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James Caskey
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“Savannah is so beautiful that the dead never truly depart.”
― Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City
― Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City
“Many people, after spending a long weekend being stealthily seduced by this grand dame of the South, mistakenly think that they have gotten to know her: they believe (in error) that after a long stroll amongst the rustling palmettoes and gas lamps, a couple of sumptuous meals, and a tour or two, that they have discovered everything there is to know about this seemingly genteel, elegant city. But like any great seductress, Charleston presents a careful veneer of half-truths and outright fabrications, and it lets you, the intended conquest, fill in many of the blanks. Seduction, after all, is not true love, nor is it a gentle act. She whispers stories spun from sugar about pirates and patriots and rebels, about plantations and traditions and manners and yes, even ghosts; but the entire time she is guarded about the real story. Few tourists ever hear the truth, because at the dark heart of Charleston is a winding tale of violence, tragedy and, most of all, sin.”
― Charleston's Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City
― Charleston's Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City
“There is a unique bond between the land and the people in the Crescent City. Everyone here came from somewhere else, the muddy brown current of life prying them loose from their homeland and sweeping them downstream, bumping and scraping, until they got caught by the horseshoe bend that is New Orleans. Not so much as a single pebble ‘came’ from New Orleans, any more than any of the people did. Every grain of sand, every rock, every drip of brown mud, and every single person walking, living and loving in the city is a refugee from somewhere else. But they made something unique, the people and the land, when they came together in that cohesive, magnetic, magical spot; this sediment of society made something that is not French, not Spanish, and incontrovertibly not American.”
― The Haunted History of New Orleans: Ghosts of the French Quarter
― The Haunted History of New Orleans: Ghosts of the French Quarter
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“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”
― A Moon for the Misbegotten
― A Moon for the Misbegotten
“..., imagine a loamy earth that starts with genocide, then adds a mix of further disease, wars, hurricanes, murder, great fires, dueling, insurrection and slavery, just to name a few of the many instances of tragedy. What dark seed would take root in such a disturbed and twisted soil?”
― Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City
― Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City
“There is a unique bond between the land and the people in the Crescent City. Everyone here came from somewhere else, the muddy brown current of life prying them loose from their homeland and sweeping them downstream, bumping and scraping, until they got caught by the horseshoe bend that is New Orleans. Not so much as a single pebble ‘came’ from New Orleans, any more than any of the people did. Every grain of sand, every rock, every drip of brown mud, and every single person walking, living and loving in the city is a refugee from somewhere else. But they made something unique, the people and the land, when they came together in that cohesive, magnetic, magical spot; this sediment of society made something that is not French, not Spanish, and incontrovertibly not American.”
― The Haunted History of New Orleans: Ghosts of the French Quarter
― The Haunted History of New Orleans: Ghosts of the French Quarter
“Savannah is so beautiful that the dead never truly depart.”
― Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City
― Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City
Savannah Ghost Tours -Blue Orb
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Hosted and moderated by Blue Orb Tours this group is for discussing all things strange in Savannah, Ga. Specifically, to celebrate the many wonderful ...more
Ask James Caskey, author of 'Haunted Savannah' or 'The Haunted History of New Orleans'
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Do you have a question for James Caskey? Topics can include: -Ghosts in general -Savannah ghost stories -New Orleans ghost stories -or a question abo ...more
