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church drawing at night, ghost in left corner
October 13, 2020 Appalachian scary tales / Halloween / North Carolina / Oral histories

Look twice before shooting!

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.

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October 7, 2020 Alabama / Appalachian scary tales / Ghost stories / Ghost Towns / Halloween

The most haunted place in Cherokee County, AL

Two tragic deaths put the Rock Run Furnace at the top of the list for most haunted places in Cherokee County, AL.

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October 6, 2020 Appalachian scary tales / Halloween / Preachers / Virginia

The Moon Ghost

Every night it would come, causing many to call it the Moon Ghost, after a similar ghost that was haunting a nearby house owned by a Mr. Moon.

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hand knocking three times feet shuffling
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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fish in a graveyard illo b&w line art
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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