Laura Wright
Some plants kill quietly. Others announce themselves with thorns, bitter flavors, unpleasant odors, or colors that seem...
History
Historical facts, figures, and oddities.
Paintings are supposed to remain still. Whatever the artist placed on the canvas stays there. The figures...
For generations, strange lights have been reported among the mountains of western North Carolina. They appear without...
There are places whose mysteries belong to a single house, mountain, road, or patch of forest. The...
Prisons are built to keep people from leaving. Perhaps that is why stories about those who never...
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....
