Tales from Appalachia
What, dear listeners, has wooly fur, goat horns and a naked possum tail?
A critter/cryptid known as the White Thing, or, as we’d prefer to call it, the Sheepsquatch.
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Many years ago, it’s said, a young woman met and fell in love with a strange, hairy creature in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Today we tell the tale of Annie and the Boojum, Appalachia’s own tale of Beauty and the Beast.
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Many years ago, in that part of Appalachia where West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania are located, tales were told of a ghostly beast that would stop people traveling the National Road.
Today we tell the tale of the Snarly Yow.
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For years folks have told of encountering strange creatures in the deep woods of Appalachia, including the Mothman, the Dwayyo and the Woodbooger. Among these mysterious beasts is a monkey-like creature on kangaroo legs with a bushy tail that has terrorized motorists in Tennessee and Virginia for years.
Today we tell the tale of the Devil Monkey.
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Between the towns of Big Stone Gap and Appalachia, in southwestern Virginia, is a large hole in a rock. Actually, it’s a tunnel, cut through a large rock that extends down from the mountain to the Powell River below, allowing coal trains to pass through with their loads back in the days when coal was king.
It’s also the dwelling-place of something else, a strange man-beast combination that, it’s said, can be heard calling for assistance at odd times of the night.
Today we tell the story of the Bee Rock Troll
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The Powell River Trail is one of the newest rail-trails in the commonwealth of Virginia. Running south 2.4 miles from the town of Appalachia through the “big stone gap” toward the town of the same name, it’s a very pleasant walk any time of the year.
It’s said, though, that if you happen to be on the trail late at night near the first tunnel you encounter, you just might hear the shrill voice of someone off in the distance calling for help. That, folks, is the call of something that’s part human, part beast and named for that tunnel you just walked through – the Bee Rock Troll.
In the next week or so we’ll have a video and a podcast telling the story of the Bee Rock Tunnel and the Bee Rock Troll…another bit of the folklore of this place we call home…
The Tweetsie Railroad ran from Johnson City, Tennessee, to Cranberry, North Carolina. The line transported passengers and freight, the most valuable of which was iron ore mined near Cranberry.
Today we tell the tale of a strange man-like creature that was spotted around those mines over a hundred years ago.
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