Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush with folklore pulled from many resources, including an interview ofMike Shea of Hope Furnace Station by Bill Price in 1961. There is more than just this podcast.

You can buy my book series on Amazon and find them in other bookstores, including Haunted Hocking Hills which has this bit of lore. Today’s story is ...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources.   There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon, including this story found in Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollers 2  at Grandma Fayes Grocery near Old Man’s Cave, Tree House Treats in Logan, and in other bookstores.

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Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including Uncle Remus Returns, Brer Rabbit and the Witch-Rabbit African American folktales collected by Joel Chandler Harris and The Journal of American Folklore.  There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and other bookstores.

Today’s s...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including this one from the Athens Messenger in the spring of 1923 and a verbal story passed on to me from the local Vinton County Historical Society on Sugar Street in McArthur a few years ago. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series online and ...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including this one from Dayton, Ohio, called, “Bessie Little Still Walks the Bridge.” There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my Haunted Book series online and in local bookstores with stories just like this one where long ago, there was a horrid murder on a br...

The George Washington Heritage Trail makes its way through 3 counties in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle, where travelers can visit interesting historical places and follow in the footsteps of the first president. Along its path is a haunting in a quiet little cemetery in Berkeley Springs that is nestled beneath trees and surrounded by quaint homes. Sometimes your past comes back to haunt you. And other times, you come back to h...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. But there is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including one from my newest book and the second in my series, Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollows which contains ghost stories, legends, and abandoned places...

I just finished my second book on Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollows which included ghost stories, legends, and abandoned places in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It is the perfect time of year to check out some scary places secreted into the Appalachian wilds. And for those who know me well, you know I don’t just write about it. I go to the site and check it out...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my West Virginia Ghost Stories book series on Amazon and in local bookstores.

It is time to dredge up ghost stories from Christmases past and pass them along as tradition allows because in days of old, the time to tell th...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. But there is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore from my book—Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollers, Hiking Trails with Ghost Stories, Legends, and Folktales. Deep in a nearly forgot...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in local bookstores, including this bit of lore from my book -- West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics, Fifth Street Hitchhiker. For years, cab and bus drivers offered rides to a young brid...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. But, there is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore, The Death Hole, which comes from my Ohio Ghost Guide 5. A couple’s innocent trip to town takes a deadly turn with a ghostly reminder still haunt...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources, including this one from Ruthann Musick’s Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales. 

There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my Haunted West Virginia book series online and in local bookstores, including this bit of lore, Missus Hall Outruns a Ghost, which comes...

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. This episode is written and produced by me, Jannette Quackenbush, with folklore drawn from many resources. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore, Mislaid Bones, which comes from my Ohio Ghost Guide 5. A hermit’s ghost near Waverly, Ohio would just not lay to rest until a scoundrel doctor’s anti...

Back in the 1870s, Jackson Hill in Wyoming County used to be called Sizemore Gap, and old-timers passed down that it had a ghost that would show up to travelers along the road. Here is the story of one man who came to face with it.

Welcome to Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my ghost stories and folk tales book series on Amazon and in stores like the Vintage Lady i...

The Abandoned: Pennsylvania's Abandoned Turnpike and Sideling Tunnel may not be as deserted as people think. The old turnpike is on many people’s bucket lists to visit, although few have the guts to take this forsaken post-apocalyptic-looking road and follow it through an abandoned tunnel that is 1.3 miles long, pitch-black in some places, and just plain creepy. However, it is not enough that it appears isolated and friendless. The...

Something peculiar lurks in a wild pocket of overgrown scrub meadows mixed with deep, young woodland in Belmont County, Ohio. It is just off Interstate 70, and those who pass along the highway usually sense that there is more to the gutted terrain than meets the eye, more than just the strip mine that flourished greedily on the land. It was as if when peeling back the flesh of the terrain, then gouging out the soul of the land, som...

People have been crossing paths with hairy bipedal creatures for centuries. Mostly described as human-like, over 7 feet, hairy, and foul-smelling. When conversations arise over the big hairy creature’s prime territory in the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, Salt Fork State Park is nearly always brought up. Located in eastern Ohio, the park has a whopping 17,229 acres for Bigfoot to inhabit. The Ohio Bigfoot ...

It always seems appropriate to feature some theme-based, folklore-related post for each holiday. Most are easy to come by like redeeming ghosts on Christmas Eve, dead, angry lovers on Valentine’s Day, and Halloween is a no-brainer because it celebrates every kind of ghost story, folktale, and urban legend. However, Easter has always eluded me, and over the years, I have managed to sidestep it completely. This time is different, tho...