Haunted Inside Passage (eBook)

Ghosts, Legends, and Mysteries of Southeast Alaska

Bjorn Dihle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
220 Seiten
West Margin Press (Verlag)
978-1-943328-95-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Chock-full of spooky stories from Alaska’s Inside Passage, Bjorn Dihle covers gold rush ghosts, haunted hotels, shipwrecks, attacks from giant squids, disappeared Russian explorers, a vanished bear hunter, and other spine-tinglers in this highly entertaining book.

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A collection of twenty stories showcasing the supernatural legends and unsolved mysteries of Southeast Alaska, with a focus on the region between Yakutat and Petersburg, where the author has lived his entire life, writing, teaching, guiding, commercial fishing, and investigating ghost stories. Each chapter is rooted in Bjorn's own adventures and will intertwine fascinating history, interviews, and his reflections. Bjorn's writing, sometimes poignant and often wickedly funny, brings to mind Hunter S. Thompson and Patrick McManus.Chapters touch on legends such as Alexander Baranov, Soapy Smith, James Wickersham, and the Kooshdaa Kaa (Kushtaka) to lesser known but fascinating characters like Naked Joe Knowles and purported serial killer Ed Krause. From duplicitous if not downright diabolical humans to demons of the fjords and deep seas and cryptids of the forest, Bjorn presents a lively cross-section of the haunter and the haunted found in Alaska s Inside Passage.

Autor

Lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle is a writer who’s been published in the magazines Sierra, Alaska, Desert Companion, Coast & Kayak, Adventure Kayak, North of Ordinary, Earth Island Journal, High Country News, Birdwatching, Alaska Sporting Journal,Hunt Alaska, and Fish Alaska. He writes a weekly outdoors column for the Juneau Empire newspaper (“Off the Beaten Path”), a column for Hunt Alaska Magazine (“Red Gold”), and has a bimonthly column for Fish Alaska Magazine (“Cautionary Tales”). When not writing, Bjorn works as a wilderness and wildlife viewing guide, an instructor for the University of Southeast Alaska's Outdoor Studies Program and at the Mental Health Unit of Bartlett Regional Hospital. Haunted Inside Passage is his first book.

Inhalt

Preface
Acknowledgments
Map

1. The Mysteries of Yakobi Island
2. The Ghost of Castle Hill
3. A Testament to Ice
4. The Ghosts of Juneau's Past
5. The Terrible Fate of the Clara Nevada
6. The King Con of the Klondike
7. Ghosts of Skagway
8. The Kóoshdaa Káa Chronicles
9. The Legends of Thomas Bay
10. The Sinking of the Islander and the Legend of Its Lost Gold
11. The Ghosts of the House of Wickersham
12. The Curious Case of “the most Diabolical Murderer in Alaska's History”
13. The Tragedy of the Princess Sophia
14. Trouble with Bigfoot
15. The Witches of Southeast Alaska
16. It Came from the Depths: A Brief History of Southeast Alaska’s Sea Monsters
17. The Haunting of the Mount Edgecumbe Hospital
18. Ghosts of the Alaskan Hotel
19. Naked Joe: Alaska's Most Famous and Least Known Ghost
20. Juneau's Front Street Ghosts
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2017
• Verlagsort: Portland
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: Bigfoot • Birdman of Alcatraz • folklore and mythology studies • Ghosts • ghosts and hauntings • Gold rush • haunted hotels • hauntings • juneau • kushtaka • Murder • Pacific Northwestern United States • Pacific Northwest travel guides • Pacific West United States travel books • Paranormal • paranormal thrillers • scary • Shipwreck
• ISBN-10: 1-943328-95-1 / 1943328951
• ISBN-13: 978-1-943328-95-6 / 9781943328956