Holler Nights : 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. Tonight, we tell her story, and the one folks near that ridge still whisper about.
Holler Nights : The Restless - The Halls That Never Emptied
Weston, West Virginia. They built it for two hundred and fifty souls. By the 1950s, it held nearly two thousand. Tonight, we walk the quarter-mile halls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, and ask whether some of those two thousand ever really left.