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Haunted Savannah: The Official Guidebook to Savannah Haunted History Tour
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About Haunted Savannah: The Official Guidebook To
Product Description Savannah has been named the "Most Haunted City" by investigators from the Travel, History and Discovery channels. Her history is filled with plagues, wars, duels, and murders ...no wonder every site in Savannah has a haunted past! For over one year author James Caskey pored over the files at Georgia Historical Society researching the history of over 45 Savannah locations. The result is a collection of strange but rich historical accounts, which form the foundation for stories of actual experiences and sightings in these locations. Haunted Savannah brings you chilling tales, as experienced and told by witnesses, and authentic photos documenting the existence of energy from another dimension. Review "One cannot walk down Savannah's streets at twilight without feeling evidence of her supernatural side. The old beautiful homes practically emanate the aura of lost loves, lives cut short, and other misfortunes." Thus begins James Caskey's "Haunted Savannah," the latest entry in the growing list of books about the city. I suspect many of you know Caskey, at least by sight. He's a tour guide and founder of Cobblestone Tours, and many nights he's dressed in Civil War Era garb while leading a group of visitors on his Savannah Haunted History Tour. Such tours have become a big hit with tourists who otherwise find little to do downtown at night. His new book, published by the locally based Bonaventure Books, is the official guide to the tour, and it's chock full of history, legends, stories, and personalities. The 200-plus page book is broken up into literally scores of readable small chapters. I suspect many local readers will find themselves reading the book as I did - by flipping through and randomly reading stories about places that interest us. Some of the places are familiar - The Olde Pink House, 17Hundred90, the Kehoe House. Other stories are less familiar, like the one about the Willink House on St. Julian, where mysterious goings-on might be linked to a clandestine school for blacks in the decade before Emancipation. Or the story of Irish immigrant Alice Riley, who was the first person to be executed in Georgia. She was hanged for murder in January of 1735. In addition to the stories about ghosts and other hauntings, the book is sprinkled with tales about the strange and notorious. Last weekend, "Haunted Savannah" was fittingly launched with a big party in the basement at Moon River Brewing Co. Originally the old City Hotel, the ancient building allegedly has hauntings of its own, and the close confines and dense brickwork of the basement appropriately evoked Savannah's mysterious past. And present. "Haunted Savannah" is available at bookstores and gift shops throughout downtown. [email protected] for Savannah Morning News IT SEEMS LIKE everyone wants to live in a haunted house in Savannah. "It's almost a status symbol," says James Caskey, tour guide, historic re-enactor and author of the new book, Haunted Savannah. "Old seaports have that reputation," Caskey says. "Southern seaport cities, especially." Caskey's book is subtitled The Official Guidebook to Savannah Haunted History Tour. It details all the stops made during tours led by Cobblestone Tours, Inc., which Caskey owns. The tours cover Savannah's extensive and often tragic history, including duels, wars, plagues and murders. In addition to the stories, the book includes some photographs of what appears to be spectral energy. The photo of Caskey that is on the back of the book depicts him with streams of energy shooting around his face. The photo was taken by his brother. Caskey's book came about over time. "I originally started just writing out scripts for tour guides," he says. "I found if they had written material, it helped them a lot more than me telling them the same things over and over." At one point, Caskey opened the file of scripts he kept on his computer. "I was very surprised to see how much I'd written," he says. Then Cas
