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@@TheAppalachianStoryteller for Father's Day this year she bought me StoryWorth. You get weekly prompts to write about and can add stories as well. At the end of the year you get your stories in a bound book. When she told me she said, "Actually it's more for me than you."
I grew up in a time when folks young and old got together. Us kids always loved listening to the stories told after a good supper, the dishes done and coffee cups or tea glasses filled. I have remembered thesd stories and passed them down. Sadly no one wants to visit the old folks now to glean the stories and wisdom that will be lost forever with their passing. We are losing so much of our heritage and who we are, where we came from and our identity when we lose this rich history. Thank you for the work it takes to get these stories recorded, hopefully future generations will appreciate the treasures. Stay safe and GOD bless
I love seeing these old pictures, seeing women in house dresses makes me think of my grandmother. She always wore one with her hair tied up with bobby pins. I'm glad I can remember someone in my family dressing this way. My mother didn't take up the trend, I guess it was a trend for house wives back in the day. I will be 50 yrs old in July. I'm happy in from this generation, I have saw the beginning of a lot of things and the ends of lots as well. I truly enjoy your channel.its very interesting.my mother and father both are from middlesboro ky and my mother has traced her ancestors back to melungeons. So this channel has lots of great history I take to heart and it helps me to understand a life I never knew. Thank you much for all your work and your research that you do.
Great story J.D.. I can remember my great grandfather telling us stories while sitting on the front porch with all of my brothers, sister and cousins. He would scare me to death telling about the headless horseman back in the day. I believed him because he could find water with a forked stick and predict the weather by persimmons from a tree. I can remember him saying, see the horsetails in the sky, it’s going to rain and it did. I followed my great grandfather around like a puppy dog. I thought he was magical and so smart. Of course, he always had children around him. Thanks for sharing another wonderful story. Have a blessed night!
My people are from eastern Tennessee and Western NC. In Carter County Tennessee, my great grandfather was one of those story tellers, James Andrew May...he then lived in Watugua County NC. Thank you for these stories...they do bring memories of listening to stories sitting on the front porch in the porch swing with my granny!
Your pretty great with those, i assume drone shots through the woods. I was telling mom "owww spooky" we both loved the intro shot with the looked like time lapse. Very beautiful
@@jay34ever54 yes! those are so hard because you cant let the camera on the drone shift at all and you have to shoot at 4K120 frames per second, and every thing has to go perfect just for a 10 second shot. Thanks for noticing the small details
Oh my gosh! I loved this one! I've always loved ghost stories and your voice is perfect for story telling. ❤ Maybe in October, close to Halloween you could find some more good Appalachian ghost stories to tell.
I used to love hearing my granddad and grandmother, my mothers parents, tell stories. My dads mom, mamaw, we called her, told interesting stories too. I wish I had recorded them, I never knew my dads dad. He died when I was young. I have two memories of him. One was riding home from fishing in his green step side Chevy truck. The other was of him in his coffin at the wake which was held at the home. They sat up with the dead in those days.
Thanks Jim, I have a newspaper article that had a transcript from Charlies story from the porch. I told it word for word and didnt change a thing. Id have loved to have been listening on that porch back in 71
hi JD - great story .. Thanks for working the history into the story also - very interesting and entertaining. Hope you can find more of these. Hope you and your family are well.
I loved the first picture, the view behind the rocking chairs, from the portch at the setting sun.... And the old couple, side by side! The ghost story was amazing! How interesting that a few people saw the same ghost and that he walked along the porch! Thank you for sharing! And I too would really like it, if you would do a Halloween-Ghost-Story-Special....
My two Favorite Scary Story tellers.. Appalachian Story teller and Creepy Criggly. Both are newer channels and both are very very good. I hope your channels continue to grow
JD, I would say the most well renowned storyteller I ever came across was Ray Hicks. I believe he won the top honor from the National Endowment for the Arts for his story telling.
Well, Ms. Katie Helton & I could be kin. My maiden name is Helton. 👋Hello to any could-be kin folk out there! Thank you, JD, for all the work you put into these videos. I really appreciate it. Merry Christmas everybody
YIKES!! I have no doubts. There are cursed, dark places in the world. That dusk drone shot was gorgeous and made the hair on my arm stand. When I deployed to Haiti with the Army in ‘95, several locals warned me not to walk Haitian roads after Midnight. “You’ll probably meet Robbers but you might meet an Old Man. You don’t want to meet this man.” Roger that, old son!
My family moved to Michigan for work and sent money back home. Some how I was left In Michigan papa always said he would take me to West Virginia when he retired. He had a stroke when I was 13. He Decided he’d work 3 years past his 30 years and ended up having a stroke at 31 years. I absolutely love the mountains of West Virginia the Deep South
In Scotland and Ireland where the first Appalachians came from there is a tradition of “the crack”. Basically a form of storytelling like the one described here where the subject matter isn’t exactly seen as a fictional story. I lived in Scotland for several years and visited Ireland a couple of times and the culture felt very different from England where I live because of this tradition which my culture would see as telling entirely fictional stories. However we do have our own myths and Legends, such a King Arthur, which blur the lines between fact and fiction. Unfortunately we don’t have traditional storytellers to pass them on. :-(
A different place back then, but everywhere was a different place. Tenn. Isn't tenn. anymore. But' then, it probably never was. Born in 70's seeing more things change, more just stay the same.
For years, a train ran next to a local country club. Well, I'm not sure when the train stopped running that particular tail, but the road going beside the club, had the track laying across. Legend has it, a miner or whomever fell asleep with his neck stretched across. Of course the train came by, severing the man's body from his head, close to where the track lays on that road. It's said years ago, at midnight on Halloween, this tragedy happened. Now, if you go certain nights of the year, one may be chased by a decapitated ghost, looking for his own head. Silenced for years, and overgrowth, the track around that area, was taken up about ten or so years back. If any tail was left, one can only see it if they walked the path, through the brush, bushes, trees, and briers. To this day, I have no clue of why the rail was removed from the road.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller It's definitely one of those stories I heard around Halloween. I don't hear people talking about it that much today, but when we were chaps.... LoL
There is a family story in my husbands Adkins family from Wilkes co., NC. His gggrandfather was said to be a very tall man. His wife was said to have been convinced by the local Dr. that he was very ill, although he would agree to no treatment. It is said that the doc convinced her to add a "powder medicine " to his food. He died shortly after. He was buried. The story goes that the doc wanted his skeleton, and had his body dug up, dried and sold to a medical university. This would be after 1890, before 1900. So the story goes.
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Oooh, I love finding these videos that have been out for awhile but are brand new treasures for me. Thank you, JD and may God bless you and yours!
My daughter loves to hear the stories my grandfather told me and his grandfather told him
That’s great, thanks for sharing with her
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller for Father's Day this year she bought me StoryWorth. You get weekly prompts to write about and can add stories as well. At the end of the year you get your stories in a bound book.
When she told me she said, "Actually it's more for me than you."
I bet the old timers stories were just awesome!!
Indeed, I’d love to have sat on those porches
I grew up in a time when folks young and old got together. Us kids always loved listening to the stories told after a good supper, the dishes done and coffee cups or tea glasses filled. I have remembered thesd stories and passed them down. Sadly no one wants to visit the old folks now to glean the stories and wisdom that will be lost forever with their passing. We are losing so much of our heritage and who we are, where we came from and our identity when we lose this rich history. Thank you for the work it takes to get these stories recorded, hopefully future generations will appreciate the treasures. Stay safe and GOD bless
I love seeing these old pictures, seeing women in house dresses makes me think of my grandmother. She always wore one with her hair tied up with bobby pins. I'm glad I can remember someone in my family dressing this way. My mother didn't take up the trend, I guess it was a trend for house wives back in the day.
I will be 50 yrs old in July. I'm happy in from this generation, I have saw the beginning of a lot of things and the ends of lots as well.
I truly enjoy your channel.its very interesting.my mother and father both are from middlesboro ky and my mother has traced her ancestors back to melungeons. So this channel has lots of great history I take to heart and it helps me to understand a life I never knew. Thank you much for all your work and your research that you do.
Thank you so much for your support my friend
Absolutely love your stories the Appalachian mountains. Please keep telling them.
Thank you Charlotte, have a blessed day!
Great story J.D.. I can remember my great grandfather telling us stories while sitting on the front porch with all of my brothers, sister and cousins. He would scare me to death telling about the headless horseman back in the day. I believed him because he could find water with a forked stick and predict the weather by persimmons from a tree. I can remember him saying, see the horsetails in the sky, it’s going to rain and it did. I followed my great grandfather around like a puppy dog. I thought he was magical and so smart. Of course, he always had children around him.
Thanks for sharing another wonderful story. Have a blessed night!
Thanks for sharing those great memories
What great memories you’ve shared with us! That was a good story in itself!! 😁
@@KellyBell1 thank you, I was blessed to have a wonderful childhood.
Great story, ❤❤❤
My people are from eastern Tennessee and Western NC. In Carter County Tennessee, my great grandfather was one of those story tellers, James Andrew May...he then lived in Watugua County NC. Thank you for these stories...they do bring memories of listening to stories sitting on the front porch in the porch swing with my granny!
Thank you my friend, Id Love to go back and listen again to all the ole timers tell their tales
What an awesome story! Mom and I loved it, I was thinking was a bigfoot tale at first 😅
Wasn't that a great story, I loved telling it
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller yes and the pictures were great with it
@@jay34ever54 Thanks, I try to do my best with these videos
Your pretty great with those, i assume drone shots through the woods. I was telling mom "owww spooky" we both loved the intro shot with the looked like time lapse. Very beautiful
@@jay34ever54 yes! those are so hard because you cant let the camera on the drone shift at all and you have to shoot at 4K120 frames per second, and every thing has to go perfect just for a 10 second shot. Thanks for noticing the small details
Oh my gosh! I loved this one! I've always loved ghost stories and your voice is perfect for story telling. ❤ Maybe in October, close to Halloween you could find some more good Appalachian ghost stories to tell.
Thank you ma'am, I have a couple more spooky ones. Check out "Riggs Mansion we're all just ghosts here" on my channel. I think you'll like it
Going back and watching some of the older ones.
Thank you 😊
I used to love hearing my granddad and grandmother, my mothers parents, tell stories. My dads mom, mamaw, we called her, told interesting stories too. I wish I had recorded them, I never knew my dads dad. He died when I was young. I have two memories of him. One was riding home from fishing in his green step side Chevy truck. The other was of him in his coffin at the wake which was held at the home. They sat up with the dead in those days.
I remember my father telling me about his dads funeral being held at home
I love this and the fact you are preserving our history is great
Thank you Sir, Appreciate your kind words my friend
We had the same story almost from my part of the woods,Old Hodei it was called.Our storytellers have passed on,Good job JD!
Thank you Sir
You have become my favorite storyteller. Enjoy it. Bless you
Thank you so much my friend 💜
Great story J.D.
Thank you for sharing this 🙏
Thank you my friend, appreciate you 🙏
Loved this! If only people had written these stories down or recorded them! Thank you for sharing this! Patricia Gambino Harrington
I love this story too, wish I could have been on that porch that night in 1971
Spooky story... loved it! Thanks JD ✌️😎❤️
Thanks so much 😊
What a great story ! Now I want to come visit 😮
Thank you 🙏
JUST CLASS JD ANOTHER CLASSIC ONLY YOU SIR CAN TELL US STORIES LIKE THIS TOP QUALITY STORY MUCH LOVE FROM YONKERS NEW YORK
Thank you ❤️
That is a great story telling, definitely gave me chills. There's some wonderful scary tells of mysterious things in the mountains. Well done JD..
Thanks Jim, I have a newspaper article that had a transcript from Charlies story from the porch. I told it word for word and didnt change a thing. Id have loved to have been listening on that porch back in 71
Wow! That was one heck of a story. 👍🇺🇸👍
I would to loved to have heard ole Charlie tell it
hi JD - great story .. Thanks for working the history into the story also - very interesting and entertaining. Hope you can find more of these. Hope you and your family are well.
🙏 thank you, I do my best to embed our history into these things, it’s important to keep it alive
That was a good one! I would have LOVED to have been on that porch and heard Charlie tell that first hand!
Indeed, me too!
Awesome love hearing about the old timer Appalachian story tellers this is interesting thanks for sharing great video
Thanks Cade
Thank you so much for bringing Appalachiato me as i dearly love it!!! I love this video! Thank you!! God's Speed ❤ 🙏
Thank you my friend 🙏
This was so good my palms were actually sweating as you told us the story! 😫😂😂
Glad you enjoyed it
Storytelling and Appalachia -- I have become addicted to them both. Keep it up & thx!
Thank you for your support
That was great! Thank you for this one ♥️
Thank you Stephanie ❤Appreciate you my friend
Spookey and very entertaining. I liked it so much, I lost my head over it!!!!
Appreciate you watching my friend
Great video!! I love hearing those old stories!!
Thank you ma’am
Truth be told...a lot of people wander off into the wilderness...and lose their heads......
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Bootleggers & what-have-ya's
Great story! I got chills and laughed when the aunt commented that he had no head! Would have loved to hear more of Charlie’s stories!
That dad burn devil ain’t got no head!
Love your talent in telling these amazing stories ❤❤❤
Thank you ❤️
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If these videos are not in the Library of Congress yet, they need to be.
Thanks 🙏
Great story
🙏 thanks Mark
So glad I found this channe. I just love these. Your voice is so calming I kicked back and relax.
Thank you my friend
Interesting... Quite frightening even listening in the daylight
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Love this story!
Thank you Paulette
I don’t think I’ll go wondering around Sulphur Springs at night! Thanks for the story.
Thank you sir
Great stories
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I loved the first picture, the view behind the rocking chairs, from the portch at the setting sun.... And the old couple, side by side! The ghost story was amazing! How interesting that a few people saw the same ghost and that he walked along the porch! Thank you for sharing! And I too would really like it, if you would do a Halloween-Ghost-Story-Special....
Thank you my friend and stay tuned
My two Favorite Scary Story tellers.. Appalachian Story teller and Creepy Criggly. Both are newer channels and both are very very good. I hope your channels continue to grow
Thank you my friend, appreciate your support ❤
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Just telling it like it is :-)
@@sarahanderson5567 I had to subscribe, you're such a pretty woman. I've lived in Appalachia all my life. I'm waiting on YOU.
Excellent!!! Well done!!
Thank you sir
I like this channel so much, I let the ads run!
Wow! You are the 👨
So glad I found your channel out standing content and commentary thumbs ☝
Thanks my friend 🙏
JD, I would say the most well renowned storyteller I ever came across was Ray Hicks. I believe he won the top honor from the National Endowment for the Arts for his story telling.
Yes, I have a book of Rays
Would love to hear more of Charlie stories
Me too my friend
Well, Ms. Katie Helton & I could be kin. My maiden name is Helton. 👋Hello to any could-be kin folk out there!
Thank you, JD, for all the work you put into these videos. I really appreciate it.
Merry Christmas everybody
Merry Christmas 🎁
This a great story
Thank you Frank
YIKES!! I have no doubts. There are cursed, dark places in the world. That dusk drone shot was gorgeous and made the hair on my arm stand. When I deployed to Haiti with the Army in ‘95, several locals warned me not to walk Haitian roads after Midnight. “You’ll probably meet Robbers but you might meet an Old Man. You don’t want to meet this man.” Roger that, old son!
Indeed- I would have taken their word for it too
My family moved to Michigan for work and sent money back home. Some how I was left In Michigan papa always said he would take me to West Virginia when he retired. He had a stroke when I was 13. He Decided he’d work 3 years past his 30 years and ended up having a stroke at 31 years. I absolutely love the mountains of West Virginia the Deep South
gods country
Man this is a really cool channel!
Thanks my friend- I appreciate your support
Wooo Doggies! Great Video
Thanks friend
My daddy swore him and my moms great uncle saw a headless horseman on hanging rock rd. and they saw it several times!
There’s something to it
Omg!! This is crazy!! 🤣🤣🤣😱😱😭😭😭
Thanks for watching my friend
I’ve never seen a thing like that but I reckon if I did, I’d fall over dead! Ha
Me too my friend
In Scotland and Ireland where the first Appalachians came from there is a tradition of “the crack”. Basically a form of storytelling like the one described here where the subject matter isn’t exactly seen as a fictional story. I lived in Scotland for several years and visited Ireland a couple of times and the culture felt very different from England where I live because of this tradition which my culture would see as telling entirely fictional stories. However we do have our own myths and Legends, such a King Arthur, which blur the lines between fact and fiction. Unfortunately we don’t have traditional storytellers to pass them on. :-(
Blur the lines of fact and fiction- the gold standard of storytelling
You mean the Craic
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A different place back then, but everywhere was a different place. Tenn. Isn't tenn. anymore. But' then, it probably never was. Born in 70's seeing more things change, more just stay the same.
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For years, a train ran next to a local country club. Well, I'm not sure when the train stopped running that particular tail, but the road going beside the club, had the track laying across. Legend has it, a miner or whomever fell asleep with his neck stretched across. Of course the train came by, severing the man's body from his head, close to where the track lays on that road. It's said years ago, at midnight on Halloween, this tragedy happened. Now, if you go certain nights of the year, one may be chased by a decapitated ghost, looking for his own head. Silenced for years, and overgrowth, the track around that area, was taken up about ten or so years back. If any tail was left, one can only see it if they walked the path, through the brush, bushes, trees, and briers. To this day, I have no clue of why the rail was removed from the road.
Very interesting 🤨
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller It's definitely one of those stories I heard around Halloween. I don't hear people talking about it that much today, but when we were chaps.... LoL
..Aww, damn.. Spooky. (!!)
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Repeat, but i like it 🇨🇦❣️
Thank you Marion! hope your having a great week
There is a family story in my husbands Adkins family from Wilkes co., NC. His gggrandfather was said to be a very tall man. His wife was said to have been convinced by the local Dr. that he was very ill, although he would agree to no treatment. It is said that the doc convinced her to add a "powder medicine " to his food. He died shortly after. He was buried. The story goes that the doc wanted his skeleton, and had his body dug up, dried and sold to a medical university. This would be after 1890, before 1900. So the story goes.
Wow!
Maybe the Tall, Headless Stranger
is Looking for His Head.
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Are there any story tellers left?
She was just granny
She would have been heart broken if you called her a witch
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Call mystery Inc right away!
good grief I've heard this same story like 6 times on this same playlist!!
Thank you for letting me know. I'll try to keep the playlist fresh in the future!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller of course!!!! I love these stories lol I had to let you know!
So the tall headless stranger isn’t bad!? It almost sounds like his trying to make sure people don’t fall victim to the same thing
Great story. But wow you think it's ture ? Omgosh. What if it was.
Im not sure my friend, lots of folks said it was. I even have a newspaper article from back then swearing it happened.
You need to talk a little louder can’t hear you
There is a closed caption button if you click the settings, you can read along as the story is told
Why. Do. You. Talk. Like. That
Thanks for watching
How come no one ever dive tackled the headless man?! Maybe offer him a jack-o-lantern as a replacement for his Cabeza..
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Sulphur Springs is known for a lot of Cryptid encounters and sightings.🦾🐺🌲🌲👣👣
yes indeed,
Great story
Thank you Dale