Savannah's Ghosts

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Summary: Questionable cost and suspiciously written.
Review: I had visited Savannah in 2002 and had picked up the author's first book(?) "Danny's Bed" which was either a far fetched fantasy or an amazing real deal group of occurences but I feel doubtful of the latter. But willing to give the benefit of the doubt I moved on to this 2nd book way of Amazon and after having read it felt his second had yet to redeem the first. It suffers from poor editing, poor image reproduction and questionable image use. The stories are so so and I felt the print quality of it didn't justify the price whatsoever in the end. I did happen to also buy another book called "Savannah Spectres" on Amazon and found this one hit more of a mark on research, plausibility and value.

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Summary: the only thing frightening about this book is the writing
Review: I wasn't really impressed with this book at all. It's poorly written, filled with numerous typos, deals with only a few hauntings, has no pictures of supposed hauntings or ghostly phenomena, and contains umpteen digressions where the author discusses his beloved Christian faith. A real disappointment.

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Summary: Worth a look
Review: This is a motley collection of ghost stories and short essays about the paranormal (such as a brief chapter on the potential dangers of communicating with spirits via Ouija boards). The style is conversational, and offers an odd and interesting mix of spiritualism and Christianity. Cobb is a member of The Searchers, a Savannah group that investigates paranormal activity, leading one to expect a somewhat more scientific or skeptical approach; however, most of these accounts are more credulous than substantial. Fog hovers over a gravestone, lights flicker on and off; the Searchers enter a supposedly haunted area and feel a "strong presence." Cobb has experienced some fairly serious poltergeist activity (even in his own home-- see his first book Danny's Bed) but many of these stories involve nothing more than creepy feelings. Still worth a look, if nothing else for Cobb's account of an old radio interview with Jim Williams about the Hampton Lillibridge house, sometimes cited as the most haunted house in America (Williams, who bought and restored the Lillibridge house in the 1960s, will be familiar to fans of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil).