Ghost Stories. Folk Tales. Legends. Maps. Hiking Trails.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway meandering 469 miles around the peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains through Virginia and North Carolina. It connects two parks, Shenandoah National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Along its route, there are trails where people can stop and hike,
including the Appalachian Trail, which crosses its path. And few more adventurous come to check out a ghost - that of a little boy who haunts a mountain ridge along the Appalachian Trail in George Washington National Forest in Virginia. . .His name was Emmet "Ottie" Powell.
This is just one of the many legends that haunt the Appalachian Region including . . .
Spending the Night With the Wild and the Dead at Sarver Hollow Shelter
Ghost House at Big Ridge State Park
Lucy of Roaring Forks Motor Trail
Great Smoky Mountains Legends of Spearfinger & the Dancing Lights
White Woman of Silver Run
The Dead Men in Daniel Wise's Well
The Legend of Betty Knox and Her Ox
Dead Man's Hollow Conservation Area- Great Allegheny Passage - Dead Man's Hollow
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve- Kaymoor Miners Trail Ghost Trains and Dead Miners
Massacre at Yahoo Falls
Take a hike with author Jannette Quackenbush and explore over 49 frightening ghost stories and folk tales along the Appalachian Trail, National Parks and Forests, and State Park and find out where to hike to find them including Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee