https://youtu.be/sfEU5_4Syiw Join us as we tell the story of one of the most notorious landmarks in West Virginia: the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Known as the most haunted place in America,
Theft. Infanticide. Insanity. Murder. Ghosts. The stories that surround a notorious tunnel in Tennessee contain all those elements and more. Today we tell some of those stories and tell you
There was once a cabin down by Sinking Creek at the foot of Droop Mountain in West Virginia, or so it’s been told. That cabin was the home of a
In 1897 a young woman’s neck was broken, killing her. Her husband was arrested and convicted, partly on testimony from her mother, who told the jury what the ghost of
From its beginnings in a former church, the Barter Theater has become the premiere theatrical destination in Appalachia, starting the careers of many a Broadway and Hollywood actor. Today we
James Hatcher married Octavia Smith in Pikeville, Kentucky, in 1889. The couple had a son, Jacob, who died shortly after his birth and Octavia soon spiraled into a deep depression
At the turn of the 20th century, a Kentucky man obsessed with spiritualism, fortune-telling, seances and speaking to the dead, was convinced to marry a “psychic” and give her all
In 1938 a family had an encounter with an Appalachian ghost when young Bertha Sybert’s bed began to shake mysteriously every night. Soon people were coming from all over the
It’s Halloween so Rod and Steve each have a bit of Appalachian folklore for you, in the form of two ghost stories. Stick around after the stories, though, because Halloween
In the 1860s a Cherokee witch doctor arrived in Bristol, Virginia, to assist in the local Confederate hospital with her salves and potions. After the war she invested her meager