Laura Wright
There are places whose mysteries belong to a single house, mountain, road, or patch of forest. The...
Folklore and Legends
Folklore from around the world.
Few names from the early history of Southwest Virginia acquired a reputation quite like Bob Benge. To...
Prisons are built to keep people from leaving. Perhaps that is why stories about those who never...
Some roads acquire reputations because they are dangerous. Others become infamous because of what travelers claim to...
There are buildings that acquire ghost stories long after their original purpose has disappeared. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic...
Urban legends thrive because they occupy the uncomfortable territory between the impossible and the merely improbable. A...
In the mountains of Northeast Tennessee, music has always traveled easily. A fiddle played on a porch...
Some ghost stories require an old house. Others need only a road. The phantom hitchhiker, also called...
Deep in the Southern Appalachian forests, there are old stories about things that should not be followed....
Long before Dracula became the model for the modern vampire, families in rural America were opening graves....
