🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. The old family home in Pulaski, Virginia, is a skeleton of its former self now a sprawling, silver-grey ruin that the mother nature is slowly trying to drag back into the earth. To look at it today, you’d…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. I’ve been at App State in North Carolina since the Fall of 2023. I transferred in from my local community college in order to save some money. I really did not have much time for a job my…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. My son’s friend, Camron, was looking to buy a pull-behind camper he’d found online out near the South Carolina/ Tennessee Border. His dad couldn’t make the trip, so he asked me to tag along and help him inspect…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. It was late in ’91, and the air around Point Pleasant had that heavy, electric charge it gets right before a storm breaks. I was hauling a load through the winding stretch of Route 2, the river mist…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this ghost story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. The blacktop in West Virginia doesn’t just run through the mountains; it feels like it’s being swallowed by them. I was hauling a heavy load of industrial coils toward Columbus, and by the time I hit…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. The evening air in the holler felt a little heavier than it should that day, like the humidity was trying to hold onto a secret it couldn’t quite keep. I was sitting out on the front porch, the…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this story on YouTube below, or listen on most podcast platforms. Growing up in the deep woods of Virginia of the Appalachian high country, “secluded” was an understatement. Our house sat perched on a ridge where the timber grew so thick the sun seemed to give up halfway through…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this ghost story on YouTube below: Growing up in the deep folds of rural Appalachia, you learn the language of the mountains early. My father was a master of the woods—a man who could read the ripple of a trout stream or the snap of a twig like…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this ghost story on YouTube below: On November 17, 2017, the air in Iredell County, North Carolina, felt brittle and still. We had spent the afternoon baking blueberry muffins—heavy, sugar-crusted things that filled the house with a warm, deceptive sense of security. By 10:30 PM, that warmth had…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud? Watch this ghost story on YouTube below: Doug is a man who lives and breathes American history. A dedicated reenactor living in Virginia, Doug is known for his meticulous attention to detail, from the authentic weave of his wool uniforms down to the historically accurate grooming of his hair….
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