Holler Nights Ep. 8 | The Flatwoods Monster (WV, 1952) | The Skies: The Thing on Fisher Hill
Flatwoods, West Virginia, 1952. A group of boys sees something bright drop behind a hill on the Fisher farm. With one brave mother and a flashlight, they climb that hill in the dark. The Holler Nights finale.
Holler Nights Ep. 7 | The Sheepsquatch of West Virginia | The Woods: The White Thing
It's been called the White Thing, the Devil Dog, and the Great Horned Yeti. Today most people call it the Sheepsquatch: a pale, shaggy, horned creature that has haunted nearly a century of West Virginia stories.
Holler Nights Ep. 6 | The Raven Mocker (Cherokee Legend) | The Old Ways: Sit With the Dying
The Great Smoky Mountains, 1887. Something flies over the ridges at night, trailing sparks and crying like a diving raven, looking for a house where someone is dying. The Cherokee called it the Raven Mocker.
Holler Nights Ep. 5 | The Grafton Monster (WV, 1964) | The Woods: The Thing on Riverside Drive
Grafton, West Virginia, 1964. A young newspaperman driving home along the river catches something in his headlights: tall, pale, smooth as a seal, and without a head.
Holler Nights Ep. 4 | The Ghost of Laura Foster & Tom Dooley | Ghosts: The Grave on the Ridge
Wilkes County, 1866. Laura Foster rode out before sunrise to meet the man she planned to marry. She never came home, but the horse did. The song made Tom Dooley famous. This is her story, and the one folks near that ridge still whisper about.
Holler Nights Ep. 3 | Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum | The Departed: The Asylum That Held Eight Times Its Limit
Weston, West Virginia. They built it for two hundred and fifty souls. By the 1950s, it held nearly two thousand. We walk the quarter-mile halls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, and ask whether some of those two thousand ever really left.
Holler Nights Ep. 2 | The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter (1955) | The Skies: Four Hours 'Til Dawn
Kelly, Kentucky, 1955. Eleven people, one farmhouse, and four hours of gunfire aimed at small, silver figures with glowing eyes that wouldn't stay down. This is the night that gave America the phrase "little green men."