Claiborne, Jack and Price, William, editors. Discovering North Carolina: A Tar Heel Reader (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press) 1991.
Harden, John. Tar Heel Ghosts. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press) 1954.
Roberts, Nancy. An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurrences in the Old North State. (Charlotte, N.C.: McNally and Loftin, Publishers) 1989.
Rankin, Hugh F. The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina.(Raleigh, N.C.: Division of Archives and History, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources) 1989.
Parramore, Thomas C. and Wilms, Douglas C.North Carolina: The History of an American State(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc.) 1983.
Powell, William S. North Carolina through Four Centuries Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press) 1989.
Walser, Richard. North Carolina Legends. (Raleigh, N.C.: Division of Archives and History, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources) 1989.