Weird Louisiana
Subtitle: your travel guide to the Louisiana's local legends and best kept secrets
By: by Roger Manley ; Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, executive editors
Contributors: Moran, Mark, 1961-; Sceurman, Mark
Series: Weird U.S.
Publisher: Sterling Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781402745546
Subjects: Miscellanea; Curiosities and wonders; Guidebooks; Pictorial works; History
Description: "Author Roger Manley, dogged investigator of all things weird, drove down many a back road, chatting up locals in order to hear tales of strange stuff like ghosts, bottomless ponds, hubcap ranches, and abandoned insane asylums. Oftentimes, he'd get a response like this: "You said 'weird.' What's so weird about all that? You're talking reg'lar life here in Loosiana!" But more often than not, he would then hear about all kinds of genuine outrageousness by any standards." --Cover, p. 2.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Legends of Louisiana; title: Unexplained and unnatural phenomena; title: Fabled people and places; title: Surreal celebrations; title: Bizarre beasts; title: Local heroes and villains; title: Personalized properties; title: Roadside oddities; title: Roads less traveled; title: Ghosts of Louisiana; title: Cemetery safari; title: Abandoned in the bayou state.