Zona's Story: The Greenbrier Ghost
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2023
- Zona's Story: The Greenbrier Ghost of West Virginia as told by The Appalachian Storyteller.
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Note: This Video Represents History. The video has been uploaded for educational/editorial purposes and commentary and critique on the topic. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
This story gave me goosebumps.
Zona was married to a devil in disguise . Her life with Edward
Was truly a nightmare .
Thank you JD , for telling zona's story.
I sat at her grave for about 30 minutes in the silence of the gentle breeze and the rustling of tree leaves looking for inspiration as I wrote this story.
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You did her justice, I've heard her story portrayed as just a ghost but you portrayed her as a person that was brutally murdered by her husband.
My grandpa told me this story when I was a little girl. My folks are from Lewisburg in Greenbrier County
Beautiful country
Looks like we've been blessed with a doubleheader this weekend! Aint it grand yall, I appreciate you and ye stories, JD, and God bless you friend!
Hope you enjoy Scott
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JD The song at 8:23 what’s it called please
And is that you singing it with your son…?
Wow, what a story.....I think you did dear Zona justice with this telling! May she rest in peace 🕊
RIP Zona ❤️
The only time that a Ghost testimony was allowed in American Jurisprudence. Amazing!!
A wild true story
@@TheAppalachianStorytellerindeed!! Love my West Virginia history!!
What a fantastic story! Her mother had to be taken seriously, as she had never even been inside Zona's home.
Yup 👍🏼
Always loved this story, no matter whose telling it ❤
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Appalachian Storyteller, your storytelling prowess is nothing short of awe-inspiring. 📖🌄 With a narrative style that weaves through the Appalachian landscape like a meandering river, each video is a journey into the heart of folklore and history. The way you blend narration with evocative overlays is pure storytelling magic. 🎙🎨 It's like sitting around a campfire, spellbound by tales of old, and I can't get enough! 🌟👏
Thank you so much Scully, you’re a bit of a wordsmith yourself my friend, have a great day
One thing I have learned in my 58 years is that anything is possible.Thanks JD!
Thank you Suzanne!
I have heard this story a while back. It sends goosebumps down your body. It's too bad Edward got to live for another 8 years. Thanks, JD, for telling it.
Thank you 😊
Hi JD! I remember hearing this story before and it’s true. Thank you again for sharing this piece of history that is not very well known. Have a blessed day!
Thank you Willow, have a wonderful day
Excellent story telling as always. My home state. This is a true story and you have done a awesome job of telling it. God bless you and yours .
Heck yeah. Storyteller Sunday!!! Can't beat that!
Hope you enjoy
Great story. When it comes to domestic violence most stays hidden from the public. I worked in law enforcement for a number of years and domestic violence calls were the worst calls to respond to.
Well said my friend
♥️👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ thanks JD
Thank you Larry
Awesome story the truth will set you free
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Wild story story. I do believe in ghosts. I seen one when I was child. God bless you and your family sir..🙏❤🙏❤🙏
Thanks John, I have some past experience with the supernatural that I may share some day
Sharyn McCrumb, a Virginia writer of incredible talent wrote this story up in a book. She did a great deal of research. And your version is also excellent.
Peace and roses,
Deb the TN Scary Lady
Thanks so much ❤️
Sharon is a great writer. I enjoyed her book Who walks here or something like that so much I've read it three times.
Wow! She was a spitfire, even from the grave.
Yup !
I have so many comments about this.. but I think it best to realize what is only my opinion, not of interest to others. J.D., you've done a great job! Thank you sir.
Thank you Rusty, it really is quite a story, I literally went to greenbriar WV and visited Zonas grave as I was writing this story
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Greenbriar is beautiful country. As you know I live in WV, my family have camped in that area some, and I even done some work in that part of the state.. I'm still not sure that I could live there throughout the winter though. the older I get, the less I like winter. Haha
JD you did an amazing job . Dang your good
Hope you enjoy Myers
Wow what a great story. Thank you for sharing this
Thank you Bessie
Woow‼️Another Great story by a great Story Teller
Thank you! Hope you enjoy
The book, “The Unquiet Grave” tells the story of Hester Shue’s murder at the hands of her husband Edward. It’s written by Sharyn McCrumb, one of, if not the best, Appalachian story tellers. I’ve read all her books including the one mentioned here, her books do not disappoint.
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I've heard this story before, but you told it best. Thanks.
Thanks Michael! Preciate you!
What a perfectly spooky telling of this story at this time of year.
Thank you so much Melanie, I am so thankful for your generosity ❤️
I've heard this story before but I must say JD, you sure can tell a good story. I had chills after the third visit from Zona to her mother.... Thanks for sharing JD ❤✌
Thank you Pinky
You have been given a gift. You have revived the ancient art of story telling! Thank you so much!! This one is my absolute favorite!!
Thank you Traci ❤️ ♥️
Your influence resonates globally! - "Continuous improvement is the way."
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Very addictive storytelling. One hates to stop listening. My Dads family is from KY/East TN. Love all the stories I've heard here. Your voice is so mesmerizing. I do believe in spirits on this side of heaven. Have lived in many old homes up and down the U. S.. The last one I lived in (as a widow) was built by a Revolutionary war veteran around 1780. When moving in I could feel the presence of others. My dogs did as well. I talked to them in the room where I felt their presence the most. Told them I just wanted to be happy again and I would leave them alone if they would do the same. Lived there 9 good years. These stories are like opening a treasure chest for mr!
Thank you so much for the kindness!
This story gave me chills. You are a wonderful storyteller. And you have the perfect voice for it. Love your stories!
Thank you so much Pam ❤️
Great for a good Halloween/ fall story for people …
So spooky and yet , unlike a random ghost story, I believe every bit of it.
I believe it too!
Great story told by the best storyteller. What a voice. Bless. 👍🙏🏻❤️
Thank you ❤️
What a story told by the greatest storyteller ever! ❤️👍🏻
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I grew up in a holler in eastern Kentucky in Appalachia and was raised that ghost were real and I have seen a few things that I couldn’t explain 🤷🏻♀️ my dad was a great story teller sure miss him ❤
I sure miss my dad too, he was a great storyteller as well, thank you for sharing your story
A mothers love ❤️ You did such a great job telling Zonas story.
Thank you Laura!
This is great story of justice... nobody tells this one better than you! Thanks JD 😎👍👍
Thank you Kathy ❤️
Wow! I think I read about this sometime ago. However, you made the store much better. Thank you. If Zona had not come back and told her mother what happened to her, and the other wife, he would have killed another woman.
When I was a girl, they were laying the dead out at home. Only the rich people in town used the funeral homes. Most did not want their dead females handled by men (other than a doctor). The older female members of the family would have been expected to wash and get the body ready for visitation and the wake. People would sit with the dead for a full three days, and nights, before the funeral and burial. One or more of the men in the family made a wooden coffin, and dug the grave. In most cases it was men in the family who covered the grave, made and placed a marker (usually stone). Today, most people don't know that they can still go back to the old ways of taking care of their own dead family members. Funeral Homes directors want us to think that we have to hire one of them to do this necessary job for us.
Wow, thanks for sharing this
I was fascinated by your comment. I'm 60 years old and I remember only one time a funeral was held at the person's house. I was maybe 5 years old. In this day and age of autopsies and such, I wonder if it is still legal, depending on where you live to bury a member of your family. Back in the days of which you speak, did they do anything about embalming, etc... ? I've seen it on the show "Yellowstone" where the man had a bunch of land, but I wonder about a city guy like me ?
You do not have to have the body embalmed. However, it will need to be buried or cremated as soon as possible, if not refrigerated. That was another reason people sat with the dead. In hot weather they had to help keep flies (and other vermin) away from the body. Sometimes by the third day the body had started to smell bad. That is the real reason live flowers were cut and sent to the family. The flowers were to help cover the smell. The number one reason that people sat with the dead was to make sure they were dead. When embalming fluid is pumped into the body, the blood is forced out. The embalming fluid would be enough to kill the person if still living. There are a lot of other shocking things that a Funeral Home does to a dead body to make the body look natural for viewing. I'm 75 years old. @@revmo37
@@arvettadelashmit9337 Thank you so much for the reply. I never knew about the flowers either. City guy, I guess. I do know some things about what a funeral home does for prep. I'm a Master Plumber for 36 years. A fellow Master buddy of mine has a Morticians license. His dad still runs the home. The buddy of mine said he became a Master Plumber simply because he wasn't happy. He didn't say he was bothered by it, just wasn't happy. Thank you for teaching me some things. Have a blessed day ! ❤
@@arvettadelashmit9337 As a younger man I was certain that I wanted to be laid out, then buried. I now have insisted that I be cremated asap. Partly because of the things I've learned about body prep in funeral homes. But mostly due to the simple fact that I have never once looked at a person laid out and not been somewhat repulsed. I'm realistic and know death is a part of life, and when I was an Alter Boy as a child I heard somewhere that Catholics aren't supposed to be cremated. But I lost my very best friend in 2017 at age 54. I nearly passed out upon seeing him laid out. I kinda decided then and there that instead of me laying there looking awful in a suit and make up, I'd much rather my family and friends see a decorative box along with a reasonably good photo of myself. True story
Thanks for the great story sir. You are a born narrator. I'm never disappointed when I get one of your notifications. 👍
Thank you so much ❤️
Thank you for all you do i love all these stories
Glad you like them! Thank you!
Great video. Great story! Oddly enough, I had watched someone else's video of this story a few hours earlier before you posted this.
How bout that, I guess it’s getting to be that time of the year, I have an older video on this story that’s out there to
Love this Ghost story... amazing..
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Great story
Thank you!
Wow! Great story!
Thank you, Emily. I’m glad you enjoyed Zona’s story and I really appreciate your support to help me. Keep telling these videos it doesn’t go unnoticed. Thank you so much.
Thanks JD! It’s that time of the year for your spooky stories. I love your stories. I love them all. ❤. Thanks for sharing /telling this story. God Bless You !!
Thank you ❤️
That's a veryinteresting story, and a spooky one, too. Thanks JD!
Thank you Charlie!
Thank you JD, ghost stories are not my favorite but you certainly held my attention. You built her character with minimal information. Amazing.
I do my best to make the characters come to life, by the way- I showed my wife a picture of Zona and asked her to describe her- that’s where the words “willowy” and others came from
There where the barn and horses are running around I’d absolutely love to have a log cabin type home setting not far from the barn now.
I filmed that in West Virginia a few miles from where this story took place
Hi JD been a while. About 4-5 generations ago I had some relatives with the last name of Heaster on my mothers side. I remember her grandmother telling this story when she was very old. I think she was around 90 years old then. She was from Greenbrier County. And the strange thing was we had a woman in the family bible from that time that had the name of Mary Heaster. And now another Mary Heaster who is about my age (76) years old. Now her mother was another who knew this story. So it make me wonder just how much kin I really was to these people. We have people last names of Lilly, Hager, Cox, Abshire, King, all from around the counties of Greenbrier, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas and Mercer counties. Makes me wonder after hearing stories about this Greenbrier Ghost.
Thanks JD for another great story.
Wow, thanks for sharing that ❤️
I live in the area. Absolutely true story. We got roadside historical markers about this 1 case.
Yup, I visited those markers and Zonas grave as I was filming this video
Top of the morning to you my friend!! Great one!!
Mornin’ 👋
Thanks!
Oh my goodness, thank you so much Melanie , I am so thankful for your generosity ❤️
Zona had to stop him from repeating his actions against another woman. Good story
well said Janet!
I love your videos and the music that you play
thank you!!
Very interesting story for sure
Thank you !
As always, love listening to your stories friend.
Thank you!
❤❤This was Awesome. Your narration was just the right touch that put the suspense in the story! GREAT SORY❤❤❤
Thank you!
Creepy!
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Enjoyed again, had to watch for 2nd time Have a Bless week J.D.
Thanks John!
Been years since i read this tale. Good one for Halloween n
An old favorite for sure
I have heard about this before but you do such a great job telling stories and the details about this I didn't know... thanks for the stories and history of God's country you share with us! Keep up the great work and God bless!!
One of my other favorite storytellers, Mr. Ballen, has told this story before. I'm excited to hear it your way.
Hope you enjoy
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I absolutely did. Well done. You including some details I hadn't heard before. Like him being made to stay for the exam after exhuming the body, nor that she previously had a child.
Ya snuck this one in 😂
Thank you!!
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Thank you storyteller 🙋♂️🐈🐈
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Love it!! ❤
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Good morning from Northern Illinois, loved the story and the music...JD
Stay safe out there my brother 🙏
Thanks big iron, traveling thru Georgia and Florida today, see you on the next one brother
Goodun. 👍
Thanks 👍🏼
I’m bingeing for a reason 🥰🤩
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Great story 👏
Thank you ma’am
Great story Jd I hope you have more coming soon GOD BLESS
Thank you 🙏
The town of Lewisburg WV has a play group that produces the play The Greenbrier Ghost. My Aunt has performed in the play several times and may this upcoming season.
Thank you Story Teller ..
People from the hills live close to the earth ... They know about slaughtering an animal for food like breaking the neck of a chicken ... Zona's mom did not pick up on the subtle points, at the time of death because of grief and distraction .. BUT her eyes, ears, the way the husband was acting, etc. all of these micro small hints went to her subconscious ...
Praying is a form of meditation ... It gives the brain the quiet time to process what life has happened around it ... Her mom was finally able to link all the clues together ... her mind supplied the memory of her daughter, to stand in front of her and show the finality of what had happened ... You can lay this revelation at the door step of God, the Universe, the Ghost of Zona, spirituality, or the power of the human spirt and you would be right ...
Well said my friend
JD i love the new edit of this from the original that you did i didn't think it could get better but you did it.
I thought I’d update the video, music, and add additional content on this story since it’s that time of the year! Hope you enjoyed it!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I enjoyed very much.
Great story! Hopefully I won't have nightmares tonight! 🤣
Boo! 👻
Lock your doors and check under the bed, wait… what’s that sound?
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Hey Storyteller Jd. How’s your week going I pray great brother Amen 🙏
Hey Randle 👋
Hey awesome job with this one! I did a story on it around Halloween. I live real close to where it happened.
beautiful area up there!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thank ya!
I heard this story before, I loved it.
Thank you!
That was an excellent story brother!!!
Thanks so much!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller you’re very welcome!!
That thumbnail is scary I need some holy water
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Mr. Shue hewed the logs back in the day for a Church ( Mt Olivet) and homes on Droop MT WV
Wow! JD, this story gave me goosebumps. What an amazing & spirit filled story. Spirits/ghosts, are real~~ I believe. Zona wanted to make sure her death was vindicated!
When Edward was asking the young boy to go & check on Zona~~ several times ~~ I knew something was amiss. He wasn’t being a devoted or caring husband~~ he was covering his devious act. His evil deeds were found out from beyond the grave!
Again, thank you JD 😊
And what about the boy Andy, who found Zona, can you imagine that!
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller , yes ~~ he had to have been traumatized for the rest of his life. So sad 😞
I thought you had already uploaded a story about the greenbrier ghost? Not complaining just a bit confused, love the content man!
I did, this is an updated video with all new music, and 4 minutes of new video, just thought I’d tell it again, it’s one of my favs
Good
thank you!
Katie Letcher Lyle ( I think that is correct spelling ) wrote a Book: The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives. It is about the Greenbrier Ghost with quotes from people in the region and also an undermining of things my Aunt related to her, so much so my Aunt wouldn't even talk about the book.
Just listened to this for 6th time!
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I am directly linked to this famiky and always heard my grandfather tell this story and it was never a laughing matter. It was a topic taken very seriously by my grandfather and any of the older elders that heard this story from their parents or grandparents. It’s truly remarkable. I loved hearing it being told from your perspective JD.
Thank you for sharing that ❤️
Zonas grave is right above my house
I visited when filming the video
as always, u tell an outstanding story; thank you. why are there coins on top of her headstone? is there a local custom?
I’ve heard many reasons for the coins, safe passage to the other side, good luck, grant a wish etc… but pretty much everyone agrees if you take a coin off the grave you will be cursed
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller interesting. is it bad luck there to walk over a grave too?
I heard they put different coins for different reasons one is you were there when they passed one if you knew them
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👻 it’s almost that time
Actually, this case is relevant in modern trials. If a witness testifies under oath in a pretrial proceeding in a murder case and becomes "unavailable" to testify at the subsequent trial due to intervening conduct proven to be attributed to the defendant, the witness' prior testimony is admissible at trial "from the grave" of the absent witness. This is commonly known as the " Mastrongello" Rule.
Thanks for that
Cicero could not recite this story as well as you can.
I grew up there
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I’ve heard this one before and I’ve always wondered what happened to Zonas child when she was murdered. Was the child there?❤️🤗🐝
I’m not sure, great question
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I wonder what became of Zona's little child
Me too 😢
Your voice sounds like home to me
awww, thank you ❤
This one was sad😥
RIP Zona
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most faiths, if not all, have some kind of representation of spirits. i think ghosts. spirits, souls and angels are all the same thing with different names. i have seen and heard spirits, as have my mother and my daughter, and i am not a superstitious person. i understand that someone without our experience might not believe it.
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There may be, but they dony know who the ghost is or what's? The modivation??
Can you give lowa villisca axe murder real story please?
ill look into this
What happened to her son?
I’m not sure