Laura Wright
In December 1938, newspapers across the country began reporting a bizarre story from the mountains of Southwest...
Appalachian Folklore
Vampire legends appear in cultures throughout the world. Some are centuries old, passed from generation to generation...
Deep in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, near the community of Pocahontas in Tazewell County, there once...
For generations, strange lights have been reported among the mountains of western North Carolina. They appear without...
In the mountains of Northeast Tennessee, music has always traveled easily. A fiddle played on a porch...
Deep in the Southern Appalachian forests, there are old stories about things that should not be followed....
Their owners are documented. Their architecture is photographed. Their tragedies are repeated in books, television programs and...
Some ghost stories begin with murder. Others begin with love. The old Appalachian tale of Brahm and...
Sometimes a ghost story survives while almost everything that could explain it disappears. No photographs. No newspaper...
There are some Appalachian ghost stories that were never intended to be subtle. Old Tom is one...
