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Local History Uncovering Forgotten
By T JHELHistory
Local History Uncovering Forgotten episodes
- Local_History_Whispers_from_the_Hollows
In a quiet stretch of road outside Burkittsville, Maryland, drivers still pull over at night, shift into neutral, and feel their cars begin to roll uphill. Locals say the ghosts of Confederate soldiers are still pushing.
In the New River Gorge of West Virginia, Company House Number 24 once stood in the vanished coal camp of Red Star. A family moved in during the 1930s and heard a woman crying, a baby wailing, and footsteps that belonged to a headless man. The company eventually tore the house down. The stories stayed.
And in the vast Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, something with leathery wings and a horse-like head has been reported for nearly three centuries.10 min
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Whispers from the Hollows: Forgotten Legends of Appalachia and the Pine Barrens
Short Description (for platform listings):
Three quiet legends that never made the history books — a road where…
Short Description (for platform listings):
Three quiet legends that never made the history books — a road where…
cars roll uphill under the hands of Civil War ghosts, a demolished coal-camp house that once held a crying woman and a headless man, and the 300-year-old scream of the Jersey Devil.
Full Episode Description / Show Notes:
In a quiet stretch of road outside Burkittsville, Maryland, drivers still pull over at night, shift into neutral, and feel their cars begin to roll uphill. Locals say the ghosts of Confederate soldiers are still pushing.
In the New River Gorge of West Virginia, Company House Number 24 once stood in the vanished coal camp of Red Star. A family moved in during the 1930s and heard a woman crying, a baby wailing, and footsteps that belonged to a headless man. The company eventually tore the house down. The stories stayed.
And in the vast Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, something with leathery wings and a horse-like head has been reported for nearly three centuries.
This episode of Local History travels the back roads of three places most people only pass through, uncovering the quieter legends that official history left behind.
Full Episode Description / Show Notes:
In a quiet stretch of road outside Burkittsville, Maryland, drivers still pull over at night, shift into neutral, and feel their cars begin to roll uphill. Locals say the ghosts of Confederate soldiers are still pushing.
In the New River Gorge of West Virginia, Company House Number 24 once stood in the vanished coal camp of Red Star. A family moved in during the 1930s and heard a woman crying, a baby wailing, and footsteps that belonged to a headless man. The company eventually tore the house down. The stories stayed.
And in the vast Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, something with leathery wings and a horse-like head has been reported for nearly three centuries.
This episode of Local History travels the back roads of three places most people only pass through, uncovering the quieter legends that official history left behind.