Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Appalachian scary tales

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.

There’s an old Irish myth about a man named “Stingy Jack.” He was a drunken brawler who found great enjoyment playing tricks on everyone.

Ruth died on the operating table. Ellen Fridley returned to Big Ridge, riding on the train with her daughter in a coffin in the baggage car.

The apparition was a pure white body floating about a yard above the ground and “about the size and length of a weaver’s beam.

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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