AppalachianFolkA Collection of Appalachian Stories

Haunted Battlefields of the South
Historian Bryan Bush and Storyteller Thomas Freese bring exciting and chilling tales of the ghosts of the War Between the States! 

The ghosts of Civil War soldiers still inhabit the battlefields of our Southern States. Veteran re-enactor and historian Bryan Bush traveled to battlefields and researched both tactical history and on-the-ground life of [...]

The Cemetery
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     With more than a little trepidation, I drove cautiously along the winding road, the darkness concealing a plethora of hazards that would assail the unwary or lackadaisical driver. Shadows flowed across the landscape, melting away with the glare of headlights emanating from my battered and more than slightly used car.
     I had [...]

 Thomas L. Freese is a successful author, storyteller and artist. He has written six books including five books of ghostly tales. His first book was Shaker Ghost Stories from Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. He also freelance writes for magazines, including Lexington (Kentucky’s) Chevy Chaser Magazine. Mr. Freese performs over a dozen educational and entertaining story programs [...]

My uncle, Milford Howell told me a story about a picture that was taken on a graveyard that showed a demon sitting in a tree.  He said that three young soldiers had been killed and sent home to be buried.  Several local men had gathered to dig the graves, all side by side.  Someone took [...]

Many years ago, my grandfather, Lacy Howell, told me of a story that happened to him when he was a teenager living in the mountain hollows of Martin County, Kentucky.  He had been courtin’ a young girl that lived several miles from his home in a nearby hollow.  One evening he decided to go visit [...]

Appalachian Folk has excited news.  I have obtained the upcoming schedule for Thomas Freese, Kentucky Author and Storyteller.  Mr. Freese has written several books including Shaker Ghost Stories
from Pleasant Hill Kentucky; Fog Swirler and 11Other Ghost Stories;Strange and Wonderful
Things: A Collection Of Ghost Stories with Special Appearances by Witches and Other Bizarre Creatures and;  Haunted Battlefields [...]

In 1950 when I was twelve years old,  my little ‘gang’ and I played in the hills all summer long.   We had heard of a cave in the hill across the creek back of our homes and one day decided to go looking for that cave.  We were far back in the mountains and came [...]

I am going to try to tell this story as close to the way it was told to me as possible. I was told the tall tale when I was probably 8 or 9, maybe even a little younger. It was told to me by Carolyn Parsons who raised a large family on Mill Creek [...]

My Papaw Howell died when I was 6.  He was diagnosed with lung cancer and only lived a short while.  The last time I saw him alive was at school.  My dad was taking him to the hospital and he stopped on the playground to say hello to me.  It is a moment that I will [...]