Bayou Bytes Blog

Join us as McNeese professor Dr. Gay Gomez presents us with an illustrated book talk of her recent work, The Louisiana Coast: Guide to an American Wetland . Dr. Gomez will also be available for a book signing. The book talk will take place on Thursday, October 29 , from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the upstairs Central meeting room. Join us to find out why our Louisiana coast is "worth seeing, worth saving, worth celebrating."

Louisiana Haunted Forts - Elaine Coleman Filled with historical adventures and intriguing tales of suprnatural happenings, Louisiana Haunted Forts relates eerie stories of soldiers who still patrol the ruins of fortifications they built, defended, and died for, and others whose lives ended tragically. Based on eyewitness accounts and sightings by residents, visitors, and passersby, these unsettling narratives tell of spirits lingering and appearing near the sites of their deaths. (From jacket.) Louisiana's Haunted Plantations - Jill Pascoe In this collection of thirteen chilling tales you will explore the ghosts along the River Road at some of Louisiana’s best known plantations, and also along the back bayous of the state. You will encounter the ghosts of the most haunted house in America, meet ladies in white and black who refuse to leave, learn of spectral children who continue to play, Civil War soldiers trapped where they died, pirates guarding buried treasure and even the ...