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| Haunted Kansas: Ghost Stories and Other Eerie Tales | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Hefner Heitz
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95 (35.19 RON)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 562905
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 070060930X
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9780700609307
ASIN: 070060930X
Publication Date: October 1998
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Product Description
Have you seen Ida lurking among the books? Perhaps you've tangled with the Albino Woman on a dark and deserted night in Topeka. Pursuing the stories behind these and other disembodied dignitaries, Lisa Heitz traveled the state in search of ghostly lore and narration unique to Kansas. What she unearthed is a fascinating blend of mystery and menace -- a rich lode of ominous oral histories and local legends. Kansas ghosts, Heitz shows, are notoriously linked to a specific structure or landscape, whether it be an eighteenth-century mansion in Atchison or a deep -- some have claimed bottomless -- pool near Ashland. Heitz's intriguing collection raps and taps and moans and groans through many an oft-whispered fable of infamous phantoms -- sometimes headless, sometimes hanging -- as well as disconcerting personal experiences related by the previously skeptical. In one such case, a south-central Kansas family called the police after seeing a strange man sitting in the car in their closed garage. No one was found yet the garage door was never opened. Many of the illusive apparitions of these tales have terrorized, and at times amused, Kansans for decades. Yet this is the first book to capture them -- if only on paper -- and record their alleged antics for posterity. Besides preserving a popular, if often intangible, sliver of the state's lively heritage, Heitz supplies sinister storytellers with ample hair-raising ammunition for, well, eternity. Maybe that person breathing softly behind you has another such story to share. Oh, no one is there? Perhaps it was just the wind.
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Really entertaining read September 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was born and grew up in Wichita, and now live out in the sticks near Udall. I loved the stories in this book, and I thought the author did a really great job in telling them.
I always looked for stories close by hoping for a chance to investigate them myself. Definitely recommend this for people looking for a really creepy ghost story to get them through the night.
Makes living in Kansas seem worthwhile! July 10, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Please don't let this great book fade into the prairie sunset!
As a college student, and a future teacher, I'd like to pat the author, Lisa Heitz, on the back for a job well done. I own this book and have read the "good parts" over and over.
The story that really sticks out for me is "Hamburger Man." I grew up around the Sand Hills near Hutchinson, KS, the setting of that particular urban legend.
By the time I was ten, thanks to a few too many slumber parties, I was terrified of this homocidal, deformed, and cannibalistic maniac!
Despite my high school boyfriend's urgings, we never found our way to any "lover's lanes" near the Sand Hills. No doubt, my mom and dad would be pleased to know this...
But I didn't know even 1/10 of this eerie tale until I found an entire chapter devoted to the infamous Hamburger Man in this book.
Yes, I prefer to sleep with a night light on...
Because of Haunted Kansas, or in spite of it, I've visited many of the places mentioned in the book. And I intend to visit more of them, as time permits.
This is the one stop guide to Kansas ghosts.
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