities, relics, and stories.

One of the area's oldest buildings-once a stagecoach stop, tavern and inn, hospital and command center for both Northern and Southern armies-the museum houses a wealth of local and Civil War history. A rare Kennedy Long Rifle, a Confederate Colonel's uniform, a vertically strung piano-one of only four ever made.

Located: 203 Hermitage Drive, downtown Florence on Jackson's Military Road carved out by Andrew Jackson himself as a shortcut to move supply wagons and artillery from Nashville to New Orleans.

Frontier Days - June 7-8, 2008

Frontier Days Celebration is held annually the first weekend of June on the grounds of Pope's Tavern. The event includes re-enactments and exhibits of the 1800's daily life such as blacksmithing, spinning, weaving, pottery making and period music. Admission is free.