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Category: Ghost stories

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October 28, 2019 Appalachian scary tales / Ghost stories / Halloween / Tennessee

Stories of Superstition: East TN’s Houston House

A restless Confederate soldier’s ghost returns again and again to a house, looking for the money he buried there.

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October 9, 2019 Appalachian scary tales / Georgia / Ghost stories / Halloween / Hunting / Oral histories

No matter how mean you are, when you’re dead I ain’t scared of you

Two North Georgia farmers compete to see who can tell the best version of a local ghost story. “Fat or lean, take him as he is!”

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Dancing with the Devil
June 14, 2019 Appalachian scary tales / Georgia / Ghost stories / Halloween

The Devil danced on Fiddlers Mountain

Rose Thompson spent summer of 1946 in Clayton, in Rabun County GA, where an elderly black preacher told her the tale of Fiddler’s Mountain.

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October 23, 2018 Appalachian crime / Appalachian scary tales / Ghost stories / Halloween

No one will live there now: it is believed that the house is hainted

“This,” Aunt Mary went on to say, “is my secret. All you kind people remember my good husband Tom. The fact is he never left me at all. He is still here.”

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October 16, 2018 Appalachian scary tales / Ghost stories / Halloween / Pennsylvania

Halloween’s coming! Time for an Appalachian Ghost Story

The mystery grew stranger still when some children made a ghastly discovery. Chained to a tree near the spring was the skeleton of an ox.

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