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Eerie Appalachia : Smiling Man Indrid Cold, the Jersey Devil, the Legend of Mothman and More.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muncy, Mark.
- Series:
- American Legends
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Appalachian Region.
- Folklore.
- Legends--Appalachian Region.
- Legends.
- Ghosts--Appalachian Region.
- Ghosts.
- Tales--Appalachian Region.
- Tales.
- Appalachian Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2022.
- Summary:
- Folk deep within Appalachian hollers lean close to share stories of the inexplicable with hushed awe. Monsters rumbling in the hills. Strange lights darting through the pitch-black night sky. Horrible occurrences, almost ineffable in their bizarre tragedy. Tall tales, you might say. But tell that to the Flatwoods monster in Braxton County, West Virginia. Or the Goat Man of Louisville--look into his humanoid eyes and let him know you don't believe. And what of those apparitions in Mammoth Cave's Corpse Rock, or the Satan spawn known as the Jersey Devil? How do you respond when those mysteries confront? From metaphysical energy that swirls near the Serpent Mound in Ohio to Point Pleasant's Mothman legacy, Mark Muncy and Kari Schultz explore the dark history lurking in the shadows of Appalachia.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I. THE APPALACHIAN TRIANGLE , 1950s and 1960s
- Indrid Cold (Parkersburg, West Virginia)
- The Mothman (Point Pleasant, West Virginia)
- The Grafton Monster (Grafton, West Virginia)
- The Hopkinsville Goblins (Kelly, Kentucky)
- The Loveland Frogmen (Loveland, Ohio)
- The Flatwoods Monster (Flatwoods, West Virginia)
- PART II. PRE -1900
- Wizard Clip (Middleway, West Virginia)
- Serpent Mound, Alligator Mound and the Crosswick Serpent (Ohio River Valley)
- PART III. HAUNTED HOT SPOTS
- The Kirkbride Asylums: Trans-Allegheny, Waverly Hills, Penhurst and the Ridges (Weston, West Virginia
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Spring City, Pennsylvania
- and Athens, Ohio)
- Screaming Jenny (Moulton, Alabama)
- The Moonville Tunnel (Vinton County, Ohio)
- The Greenbriar Ghost (Lewisburg, West Virginia)
- PART IV. EVERY HOLLER HAS A CREATURE
- An Introduction to Holler Life
- The Bone Lady (Amqui, Quebec)
- The Devil Spider (Hudson Valley, New York)
- The Jersey Devil (Pine Barrens, New Jersey)
- The Bogey Men (Olympia, Kentucky)
- The Pope Lick Monster (Louisville, Kentucky)
- The Rat Man (Jackson, Kentucky)
- The White Thangs (Various, Alabama and West Virginia)
- The Snallygaster (South Mountain, Maryland)
- The Snarly Yow (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
- The Wampus Cat (Appalachian Mountain Legend, Various States)
- The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp (Bishopville, South Carolina)
- Bunny Man Bridge (Clifton, Virginia)
- Ol' Pete (Rutledge, Tennessee)
- The Man at the Crossroads (Harlan, Kentucky)
- It Bites (Evington, Virginia)
- PART V. THE SASQUATCH ENCOUNTERS
- Bigfoot in the Appalachians
- The Ohio Grassman (Eastern Ohio)
- The Minerva Monster (Minerva, Ohio)
- The Apple Devils (Marlinton, West Virginia).
- Orange Eyes (Mill Lake, Ohio)
- The White Thang (Blakeslee, Pennsylvania)
- PART VI. EERIE LOCATIONS
- Mammoth Cave (Cave City, Kentucky)
- The Mushroom Mines (Lawton, Kentucky)
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Dayton, Ohio)
- Conclusion
- Appendix I. The Crestview Incident: Indrid Cold in Florida
- Appendix II. The Bench Leg of Goeble Ridge (Louisa, Kentucky)
- About the Author and Illustrator.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Muncy, Mark Eerie Appalachia
- ISBN:
- 9781439675113
- 1439675112
- OCLC:
- 1345585218
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