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Ohio MysteriesOM Backroads Ep:75. The Mysterious, Magnificent, Marvelous, Memorable Moonville Tunnel!In this episode we explore the history and legends of the Moonville Tunnel in Vinton County, Ohio. We learn about the history of the town, how the tunnel was built, and the many notorious legends that surround this iconic tunnel. Today many people check this place out for themselves. It's a fantastic place to visit and an easy hike.
If you are more interested, author Jannette Quackenbush has written many books about Moonville as well as offers tours, usually free of charge. Please check out her website to learn more or to book a trip.
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2025-05-0144 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesWALK AMONG THE DEAD: Olds Hollow -Three Ghosts, A Ghost Town, And a Ghost Town CemeteryWould you dare walk where the soul's soles of these dead
still tread? A rugged dirt trail creeps along a deep forest, through an abandoned iron furnace ghost town, and past an overgrown cemetery above the deep and haunted Olds Hollow in the Hocking Hills.
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2024-08-2604 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesEaton Tunnel Bogey: Eaton and Lost Tunnel #21 Ghosts and HauntingA rail trail in West Virginia holds dark secrets within twin tunnels outside an old ghost town that was once along Beetree Run. There are spirits there . . . Eaton and Lost Tunnels stand side by side. One is along the rail trail. The other is sealed and closed. Both are haunted.
Nowadays, you can walk through this more recent #21 North Bend Rail Trail tunnel. It is this newer tunnel next to the old one where some have run into ghosts, although others attest the older one is haunted, too. With all the hype the Silver Run Tunnel gets with its...
2024-06-2006 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesLegend of Airplane Hollow Began - May 16, 1941Airplane Hollow in Wayne National Forest in the Hocking Hills Region of southeastern Ohio is home to a legend of a ghostly plane and its passengers. May 16, 1941 -
A legend comes from the area just outside Nelsonville and Carbon Hill, Ohio, about a military plane wreck during a horrible storm on May 16,1941 and the strange things that followed.
I want to share this story with you on this stormy eve before the mysterious and haunting event, which was told to me by some folks whose families have lived in the Carbon Hill/Nelsonville mining communities of southeastern...
2024-05-1506 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesEight Foot Ghost of King TunnelThere’s an old train bed deep within the forests of southeastern Ohio within the Hocking Hills, a remote path found by taking buckled pavement streets and sketchy gravel roads. The tracks were built in the 1850s for the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. They passed through coal mining towns like Hope Furnace Station, Moonville, Ingham Station, Kings Station, and Mineral City. When a young man was killed walking these tracks on a lonely stretch of railroad, a ghost began to show up near an old train tunnel. This is the story of the Eight Foot Ghost of King Tunnel al...
2024-04-1906 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesElizabeth's Grave: Mount Union-Pleasant Valley CemeteryWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores like Grandma Fayes, just a few miles from Old Man’s Cave, including this lore from my Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide II. When a gravestone began moving on its own accord within a cemetery in a remote section outside Chillicothe, Ohio, passersby once flocked to witness a ghostly form in its wake.
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2024-04-0504 min
The AnecdotalistEp. 2 The Ghosts of Moonville TunnelGhosts and Paranormal EncountersIn this episode we explore the many ghosts of Moonville Tunnel. It's brief history and the mark that is now left in Western Appalachia.Visit us at: https://theanecdotalistpodcast.com/Follow us on:Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/AnecdotalistPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_anecdotalist?igshid=M2RkZGJiMzhjOQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qrYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAnecdotalistPodcastBelow are a list of sources we used for this episode:
2024-01-1849 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Road to Hell, 1782Winter Hike in the Hocking Hills is coming on January 20, 2024. (Find more info here: The Hocking Hills) Those hiking the trail during the event may come upon some spirits. Of course, Old Man Retzler and his baying hound are known to show up at Old Man’s Cave, and the Pale Lady follows hikers at Ash Cave. But between the two areas,
the trail will lead along Queer Creek and to Cedar Falls, where ghosts are said to tarry. Their peculiar screams are explained as this--
In the early 1800s, a mill powered by the waters of Qu...
2024-01-1102 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesRising from the Ashes: The Simcoe Valley GhostOut of the Ashes: An old story from Hocking County, Ohio
Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources.
But, there is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore, Rising from the Ashes, from my Haunted Hocking Hills book.
I found this treasure in an old newspaper the Ohio Democrat from Logan, Ohio from November 1900.
A story is told of a ghost left behind...
2023-11-3004 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesA Haunting in an Old Ghost Town: Hope Furnace
Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette
Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including an interview ofMike Shea of Hope Furnace Station by Bill Price in 1961. There is more than just this podcast.
You can buy my book series on Amazon and find them in other bookstores, including Haunted Hocking Hills which has this bit of lore. Today’s story is A Haunting in an Old Ghost Town. Little remains of a once vibrant community of iron furnace workers, except one of their own, a ghost...
2023-11-1303 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesAfter Dark: The Legend of Conkle's HollowWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon, including this story found in Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollers 2 at Grandma Fayes Grocery near Old Man’s Cave, Tree House Treats in Logan, and in other bookstores.
Today’s story is called After Dark, A Legend of Conkle’s Hollow.
Long ago, thieves were murdered where the State Nature Preserve is today. And their gho...
2023-10-1806 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesTailypoWelcome to
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including Uncle Remus Returns, Brer Rabbit and the Witch-Rabbit African
American folktales collected by Joel Chandler Harris and The Journal of American Folklore. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and other bookstores.
Today’s story is Tailypo. An old woodsman finds there can be disastrous consequences when he takes something that does not belong to him.
The Y-City Cryptid Festi...
2023-10-0806 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Generally Held View in McArthur About the GhostWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories.
This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including this one from the Athens Messenger in the spring of 1923 and a verbal story passed on to me from the local Vinton County Historical Society on Sugar Street in McArthur a few years ago. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series online and in local bookstores, including this bit of lore, The Generally Held View in McArthur About the Ghost, which comes from my book Haunted Hocking...
2023-09-1405 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesBessie Little Still Walks the BridgeWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including this one from Dayton, Ohio, called, “Bessie Little Still Walks the Bridge.” There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my Haunted Book series online and in local bookstores with stories just like this one where long ago, there was a horrid murder on a bridge over the Stillwater River in Dayton, and it gave rise to a ghost.
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2023-08-3007 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesDeath of a Snake Oil Salesman
The George Washington Heritage Trail makes its way through 3 counties in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle, where travelers can visit interesting historical places and follow in the footsteps of the first president. Along its path is a haunting in a quiet little cemetery in Berkeley Springs that is nestled beneath trees and surrounded by quaint homes. Sometimes your past comes back to haunt you. And other times, you come back to haunt your past. This just might be said about a certain doctor whose deceitfully-made decisions in life caused him eternal problems after death.
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2023-07-0904 min
The Paranormal Factor PodcastTOP 5: OHIO’S BEST PARANORMAL STORIES!!!SHOW NOTES:
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TOP 5: OHIO’S BEST PARANORMAL STORIES!!!
In this episode you’re going to introduce you to the very best paranormal stories the Buckeye State has to offer! You’re going to get ghosts, cryptids, and even a UFO sighting. You’ll find, while other states and countries have plenty of cases, Ohio more than holds its own in the realm of the supernatural. GRASSMAN! FROGMAN! GHOSTLY HAUNTS!!! So join us for a trip to Ohio and it’s paranormal destinations. And, of course, you’ll also get the answer to this week’s Quiz from our Facebook Page...
2023-06-0234 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Red-headed Man of Dorsey's Knob: The Terrifying Demise of John WoodfinWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. But there is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including one from my newest book and the second in my series, Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollows which contains ghost stories, legends, and abandoned places from seven different states, including this one from West Virginia along with directions and maps so you can check out the ghost story and perhaps, be scared...
2023-03-0803 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Legend of The Dead Horse Thief and Tinker's CaveI just finished my second book on Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollows which included ghost stories, legends, and abandoned places in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It is the perfect time of year to check out some scary places secreted into the Appalachian wilds. And for those who know me well, you know I don’t just write about it. I go to the site and check it out. And—you should get out there too! Here is a local Hocking Hills region story tucked within the pages of my book abou...
2023-03-0305 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesHitchhiking Christmas Ghost . . .In the Spirit of the Season, Would You Offer Her a Ride?Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my West Virginia Ghost Stories book series on Amazon and in local bookstores.
It is time to dredge up ghost stories from Christmases past and pass them along as tradition allows because in days of old, the time to tell the most terrifying stories around the fireplace was in the chilliest days around Christmas. I would love to sit in a rickety...
2022-12-1504 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Old Haunted Cabin in the WoodsWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. But there is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore from my book—Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollers, Hiking Trails with Ghost Stories, Legends, and Folktales. Deep in a nearly forgotten hollow in a forest in Virginia, an ancient haunted cabin is settled. Those who dare may stay there. I did.
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2022-11-1809 min
FaecraftOhio CryptidsVirginia may be for lovers, but Ohio is for the Loveland Frogmen. Journey to the midwest on this episode's latest installment of our state cryptid series, the land of the Frogman, the Mothman, the Ohio Grassman, and so much more. Sources:Cryptid OhioTop 10 Cryptids Still Creeping Around Ohio- ExemploreThe 11 Most Bizarre Mythical… Columbus NavigatorThe Werewolf of Defiance- Fox19The Mothman Museum- citybeat.comCryptid Profile: The Crosswick Monster- Pine Barren InstituteMeet the Monsters: The Crosswick Monster- monstersofohio.comThe Peninsula Python: An Absolutely True Story- the AtlanticMonsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts: West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, and Beyond, Jan...
2022-09-2954 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesHitchhiking Ghost of Fifth StreetWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in local bookstores, including this bit of lore from my book -- West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics, Fifth Street Hitchhiker. For years, cab and bus drivers offered rides to a young bride in Huntington, only to find her mysterious appearance and disappearance was that of a ghost!
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2022-09-2104 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesDeath Hole at Scotts Creek, Logan, Ohio in the Hocking HillsWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. But, there is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore, The Death Hole, which comes from my Ohio Ghost Guide 5. A couple’s innocent trip to town takes a deadly turn with a ghostly reminder still haunting Logan, Ohio, today.
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2022-08-2503 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesMissus Hall Outruns the GhostWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including this one from Ruthann Musick’s Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales.
There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my Haunted West Virginia book series online and in local bookstores, including this bit of lore, Missus Hall Outruns a Ghost, which comes from my third West Virginia book, West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics. Long ago, a bold farmer searching for her livestock stumbles upon more than just her...
2022-07-3103 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Mislaid BonesWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore, Mislaid Bones, which comes from my Ohio Ghost Guide 5. A hermit’s ghost near Waverly, Ohio would just not lay to rest until a scoundrel doctor’s antics were brought to light.
If you like it, please give me a great rating on Amazon!
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2022-07-1803 min
Spooky AppalachiaThe Story of The Ghost Lights in Mason County, WVGiven the popularity of our Brown Mountain Lights posting and this phenomena’s location in Mason County, West Virginia (the home of The Mothman), I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do a story on The Ghost Lights of Sliding Hill in Mason County West Virginia. A newspaper article from The Point Pleasant Ledger indicates that the hauntings began around 1810. When this story took place the Ohio and what was then north-western Virginia areas were still in the process of being settled. There weren’t many roads at this point so the primary means of transpo...
2022-07-0802 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesSaul Outruns the Witch at Rockcastle Creek: Jackson Hill in Wyoming County, West VirginiaBack in the 1870s, Jackson Hill in Wyoming County used to be called Sizemore Gap, and old-timers passed down that it had a ghost that would show up to travelers along the road. Here is the story of one man who came to face with it.
Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my ghost stories and folk tales book series on Amazon and in stores like the Vintage Lady in Harpers Ferry and Point Pleasant Trading Company across from the Mothman...
2022-06-2403 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Abandoned: Pennsylvania's Abandoned Turnpike and Sideling TunnelThe Abandoned: Pennsylvania's Abandoned Turnpike and Sideling Tunnel may not be as deserted as people think. The old turnpike is on many people’s bucket lists to visit, although few have the guts to take this forsaken post-apocalyptic-looking road and follow it through an abandoned tunnel that is 1.3 miles long, pitch-black in some places, and just plain creepy. However, it is not enough that it appears isolated and friendless. There are things of the supernatural, too, that lurk here. Take a ride with me along this abandoned highway and maybe add it to your bucket list. Or come face to...
2022-05-1905 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThat THING in Egypt Valley That Got Dug UpSomething peculiar lurks in a wild pocket of overgrown scrub meadows mixed with deep, young woodland in Belmont County, Ohio. It is just off Interstate 70, and those who pass along the highway usually sense that there is more to the gutted terrain than meets the eye, more than just the strip mine that flourished greedily on the land. It was as if when peeling back the flesh of the terrain, then gouging out the soul of the land, something wicked was freed from the bowels of the earth. Something long buried. Something that should never return. Something so dreadfully...
2022-05-0507 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesWould You Visit This Park if you Knew it Had Bigfoot?People have been crossing paths with hairy bipedal creatures for centuries. Mostly described as human-like, over 7 feet, hairy, and foul-smelling. When conversations arise over the big hairy creature’s prime territory in the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, Salt Fork State Park is nearly always brought up. Located in eastern Ohio, the park has a whopping 17,229 acres for Bigfoot to inhabit. The Ohio Bigfoot Conference, led by Marc DeWerth, is held annually at Salt Fork State Park. This year, it is Saturday, April 30, 2022, where you can explore The Ohio Bigfoot Flea Market featuring over 40 vendors from al...
2022-04-2103 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Legend of the Bunny-ManIt always seems appropriate to feature some theme-based, folklore-related post for each holiday. Most are easy to come by like redeeming ghosts on Christmas Eve, dead, angry lovers on Valentine’s Day, and Halloween is a no-brainer because it celebrates every kind of ghost story, folktale, and urban legend. However, Easter has always eluded me, and over the years, I have managed to sidestep it completely. This time is different, though, because I discovered a most frightening legend, but with a little twist. Full disclosure—the tale would not have much to do with the Easter holiday if it were...
2022-04-1608 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesHitchhiking Ghost of Buttermilk Hill.When an early peddler is murdered not far from Grant Town, West Virginia, his ghost would return to frighten those crossing his path.
You can find this story and others in my second West Virginia ghost book: West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore
(https://amazon.com/Virginia-Stories-Legends-Haunts-Folklore/dp/1940087317)
Hitchhiking Ghost of Buttermilk Hill: Originally from the book Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales as told by Richard Stickler via Luella Freeland.
Music from Uppbeat-http://uppbeat.io/t/albert-behar/les-yeux-bleus
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2022-04-0802 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesGhostly Shenanigans of a Peddler in WaynesvilleWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. Today’s story is Ghostly Shenanigans of a Peddler. A public house in Waynesville, Ohio was known for the drunken antics of its guests and a resentful ghost.
You can buy my book series on Amazon and other bookstores, including this one which comes from one of my books, Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide VI.
You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LoneGhostWriter
Mu...
2022-03-1902 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesLost Golden ChildrenAn old story was once retold perhaps two generations ago by Jeanne deLavigne in her book Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans. I think enough time has passed to retell this eerie legend again –Today’s tale is Lost Golden Children. Even after an aged cemetery is removed for development, a stingy ghost returned to search for something he lost.
You can read more ghost stories of New Orleans, get directions to cemeteries, and take a ghostly walking tour of haunted places there in my book, Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans. It’s a must-ha...
2022-03-1705 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesBall of FireBall of Fire--A restless ghost divulges a murder near the swirling waters of the Little Kanawha River.
You can find this story in my book-- West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics
Original tale: A Ball of Fire by Ruthan Musick as told in The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales.
Music from Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/christian-larssen/the-venetian
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2022-02-2103 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesLittle Lost Ghost of Bluff Mountain, VirginiaWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including clippings from historic newspapers, Children lost in the mountains by Timothy Hupp, and J.B. Huffman’s Little Lost Boy in the Mountains of Virginia. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores. And watch for my upcoming book Appalachian haunted hikes, where this story will be passed along. Today’s story is Little Lost Ghost of Bluff Mountain, about a boy who disa...
2022-01-1808 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Haunted StumpThe Haunted Stump was passed along in the 1953 story by Erasmus Foster Darby. It is one of the creepier bits of folklore and comes from the area that is now Pike Lake State Park in Ohio. You can read my version in Ohio Ghost Stories, The Classics.
Pike Lake State Park
Pike Lake Road
Bainbridge, Ohio 45612
39.159920, -83.218545
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1874). Scenes in emigrant life
Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t...
2021-12-2902 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesFallsville Christmas Ghost - A Classic Holiday Ghost StoryTraditional Christmas in Victorian England was held around the fire at night, telling the most horrifyingly morbid of ghost stories. So in celebration of those old-time traditions, here is an ageless ghost story I’ll share with you that happened in a tiny community called Fallsville, which is now little more than a ghost town located in the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s Fallsville Wildlife Area. It is about a ghostly apparition that would appear in December in an old mill town.
You can find this story in my Ohio Ghost Stories and Spooky Legends: The Classics
2021-12-2206 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesWhat Happened in Moonville . . .What happened in Moonville, Ohio? Not long after a horrible train accident one autumn night in the late 1800s, a ghost began to appear at a tunnel along a remote and dark stretch of the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad. And the haunting of Moonville would begin . . .
You can read about Moonville and find out about the many ghosts that haunt the area in my book: The Little Book of Moonville Ghosts: Its Past. Its Ghosts. Its Legends.
Check out my website: Moonvilletunnel.net
Or check out my Google Page (Moonville Ghost Town) and...
2021-12-0403 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Legend of the Lone Grave at Dead Man HollowDeep in the woodland of Shawnee State Forest in southern Ohio lies a lone gravestone tucked in an ancient valley called Dead Man Hollow. This is the legend surrounding the grave and the nearby hollow.
You can find this story and other ghostly places along with the GPS and how to find them in my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore from Haunted Hocking, A Ghost Hunters Guide to the Hocking Hills—https://amazon.com/dp/B093TLDDP7
Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/pecan-pie/cre...
2021-11-1703 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesTunnel of the Dead - Eaton and Lost TunnelThe North Bend Rail Trail in West Virginia stretches 72 miles along an old, abandoned railroad with 36 bridge crossings and 13 tunnels along its passageway. It’s a beautiful place to hike and bike . . . mostly. However, it also has some dark and spooky settings on its path. Among its spookier sites are two haunted tunnels secreted along the abandoned stretch of railway between the old oil boom and railroad towns of Walker and Petroleum.
You can find the two tunnels, Eaton Tunnel and the hidden Lost Tunnel along the West Virginia Rail-Trail after a short gravel backroads drive, and pe...
2021-11-1106 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesA Legend of Pirate AlleyToday’s story is a legend of Pirate Alley in New Orleans—Reginald Hicks. Many, many years ago, a beautiful French Creole girl and a young pirate fell madly and deeply in love. What could possibly go wrong with that situation? Obviously something, because nowadays one returns to lament the other’s death.
You can find this story in my book Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans (https://amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-Folk-Tales-Orleans/dp/1940087465) sold on Amazon and in bookstores.
You can see the haunt: Along the wrought iron fence at Pirate Alley in New Orleans...
2021-10-3003 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesCalico Lady of Lafferty Run and Chicken Hollow RoadToday’s story is the legend of Calico Lady of Lafferty Run and Chicken Hollow Road in Brown County, Ohio. An old lady with a collection of cats used to chase those away who traveled too fast past her home . . . even after she died.
You can find this story in Ohio Ghost Stories and Spooky Legends, the Classics (https://amazon.com/gp/product/B087Z5TXKX/)
Music and some screams, hollers, and caterwauling cats from UppBeat:
https://uppbeat.io/t/fernweh-goldfish/crooked-old-shrew
(As always, when checking out these ghostly places, contact loc...
2021-10-2806 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Story of the Telltale Lilac Bush- An Old-time FavoriteThe Story of the Telltale Lilac Bush- An Old-time Favorite - One of the most beloved folklore stories of West Virginia, the Telltale Lilac Bush, was brought to life by Ruth Ann Musick via Keith Ketchem, as given to him by Mrs. Sarah Dadisman of Union in Barbour County.
West Virginia Ghost Stories, The Classics:
Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/darkest-child
The great sound of shoveling
Story originally told in: The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales by Ruth Ann Musick | Dec 31, 1965...
2021-10-1903 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Haunted CabinAn old cabin is tucked into the trees just outside a small college town in Nelsonville that has a ghost that just will not give up its home. And you can visit it.
You can find the story in this book:
Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide of the Hocking Hills: Ghost Stories. Haunted Hikes. (https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Hocking-Ghost-Hunters-beyond/dp/194008704X/)
You may be able to see the ghost and perhaps others from the region. On Friday and Saturday, October 15th and 16th, 2021, Hocking College is featuring special ghostly tours of the Haunted Robbins...
2021-10-1306 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesAn Old Ghost Town Cemetery on an Island along the New River is Nearly Lost to Time in West Virginia . . .I found an old ghost town cemetery along the New River in West Virginia hidden in the forest and on an island. If you hike the Southside Trail, you may be able to discover it too.
You can get a glimpse of the island on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/0WQC9vzoju8
You can hike the southside trail:
Here is the parking:
Brooklyn Campground
Southside Trail, Fayetteville, WV 25840
37.984211, -81.028046
Coordinates for the cemetery and remember, it may be surrounded by water much of the...
2021-10-0603 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Sordid Tale of Etienne DeschampsToday’s story is The Sordid Tale of Etienne Deschamps. In 1889, a deranged dentist living in New Orleans committed a heinous crime which left a ghost still wandering the rooms of the building where a murder took place.
There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore that comes from my book, Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans
Former Old Coffeepot Restaurant 714 St Peter Street New Orleans La
Citations:
-Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Fo...
2021-10-0604 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesWampusToday’s story is about the Wampus Cat, a mysterious wild thing as fearsome as a cougar and as frightening as a phantom. This half-human and half-wildcat haunts the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and perhaps, even Ohio. And its story comes in many forms . . .
I hope you enjoy this episode of Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. If you like it, please pass it along. And most of all, I hope I helped you find your scary place sometime between dusk and dawn.
Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts: We...
2021-10-0111 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesBloody MaryA Legend comes from the tiny Mt Olive cemetery outside Mansfield, Ohio, where a Bloody Mary legend was born beneath the boughs of an ancient pine.
You can find this story in my book and buy the book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore from my Ohio Ghost Guide 5-
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2021-09-1703 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Last Laugh - Moundsville PrisonThose prisoners who once called the jailed cells of this West Virginia Penitentiary home may have left many ghosts in their path even before finding themselves imprisoned there. But what comes around, goes around; some of those same inmates have become ghouls themselves and haunt the cells and hallways they once trod in life. Just ask the local tour guides during the historical and paranormal tours at West Virginia Penitentiary Paracon coming up on September 11, 2021, during the seasonal haunted tours offered later in the year . . . or go and discover one yourself.
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2021-08-3105 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesDancing Octoroon Mistress of New OrleansToday’s tale is Dancing Octoroon Mistress of New Orleans. On windy and cold December nights, a bare, wraithlike form gyrates and whips about frantically on top of a brick building on Royal Street. Its story comes from long ago and centers around the ill-fated devotion of a young mistress for her callous lover.
The house of the octoroon mistress is 734 Royal Street in New Orleans.
You can find my book series on Amazon and in local bookstores, including this bit of lore that comes from my book Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orl...
2021-08-2705 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesStumpyToday’s story is Stumpy. Many years ago, a doctor in a small Ohio town was awakened past nightfall by persistent knocks upon his door, and as he called upon a patient, the man would come face to face with a phantom.
Buy the book with Stumpy’s story in it: Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide V! https://amazon.com/Ohio-Ghost-Hunter-Guide-Haunted/dp/1940087082/
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2021-08-2703 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesWoolly Booger CemeteryA ghoulish legend comes from a place just a little southwest of Columbus, Ohio of murder and madness and a place called Woolly Booger Cemetery. This comes from my Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide III, by Jannette Quackenbush.
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Or read it in my Ohio Ghost Guide III- https://www.amazon.com/Ohio-Ghost-Hunter-Guide-III/dp/1940087066
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2021-08-1703 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThumpToday’s story is Thump. A rivalry for a woman between two young men living along Big Run turns bitter and ends in a ghastly deed and a ghost that comes with an eerie thumping noise.
There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores including this bit of lore which comes from the second book of my West Virginia Ghost story series: Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore of West Virginia.
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2021-08-0604 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesBetty Knox, Her Ox, and the Calling GhostToday’s story is Betty Knox and the Calling Ghost. When a reclusive farmer disappeared in the late 1700s, travelers on the isolated trails where she once drove her old ox heard strange noises and calls in a certain deep pocket of woods along Dunbar Creek. And I heard them too-
You can find this story in my Pennsylvania book series on Amazon and in bookstores— Pennsylvania Ghosts and Haunts: West Pennsylvania
If you like Pennsylvania ghost stories, I also have a book on Gettysburg Ghosts- Little Book of Gettysburg Ghosts
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2021-07-2508 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesHangman's HollowToday’s story is about Hangman’s Hollow in the city of Hamilton—Butler County, Ohio. When four boys sneak off on an adventure to see the Butler County fair back in the mid-1800s, they hap upon a ghastly sight in the most dreaded of places, Hangman’s Hollow.
You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore which comes from my book—Ohio Ghost stories and Spooky Legends, the Classics.
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2021-07-1805 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesScreaming Jenny - Ghost Along Old Railway Tracks at Harpers Ferry, West VirginiaThis is the Legend of Screaming Jenny told by author Jannette Quackenbush. In the historic town of Harpers Ferry in West Virginia, an old woman haunted the railway, startling engineers who drove along the tracks. You can find this ghost story and others in my first West Virginia ghost book West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, and Haunts.
Visiting Harpers Ferry? Stop in at the Vintage Lady – Gift Shop owned by Cindi Parsons Dunn who carries my books.
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2021-07-1202 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesIkie's TombA unique legend comes from Pleasants County’s Mount Welcome Cemetery about how a mother’s love for a child goes far beyond the mortal world. I visited Ikie’s Tomb on a Memorial Day not long in the past. And here is Ikie’s story-
I hope you enjoyed this episode about Ikie’s Tomb. You can find this legend and many more in my book West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics, one of twenty of my ghostly books and guides.
You can also view it on YouTube-Ikie's Tomb
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2021-07-1004 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Pale Lady of Ash Cave - One of Hocking Hills State Park's Ghosts and LegendsToday’s story is the Pale Lady of Ash Cave. For years, hikers at Hocking Hills State Park’s Ash Cave have been startled by a ghostly, pale woman walking the trail before she suddenly vanishes. But unlike most, this curious ghost isn’t reluctant to show herself to just lone hikers. . .
You can buy my book series on Amazon and in local bookstores like Grandma Fayes at Old Man's Cave, Hocking Hills KOA, and Tree House Treats and Treasures including this bit of lore which comes from Haunted Hocking – A Ghost Hunters Guide to the Hocking Hills.
2021-07-0804 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesWhite Lady PointToday’s story is the legend of White Lady Point in Scioto County, Ohio. For over a hundred years, Ohio River boaters passing by Alexandria Point, at an early settlement in what is now Portsmouth, have seen a ghastly, ghostly woman standing atop the rise with mouth gaping wide and hear her shrill frantic screams for help. You can find this ghost story and others on Amazon and in bookstores including this bit of lore which comes from my Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide II: Ghost Stories. Haunted Hikes.
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2021-07-0403 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThat's Mine - A Ghost Story of Moonville Tunnel, The BrakemanToday’s story is That’s Mine. Many ghosts haunt the mining and railway ghost town of Moonville in southeastern Ohio. One was a brakeman with a fondness for whiskey but a foolish approach to finding a bed to sleep in after he got drunk.
Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including early interviews of community members by Bill Price, Ohio’s First state park chief naturalist, and my interviews of a few locals from Zaleski who I’ve met o...
2021-06-2603 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Witch’s Grave at West Branch State ParkIt was once called the Lost Cemetery, but when it was found, all sorts of bad things began to happen to those who did not respect the ones buried within. Find out more about the Witch’s Grave deep in the forest of West Branch State Park in Ohio. You can find this story, Witch’s Grave at Lost Cemetery, and GPS to find it in the book Ohio Ghost Stories and Spooky Legends: The Classics by Jannette Quackenbush
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2021-06-2104 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Half-Calf Shade of Still House HollowToday’s story is The Half-Calf Shade of Still House Hollow, a folktale that began after the murder of a traveler on old Foglesong Road, now Stringtown Road, in Lancaster, Ohio.
There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and find them in other bookstores, including Haunted Hocking a Ghost Hunters Guide to the Hocking Hills where this one is retold.
I hope you enjoyed this episode of Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. If you like it, please pass it along. And most of all, I hop...
2021-06-1505 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesHedger's GhostToday’s story is about Hedger Hollow, a folktale that began after the murder of a peddler along the Little Kanawha River in West Virginia.
You can find this story and other spooky tales in my second book: West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore
Here’s more info on Hedger’s Ghost: CALHOUN'S DANGEROUS HEDGER'S GHOST - Dare You Call His Name.
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2021-06-0903 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThat Place They Call Booger HoleToday’s story is That Place They Call Booger Hole. A quiet community now, it was not always so tranquil. Booger Hole in Clay County West Virginia got its name for a reason and it just cannot shake it.
This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Wilson Douglas: How I came to be a Fiddler, West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore, and a few locals who wished to remain nameless.
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2021-06-0214 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Legend of the Baying Hound at Old Man’s CaveWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. Today’s episode is The Legend of the Baying Hound at Old Man’s Cave, a local story passed down in a small town between Logan and South Bloomingville, Ohio in the Hocking Hills. You can visit Old Man’s Cave in southeastern Ohio and listen for the hound. It is along the Old Man’s cave trail within Hocking Hills State Park. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Logan Democrat Sentinal from 1905 and hauntedhocking.com - Hauntedhocking.com
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2021-06-0105 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesGhosts of Stretchers NeckToday’s story is Ghosts of Stretchers Neck, a folktale passed down by families living along the New River in Fayette County, West Virginia. Sometimes love survives death as this old story divulges from along the New River at Stretchers Neck in West Virginia.
This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including:
Original Story passed along by Basil W. Duke, George Braden Fetter & Shober. (1892). Jim, The Ghost of Stretcher's Neck. Fetter's Southern Magazine,Volume 1. It was also printed by L. Brown.
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2021-05-3013 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe Singing BonesWelcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Ghosts of Louisiana from the 1939 Progress Administration of Louisiana. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and also at other bookstores including this one which comes from one of my latest books, Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans.
Today’s story is The Singing Bones, A Louisiana Folk Tale. A macabre tale from the swamps of Louisiana.
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2021-05-2904 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesThe White Woman of Silver RunToday’s story is The White Woman of Silver Run. A mysterious ghost haunted railroad men along a lonely stretch of railway in Ritchie County.
This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Anthony Reevy’s 1959 article Stories of Railroad Ghosts published in the National Railway Bulletin. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores including this version of the story which comes from the second book of my West Virginia Ghost story series: Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and...
2021-05-2805 min
Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost StoriesBloody Horseshoe Grave of Otterbein CemeteryIn today's episode: Bloody Horseshoe Grave. When a man fails to follow local traditions, his actions come back to haunt him . . . and a remote church cemetery.
Podcast: Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including Hauntedhocking.com, The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Stories (Ruth Ann Musick).
You can find all my books and ghost stories at 21Crows.com - BackRoads Books by 21 Crows and on Amazon. (West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, and Haunts, Ohio Ghost Stories...
2021-05-2803 min