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The words Tsul and Tsune and their variations appear in a number of Cherokee place names throughout the Southeastern United States, especially in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Tsul`kälû' Tsunegûñ'yï is a 100-acre (40 ha) patch on a slope of the mountain Tanasee Bald [ 2 ] in Jackson County, North Carolina , on the ridge ...
Allan Jones, a Cleveland, Tennessee entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of national payday lender Check Into Cash, capitalized on the Tall Betsy character in 1980. [1] Jones based the character on stories (local folklore) that were told to his mother, Virginia Slaughter Jones, by her mother, Marie Schultz Slaughter.
An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture
The Bell Witch of Tennessee: Miller, Harriet Parks: Leaf-Chronicle Publishing: Local historian from Port Royal, Tennessee. [109] 1934: The Bell Witch: A Mysterious Spirit: Bell, Charles Bailey: Lark Bindery: B000887W6Y: Author a descendant of the Bell family. [110] 1969: The Bell Witch at Adams: Barr, Gladys: David Hutchinson Publishing ...
Pete Rose was at a sports card show in Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville on Sunday interacting with many of his fans before he died Monday. Pete Rose takes photo with Reds legends, signs ...
Weird Tennessee: Your Travel Guide to Tennessee's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. Sterling (May 2011). Roger Manley, Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran ISBN 1-4027-5465-5; Weird Texas: Your Travel Guide to Texas's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. Sterling (July 2005). Wesley Treat, Heather Shades, Rob Riggs. ISBN 1-4027-3280-5
A popular legend is that a railroad worker was in an accident in which he was decapitated and now he is holding a lantern going up and down the tracks searching for his missing head. The other legend involves the murder of a foreman for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad. The Gurdon Light was reportedly sighted shortly after his murder near those ...
The move makes Tennessee, long known as the birthplace of country music and the launchpad for musical legends, the first state in the U.S. to enact such measures.