Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories

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 go...

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 Bi...

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 comp...

When an early peddler is murdered not far from Grant Town, West Virginia, his ghost would return to frighten those crossing his path. You can find this story and others in my second West Virginia ghost book: West Virginia Ghost Stories, Legends, Haunts, and Folklore ( https://amazon.com/Virginia-Stories-Legends-Haunts-Folklore/dp/1940087317 ) Hitchhiking Ghost of Buttermilk Hill: Originally from 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. Today’s story is Ghostly Shenanigans of a Peddler. A public house in Waynesville, Ohio was known for the drunken antics of its guests and a resentful ghost. You can buy my book series on Amazon and other bookstores, including this one w...

An old story was once retold perhaps two generations ago by Jeanne deLavigne in her book Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans. I think enough time has passed to retell this eerie legend again –Today’s tale is Lost Golden Children. Even after an aged cemetery is removed for development, a stingy ghost returned to search for something he lost. You can read more ghost stories of New Orleans, get directio...

Ball of Fire--A restless ghost divulges a murder near the swirling waters of the Little Kanawha River. You can find this story in my book-- West Virginia Ghost Stories: The Classics Original tale: A Ball of Fire by Ruthan Musick as told in The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales. Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/christian-larssen/the-venetian

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 clippings from historic newspapers, Children lost in the mountains by Timothy Hupp, and J.B. Huffman’s Little Lost Boy in the Mountains of Virginia. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon an...

The Haunted Stump was passed along in the 1953 story by Erasmus Foster Darby . It is one of the creepier bits of folklore and comes from the area that is now Pike Lake State Park in Ohio. You can read my version in Ohio Ghost Stories, The Classics . Pike Lake State Park Pike Lake Road Bainbridge, Ohio 45612 39.159920, -83.218545 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs...

Traditional Christmas in Victorian England was held around the fire at night, telling the most horrifyingly morbid of ghost stories. So in celebration of those old-time traditions, here is an ageless ghost story I’ll share with you that happened in a tiny community called Fallsville, which is now little more than a ghost town located in the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s Fallsville Wildlife Area. It...

What happened in Moonville, Ohio? Not long after a horrible train accident one autumn night in the late 1800s, a ghost began to appear at a tunnel along a remote and dark stretch of the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad. And the haunting of Moonville would begin . . . You can read about Moonville and find out about the many ghosts that haunt the area in my book: The Little Book of Moonville Ghosts:...

Deep in the woodland of Shawnee State Forest in southern Ohio lies a lone gravestone tucked in an ancient valley called Dead Man Hollow. This is the legend surrounding the grave and the nearby hollow.  You can find this story and other ghostly places along with the GPS and how to find them in my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore from Haunted Hocking, A Ghost...

The North Bend Rail Trail in West Virginia stretches 72 miles along an old, abandoned railroad with 36 bridge crossings and 13 tunnels along its passageway. It’s a beautiful place to hike and bike . . . mostly . However, it also has some dark and spooky settings on its path. Among its spookier sites are two haunted tunnels secreted along the abandoned stretch of railway between the old oil boom an...

Today’s story is a legend of Pirate Alley in New Orleans—Reginald Hicks. Many, many years ago, a beautiful French Creole girl and a young pirate fell madly and deeply in love. What could possibly go wrong with that situation? Obviously something, because nowadays one returns to lament the other’s death. You can find this story in my book Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans (https://amazon....

Today’s story is the legend of Calico Lady of Lafferty Run and Chicken Hollow Road in Brown County, Ohio. An old lady with a collection of cats used to chase those away who traveled too fast past her home . . . even after she died.  You can find this story in Ohio Ghost Stories and Spooky Legends, the Classics ( https://amazon.com/gp/product/B087Z5TXKX/ ) Music and some screams, hollers, and...

The Story of the Telltale Lilac Bush- An Old-time Favorite - One of the most beloved folklore stories of West Virginia, the Telltale Lilac Bush, was brought to life by Ruth Ann Musick via Keith Ketchem, as given to him by Mrs. Sarah Dadisman of Union in Barbour County.  West Virginia Ghost Stories, The Classics:  Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/kevin-macleod/darkest-child The gre...

An old cabin is tucked into the trees just outside a small college town in Nelsonville that has a ghost that just will not give up its home. And you can visit it. You can find the story in this book: Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide of the Hocking Hills: Ghost Stories. Haunted Hikes. (https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Hocking-Ghost-Hunters-beyond/dp/194008704X/) You may be able to see the ghost and perhaps ot...

I found an old ghost town cemetery along the New River in West Virginia hidden in the forest and on an island. If you hike the Southside Trail, you may be able to discover it too. You can get a glimpse of the island on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/0WQC9vzoju8 You can hike the southside trail: Here is the parking: Brooklyn Campground Southside Trail, Fayetteville, WV 25840 37.984211, -81.02...

Today’s story is The Sordid Tale of Etienne Deschamps. In 1889, a deranged dentist living in New Orleans committed a heinous crime which left a ghost still wandering the rooms of the building where a murder took place. There is more than just this podcast. You can buy my book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore that comes from my book, Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New...

Today’s story is about the Wampus Cat , a mysterious wild thing as fearsome as a cougar and as frightening as a phantom. This half-human and half-wildcat haunts the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and perhaps, even Ohio. And its story comes in many forms . . . I hope you enjoy this episode of Sometime Between Dusk and Dawn Ghost Stories. If you like it, please pass it along. And m...

A Legend comes from the tiny Mt Olive cemetery outside Mansfield, Ohio, where a Bloody Mary legend was born beneath the boughs of an ancient pine. You can find this story in my book and buy the book series on Amazon and in bookstores, including this bit of lore from my Ohio Ghost Guide 5 -  And follow me on YouTube! Music from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/v-draganov/mystery-box

Those prisoners who once called the jailed cells of this West Virginia Penitentiary home may have left many ghosts in their path even before finding themselves imprisoned there. But what comes around, goes around; some of those same inmates have become ghouls themselves and haunt the cells and hallways they once trod in life. Just ask the local tour guides during the historical and paranormal tour...

Today’s tale is Dancing Octoroon Mistress of New Orleans. On windy and cold December nights, a bare, wraithlike form gyrates and whips about frantically on top of a brick building on Royal Street. Its story comes from long ago and centers around the ill-fated devotion of a young mistress for her callous lover. The house of the octoroon mistress is 734 Royal Street in New Orleans.  You can fin...

Today’s story is Stumpy. Many years ago, a doctor in a small Ohio town was awakened past nightfall by persistent knocks upon his door, and as he called upon a patient, the man would come face to face with a phantom. Buy the book with Stumpy’s story in it: Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide V! https://amazon.com/Ohio-Ghost-Hunter-Guide-Haunted/dp/1940087082/ Check out my YouTube Channel and subscribe! https:/...

A ghoulish legend comes from a place just a little southwest of Columbus, Ohio of murder and madness and a place called Woolly Booger Cemetery. This comes from my Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide III, by Jannette Quackenbush. Check out my YouTube Channel and subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq4pgfYKt5z1K4VaGa3CK7A Or read it in my Ohio Ghost Guide III- https://www.amazon.com/Ohio-Ghost-Hunter-Gu...