On September 18th 2023, I interviewed Jimmy of the project “Spooky Appalachia.” We discussed Appalachian folklore monsters, rural living, folk practices, the recent 2023 Mothman Festival, and our respective video and website projects. The full interview is available on the Appalachian Oddity YouTube channel and is linked below. The part of the interview that I…
Disclaimer: The following article discusses Appalachian folk practices which are presented for anthropological interest in folklore. None of this is intended as medical advice and it should not be viewed as such or attempted by anyone. Thank you. Enjoy. On December 26th 2022, I interviewed my Mawmaw (or grandmother) about Appalachian folk practices. We discussed…
In 2020, with a global health crisis, the world went into lockdown. Even in times like this however, the human spirit persists and so do our stories, folktales and modern mythologies. Though many of the churches were rightfully closing their doors, those who had never had altars at home promptly began table shopping online. Prayers…
On August 21st 2019, Madison of the will-o-the-witch blog made a post that would soon grab the internet’s attention. Madison was a self-described Jewish Witch with a blog about magic and witchcraft, but this post wasn’t about that, it was about a piece of local lore from their time living in North Carolina. The author…
On October 26th 2021, I interviewed a West Virginia woman via phone after learning that she had reportedly had an alien encounter. Through the phone interview, which she allowed me to record, I was able to get details on her supposed experience. She claimed that one night, in about 2013, she awoke at 4AM in…
When I was a kid, my family and I went to visit a relative’s home on Christmas Eve to open presents. This was in West Virginia, in the late 2000’s I think, and I remember it being dark at the time. On the way to our destination we were driving past what looked like a…
On a night in late September of 2009, possibly the 28th, a woman named Carly was on the front porch of her house near the Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was reportedly hanging early Halloween decorations when she suddenly got the eerie sense that she was being watched. From the woods behind her house,…
In 2019 a West Virginia local, who was familiar with my interest in oddities and winged creatures such as Mothman, approached me with a strange piece of paper. “I saw THIS in the mirror,” she said frantically. She had drawn a sketch of a peculiar scene that she had supposedly seen in her fog-covered bathroom…
In 2015, while in Highschool, my classmate Brandon told me that he had reportedly witnessed something bizarre in West Virginia back in 2008. The conversation began when he noticed the Mothman books I was reading in the school library. Brandon said that what he saw was similar to the Mothman in appearance. I took interest…