But with recent stories of destruction and death still echoing in New Orleans, fewer tourists are coming here to hear these old ghost stories.
It excuses bad behavior, makes redemption possible and enables construction of entire mock Old West ghost-towns.
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None was more grotesque than inserting the young Anakin as a ghost in place of the old in Return of the Jedi - a truly laughable, woeful, and quite possibly criminal change.
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"It looks an old woman with a white dress and a long white cape down her back, " said 17-year-old Ryan Bell who claims to have seen the ghost at least six times.
Oprah plays Sethe, the former slave who, in 1873, lives in an Ohio farmhouse with her teen-age daughter, Denver (Kimberly Elise), her old friend and new lover Paul D (Danny Glover), and the ghost of the daughter she killed long ago when the girl was about to be retaken into slavery.
They pulled the plug on several longer-running series, including dramas Cold Case, The Ghost Whisperer and Numbers along with comedies Gary Unmarried and The New Adventures of Old Christine.
But the old edge-of-the-world feel can be conjured up with a drive past the ghost town ruins of former mines scattered along the pass.
And vocals, bathed in old-school reverb, that lift Waits out of the gutter long enough for him to channel the ghost of some long-dead early rock idol.
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