3 Scary Appalachian Horror Stories to Fall Asleep To

Three long form Appalachian horror stories for sleep. Cold ridges, wet laurel thickets, and long nights up hollers where the dark holds more than the dark should. The first story is set inside a summer fire lookout on Roan Mountain along the Tennessee and North Carolina line. The man who worked the tower before walked off shift one morning and did not come back. His parka is still on the hook. His paperback is still on the shelf. On the seventh night the cattle bells down on the saddle begin to sound wrong. The second story is set in the Kanawha State Forest in West Virginia. A pipeline surveyor working solo, running a proposed line for a natural gas company. An old man at a gas station in Loudendale tells him to keep his fire lit at night. On the second night, something upright walks past his fire ring in the dark. The Sheepsquatch.The third story runs up to the head of a Kentucky holler where a grandson has inherited his grandfather's cabin. Neighbors walk up the road on the first evening and sit on the porch and tell him five things he has to keep for as long as he stays. On the fourth night, in a thunderstorm, one of the five rules gets broken.