Everything in this book actually happened and is portrayed according to the recollection of those involved. Many unusual things have occurred in my family, and some of them are of a paranormal origin. All of them took place in the marshy lands of southern Louisiana, thus giving the title of the book, Swamped by Ghosts, two meanings. I did not intend to write this book. I initially wrote some ghost stories to put in a genealogy book that I was writing about my family, but then I realized that there were enough ghost stories to create a separate book-which eventually became the first printing of my book, Haunted House of the Rising Sun. This book was composed of stories about a beautiful mansion in the New Orleans area that I lived in with my first husband and our two children. What started out as a dream come true became more like a nightmare, as we witnessed hauntings almost every day of the four years we lived there. People who enjoyed reading Haunted House of the Rising Sun asked if I had other ghost stories. Without knowing this, my brother Joseph Adair and then my cousin Nora Jewell both suggested that I write a book about our childhood experiences. This inspired me to write the book you are now reading, Swamped by Ghosts. Ghost encounters of other family members have also been included in this book. Some of the stories in both of these books are funny, a few seem unbelievable, and several are downright frightening-but all of them are true. So sit back and try to relax as you share this journey with me through incredible accounts of the supernatural.