Spooky Appalachia

In this powerful, in-person interview recorded right in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, we sit down with original 1967 Mothman witness Linda Sigman for a rare, firsthand retelling of her terrifying close encounter. Back in April 1967, seventeen-year-old Linda and her boyfriend drove out to a high pasture overlooking the Ohio River in search of the legendary winged creature. Instead, they experience...

Get ready for a spine-chilling Halloween special as we dive deep into five terrifying, true encounters submitted by listeners across the mountains and hollows of Appalachia. From a young boy in Rainsville, Alabama, visited by a misty figure while home sick in 1998, to a terrifying brush with a silent devil figure on a dark North Carolina street on Halloween night in 1989. We also explore a chillin...

In this special on-location episode recorded directly at The Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia , we dive deep into the rich history and terrifying paranormal encounters surrounding one of the state’s oldest historic cinemas. Opening its doors on College Avenue and Main Street back in 1909 before expanding in 1930 into a state-of-the-art cinematic marvel—complete with orchestra pit, air conditi...

Step into the shadows of the Old Dominion as we investigate two bone-chilling Virginia vampire legends passed down through generations of folklore. In our first tale, we head to Richmond to retrace the infamous 1925 Church Hill Tunnel collapse. Legend has it that something far more terrifying than a railroad crew clawed its way out of the subterranean wreckage—a tall, Victorian-clad entity with ra...

Step into the shadowed hollows and mist-shrouded ridges of the mountains with a brand-new collection of bone-chilling paranormal accounts. In this special listener-submitted episode, we explore true, unexplainable encounters sent straight from the dark backroads and isolated hills of Appalachia. From phantom figures and inexplicable road terrors to eerie whispers in the night, these real-life ghos...

What is it really like behind the scenes at one of America's most haunted former asylums? In this gripping witness interview, we sit down with Julie—a 10-year veteran of the legendary St. Albans Sanatorium who worked as an actor, security guard, and tour guide. Julie opens up about the harrowing history of the building, the heavy atmosphere of the grounds, and the unforgettable paranormal enco...

Remember the absolute chaos of the 2016 killer clown panic? What started as a viral internet sensation turned into a living nightmare for many across the region. In this gripping episode of Spooky Appalachia, we dive deep into 5 true, bone-chilling encounters with creepy clowns reported during that infamous year. From a bat-wielding figure holding a red balloon on a late-night drive to an axe-carr...

Venture deep into the dark, mist-shrouded hollows and winding mountain roads of Appalachia for 3 Terrifying True Encounters With Unknown Cryptids that defy conventional science and folklore. First, we travel back to 1963 on Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia, where a young couple's late-night drive is abruptly halted by an eight-foot-tall, impossibly broad entity with a completely blank, featurele...

Does the infamous winged harbinger of doom roam outside the wooded ridges of West Virginia? In this gripping special interview, we sit down with a direct eyewitness who shares their terrifying, up-close encounter with the Chicago Mothman. Skip the deep-dive research breakdowns this is a firsthand, unfiltered account straight from someone who stared into those glowing red eyes and lived to tell the...

Dive back into the definitive West Virginia cryptid mystery with a special 74th-anniversary deep dive into the Flatwoods Monster. On September 12, 1952, a group of local boys and Kathleen May watched a fiery object streak across the Braxton County sky before landing on a dark hilltop in Flatwoods. What they found waiting in the trees was a towering, 12-foot-tall metallic entity with a blood-red fa...

What happens when the darkness in the corner of the room suddenly moves? In this episode of Spooky Appalachia, we dive deep into the unnerving world of shadow people and anomalous entities through three chilling, fan-submitted encounter stories. First, we head back to 2008 in Massachusetts, where a sibling duo playing video games on a retro console turn around to find a towering, translucent six-f...

Something in the ancient hills of Appalachia is learning how to speak with the voices of our loved ones. In this episode of Spooky Appalachia, we dive deep into bone-chilling true accounts of entity mimicry sent in by our listeners. First, we head to Robbins, Tennessee, where security cameras capture a chilling, identical voice calling children from the woods when no one is home. Next, we join an...

What happens when a peaceful family dinner in downtown Roanoke turns into a harrowing close encounter with a massive, silent, propeller-driven UFO hovering right over your neighborhood? In this episode of Spooky Appalachia, we hand the mic directly to an eyewitness who comes forward to share her incredible firsthand account. Taking us back to the late 1970s along Route 419, our guest details the n...

In this episode, we dive into three fan-submitted ghost stories sent in straight from the heart of Appalachia. First, we head to Floyd County, Kentucky, where a childhood memory in the 1990s involves an invisible man in steel-toed boots pacing a storage trailer, a turning doorknob, and an unseen presence waiting in the back room. Next, a county sheriff's dispatcher shares the spine-tingling accoun...

New Jersey might be famous for its beaches, turnpikes, and bustling cities, but beneath its urban centers and dense wetlands lies a dark underworld of bizarre creatures and urban legends. In this episode, we explore five of New Jersey's most baffling and terrifying cryptids : The New Jersey Gator Man: A six-foot, bipedal, armored reptilian terror stalking the stagnant pools and drainage ditches of...

Deep in the history of Christiansburg, Virginia, lies the dark tale of the "Black Sisters"—Mary Sneed, Caroline Martin, and Virginia Wardlaw. From their arrival at the Montgomery County Female Academy in 1902 to the series of suspicious deaths and insurance scandals that shocked the town, their legacy is one of the most haunting in the region. But the story doesn't end with the history books. In t...

In a previous episode, we shared a chilling listener encounter from Little Braxted, Essex—a childhood memory of glowing red eyes and a winged silhouette that haunted two sisters for decades. Today, we return to that story with a special investigative update. Mark, a paranormal investigator from Paranormal Reason who lives just minutes from the original sighting location, joins the show to share hi...

A port from our YouTube: From the dense forests of Southwest Virginia to the shadows of the Great Dismal Swamp, the Appalachian mountains have long harbored legends that defy explanation. In this episode, we dive into the lore and chilling eyewitness accounts of five legendary Virginia cryptids. We explore the elusive "Wood Booger" of Norton, the shapeshifting menace known as the Wampus Cat, the b...

In this episode of Spooky Appalachia, we confront the legend head-on through the eyes of those who claim to have survived an encounter with the Mothman. We explore three distinct, harrowing experiences: a high-stakes, paralyzing roadside confrontation in rural Tennessee; a fog-drenched, unsettling night in the hollers of Point Pleasant; and an inexplicable mid-90s sighting at an Ohio gas station t...

In this chilling installment of Spooky Appalachia, we venture deep into the isolated hollers and shadowed ridges to explore two terrifying encounters with the unknown. Our first story takes us to a remote Kentucky rest stop on Route 119, where a late-night traveler finds themselves face-to-face with two children whose "Sunday best" clothes and pitch-black eyes signal a predatory trap. Our second t...

In this truly unique episode of Spooky Appalachia , we sit down for an intimate and historic conversation with Chris May and his wife, Misty. Chris offers a rare, generational perspective on one of the most famous UFO and cryptid encounters in American history: the 1952 Flatwoods Monster sighting. As the son of witness Freddie May and the grandson of Kathleen May, Chris carries the legacy of the w...

In this episode of Spooky Appalachia , we explore two unsettling accounts that prove some things in the mountains refuse to be ignored. First, we travel back to 1954 to hear a harrowing childhood encounter. A nine-year-old boy wakes in the middle of the night to find a glowing, disembodied head drifting toward his bed—an entity that would haunt his family for generations to come. What was this str...

In our previous episode, we dove deep into the infamous 1987 Wytheville, Virginia, UFO flap. The response was overwhelming. We were flooded with emails and comments from listeners across Southwest Virginia ordinary people who had been keeping extraordinary secrets for nearly forty years. It turns out, the "Wytheville Flap" was far more widespread than anyone realized. In this episode, we share the...

In June 2026, I had the incredible honor of taking the stage at the Grafton Monster Festival to discuss the journey of Spooky Appalachia . This episode captures that live talk, offering a rare look behind the curtain at how this project evolved from a passion for regional legends into the thriving community platform it is today. Throughout the presentation, I reflect on why this channel has always...

What really lurks along the banks of the Tygart River? While the Grafton Monster has long been discussed as a piece of Appalachian folklore, the truth behind the sightings is far more unsettling. In this episode, we bridge the gap between history and a modern-day mystery. We start by revisiting the original 1964 report from The Grafton Sentinel —the sighting that sparked a local frenzy and explore...