Laura Wright
Some roads acquire reputations because they are dangerous. Others become infamous because of what travelers claim to...
History
Historical facts, figures, and oddities.
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....
Wales has no shortage of creatures hiding in its folklore. There are spectral hounds, troublesome fairies, water...
Sometimes a ghost story survives while almost everything that could explain it disappears. No photographs. No newspaper...
Few houses in America have accumulated as much mythology as the Winchester Mystery House. There are staircases...
