MountainLore

Halloween is fast approaching, so Gena and I did a little digging in our archives and found the scariest tale we could find for you...that is 100% TRUE!

From 2019 we bring you a tale of ghosts, spirit possession and evil that happened to a young radio disc jockey and his girlfriend in a house they were renting in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the early 1990's.  The twist?  One of the people involved in this story is the one telling it, first hand.

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Sweet dreams, y'all.

In 1932 a woman's body was found alongside a road in Logan County, West Virginia. The woman was wearing a bloodstained blue polka dot dress.

There were two trials of two different men later that year in which salacious gossip about this woman's alleged affairs were told. In the end one man was acquitted and the other man, a black handyman, was convicted of her murder.

And ever since that time, it's been said, you can see that woman, Mamie Thurman, walking the roads around Logan looking for a man to give her a ride to...who knows...

Today we tell the tale of Mamie Thurman, the woman in the blue polka dot dress, another bit of the folklore of Appalachia.

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Many years ago, it's said, a cruel coal mine owner in Harlan County had a troublesome miner and his family brutally murdered. Ever since that time tales have been told of a headless ghost, that of the miner's daughter, appearing to travelers along the road at Black Mountain.

Today we tell the story of Headless Annie

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Greenbrier Cove is located in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It's a great place to hike and to enjoy nature.

It's also a great place to find gold, or so it's said.

Today we tell a tale of a lost gold mine, supposedly located at Greenbrier Cove.

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Wise County, Virginia, is full of history, from the early days of the pioneers, through the coal boom after the Civil War, to the Cold War (U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers grew up there). And Wise County is also home to more than its share of Appalachian folklore, from Jack tales to spooky stories. Today Steve and Gena tell you a couple of the latter, involving a vampire that supposedly lived in Big Stone Gap and a haunted rock that lay along the route from Norton to Wise.

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Today we tell a couple of traditional ghost stories from Southwest Virginia. First up, from Russell County, is the story of a ghost that demands a good, clean shave. Then it's on to a story about a ghost that is seen going...well, we don't know, but it's a good tale.

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Straight from the news headlines in 1875 we tell the story of a man so obsessed with the witches invading his home, he turned it into a shooting gallery.

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Til we meet again, sweet dreams, podcast listeners...

With the coming of the railroads into Appalachia came tunnels through which tracks were laid, making it easier to transport people into the region and coal out.

Turns out those holes in the hills made excellent homes for haints.

Today we tell you stories about two of those tunnels: the Big Bull Tunnel in Southwest Virginia and the Sensabaugh Tunnel in East Tennessee.

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Many years ago on the Virginia frontier, in what's now West Virginia, a man sought room and board from a farmer. This man later got sick and died without benefit of the clergy of his choice. That's when this story becomes interesting. Today Steve and Gena tell the tale of the spirit known as the Wizard Clip.

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Many years ago in Cade’s Cove a husband made a solemn promise to his dying wife. When the time came he broke that promise, with deadly results.

Today we tell the tale of the Cussin’ Cover, another bit of the folklore of Appalachia.

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