In 1897, Elva Zona Heaster Shue died mysteriously in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. What would follow would be the only known case in which testimony from a ghost would help convict a murderer.

Around noon on September 25, 2011 a young child was found wandering down the road near a cemetery on Stipps Road in Laurel, Indiana. When police arrived, the 4 year old girl told police that her family was dead saying “Mommy is shot and grandpa and grandma”. Later that day police arrived at the home of Roy Napier, a trailer located on Stipps Road to find a very shocking murder scene. As police wait for a detective to arrive, they search the area to see if anyone else is on the property.

To quote Graham Seal, “Ned Kelly has progressed from outlaw to national hero in a century, and to international icon in a further 20 years. The still-enigmatic, slightly saturnine and ever ambivalent bushranger is the undisputed, if not universally admired, national symbol of Australia. … [T]he figure of Ned Kelly has led to the creation of a national image that bears some relation to the man himself—perhaps about the same resemblance as Ned Kelly's armour had to the plough mouldboards from which it was beaten....He is different things to different people—a murderer, an Australian Robin Hood, a social bandit, a revolutionary leader, even a commercial commodity. But to most of us he is somehow essentially Australian.”

Whether its sitting in an idle car with your friends telling ghost stories on the road, witnessing demonic cults performing their ceremonies, or just a plain old whiskey business. Staley road has been popular around Bethel Township, Ohio, for a long time. Join us as Kayla takes us through the history of the Staley family and how they came to America, before she and our guest Emily tell their spooky experiences with the road.

We discuss three lesser known Appalachian myths and legends.

Flatwoods Monster

On September 12th, 1952, at around 7:15 pm, two brothers, Edward, 13, and Fred, 12, May, and their friend Tommy Hyer (10), saw a pulsing red light cross the sky and land on the property of G. Bailey Fisher, a local Farmer. The events that followed would go down in West Virginian folklore.

The Moon-Eyed People

The Moon-eyed people are a group of people who are said to have lived in Appalachia until the Cherokee people chased them away - though I will say that I’ve also seen that it was the Muscogee (Muh-skoh-gee) people who fought the Moon-Eyed People and chased them out. It’s said that they were short, bearded white-skinned people with blue eyes. Benjamin Smith Barton said in a 1797 book, that they’re known as “moon-eyed” because they couldn’t see very well during the day. Stories about this mysterious race of people are said to have originated in parts of Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, however the true origins of the Moon-Eyed people are debated to this day.

Squonk

The Squonk (scientific name Lacrimacorpus dissolvens) is a folk loric creature reputed to live in the Hemlock forest of northern Pennsylvania.

Wilder, Kentucky is a small town located just south of Cincinnati, Ohio. Once a quiet town with not much to its’ name, the town has become a hot spot for tourists, paranormal investigators and lovers of the macabre. They come in droves in search of a place by the name of Bobby Mackey’s Music World, a night club and tavern that may just be one of the most haunted, and most sinister locations in America. But where did these rumors begin? Who haunts Bobby Mackey’s, and why?

Chillingham is a 13th century castle located in northumberland famous for its battles and beautiful scenery. Come with us as kayla takes us through the bloody history and mystery of englands most haunted castle.

On December 9th, 1965, the sleepy town of Kecksburg, PA was the host of a strange (possibly extraterrestrial) visitation. What happened on that day? What was so out there that it needed to be hidden away?

On December 1st, 1948, the body of an unidentified man was found on the beach at Somerton Park, South Australia. Who was the Somerton Man and why was he killed?