As locals to the Smokies, my daughter and I visit Cades Cove multiple times a year. We have favorite churches and cabins we ALWAYS have to visit. My daughter is the enforcer of this rule as she says, "It's our tradition." Each place has a different feel. More than once, we've heard voices, footsteps, or just felt like we were being watched, either from the building or the woods. It is our time-out place. Phones don't work up there, turn the radio off, open the windows, she pops up through the open sunroof, and we just cruise and enjoy the beauty, wildlife, and history. For me, I can't think of a better tradition to have with my girl. Thank you for the vid, I totally enjoyed it. 🧡
@FrightNightScares There's 4 stops we always make - the Missionary Baptist church, which is where our neighbor Fran Whitehead, her husband, and her son Kevin are buried, the Tipton place, all the Mill area and one other house that I have no idea the name but we know it when we see it. It has stairs to a loft on the left when you walk through the door and a fireplace with a window on either side also on the left past the stairs. Usually, when we go, swifts have a nest built above the fireplace. On another rafter in front of the swifts have been 1-2 brown bats roosting. Super cool. When it warms, of course, we will be back up there. This year, I plan to explore the graveyards with her and check out the cabins and churches we don't stop at. It's so hard to be able to visit places and be alone. I am always looking for the unexplained which she rolls her eyes at, but she herself experienced at the church. I, too, saw it. Can't wait for our new adventures!
I love Cades' Cove. When I was growing up, we visited every few years. The stories are in credible and I always wanted to spend more time there. It's good to know there are people who love it, too.
Thanks so much for checking out this video @angusissette87. You're so lucky to live so close to such a beautiful place! Have you ever experienced anything particularly spooky while living there?
Roaring Fork is just off a road right in Gatlinburg, its just a loop up the side of a mountain. One day my wife and 2 boys drove this loop it was about 60 degree in Gatlinburg but when we got to the top of the loop it was snowing. We saw two bear cubs and watched them both climb to the top a large tree. Several cool old cabins like in Cades Cove but with roaring creeks in the back yards.
Maybe this is just another version of your story, but a huge lake is said to exist at the base of Clingman's Dome that's a haven to animals but inaccessible to humans. A young Cherokee warrior was dying of thirst, so the great Spirit led him to this lake, on the condition that he never hunts there. Well, years later, he killed a bear to feed his village. As a result, the Great Spirit cursed humans to be barred forever from the lake. Now you can see birds fly up from nowhere, or mist rise from nothing, but the lake remains unseen. There is also the Vampire Chair. It's a plain ladder back chair, but when someone sits in it, they can't get up until it spills a drop of their blood. After that, it's given to another family. No one wants to risk being cursed by destroying it.
Cherokee, NC.. there's a density there that even I couldn't handle at the time I was visiting (July 2023). It's affects the whole area until you get into Maggie Valley. So- I sense there's been more than just the Trail of Tears that transpired there in the distant past.
I went to the smokies for the first time this year. Not much luck finding Elkmont (or maybe I did?) But Cade's Cove has to be my favorite spot in the park with all the buildings. The baptist church just had an energy to it.
Thanks for checking out this video @brookswade5774. We're very jealous you live to close to such a beautiful place. Have you experienced anything particularly spooky while riding up there?
@@FrightNightScares You know, it’s funny. I see so many videos about strange happenings in the park, but I’ve never experienced anything at all like that. I used to spend a lot of time there after dark too. I guess I’m lucky because I’m not sure I wouldn’t scream like a girl and run into a tree, knocking myself out. 😂
Grew up in the Smokies. Love this land. In pigeon forge in Gatlinburg all the time. Don't get me wrong don't go in woods by yourself out here without a gun. Definitely during ginseng season. But yeah their are spirits in the mountains and feral people.
Not much left of elkmont. The feds destroyed the old ghost town and the wonderland burnt down mysteriously years ago. So much better back in the old days. Never saw any ghosts, but had incidents a couple times there including drumming in the woods at night, twice. Been some BF reports there too.
I am blessed to have this beautiful park in my backyard. I mean literally within 5 mins to the road to nowhere. I have seen all kinds of things in this park. My Grandmother even lived in Bushnell, close to Elkmont, before it was flooded by the Fontana Lake.
Thanks for checking out this video @carlymichael. We're so jealous you live to close to such a gorgeous place! Do you remember anything in particular you've seen or experienced while living there?
@@FrightNightScares I remember one Trip up the road to nowhere that stood out fairly well. We where coming back down the road I looked in my Rearview Mirror and saw an older lady standing in the middle of the road. I saw this a little past Midnight. There should not have been a little lady there at all, but all she did was wave an smile at me. For all I know it could have been a relative. I have also experience a possession at the tunnel, if you go there just stay away from the tunnel, I personally think there is a portal that was not closed correctly. Still it is something to see if you come this way, and if you do welcome to my back yard.
So painting Andrew Jackson, yet again, vaguely as part of the issue with the Indian removal and Trail of Tears... andrew jackson actually made it a priority to move the natives west due to expansion of people coming to early America. Tribes were waring with each other all the time... the settlers would have been involved, natives would have been killed as well as settlers. Something HAD to be done. This was actually extremely forward thinking by an administration to try and preserve culture of the natives and avoid their culture being dissimilated etc... this happened ALL OVER THE WORLD. Just another example of america being an amazing melting pot of cultures that are absolutely preserved still to this day.
The story about the girl Lucy is absolutely a true phenomenon and occurs in various forms. The dean of our school district's son had an encounter with her while riding his 4-wheeler, as a young girl around 10 years old or less, she didn't speak a word to him, just pointed which way to go home and he gave her his school varsity football jacket to wear cause he found her walking around in the snow in the dead of winter in nothing but a little sunday dress and shoes. When he got home after taking her home, it was dark but his dad was furious cause he lost the new jacket he just paid for, and they decided to go get it the next day since he forgot to get it from her when she ran inside the house. When they rode to the house he took her to the next day, they found an abandoned-looking old run down house with a family cemetery up on the hill out back. His jacket was draped over her headstone. They were beyond mindblown. You should also check out what you can find out about Censabaugh Tunnel nearby in Church Hill too. That place's legit serious as a heart attack.
As locals to the Smokies, my daughter and I visit Cades Cove multiple times a year. We have favorite churches and cabins we ALWAYS have to visit. My daughter is the enforcer of this rule as she says, "It's our tradition." Each place has a different feel. More than once, we've heard voices, footsteps, or just felt like we were being watched, either from the building or the woods. It is our time-out place. Phones don't work up there, turn the radio off, open the windows, she pops up through the open sunroof, and we just cruise and enjoy the beauty, wildlife, and history. For me, I can't think of a better tradition to have with my girl. Thank you for the vid, I totally enjoyed it. 🧡
We LOVE this @ShellieCarter-qm6ow! Which structures are your favorites? Definitely a beautiful, fun tradition!
@FrightNightScares There's 4 stops we always make - the Missionary Baptist church, which is where our neighbor Fran Whitehead, her husband, and her son Kevin are buried, the Tipton place, all the Mill area and one other house that I have no idea the name but we know it when we see it. It has stairs to a loft on the left when you walk through the door and a fireplace with a window on either side also on the left past the stairs. Usually, when we go, swifts have a nest built above the fireplace. On another rafter in front of the swifts have been 1-2 brown bats roosting. Super cool. When it warms, of course, we will be back up there. This year, I plan to explore the graveyards with her and check out the cabins and churches we don't stop at. It's so hard to be able to visit places and be alone. I am always looking for the unexplained which she rolls her eyes at, but she herself experienced at the church. I, too, saw it. Can't wait for our new adventures!
I love Cades' Cove. When I was growing up, we visited every few years. The stories are in credible and I always wanted to spend more time there. It's good to know there are people who love it, too.
If you go looking for demons they will.let themselves be found and you won't like it when they won't leave
The Smoky Mountains are my favorite place to visit. If I had the chance I’d be moving to Tennessee just to be closer to this breathtaking park.
Thanks fort tuning in, @Got2BarrelRace4Life! We absolutely agree with you. What's your favorite place within the park?
What is wrong with North Carolina my friend.
Love living in this area. You can feel the age of one of the world's oldest mountain ranges in your soul. It's also the cradle or forestry.
Thanks so much for checking out this video @angusissette87. You're so lucky to live so close to such a beautiful place! Have you ever experienced anything particularly spooky while living there?
Thank you for another great video!!
Thanks as always @saradavis2104.
This was good and very interesting.
Thanks so much @verawalter6673. Have you been to any of these haunted spots in the Smokies?
Roaring Fork is just off a road right in Gatlinburg, its just a loop up the side of a mountain. One day my wife and 2 boys drove this loop it was about 60 degree in Gatlinburg but when we got to the top of the loop it was snowing. We saw two bear cubs and watched them both climb to the top a large tree. Several cool old cabins like in Cades Cove but with roaring creeks in the back yards.
Maybe this is just another version of your story, but a huge lake is said to exist at the base of Clingman's Dome that's a haven to animals but inaccessible to humans. A young Cherokee warrior was dying of thirst, so the great Spirit led him to this lake, on the condition that he never hunts there. Well, years later, he killed a bear to feed his village. As a result, the Great Spirit cursed humans to be barred forever from the lake. Now you can see birds fly up from nowhere, or mist rise from nothing, but the lake remains unseen. There is also the Vampire Chair. It's a plain ladder back chair, but when someone sits in it, they can't get up until it spills a drop of their blood. After that, it's given to another family. No one wants to risk being cursed by destroying it.
Another Great Video. plz keep them coming.
Thanks again @shannonmanley9217! Will Do!
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Another really interesting video.
Thanks @AScottishOdyssey!
Cherokee, NC.. there's a density there that even I couldn't handle at the time I was visiting (July 2023). It's affects the whole area until you get into Maggie Valley. So- I sense there's been more than just the Trail of Tears that transpired there in the distant past.
Yep.
I went to the smokies for the first time this year. Not much luck finding Elkmont (or maybe I did?) But Cade's Cove has to be my favorite spot in the park with all the buildings. The baptist church just had an energy to it.
Very cool @princeofavalar3780. Did you experience anything extra spooky during your visit?
@@FrightNightScares Nothing on this trip, but I hope to get back now that I'm more familiar with the stories of the area
I live 45 minutes from the Smokies. I love to ride my motorcycle up there. It’s a beautiful place.
Thanks for checking out this video @brookswade5774. We're very jealous you live to close to such a beautiful place. Have you experienced anything particularly spooky while riding up there?
@@FrightNightScares You know, it’s funny. I see so many videos about strange happenings in the park, but I’ve never experienced anything at all like that. I used to spend a lot of time there after dark too. I guess I’m lucky because I’m not sure I wouldn’t scream like a girl and run into a tree, knocking myself out. 😂
I love how you say it remains open to this day. I don't know why there's something funny about that.
Also, Deep Creek. JS
awesome
Thanks for checking out this video @chrisliles1668. Have you been to any of these haunted spots in the Smokies?
@@FrightNightScares not yet but i would love to go
Another evening of fright night. History and paranormal
Thanks again @brianlawson5044! We always appreciate you tuning in.
Grew up in the Smokies. Love this land. In pigeon forge in Gatlinburg all the time. Don't get me wrong don't go in woods by yourself out here without a gun. Definitely during ginseng season. But yeah their are spirits in the mountains and feral people.
I would love to be able to live in Cades Cove. It's so beautiful.
Not much left of elkmont. The feds destroyed the old ghost town and the wonderland burnt down mysteriously years ago. So much better back in the old days. Never saw any ghosts, but had incidents a couple times there including drumming in the woods at night, twice. Been some BF reports there too.
Thanks for the info @serpent6710. Have you had any other mysterious experiences in The Smokies?
The Town has been rebuilt in Elkmont and is open for viewing the cabins...just pay to park and you can explore all of Elkmont
Live in mcminn County... go to Cades cove all the time
According to Cherokee legend. Spearfinger was killed by the tribe as they trapped her in a pit and set it on fire
I am blessed to have this beautiful park in my backyard. I mean literally within 5 mins to the road to nowhere. I have seen all kinds of things in this park. My Grandmother even lived in Bushnell, close to Elkmont, before it was flooded by the Fontana Lake.
Thanks for checking out this video @carlymichael. We're so jealous you live to close to such a gorgeous place! Do you remember anything in particular you've seen or experienced while living there?
@@FrightNightScares I remember one Trip up the road to nowhere that stood out fairly well. We where coming back down the road I looked in my Rearview Mirror and saw an older lady standing in the middle of the road. I saw this a little past Midnight. There should not have been a little lady there at all, but all she did was wave an smile at me. For all I know it could have been a relative. I have also experience a possession at the tunnel, if you go there just stay away from the tunnel, I personally think there is a portal that was not closed correctly. Still it is something to see if you come this way, and if you do welcome to my back yard.
@14:18 That barn you show is a rarity called a cantilever.
I like Abrams Creek
Thanks so much for tuning in @joelhoward8211. Do you have any personal stories about Abrams Creek you'd care to share with us?
Yes, it's super dangerous and scary. Please don't visit. Thanks.
Thanks for tuning in to the channel @CooperJones777. Have you been to any of these specific spots in the Smokies?
So painting Andrew Jackson, yet again, vaguely as part of the issue with the Indian removal and Trail of Tears... andrew jackson actually made it a priority to move the natives west due to expansion of people coming to early America. Tribes were waring with each other all the time... the settlers would have been involved, natives would have been killed as well as settlers. Something HAD to be done. This was actually extremely forward thinking by an administration to try and preserve culture of the natives and avoid their culture being dissimilated etc... this happened ALL OVER THE WORLD. Just another example of america being an amazing melting pot of cultures that are absolutely preserved still to this day.
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Thanks for checking out this video @andrewcolari5724. Have you gotten a chance to visit any of these spooky sites before?
The story about the girl Lucy is absolutely a true phenomenon and occurs in various forms. The dean of our school district's son had an encounter with her while riding his 4-wheeler, as a young girl around 10 years old or less, she didn't speak a word to him, just pointed which way to go home and he gave her his school varsity football jacket to wear cause he found her walking around in the snow in the dead of winter in nothing but a little sunday dress and shoes. When he got home after taking her home, it was dark but his dad was furious cause he lost the new jacket he just paid for, and they decided to go get it the next day since he forgot to get it from her when she ran inside the house. When they rode to the house he took her to the next day, they found an abandoned-looking old run down house with a family cemetery up on the hill out back. His jacket was draped over her headstone. They were beyond mindblown.
You should also check out what you can find out about Censabaugh Tunnel nearby in Church Hill too. That place's legit serious as a heart attack.
Thank you so much for sharing that story @chrisshipes1153. That's awesome and really spooky! Can you tell us a bit more about the Censabaugh Tunnel?