His writing style is entertaining and enlightening while giving you a fresh perspective on several topics. If a bad storm is coming, put a 2-edged axe into a stump facing the storm to ensure the storm goes around you. John Bell was determined to keep the phenomena a secret, afraid of what the family’s community at Red Bottom Baptist Church would think. A certain young girl was hiking with her parents along the Appalachian Mountain Trail when she had her first experience of sighting a ghost.

One treasure hunter saw the hair on his arms begin to bristle, and he felt like he was being watched. Byers says this topography “creates a vast number of ecological niches with differing elevation, slope, aspect, temperature, and rainfall. As I tackled his 110lb ass to the ground and threw him in a fireman's carry over my shoulders, I heard him begin to bark. I'm going off track a bit here but if you love fantasy fiction and want to read really amazing self published fiction then head over to Mark Lawrence's site where he hosts the annual SPFBO - The Self Published Fantasy Blog-Off in which top bloggers read through the top 273 self published fantasy novels to determine an overall winner.The creepy stories of phantom encounters on the Appalachian Mountain Trail do not seem to have an end as there are several versions of them.

The scared man decided to pack his belongings and leave the area quickly only to come across a recently burned-down house with a sheriff around it. While Bigfoot is a staple of Appalachian and American culture, he’s not the only myth to come out of the region.It is unknown whether he was haunted by the Bell Witch, but the legend has endured in Appalachia as one of its most famous ghost stories.

Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. George Romero’s anti-consumerism masterpiece was mostly shot in the Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Teens would sit in the parking lot waiting to see the lights or visiting with one another and would experience something else.She became known as the Wampus Cat and is said to roam Appalachia alone, wreaking violent havoc against other animals and frightening humans everywhere she goes. People chalked up the witnesses’ reactions to hysteria, but their symptoms were also startlingly similar to the effects of mustard gas. The supernatural creatures said to roam these forests are intimately tied to the landscape, which is older than most of life on Earth. Rather, it is a story about Cherokee people as characters in the tale of how the Wampus Cat came to be. I grew up hearing my father read excerpts from a book about the ghosts and hauntings in North Carolina, and this one always scared me the most.