Category: Weird Places

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A Cold Slap to the Cheek: The Tale of an Appalachian Haunting

Today we tell a tale about a mysterious and unsettling visit to an old, grand house nestled deep within the Appalachian hills—a place where ghosts laugh and taunt you when the sun goes down and long into the night.  

It’s a story of terror that blurs the lines between reality and the supernatural, leaving our visitor—and perhaps even you, dear listener—with a haunting that lingers long after dawn breaks.    

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The Preacher and the Ghost Of The Blackwater Farmhouse

Venture with us into the stormy hills of Southwest Virginia, where a stop on a preacher’s journey brings him a ghostly plea for justice in this episode of MountainLore. As the heavens unleash a rainstorm, our man of God seeks refuge in an old farmhouse, rumored to be haunted by restless spirits. What follows is a night of eerie noises, spectral encounters, and a murder mystery that has lingered in tales from Blackwater for generations.    

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The Tragedy of Octavia Hatcher

On May 2, 1891, Octavia Hatcher of Pikeville, Kentucky, died from a strange, new illness.

Well, no she didn’t, but nobody knew that at the time.

You see, that illness caused her to go into a coma so deep that doctors at the time assumed she was dead and pronounced her so. Then she was buried in a cemetery on a hill above Pikeville.

That is when the tragedy of this story begins.

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The Haunting

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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Tunnels of Doom: The Sensabaugh Tunnel and the Big Bull Tunnel

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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The Wizard Clip

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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The Haunted Barter Theater

Today we tell the ghostly tales told about Virginia’s state theater: the Barter Theater in Abingdon, another bit of the folklore of Appalachia.

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The Moon Ghost

Today we tell the tale of a minister’s house in Buchanan, Virginia, that housed not just this minister’s family, but some spirits as well.

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The Blue Ridge Witch

About a hundred years ago or so a feud in an Appalachian community in north Georgia led to a curse being laid on all the unborn children there. 

Today we tell the tale of the Blue Ridge Witch of Tilley’s Bend.

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The Fiddler of Peter’s Cave

It’s said that if you enter one particular cave near Dungannon, Virginia, you’ll hear the most beautiful fiddle music in the world.

In this week’s episode we tell you that tale.

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