{"id":3697,"date":"2025-10-24T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:04:25","slug":"our-tenth-anniversary-a-pair-of-ghost-stories-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"Tenth Anniversary Special: Two Tales from the Dark Side of Appalachia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fVaPq0B2RCU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\nThis Halloween marks 10 years of stories from Rod and Steve; to mark the holiday and our tenth anniversary, we\u2019re going to take you deep into the dark side of Appalachia with two chilling tales from southwest Virginia.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFirst, Steve tells the story of three strange sisters who ran girls\u2019 schools in Murfreesboro and Christiansburg\u2014women whispered to be linked to evil spirits and who eventually faced justice for a terrible crime. Some say their spirits still haunt the ground where their school stood in Christiansburg over a hundred years ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThen, Rod shares the legend of two cunning sisters from Scott County, whose greed and cruelty led to a savage end. Their ghosts are said to still haunt the cemetery where they were denied burial.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to subscribe for more Stories of Appalachia.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Halloween, y\u2019all!<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9258\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3697-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/api.spreaker.com\/v2\/episodes\/68090931\/download.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/api.spreaker.com\/v2\/episodes\/68090931\/download.mp3\">https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/api.spreaker.com\/v2\/episodes\/68090931\/download.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/api.spreaker.com\/v2\/episodes\/68090931\/download.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?powerpress_pinw=3697-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/api.spreaker.com\/v2\/episodes\/68090931\/download.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"download.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Halloween marks 10 years of stories from Rod and Steve; to mark the holiday and our tenth anniversary, we\u2019re going to take you deep into the dark side of Appalachia with two chilling tales from southwest Virginia. \u00a0 First, Steve tells the story of three strange sisters who ran girls\u2019 schools in Murfreesboro and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79,85,55,37,25],"tags":[91,479,104,1377,1373,1378,1379,1375,1380,477,1376,1372,1374,723,1384,1381,1383,848,1382,78],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bewitched","category-folklore","category-ghosts","category-healin","category-holidays","tag-appalachia","tag-appalachian-folklore","tag-appalachian-history","tag-appalachian-legends","tag-christiansburg","tag-conjure","tag-dark-history","tag-folklore-podcast","tag-ghost-sisters","tag-ghost-stories","tag-haunted-history","tag-murfreesboro","tag-scott-county","tag-southwest-virginia","tag-spooky-stories","tag-superstition","tag-tenth-anniversary","tag-true-crime","tag-virginia-folklore","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-XD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}