Ghost Stories. Folk Tales. Legends. Maps. Hiking Trails.

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway meandering 469 miles around the peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains through Virginia and North Carolina. It connects two parks, Shenandoah National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Along its route, there are trails where people can stop and hike,
including the Appalachian Trail, which crosses its path. And few more adventurous come to check out a ghost - that of a little boy who haunts a mountain ridge along the Appalachian Trail in George Washington National Forest in Virginia…His name was Emmet Ottie Powell.This is just one of the many legends that haunt the Appalachian Region including … Spending the Night With the Wild and the Dead at Sarver Hollow Shelter Ghost House at Big Ridge State Park Lucy of Roaring Forks Motor Trail Great Smoky Mountains Legends of Spearfinger & the Dancing Lights White Woman of Silver Run The Dead Men in Daniel Wise’s Well The Legend of Betty Knox and Her Ox Dead Man’s Hollow Conservation Area- Great Allegheny Passage - Dead Man’s Hollow New River Gorge National Park and Preserve- Kaymoor Miners Trail Ghost Trains and Dead Miners Massacre at Yahoo Falls

Take a hike with author Jannette Quackenbush and explore over 49 frightening ghost stories and folk tales along the Appalachian Trail, National Parks and Forests, and State Park and find out where to hike to find them including Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee