Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories

An old story was once retold perhaps two generations ago by Jeanne deLavigne in her book Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans. I think enough time has passed to retell this eerie legend again –Today’s tale is Lost Golden Children. Even after an aged cemetery is removed for development, a stingy ghost returned to search for something he lost.

You can read more ghost stories of New Orleans, get directions to cemeteries, and take a ghostly walking tour of haunted places there in my book,  Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans. It’s a must-have if you’re heading out to NOLA or if you just enjoy the ghostly tales surrounding the city. https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-Folk.../dp/1940087465

Ball of Fire--A restless ghost divulges a murder near the swirling waters of the Little Kanawha River.

You can find this story in my book-- West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics

Original tale: A Ball of Fire by Ruthan Musick as told in The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales.

Music from Uppbeat

https://uppbeat.io/t/christian-larssen/the-venetian

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 clippings from historic newspapers, Children lost in the mountains by Timothy Hupp, and J.B. Huffman’s Little Lost Boy in the Mountains of Virginia. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores. And watch for my upcoming book Appalachian haunted hikes, where this story will be passed along. Today’s story is Little Lost Ghost of Bluff Mountain, about a boy who disappeared into the forest, never to return . . . alive. But now he comes back in ghostly form.

It is one of the stories (about Ottie Cline Powell) that I'm working on for my newest book on Appalachian ghost hikes. And yes, I hike all the trails in my books. You can check out my other ghostly books: https://smile.amazon.com/Jannette-Quackenbush/e/B009RN009M or find them in local gift shops and bookstores.

You can visit the site. I did. It is along the Blue Ridge Parkway with parking at Punchbowl Mountain Overlook. The trail is 2.0 miles, a rugged and strenuous uphill mountain hike on the way up. If you go, take a short side trip to Punchbowl Shelter. A sign will lead you there. This is one of the places the little ghost is seen. 

Music from Uppbeat :

https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/allegro

https://uppbeat.io/t/weary-pines/birth

https://uppbeat.io/t/dave-whitcroft/amazing-grace

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

https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/forgotten-dreams

The Haunted Stump was passed along in the 1953 story by Erasmus Foster Darby. It is one of the creepier bits of folklore and comes from the area that is now Pike Lake State Park in Ohio. You can read my version in Ohio Ghost Stories, The Classics.

Pike Lake State Park

Pike Lake Road

Bainbridge, Ohio 45612

39.159920, -83.218545

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1874). Scenes in emigrant life

Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/richard-bodgers/dead-birds

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Traditional Christmas in Victorian England was held around the fire at night, telling the most horrifyingly morbid of ghost stories. So in celebration of those old-time traditions, here is an ageless ghost story I’ll share with you that happened in a tiny community called Fallsville, which is now little more than a ghost town located in the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s Fallsville Wildlife Area. It is about a ghostly apparition that would appear in December in an old mill town.

You can find this story in my Ohio Ghost Stories and Spooky Legends: The Classics

And you can visit the area:

Fallsville Wildlife Area

10211 Careytown Road

New Vienna, Ohio 45159

Parking: 39.285561, -83.630011

Old Homestead: 39.286057, -83.632949

Music from Uppbeat:

https://uppbeat.io/t/noise-cake/jingle-beats

https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/frost-waltz

What happened in Moonville, Ohio? Not long after a horrible train accident one autumn night in the late 1800s, a ghost began to appear at a tunnel along a remote and dark stretch of the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad. And the haunting of Moonville would begin . . .

You can read about Moonville and find out about the many ghosts that haunt the area in my book: The Little Book of Moonville Ghosts: Its Past. Its Ghosts. Its Legends.

Check out my website: Moonvilletunnel.net

Or check out my Google Page (Moonville Ghost Town) and leave some Moonville pics you took! https://g.page/r/CfvS4_p4xo1XEBA

Deep in the woodland of Shawnee State Forest in southern Ohio lies a lone gravestone tucked in an ancient valley called Dead Man Hollow. This is the legend surrounding the grave and the nearby hollow. 

You can find this story and other ghostly places along with the GPS and how to find them in my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore from Haunted Hocking, A Ghost Hunters Guide to the Hocking Hills—https://amazon.com/dp/B093TLDDP7

Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/pecan-pie/creepy

https://freesound.org/people/rogerforeman/

The North Bend Rail Trail in West Virginia stretches 72 miles along an old, abandoned railroad with 36 bridge crossings and 13 tunnels along its passageway. It’s a beautiful place to hike and bike . . . mostly. However, it also has some dark and spooky settings on its path. Among its spookier sites are two haunted tunnels secreted along the abandoned stretch of railway between the old oil boom and railroad towns of Walker and Petroleum.

You can find the two tunnels, Eaton Tunnel and the hidden Lost Tunnel along the West Virginia Rail-Trail after a short gravel backroads drive, and perhaps run into the ghostly crew of long-dead miners still working. After taking the path from the parking area, you will come upon the Eaton Tunnel. After passing through, look for a rugged path on your left and follow it. The Lost Tunnel is sealed off from the curious. However, you can peer into a small opening and perhaps hear the ghosts of its past within.

If you like old ghost stories, legends, and folk tales, or like to discover new abandoned areas to explore, you can check out my book series on Amazon. I have over 20 books with good old-fashioned ghost stories. And for those you can visit, I give the GPS where you, too, can find your adventure. West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics

You can also watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/i-rIIqh4PPI

Parking: 39.195872, -81.313750

Tunnel: 39.197348, -81.320110

Music from Uppbeat-https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/creep

Today’s story is a legend of Pirate Alley in New Orleans—Reginald Hicks. Many, many years ago, a beautiful French Creole girl and a young pirate fell madly and deeply in love. What could possibly go wrong with that situation? Obviously something, because nowadays one returns to lament the other’s death.

You can find this story in my book Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans (https://amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-Folk-Tales-Orleans/dp/1940087465)  sold on Amazon and in bookstores.

You can see the haunt: Along the wrought iron fence at Pirate Alley in New Orleans

And read more stories on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewOrleansGhostStories/

Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/a-seafaring-adventure

Today’s story is the legend of Calico Lady of Lafferty Run and Chicken Hollow Road in Brown County, Ohio. An old lady with a collection of cats used to chase those away who traveled too fast past her home . . . even after she died. 

You can find this story in Ohio Ghost Stories and Spooky Legends, the Classics (https://amazon.com/gp/product/B087Z5TXKX/)

Music and some screams, hollers, and caterwauling cats from UppBeat:

https://uppbeat.io/t/fernweh-goldfish/crooked-old-shrew

(As always, when checking out these ghostly places, contact local authorities to make sure that the roads and areas are still public property and available for a visit.)