Upper East Tennessee is a rugged place with a rich history. It is also a place with more than its share of ghosts and unexplained happenings. Charles Edwin Price has collected twenty stories. The stories run the gamut of the supernatural, from troublesome poltergeists and magical animals to evil witches and ghost lights.

Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee

Literature & Fiction

Price, Charles Edwin

Short Stories & Anthologies

John F Blair Pub

There is no doubt that in 1916 a five-ton circus elephant was lynched from a 100-ton Clinchfield railroad crane car in the little town of Erwin, Tennessee. The details of the execution and the tragic events leading up to it, however, are clouded in nearly a century of oral tradition. From one retelling to the next, facts are distorted and embellished; legend, instead of truth, is often accepted as fact. This book is an attempt to bring together all the known facts about the hanging and to fill in with educated guesses the missing parts of the puzzle.

The Day They Hung the Elephant

History

Americas

Overmountain Pr

The monster fish sighted in Watauga and Boone Lakes, the so-called Wampas Cat, and a witchy horse that found a little lost girl wandering on Embreeville Mountain—these are but a few of the stories retold in this book of East Tennessee tales. Other stories include the Cherokee legends of creation and fire, a witch who drove people mad, a personal account of a miraculous cure, lost civilizations in the middle of Cherokee National Forest, and a host of death and burial superstitions.

Demon in the Woods: Tall Tales and True from East Tennessee

The Mystery of Ghostly Vera: And Other Haunting Tales of Southwest Virginia

Revealing that historic Jonesborough is rich in both traditions and ghosts, this book of folklore claims that nearly every historic house in this oldest Tennessee town boasts at least one resident spook.

Haunted Jonesborough

Teen & Young Adult

Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee

The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Overmountain Press

Here we go again! More creepy-crawly tales of beasties, ghosties, haints, boogers, and things that go bump-in-the-night from the Volunteer State.

More Haunted Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee, is a haunted city. Ghosts roam its streets, its old theaters, its graveyards, even the caverns that snake beneath its byways. Knoxville is also a city beset by mysterious beastsfrom enigmatic monster cats to big hairy creatures that are said to roam the town by night. Knoxville is a city of legends. There are persistent rumors of an Old Knoxville” buried beneath the present city, and there is a famous downtown cemetery where there are gravestones, but no bodies. With a firm eye to history, Price tells his chilling stories with perception and good humorall of which add up to a book that can be read and reread for years to come.

Mysterious Knoxville

Fourteen-year-old William Gannaway Pritchard is in deep trouble--as usual. This time he's picked up an unusual-looking object from an airplane crash site. He thinks it's a giant seed pod, but he's wrong. It's an egg that hatches a rare baby dragon! Now, along with his best friend Amanda Laura Fitch (called Spunk), he is in a race for his life. He's lied to government agents, the police, his school principal, and his father. What's even worse, Wil and Spunk are forced to form an uneasy alliance with another 14-year-old, Jerrod Hathaway, the bad-tempered stepson of the very man who is leading a desperate mob, chasing them and the dragon all over Southwest Virginia. Wil can understand the government being desperately interested in the dragon, but why "Preacher"? As "Preacher" Hathaway closes in Wil, Spunk, Jerrod, and Dragonbreath, are forced to hide in Collingworth Mansion, a sprawling, dark, abandoned hulk of a building overlooking the Clinch River. The attic is allegedly haunted by the ghost of Ernest Ignatious Collingworth, a murder victim whose vengeful spirit is said to have already killed two intruders visiting his house. What Dragonbreath finds in the attic, however, is more terrifying than any ghost. His hideous discovery leads to a wild chase through the rugged Clinch Mountain country that involves three teenagers, one dragon, a mob of desperate men, and the Federal government.

Mystery in The Old Dark Attic (Dragonbreath Mysteries)

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