Haunted Highways
by Dan Asfar
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Author: Dan AsfarEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN: 1894877292
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing
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Book Review: Author takes liberties with the material, but entertains
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't really believe in the supernatural to begin with, but I find ghost stories very amusing, so I gave this book a shot. Most of the tales are local urban legends from numerous places in North America and Great Britain. Some are familiar, some were new to me. Almost any of the accounts can be found in some form on the Internet. What the author adds is some context and back story, although a little research on almost any of the tales will find that the author has either exaggerated or fabricated freely to do so.
For example, in the tale of the hitch-hiking ghost on Arkansas highway 365, the author makes claims, without being specific, that the ghostly girl asking for a ride home always went back to a specific home in Woodson where the bewildered motorist would actually meet the parents of the unfortunate girl years after her death. Years go by and the parents died or moved away or something, but the girl kept returning to the same home. Well, that's very interesting. This story occurs in various incarnations in a lot of regions, but here the author claims that in this instance there are some verifiable people (unnamed) involved -- the actual parents of the dead girl, and also an identifiable home that she is returning to. Presumably they (the parents) could be found and questioned or at least found out about. A little searching on the Internet reveals that this is not the cases at all. The legend in Arkansas has just as many discrepancies and variations as anywhere else, and there is no one house or even town where it is claimed that the girl returns to, and there is no indication of who the girls family is or was. The reason is simply that its just a localization of a common urban myth, with no evidence of its veracity forthcoming. The author simply stated a variation of the tale as fact, possibly even embellishing it.
No big deal. Its very entertaining. Just don't take any of it too seriously.
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