Hauntings Throughout History   

Throughout the ages, people have  experienced phenomena that caused them to believe in a supernatural world of ghosts and spirits...

Tough guy Andrew Jackson said he would battle the entire British Army but  would not wish to deal with the ghost of the Bell Witch again.

Mary Todd Lincoln said she heard the spirit of Andrew Jackson stomping around the White House.

First Lady Grace Coolidge was the first of many who saw the ghost of Abraham Lincoln at the White House.

Literature abounds with references to ghosts and spirits: 

Murder Most Foul!  Shakespeare created the most famous ghost in literature, Hamlet's father.

Charles Dickens tormented Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

 American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow penned a poem in 1858 called Haunted Houses:

All houses wherein men have lived and died
  Are haunted houses.  Through the open doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
  With feet that make no sound upon the floors. 

We meet them at the doorway, on the stair,
  Along the passages they come and go,
Impalpable impressions on the air,
  A sense of something moving to and fro.... 

Yet, scientists claim it's all in your head. That when you feel odd things like chills and hear strange noises, it makes you think there are ghosts because those are the things you associate with ghosts...it's just the power of suggestion at work on your gullible brain.  What do you think? 

Do you think they're real, or are you just imagining things? Ghosts of Franklin is my story.

What's your story?

I'd love to hear it at margiethessin@ghostsoffranklin.com.

Ten Chapters, 50 photos, 168 pages of amazing ghost stories, underpinned with history from the founding of Franklin, through the Civil War, the nation's most divisive and deadly conflict to events of the 20th century, it's all here in my book  

Ghosts of Franklin.

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