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Twice Told – Dean Campbell
Beware the abandoned house…it may be ‘hainted’
Southern Appalachian mountain people in the Dark Corner have delighted in telling and retelling stories to their children and grandchildren. Favorite ones were about ghosts, ... Read more
Mad dog causes 1882 holiday season tragedy
Around midnight on a late November 1882 evening, Levi Bowers was startled awake by squealing chickens. He figured a fox or weasel had gotten into ... Read more
‘Preacher Jim’ Howard was a beloved man of God and the Dark Corner
Perhaps no one “born and raised” in Glassy Mountain township can equal the definitive Everyman persona of James Alexander Howard. Born at the foot of ... Read more
Whatever happened to your dad’s alligator?
“I thoroughly enjoy your Dark Corner tales in the Bulletin every month, but…” and here, the slightly graying, fortyish fellow in the Wells Fargo parking ... Read more
Annular eclipse of 1831 was highly anticipated
The Farmer’s Almanac was second only to the Bible with folks in the mountains of the Dark Corner and other Appalachian regions. In its pages ... Read more
