Guys, I am joined by a fellow author. It sounds funny saying that because I really don't consider myself an author.

But a fellow author, Alan Sersey, Alan has been on several different television newscasts.

I saw back around Halloween time because he's got a lot of stories from the Tennessee area.

And I've got his newest book right here that he was so kind to send us,

Southern Ghost Stories, Murfreesboro, Spirits of Stones River. Alan, thanks for coming on. Hey, thank you for having me, Jerry. So, Alan, I mentioned this book, but you've got some other books out there. Tell me about the other books you've got available right now. Yes, sir. The first book I wrote was Southern Ghost Stories, Historical Hauntings.

We did Southern Ghosts Stories, Ghost of Galaton,

and then Southern Ghosts Stories haunted hotels.

And the last one's Mervisbury's Spirit of Stones River.

What got you started into the paranormal? What is it about these stories that made you write

so many books on paranormal occurrences? In the 30s and 40s, my great-grandparents bought two acres in Nashville from a guy whose family

was Judge John Oberton.

He was Andrew Jackson's campaign manager and best friend.

He had a working plantation outside of Nashville, and my great-grandparents bought two acres

built a home there on his own plantation.

Well, in 05, my great-grandmother's very poor health, and they put our nursing home. So I'm going to get to the house, kind of managed the property. And the first night I was there, the trash can moved eight feet in a night. So that was just really strange. My time there, weird things having TVs turn off and on, lights to turn off and on, just a lot of weird stuff. And finally, I hopped the van and walked over to the mansion, Traveler's Rest. I spoke to the associate there and said, look, weird things are happening to me. This is this place haunted? I'm like, oh, no, sir, I can assure you here. We talk about the Overton family in the 18th century. Nothing happens here. I saw a lady and I had her car as I was leaving and I asked her the same question.

She's like, well, honey, it's really haunted and I can't talk about it. So it kind of confirmed everything. And the crazy thing is before the Overtons lived there, when Oortton built the house, they found Indian graves on the property where he buried the house. literally I think there's four, unearthed four graves where they built the house. And my house would have been where the stable was, I was told, but still, it was an old Mississippi and Indian village. So who knows what would have gone on. Out of friends, so they saw a old woman in my bedroom. There's weird things always happened there. And that kind of what got me started. But what really put me over the edge was my wife and I would go to Savannah. My daughter went to Georgia Southern, so we'd go to Savannah, Georgia, the visitor. So while we're down there, we're taking these ghost tours. And I know you and your listeners are quite familiar, but you pay $20 or $25, $30, whatever it is,

then you go to four or five locations

and tell you the history and the hauntings. It's fun, but you pay a lot of money and it lasts about an hour. Right. So my wife told me, she's like, well, someone should make an app with all the haunted places for $2 and you can just take your own ghost too. So I came home, started pinnling around. I talked to

send out of code, did a lot of research, went to Savannah a bunch of times, and I made a Savannah Ghost Map app, which has like a whole bunch of maybe 50 or 60 places in Savannah, and it's got the history and give you GPS directions to all of them. So I got bored after that, so I went for Nashville. I got bored after that and went to Louisville. I had friends of Shepherdsville, and they told me a bunch of stories and started research in Louisville. Then I went to New Orleans, Boston, Salem, St. Augustine. So I made these apps and heard all these stories. And then the books is kind of a natural progression. I was in Gallatin researching the Nashville app. and every place on the square had the same story. There's kids running around, back and forth on the second floor of all these buildings. So that's what kind of piqued my interest and got me into writing the books. You created these apps. Is that your background, is creating an app or something? Or is it just something you came up with the idea and teamed up with somebody that had the know-how? Or how did that get started? No, sir. My background, I used to manage much of in the way fighters. And that's how I kind of started building websites for the fighters. And that's how I kind of started writing I guess and it kind of progressed

me once the fighters started retiring I wanted something else to do and going to see my daughter

in Savannah it piqued my interest with the paranormal but the history is that I really enjoy

like up here in gallatin I had this guy tell me that a psychic from Nashville came to his building

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