This piece, “Phantom of the Black Earth: A Lyric Study of Haunting,” is an extended nonfiction lyric essay that explores identity and displacement within the natural world through the dynamic lens of Black Hauntology and the confrontation of the history and power structures that linger within land as well as those who inhabit it. Detailing Soph Green’s own experiences of displacement with the outdoors, from growing up in Trenton, NJ to spending their first summer working on a farm crew, it reveals and retraces the unconscious remnants of haunting sites of memory– as well as the power found in this space where past and present is distorted. This essay asks that we question the hands that uphold the boundaries between Blackness and the homogenized environment that natural or rural spaces within the U.S. have become. What is haunting these spaces and who is truly being haunted? In order to embody the spatial and temporal disjunctions within each haunting, this essay and its hybrid structure engage with memory in a way parallel to speculative nonfiction. Interwoven throughout this piece are the theoretical examinations of haunting and Black displacement with the intention of grounding the immaterial layers of these spectral encounters with tangible foundation. Green’s research works directly in conversation with Marisa Parham’s work, Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture, Katherine Mckittrick’s Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, and James Baldwin’s essay, “Stranger in the Village.” Green presented this paper at the Connections 2025: Landscapes graduate conference at UC-Davis.