From the late author of "Legends of the Outer Banks" and "The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke and Other Tales of the Outer Banks" comes a collection of legends from the broad bays, sounds, and estuaries that make up tidewater Tarheelia.

In 1963, Judge Charles Whedbee was asked to substitute on a morning show called Carolina Today on Greenville, North Carolina's, television station while one of the program's regulars was in the hospital. Whedbee took the opportunity to tell some of the Outer Banks stories he'd heard during his many summers at Nags Head. The station received such a volume of mail in praise of his tale-telling that he was invited to remain even after the man he was substituting for returned to the air. "He had a way of telling a story that really captured me," said one of the program's co-hosts. "Whether he was talking about a sunset, a ghost, or a shipwreck, I was there, living every minute of it." Word traveled as far as Winston-Salem, where John F. Blair proposed to Whedbee that he compile his stories in book form. Whedbee welcomed the challenge, though his expectations for the manuscript that became Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater were modest. "I wrote it out of a love for this region and the people whom I'd known all my life," he said. "I didn't think it would sell a hundred copies." From the very first sentence of the foreword, Whedbee stamped the collection with his inimitable style: "You are handed herewith a small pod or school of legends about various portions of that magical region known as the Outer Banks of North Carolina as well as stories from other sections of the broad bays, sounds, and estuaries that make up tidewater Tarheelia." The Lost Colony, Indians, Blackbeard, an albino porpoise that guided ships into harbor?the tales in that volume form the core of Outer Banks folklore. Whedbee liked to tell people that his stories were of three kinds: those he knew to be true, those he believed to be true, and those he fabricated. But despite much prodding, he never revealed which were which. Legends of the Outer Banks went through three printings in 1966, its first year. Demand for Whedbee's tales and the author's supply of good material were such that further volumes were inevitable. The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke & Other Tales of the Outer Banks was published in 1971, Outer Banks Mysteries & Seaside Stories in 1978, Outer Banks Tales to Remember in 1985, and Blackbeard's Cup and Stories of the Outer Banks in 1989. Although Judge Whedbee died in 1990, his legacy lives on through his folklore. And so it was fitting that in 2004, the 50th anniversary of John F. Blair, Publisher, that the company should release this volume of the 13 stories that the Blair staff felt were the best of Charles Harry Whedbee.

A collection of fifteen tales from North Carolina's coast.

Gathers North Carolina tales concerning old mysteries, unexplained phenomena, and buried treasure

Every September, on the first night of the new moon, there are those who vow they see a flaming ship sail three times past the coast of Ocracoke. No matter the direction or velocity of the wind, this fiery vessel moves swiftly toward the northeast, they say, always accompanied by an eerie wailing sound. The story of this ship is but one of the colorful legends intrinsic to the charm of North Carolina's historic coastland. From the northern tip of the Outer Banks to the lower end of the sweeping shoreline, there are stories to be found ... and to be told with gusto, or awe, or sometimes with horror. At Nags Head there is a sand hill where only the unwary go without shoes, and at Beaufort the grave of a young British naval officer buried upright, standing at attention. From Shackleford Banks comes the story of a strange woman named Porpoise Sal and from Wilmington a shadowy tale of a macabre Maundy Thursday party that had awesome consequences.

Stories about Indians, trappers, ghosts, firebirds, sea horses, and sand dollars in this collection of tales from coastal NC.

Legends of Virginia Dare, Theodosia Burr, Blackbeard, and the witch of Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

ACTION ADVENTURE! “It was so close I realized it had two cannons on her bow. Loaded or not; who the knows. I sure as rigger rats didn't want to find out. I was never certain if they're aimed at me. But I wasn't out-running them; they had me. They kept coming. Never slowed down. Got so close I could read the name on the bow…” Once again, in the third installment of his adventures series, Young Fisher Shoemaker is back! He and Sara come across an old logbook that once belonged to the less than famous sea captain Bartholomew Bonney. The mysteries of the logbook leads them on an adventure miles off coastal Maine.

21 tales of pirates and ghosts from along the North Carolina coast Haunted houses, graveyards, and other favorite places are are featured Some stories told for the first time and involving people who really lived

Acclaimed storyteller Nancy Roberts takes the reader on a haunted tour of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in this engaging new collection of thirty-three ghost stories and legends. In North Carolina, we hear of the restless spirit w