"The Post" Newspaper Paranormal Article, Big Stone Gap, Virginia

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Glenn Gannaway, a writer for "The Post" newspaper in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, wrote an interesting article about my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind."  I'd like to share excerpts from that article with you on this blog post. 

The July 25, 2013 article is entitled, "Drama Alum Documents Paranormal Activity."

"(Becky) Arnott's sensitivity to the spirit world goes back to her childhood, when she and her brother were afraid to go upstairs, in their...Big Stone Gap home...They found out later that someone had died upstairs.

Arnott's previous home in (East Tennessee) was also haunted, she said: 'we just can't seem to get away from these things.'

The book is compiled from about 80 photo albums.  Arnott went through all the albums methodically to see if she could pick out anything suggesting paranormal activity.

...her book includes about 110 (paranormal) photographs and some text in 105 pages.  Included are pictures taken in the British Isles...

...ghost stories are included in the book, including the notorious story of the ghost that was photographed in a window of the June Tolliver House by her brother Nick when he was a schoolboy...Arnott has...interviewed several people about their Tolliver house experiences...Arnott said, 'I have eyewitnesses, people who have seen things and heard things.' "

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New Paranormal Book

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I just wanted you to know that my new paranormal book is now available in either paperback or PDF download.

The title of the book is Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind.  It contains paranormal photographs that my brother, my husband, other people, and I have taken throughout the years. 

Many ghost books only show pictures of buildings that they say are haunted, and then they tell a story about them, but there's nothing supernatural about the photos.  However, almost all of the photos in my book (around 110) contain some type of ectoplasm in them, with interesting tidbits or stories about each one.

In addition, I also have a couple of chapters, as a sort of bonus, that are devoted to true, never-before- told ghost stories.

This Saturday, July 27, I will be at the June Tolliver House in Big Stone Gap, Virginia for a book signing.  In the book, I devote a whole chapter to the haunted June Tolliver House.  One of the pictures in that chapter is the locally famous June Tolliver House ghost picture.

Hope to see you there!

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Ghost Stories

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A few days ago, I started thinking about the ghost stories I'd been told as a child.  A couple stand out in my mind.  Whether they are true or not, I don't know. Also, whether they are regional stories indigenous to my Appalachian Mountain region, I don't know.  None the less, they are still scary, especially to someone who is impressionable and sensitive.

The first story involves a teenage girl who, every year around the time of the local prom, could be seen standing on a street corner in town by herself, wearing an old-style prom dress.  Several people had seen her disappear into thin air!  That was the very street corner, 20 years earlier, that a girl in a prom dress was killed while riding back home from a prom.

                                             Typical Street Corner after Dark

The second story is about another girl who was dared to go into a graveyard after dark by herself.  As if this weren't bad enough, she had to take a fork and stab it into a grave and then leave.  Her "friends" who were waiting outside the cemetery, heard a terrifying scream.  They ran to see what had happened and found her lying there dead.  It looked as though she had tried to get away, but the fork she had plunged into the ground had caught her dress and had prevented her from doing so!

                                                Typical Graveyard after Dark

Finally, this last story, I know, for a fact, is true and it took place in the Appalachians.  My mother told me about her grandfather who used to deliver the mail on horseback.  One night, as he was making his rounds after dark, he felt someone jump on the back of his horse.  When he quickly turned to get rid of whoever it was, no one was there!  That was a very brave man if he kept making his rounds after that!

If you have any stories to tell, please e-mail me at:  spiritphotographs@gmail.com

Thanks for visiting!  Until next Saturday, Becky