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

Category: Supernatural

The Wizzard Clip –part 3 of 3

A young Catholic priest was sent by Bishop Carroll of Baltimore to investigate the strange happenings at the Adam Livingston house.

A very numerous crowd of beings resembling the human species without any particular members of the human body, nor distinction of sexes.

The peddler was known to have had over $1,000 in his possession at the time; and was probably murdered in the vicinity.

In 1913, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist visited, reporting that the lights were the result of train headlights shining over the mountain.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s most unlikely claim to fame comes from red streaks on the mausoleum. They’re simply not supposed to be there.

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