Whispers from Orr Manor

Send us Fan Mail Set in the shadowed wilderness of Cumberland Gap, The Widow of the Gap tells the chilling tale of Elspeth Harper, a frontier woman whose husband got sick on the trail while crossing the mountains in the late 1700s. Heartbroken but refusing to leave, she stayed behind and camped at the edge of the Gap long after the settlers moved on. During a brutal storm, with no sign of Elspeth,...

Send us Fan Mail Down along Blackwater Creek, where the mist never lifts and the frogs fall silent before dawn, folks still whisper about the woman in white who walks the water’s edge. They say she lost her baby to a flood more than a hundred years ago, and every night since, her spirit searches the banks, callin’ soft through the fog. Those who’ve heard her lullaby say it ain’t no song meant for...

Send us Fan Mail Out past Jonesville , Virginia, where Route 666 winds through the holler, an old swinging bridge still hangs over the Powell River, creakin’, swayin’, and whisperin’ to the night. They say a preacher fell there one stormy evening in 1939, and ever since, his lantern’s been seen driftin’ through the mist, hummin’ hymns for the dead. Generations have heard the hooves, seen the light...

Send us Fan Mail Deep in the hollers of Lee County, Virginia, folks still whisper about a creature that ain’t quite dead, and ain’t rightly alive neither. They call her Calla, the Skin That Walks, a vengeful boo hag who sheds her skin at night and prowls the ridgelines, huntin’ for the warmth she lost long ago. In this Appalachian ghost tale, told in the voice of an older mountain woman who’s seen...