Appalachian Horror

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The folklore of Appalachia may not be something that many people think deeply about today, but the mere fact that these stories have been passed down, person to person, shows the unity that stories bring to not only a community, but also to a national identity. So not only has it been debunked, but it just doesn’t feel like the most realistic of the other urban legends. It began with two couples who, while driving past an abandoned World War II TNT factory, saw a huge man-like bird with glowing red eyes flying parallel to their car. The Cherokee believed that originally, the Moon-Eyed People built large stone fortifications against the Creek Nation, but after they were defeated by the neighboring tribe, they retreated into a system of caves throughout North Carolina and northern Georgia.Her mother's house sits at the mouth of the holler, no more than four or five miles up the road from my mother and father's.

The following morning after the creepy night, the girl took her mother for a walk before they continued hiking. These seem to be traditions set in place to protect the residents of this eastern american mountain range from the dangers that lurk in the thick woods the area is populated with. In time, this transformed into the word catawampus, which described any strange animal that roamed the hills of Appalachia. Marshall makes excellent use of the claustrophobic nature of caving in general to create tension, so that the viewer is on edge even before the flesh eating monsters show up. After reaching the city limits of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, the couples reported the sighting to the police immediately.The supernatural creatures said to roam these forests are intimately tied to the landscape, which is older than most of life on Earth. There were multiple other sightings of the Flatwoods Monster, and it said that he still haunts West Virginia to this day. Stories of people being abducted along the trail and later being found after losing their direction are many. Eventually, the hauntings were taken to a new extreme when the Bell Witch seemingly developed a voice. Director Neil Marshall’s brilliant tale of a group of female friends spelunking, then attacked by creatures within the caves, is one of the scariest movies of the last decade.

In some areas, species have had tens of millions of years to migrate and specialize, “filling each ecological niche completely.This story doesn’t end there though; almost 70 years later, the story was still prevalent and the unsolved nature of this mystery inclined a few amateur ghost hunters to explore the bridge. These creepy children asked the hikers where they were going and someone responded that were hiking along the Appalachian Trail. Communities near the mountains, such as Gatlinburg, Tennessee, provide a place where people can explore American folklore and history.

No longer in use, and haven't been in years, but the fence is still there and the concrete pad is still there. Rather, it is a story about Cherokee people as characters in the tale of how the Wampus Cat came to be. It was a threatening noise, something was definitely wrong and as I ran with him on my shoulders back to the house, the stench of death again began to fill the air.Bring a backpack, because we're going deep into the Appalachian wilderness to hear the most terrifying folklore around. The people began beating him mercilessly as they shouted to one another as others were preparing something. The Spearfinger lurks around the highest peaks of the Smokey Mountains as she keeps a special eye on children who have wandered away from their homes and parents. I know for sure I won't be in the woods after dark ever again in my life, not until this thing is gone. Cherokee legend claims that there was a bloody battle between Catawba and Cherokee warriors on Brown Mountain.