Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. But, there is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore, The Death Hole, which comes from my Ohio Ghost Guide 5. A couple’s innocent trip to town takes a deadly turn with a ghostly reminder still haunting Logan, Ohio, today. 

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including this one from Ruthann Musick’s Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales. 

There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my Haunted West Virginia book series online and in local bookstores, including this bit of lore, Missus Hall Outruns a Ghost, which comes from my third West Virginia book, West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics. Long ago, a bold farmer searching for her livestock stumbles upon more than just her roaming cow. . . 

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore, Mislaid Bones, which comes from my Ohio Ghost Guide 5. A hermit’s ghost near Waverly, Ohio would just not lay to rest until a scoundrel doctor’s antics were brought to light.

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https://uppbeat.io/t/richard-bodgers/un-bal

Back in the 1870s, Jackson Hill in Wyoming County used to be called Sizemore Gap, and old-timers passed down that it had a ghost that would show up to travelers along the road. Here is the story of one man who came to face with it.

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my ghost stories and folk tales book series on Amazon and in stores like the Vintage Lady in Harpers Ferry and Point Pleasant Trading Company across from the Mothman Museum. This story is one of the many stories in my third West Virginia ghost story books, West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics and is portrayed on the back cover of the book.

Music:https://uppbeat.io/t/reakt-music/deep-stone

The Abandoned: Pennsylvania's Abandoned Turnpike and Sideling Tunnel may not be as deserted as people think. The old turnpike is on many people’s bucket lists to visit, although few have the guts to take this forsaken post-apocalyptic-looking road and follow it through an abandoned tunnel that is 1.3 miles long, pitch-black in some places, and just plain creepy. However, it is not enough that it appears isolated and friendless. There are things of the supernatural, too, that lurk here. Take a ride with me along this abandoned highway and maybe add it to your bucket list. Or come face to face with the supernatural within. 

Music:

https://uppbeat.io/t/reakt-music/deep-stone

Something peculiar lurks in a wild pocket of overgrown scrub meadows mixed with deep, young woodland in Belmont County, Ohio. It is just off Interstate 70, and those who pass along the highway usually sense that there is more to the gutted terrain than meets the eye, more than just the strip mine that flourished greedily on the land. It was as if when peeling back the flesh of the terrain, then gouging out the soul of the land, something wicked was freed from the bowels of the earth. Something long buried. Something that should never return. Something so dreadfully evil, it still walks as if the land beneath its feet is still quite dead. And it still thrives there . . .that thing in Egypt Valley that got dug up.

https://uppbeat.io/t/ak/mystic-forests

Caldwell, J. A. (1880). History of Belmont and Jefferson counties, Ohio: And incidentally historical collections pertaining to border warfare and the early settlement of the adjacent portion of the Ohio Valley. https://archive.org/details/historyofbelmont00cald/page/n413/mode/2up?q=egypt.

People have been crossing paths with hairy bipedal creatures for centuries. Mostly described as human-like, over 7 feet, hairy, and foul-smelling. When conversations arise over the big hairy creature’s prime territory in the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, Salt Fork State Park is nearly always brought up. Located in eastern Ohio, the park has a whopping 17,229 acres for Bigfoot to inhabit. The Ohio Bigfoot Conference, led by Marc DeWerth, is held annually at Salt Fork State Park. This year, it is Saturday, April 30, 2022, where you can explore The Ohio Bigfoot Flea Market featuring over 40 vendors from all over the country with all kinds of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, cryptozoology, alien, U.F.O., Mothman, and other creature items. And you will see me with my books, including Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts, and a new book on haunted Appalachian hiking trails.

It always seems appropriate to feature some theme-based, folklore-related post for each holiday. Most are easy to come by like redeeming ghosts on Christmas Eve, dead, angry lovers on Valentine’s Day, and Halloween is a no-brainer because it celebrates every kind of ghost story, folktale, and urban legend. However, Easter has always eluded me, and over the years, I have managed to sidestep it completely. This time is different, though, because I discovered a most frightening legend, but with a little twist. Full disclosure—the tale would not have much to do with the Easter holiday if it were not for the mythical mammal involved mostly because it originated in October of 1970—This is The Legend of Bunny-Man of Fairfax County, Virginia. 

You can take a ride with me and see it for yourself on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/DNfJmPZoO4g

You can find my books on Amazon: https://amazon.com/Jannette-Quackenbush/e/B009RN009M

• “Man in Bunny Suit Sought in Fairfax” (October 22, 1970)

• “The ‘Rabbit’ Reappears” (October 31, 1970)

• “Kooky "Bunny-Man" Keeps Virginia Officers Hopping Beckley Post Herald, The Raleigh Register (Beckley, West Virginia) October 31, 1970

• “Bunny Man Seen” (November 4, 1970)

• “Bunny-Man Has Hatchet in Virginia” The_Cumberland News October 31, 1970

• “Bunny Reports Are Multiplying” The Washington Post, Times Herald November 6, 1970

• “Boo! It’s the Bunny Man!; 30-Year Legend Still Spooks Visitors to Fairfax County Bridge”: [FINAL Edition] Oldenburg, Don. The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C]. October 31, 2003: C.01.

• Fairfax County Public Library Historian-Archivist Brian A. Conley

Bunny images: RyanMcGuire, LynnB, zizwix

Music from Uppbeat:

http://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/creep

http://uppbeat.io/t/doug-organ/surf-turf

http://uppbeat.io/t/sonda/rock-it

When an early peddler is murdered not far from Grant Town, West Virginia, his ghost would return to frighten those crossing his path.

You can find this story and others in my second West Virginia ghost book: West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore

(https://amazon.com/Virginia-Stories-Legends-Haunts-Folklore/dp/1940087317)

Hitchhiking Ghost of Buttermilk Hill: Originally from the book Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales as told by Richard Stickler via Luella Freeland.

Music from Uppbeat-http://uppbeat.io/t/albert-behar/les-yeux-bleus

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. Today’s story is Ghostly Shenanigans of a Peddler. A public house in Waynesville, Ohio was known for the drunken antics of its guests and a resentful ghost.

You can buy my book series on Amazon and other bookstores, including this one which comes from one of my books, Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide VI.

You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LoneGhostWriter

Music from Uppbeat:

https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/moonlight-hall