Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

Heebie-jeebies, willies, all overs, jimmies, shivers, jimjams

The yard was full of other people looking through the sale items and they all seemed friendly, yet I couldn’t shake the creepy feeling I had.

Who – or what – was it? It may have been the former owner, seeing as he was hanging around the night before. Or, was it a former performer?

He put a piece of paper on the table, “Here is the number of that engine, you get it sometime and strange things happen, you will know why!”

Dolly Parton’s use of the expression ol’ Scratch Eyes gives us a hint about where rawhead came from, & why it came into use in the mid 1500s.

I heard tales of white ghosts in the cemetery across the road. I walked by a few times at night but never saw any ghosts. My brother did.