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

Category: Oral histories

History and Haints Abound!!

Treacherous English Lords. Murderous American doctors. Haints rapping loudly. Lelia Jane Grubb Musser told tales of these things, and more.

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.

But what can he get? Not an earthly thing. We don’t own anything, not a damned thing he can touch, and I’ve already told him that.

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!”

Miss Lucy, a Clifton Mill millworker’s wife, describes domestic life in Clifton Mill Village to a SC Writers’ Project writer in 1938.

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