Join us on Patreon! It's the best way to support this podcast! www.patreon.com/hauntedcitypodcastThere is a town in West Virginia called Booger Hole, and people kept disappearing from it.In the final episode of Haunted South, Madison and Chris head into Southern Appalachia for three stories out of Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia. Dark woods, old rules, and a mountain range where the folklore is not decoration. It is instruction.First up: the Buckner Witch. Around 1865, a small woman named Polly Brewington arrived in Standing Stone, Tennessee, dressed head to toe in black. She took a job as housemaid for the Buckner family, fell for Alex Buckner, and then things went sideways in a way that is genuinely hard to believe. Climbing into their bed at night. Ripping the covers off. Having her brothers corner Margaret Buckner in an alley. She was finally banished, and she died not long after under circumstances no record can explain. In the middle of her son's second birthday party, Margaret Buckner went blank, stared into the distance, and announced, "Polly Brewington is dead and now she comes to torment me." Nobody could ever explain how she knew.Polly never left. Margaret spent the rest of her life swinging brooms and later a cane at a woman in black who kept showing up in her house, in her bedroom, and eventually at her own funeral.Then we head to Roan Mountain on the Tennessee and North Carolina line, where people have been hearing a choir in the wind since the 1700s. Some hear angels rehearsing for Judgment Day. Others hear screaming. We get into the Cloudland Hotel, the white line painted down the middle of the dining room to separate legal liquor from illegal liquor, the geologist who described a sound like a thousand bees, and the young man who took shelter in a cave during a thunderstorm and came out with his clothes bleached white.And then Booger Hole. Clay County, West Virginia. A stonemason vanished in 1883 carrying 300 dollars. A watchmaker vanished from the schoolhouse in 1897 and left a blood trail to the creek. An old woman named Lacey Ann Boggs was shot in the back of the head while knitting, and the man accused of it told the squire she called him with a witch call that made him fly through his window like a bird and carry her home on his back. By 1917 the county had had enough. One hundred and fifty armed men stormed the jail, shot the building up, dynamited five houses, and nailed a hand written notice to the trees listing exactly who had ten days to leave and who had thirty.Booger Hole has been quiet ever since. Except for the riders you can hear but never see, and the woman in white with the long black hair who wails along the paths at night.Plus a viewer submitted video that we are not fully convinced about, and a conversation about why "don't look in the trees," "if you hear your name called in the woods, you didn't," and "if you hear whistling at night, you didn't" are rules worth keeping.Got a personal ghost story and want it read on the show? Send us your ghostmail! ghostmail@hauntedcitypodcast.com #HauntedAppalachia #BoogerHole #WestVirginia #RoanMountain #BucknerWitch #AppalachianFolklore #TrueGhostStories #Paranormal #GhostCaughtOnCamera #HauntedSouth #Tennessee #NorthCarolina #Cryptids
