Reviews and Comments about Ghosts of Franklin  

Even skeptics will find it fascinating...

"Readers of Ghosts of Franklin will no doubt be spellbound by stories involving incidents on Main Street, Shuff's Music Store, Landmark Booksellers and Carnton Plantation just to name a few. Many of the accounts are well-known in the annals of Franklin ghost stories, such as the Weeping Maiden at Carnton and Third Avenue's Peggy Eaton. Many stories appear for the first time. If you are a ghost story aficionado you are going to love this book."

Carol Tomlin, VIP Magazine, Franklin, Tennessee

A Riveting Collection of Stories

Margie Thessin is a fantastic writer who captures the essence of her subjects' stories in Ghosts of Franklin. Even if you've never believed in spirits, this riveting collection of tales will make you think twice, and you'll see the familiar locations in a whole new light.

Jay Sheridan, Franklin, Tennessee

Things that go bump in the night...

I'll admit I started noticing weird shadows in my bedroom when I read this book at night and had to put it down. It definitely gave me goose bumps. Don't use my last name. I don't want to get a lot of grief from my friends.

Tommy S., Franklin , Tennessee

Tour guide writes book on local hauntings

 Those who've taken Franklin on Foot's ghost tours now can bring the spooky happenings to their bookcase. Margie Thessin, co-founder of the local walking tour company, is the author of a new 168-page book, Ghosts of Franklin, Tennessee's Most Haunted Town. Within the 10 chapters of the book, possible spirits are uncovered at battlefield sites and historic properties such as the Harrison House and the Lotz House. Many of the ghost stories circle around Carnton Plantation, Widow of the South mistress Carrie McGavock's home that was turned into a Civil War hospital.

 Bonnie Burch, May 7, 2008 Williamson A.M.

Did you see that? 

Franklin's ghosts revealed in new book

  According to credible sources, soldiers haunt the grounds and buildings that were used as hospitals during and after the Battle of Franklin. "I don't know how to explain these mysterious phenomena people describe in such detail, but I do know what they're not. They're not the delusions of the insane, the product of an overactive imagination or the power of suggestion," said Margie Thessin, author of Ghosts of Franklin. "Most of the time we really don't know who the ghost is. Sometimes it's just a sense--a smell out of place or time, or a noise when there shouldn't be one. " 

 Carole Robinson, May 1, 2008, Williamson Herald

 Author Margie Thessin is the co-owner and -founder of Franklin on Foot, offering guided walking tours of historic Franklin, Tennessee.

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