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The Great Smoky Mountains are full of secrets they refuse to yield to mere mortals, but there is an abundance of wonderful, true stories about these magnificent mountains and the unique people who live in them.
Many of the stories I've collected are in four books:
Smoky Mountain Tales, Volume I - new in 2007
This is a book of true and tall tales about life in the Great
Smoky Mountains — how it was, and how it is. Within these pages, you will meet
a throng of colorful characters.
Many of the tales deal with the timeless, universal human dilemmas.
There are also pourquoi tales — old legends that attempt to explain why certain
events happened —
some sad, some humorous.
There are vivid images, reflection, adventure, even enchantment and bits of
magic.
Most of the tales are illustrated with real photographs.
Smoky Mountain Ghostlore
Unsolved Disappearances in the Great
Smoky Mountains
Smoky Mountain Mysteries
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There is a list of the places they
are sold in the Great Smoky Mountain area at the
bottom of this page.
Smoky Mountain Ghostlore - 2005
This is a partial listing from the Table of Contents:
Sapphire Valley’s Twilight GhostWails at Cowee Tunnel - in North Carolina
The Man at the Top of the Steps
Lydia — Ghost of Greenbrier - in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Invisible House on Old Smoky
Merlin — Magickal Cat
Smoky Mountain Mysteries is a collection of stories about the magnificent mountains and unique people of Southern Appalachia. Most of the stories are true, the others an intriguing mixture of fact and folklore. Here are some of the stories:
Why are the mountains always smoky?
How did the Melungeons get to America first?
A ghost frolics in Sevierville, Tennessee!
Ghosts dance on Hazel Creek in North Carolina!
Who wrote on Judaculla Rock?
Unsolved riddle - lights on Brown Mountain.
Paperback: 160 pages — 5 1/2 x 8, ISBN: 1880308185; (June 2002) $13.95
Unsolved Disappearances in the Great Smoky Mountains
This nonfiction, thoroughly researched book narrates three types of actual unsolved disappearances in the Great Smoky Mountains. It is sold in all the Visitor Centers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The proceeds go to preserve this national treasure.
Vanished Without a Trace — Pauline Melton, Trenny Gibson, and Dennis Martin vanished during daylight, from different locations, on different dates, while surrounded by other people.
Puzzlers — An unidentified boy was found frozen to death in 1915, and buried by kind strangers. His identity was a mystery for 60 years.
Abe Ramsey, age 3, wandered away from his home on March 11, 1919. The story that he was never found may not be true.
Deliberate Disappearances — William Bradford Bishop, Jr., indicted for murdering his family, disappeared in 1976.
Eric Robert Rudolph, a bombing suspect, disappeared in 1998. He was
captured on
May 31, 2002, in Murphy, North Carolina, and is awaiting trial.
Paperback, 154 pages, $13.95
ISBN 1880309134 (September 1998) 8.38 x 5.27
These books are available in the Great Smoky Mountain area at:
All the Visitor Centers in the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
The Old Mill General Store, 160 Old Mill Avenue, Pigeon Forge, TN
Book Warehouse Stores: 2850 Parkway, 3127 Parkway in Pigeon Forge, & 611
Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN
Jonathan’s, 733 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN
Little Sparrow Gallery, 631 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN
Book Heaven, 2640 Upper Middle Creek Road, Sevierville, TN
Hooked on Books, 1315 Dolly Parton Parkway, Sevierville, TN 37862