Tennessee history is steeped in local folklore passed from one generation to the next. Learn about the bloody exploits of America’s first serial killers, the Harpe brothers. Meet the ghost of a little girl who haunts the Orpheum Theatre. Find out if the ghost of Elvis Presley stills lingers around Graceland and follow one of the nation’s signature ghost stories in the legend of the Bell Witch. Discover other mysteries like the White Screamer, Shiloh’s spectral soldiers and hauntings at Loretta Lynn’s home. Author Alan Brown details these and many more of the state’s oldest mysteries.
Alan Brown teaches English at the University of West Alabama in Livingston, Alabama. Alan has written primarily about southern ghost lore, a passion that has taken him to haunted places throughout the entire Deep South, as well as parts of the Midwest and the Southwest. Alan’s wife, Marilyn, accompanies him on these trips and occasionally serves as his “ghost magnet.” Her encounters with the spirit world have been incorporated in a number of Alan’s books.