Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories

Today’s story is about Hedger Hollow, a folktale that began after the murder of a peddler along the Little Kanawha River in West Virginia.

You can find this story and other spooky tales in my second book: West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore 

Here’s more info on Hedger’s Ghost: CALHOUN'S DANGEROUS HEDGER'S GHOST - Dare You Call His Name.

Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/vens-adams/adventure-is-calling and "Splash, Jumping, C.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

Today’s story is That Place They Call Booger Hole. A quiet community now, it was not always so tranquil. Booger Hole in Clay County West Virginia got its name for a reason and it just cannot shake it.

This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Wilson Douglas: How I came to be a Fiddler, West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore, and a few locals who wished to remain nameless. 

There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and find them in other bookstores, including my second book on West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore.

Cool stuff I read to find more about the story

-Douglas, Wilson. How I came to be a Fiddler

-http://www.hurherald.com/

-Charleston Mail Wednesday, January 31, 1917, Charleston, West Virginia

-Charleston Mail Wednesday, February 14, 1917, Charleston, West Virginia

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https://uppbeat.io/t/pecan-pie/wild-wild-wet

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. Today’s episode is The Legend of the Baying Hound at Old Man’s Cave, a local story passed down in a small town between Logan and South Bloomingville, Ohio in the Hocking Hills. You can visit Old Man’s Cave in southeastern Ohio and listen for the hound. It is along the Old Man’s cave trail within Hocking Hills State Park. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Logan Democrat Sentinal from 1905 and hauntedhocking.com -  Hauntedhocking.com 

This story comes from Haunted Hocking A Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Hocking Hills ... and beyond. You can find this book on Amazon and at local shops carrying my books like Grandma Fayes by Old Man's Cave and Treehouse Treats and Treasures in Logan right off the Hocking Hills State Park exit.

Hound Baying: Craig Smith

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https://uppbeat.io/t/spinnin-tape/no-joyce

"www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

Today’s story is Ghosts of Stretchers Neck, a folktale passed down by families living along the New River in Fayette County, West Virginia. Sometimes love survives death as this old story divulges from along the New River at Stretchers Neck in West Virginia.

This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including:

Original Story passed along by Basil W. Duke, George Braden Fetter & Shober. (1892). Jim, The Ghost of Stretcher's Neck. Fetter's Southern Magazine,Volume 1. It was also printed by L. Brown.

As The Ghosts of Stretchers Neck, Fall 1998 in Goldenseal, 64 and noted in the Beckley Post Herald in 1970 by Shirley Donnely.

There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and find them in other bookstores, including my second book on West Virginia ghost stories where this one is recounted.

This story comes from my book, West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore which can be purchased at Amazon and local bookstores.

Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/hemlock/easton

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Ghosts of Louisiana from the 1939 Progress Administration of Louisiana. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and also at other bookstores including this one which comes from one of my latest books, Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans. 

Today’s story is The Singing Bones, A Louisiana Folk Tale. A macabre tale from the swamps of Louisiana.

Ghosts of Louisiana 1/18/1939 Progress Administration of Louisiana. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A3639  Collector: Lenox Antony

Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/broken-doll

Today’s story is The White Woman of Silver Run. A mysterious ghost haunted railroad men along a lonely stretch of railway in Ritchie County.

This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Anthony Reevy’s 1959 article Stories of Railroad Ghosts published in the National Railway Bulletin. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores including this version of the story which comes from the second book of my West Virginia Ghost story series: Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore of West Virginia. (https://www.amazon.com/Virginia-Stories-Legends-Haunts-Folklore/dp/1940087317)

Silver Run Tunnel is outside of Cairo, West Virginia on Silver Run Road. 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1940087252/

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https://uppbeat.io/t/hemlock/twin-ponds

In today's episode: Bloody Horseshoe Grave. When a man fails to follow local traditions, his actions come back to haunt him . . . and a remote church cemetery.

Podcast: Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Hauntedhocking.com, The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Stories (Ruth Ann Musick).

You can find all my books and ghost stories at 21Crows.com - BackRoads Books by 21 Crows and on Amazon. (West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, and Haunts, Ohio Ghost Stories and Spooky Legends: The Classics, Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans, Little Book of Gettysburg Ghosts, and more!)

Otterbein United Methodist Church, County Road 62/Otterbein road NW Rushville, Ohio

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