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Mysterious Tales of Western North Carolina

These dark hills and hollers hold endless secret wonders. UFO sightings join mysterious booming noises and the famous Brown Mountain Lights in lists of unexplained phenomena. Ghosts abound from Biltmore to Grandfather Mountain. Learn about the Phantom Rider of the Confederacy and all the spots where the devil is said to have set foot on Tar Heel soil. Sightings of Bigfoot join the legend of the Wampus Cat in tales told around the fire at night. Master storyteller Sherman Carmichael explores the lore of the mountains.

Sherman Carmichael, Lucy Elliott

Sherman Carmichael, a native of Hemingway, South Carolina, currently lives in Johnsonville, South Carolina. Carmichael has spent the last forty-five years dabbling into things that are best left alone--like ghosts, UFOs, monsters and other strange and unusual phenomena. Carmichael worked as a journalist for many years and spent thirty years as a photographer and thirty years in law enforcement. His seventh book, Mysterious Tales of the North Carolina Piedmont, was published by The History Press in 2019.

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