Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories

A haunting legend lingers along Borden Tunnel on the Great Allegheny Passage in Frostburg, Maryland . In August 1912 , an ill-fated day trip on the Western Maryland Railway ended in tragedy—leaving behind one of Maryland’s most chilling ghost stories and the spectral Woman in White said to wander the tracks to this day. Join Jannette Quackenbush on a haunting ride along the Great Allegheny Passage...

Along the old Baltimore and Ohio rails near Moonville, Ohio, something still whistles and clicks in the dark. And if you hear it… don’t look back. Author Jannette Quackenbush tells the eerie tale of Ernest Keeton—and the night he came face to face with something far worse than imagination outside Moonville Tunnel. Season 5 (2025): Things That Go Bump

Would you dare walk where the soul's soles of these dead still tread? A rugged dirt trail creeps along a deep forest, through an abandoned iron furnace ghost town, and past an overgrown cemetery above the deep and haunted Olds Hollow in the Hocking Hills.

A rail trail in West Virginia holds dark secrets within twin tunnels outside an old ghost town that was once along Beetree Run. There are spirits there . . . Eaton and Lost Tunnels stand side by side. One is along the rail trail. The other is sealed and closed. Both are haunted. Nowadays, you can walk through this more recent #21 North Bend Rail Trail tunnel. It is this newer tunnel next to the ol...

Airplane Hollow in Wayne National Forest in the Hocking Hills Region of southeastern Ohio is home to a legend of a ghostly plane and its passengers. May 16, 1941 - A legend comes from the area just outside Nelsonville and Carbon Hill, Ohio, about a military plane wreck during a horrible storm on May 16,1941 and the strange things that followed. I want to share this story with you on this stormy ev...

There’s an old train bed deep within the forests of southeastern Ohio within the Hocking Hills, a remote path found by taking buckled pavement streets and sketchy gravel roads. The tracks were built in the 1850s for the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad. They passed through coal mining towns like Hope Furnace Station, Moonville, Ingham Station, Kings Station, and Mineral City. When a young man was...

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 like Grandma Fayes , just a few miles from Old Man’s Cave , including this lore from my Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide II. When a gravestone began mo...

Winter Hike in the Hocking Hills is coming on January 20, 2024. (Find more info here: The Hocking Hills ) Those hiking the trail during the event may come upon some spirits. Of course, Old Man Retzler and his baying hound are known to show up at Old Man’s Cave, and the Pale Lady follows hikers at Ash Cave. But between the two areas, the trail will lead along Queer Creek and to Cedar Falls, where g...

Out of the Ashes: An old story from Hocking County, Ohio 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, Rising from the Ashes, from my Haunted Hocking Hills...

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 b uy my book series on Amazon and find them in other bookstores, including Haunted Hocking Hills which has t...

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,...

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 Amaz...

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...

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...

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. A...

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 sto...

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...

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...

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, a...

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 d...

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...

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, Missu...

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...

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...

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 a...