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  • Опубліковано 30 лис 2022
  • The Incredible True Story of the Harpe Brothers- Americas First Serial Killers who blazed a trail of violence never seen in Appalachia. Appalachias Deadliest Duo #appalachia #serialkillerdocumentary #serialkillersdocumentaries #appalachianhistory
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  • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
    @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +46

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    • @rodneyharp802
      @rodneyharp802 Рік тому +2

      I am a Harp don’t hold it against me.

    • @chrismusselwhite133
      @chrismusselwhite133 Рік тому +6

      1799 and they had revolvers?????

    • @eddiemclean7011
      @eddiemclean7011 Рік тому +3

      Yep, had me hook line and sinker till that error

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +3

      @@chrismusselwhite133 I mean, yes and no, the revolver was invented 200 years prior but its likely these ole boys didnt have them. They mainly killed folks with knives, brute force and the easily accessible guns. I just took a historical event with lots of facts and no story, and told it in my own words. Nothing more, nothing less. A lot of folks lost their mind about revolvers not being invented... well, they were... although these boys probably didnt use them. Thanks for watching the video. Ill try to do better to provide better entertainment for the cost that everyone paid to watch this video.... oh yeah, it was FREE to watch. Just saying...

    • @johnharris8191
      @johnharris8191 Рік тому +3

      @@chrismusselwhite133 , Also an 1866 Winchester rifle, lol

  • @bethanywinfrey7369
    @bethanywinfrey7369 Рік тому +216

    When I was a teenager (35 years ago) in Kentucky, my father would tell me stories about the Harpe Bros that he heard from his father. One day he took me and my brother into the woods to a large mossy boulder. As he begin to wipe the moss away we began to see old carvings. Little Harpe and Big Harpe had carved their names into the rock. His father had shown him as a child and it is still there to this day. Covered in moss again, but it's there. I still know the location but never showed anyone else for fear that they would vandalize it. The last time I took the short hike through the woods and found the stone was about 12 years ago.

    • @rikijett310
      @rikijett310 Рік тому +24

      I hope you share this location with someone special in your life so it doesn't become lost forever.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +13

      How bout that

    • @michaelbell2309
      @michaelbell2309 Рік тому +7

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller do a story about mad anne Bailey. There is a plaque about her near falling springs virginia!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +7

      @@michaelbell2309 if you have any info on her, send me a email to theappalachianstoryteller@gmail.com

    • @scroogemcduckrich9705
      @scroogemcduckrich9705 Рік тому +3

      sure

  • @zachariahharp5508
    @zachariahharp5508 Рік тому +21

    Thanks for your excellent story. I’m a Harp(e). My grandfather told me as a kid that we dropped the E off of the end of our name as we wanted to distance ourselves. Sure was crazy when about 20 years later when I was asked if I was related to the Harpe brothers, then handed a book to read. Then I was floored. Many thanks for the story telling. The video is really great too.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +2

      wow, how bout that! thanks for sharing that story!

    • @_vm.09
      @_vm.09 8 місяців тому +1

      Great story harp

    • @francesmeyer8478
      @francesmeyer8478 4 місяці тому +1

      My maiden name was "Earp" rhymes with harp. It came over in 1669 with Thomas Earpe jr. Census records have listed it as Arp, Harp, Earp, Earpe, etc. My third great-grandfather was listed in various census records as Arp, Earp, and Harp. We are probably cousins. We are pretty thick on the ground. Hello!

    • @zchris87v80
      @zchris87v80 4 місяці тому +1

      I've heard this from a few Harp(e)s in this area, some whose families chose to drop the 'e' and those who didn't. Always a cool story behind it.

  • @vanillagorrilla
    @vanillagorrilla Рік тому +21

    Please keep making these you have a wonderful way of telling the stories and I love the voice over that’s speaking it really takes me to the Appalachian mountains u really do have a great channel 👍🏻

  • @Abbybabby29
    @Abbybabby29 Рік тому +18

    This is crazy! I watch true crime and this story is the worst I’ve heard! You’re an amazing story teller !!!

  • @tracybingham7739
    @tracybingham7739 Рік тому +48

    You truly have such a gift of story telling!! I was captivated from the opening lines. I could seriously listen to you read the dictionary. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful, sad, and now even gruesome history of the people of Appalachia.

  • @garyball2431
    @garyball2431 Рік тому +11

    Disturbing but great story. American history 101. The narrator is amazing!

  • @robertsnearly3823
    @robertsnearly3823 Рік тому +13

    This one really grabbed me from the get go. I wasn't about to stop listening to this story as them boys git worse n worse. Superb presentation. 😊❤️

  • @richardliles4415
    @richardliles4415 Рік тому +26

    Wow! It’s hard to believe that there are folks like that out there, but I guess there still are folks like out there.😞😞😞

  • @hillbillyslim
    @hillbillyslim Рік тому +31

    I'd 'bout reckon that them Harp boys ain't exactly hearing nary a bit of music from an Angel's Harp, if you smell what I'm stepping in. Thanky once again JD for another fascinating, but brutal tale of those no good for nothing Scallywags.🤠

    • @frostyfrances4700
      @frostyfrances4700 Рік тому +6

      I'm not sure if JD cares whether I ever sleep another wink or not!
      But I'll still share as soon as this is public fare bc I'm nothing if not generous to my friends. If they stop sleeping too, at least I'll have somebody to talk to.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +5

      It’s a heck of a story

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +5

      ❤️

  • @ritagreen9528
    @ritagreen9528 Рік тому +2

    I can't join, but I can click like, and let the ads run all the way to the end👍 ❤️ This is an amazing story. Thank you ❤️

  • @godschildyes
    @godschildyes Рік тому +14

    WHEW! This is a brutal and extremely raw account! Different times then! Very beautifully told! Thank you so much!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +4

      Very brutalA and I left their most shocking murder out because I didn’t think the average viewer could stomach it

    • @godschildyes
      @godschildyes Рік тому +1

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller Hahaha! Oh man! Makes me wonder!

    • @Tornado1861
      @Tornado1861 Рік тому +1

      ​@@TheAppalachianStoryteller
      I read a book about them a couple years ago and I think I know which one you are talking about.

  • @suzannecrum9702
    @suzannecrum9702 Рік тому +16

    Thia kept me on the edge of my seat! It is no wonder why these brothers are not still talked about. Thanks for researching this and sharing with us.

  • @eddiesarabosing6799
    @eddiesarabosing6799 Рік тому +11

    Stories like this are true pages of history. I like hearing it from here. Good or bad history must be told in its entirety so that people in this generation and generation to come must know, learned and benefits the lessons history.

  • @MeanGirlMeanie
    @MeanGirlMeanie Рік тому +6

    I just found your channel and I'm hooked. I'm from Michigan and I love learning about the Appalachian history. You have a way of taking us right to that moment in time. Thank you.

  • @thefoggymountainwitch
    @thefoggymountainwitch Рік тому +16

    That was really diffrent.... What an amazing way to tell the horrific story of the two killer- brothers!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +6

      Thank you Foggy Mountain Witch. I have never been one to follow rules of templates of the way things are supposed to be, so I did my best to breathe life into this story into a way that I thought it should be told

    • @thefoggymountainwitch
      @thefoggymountainwitch Рік тому +3

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller You really gave life to all the death they caused... You used the shoting sound and the color red so well.

    • @b.m.t.h.3961
      @b.m.t.h.3961 Рік тому

      They sound like two psychopaths

  • @Dontwlookatthis
    @Dontwlookatthis Рік тому +6

    I live along side the Natchez Trace National Historic Parkway. There have been books written about the goings on along the Trace, including the revolution that Arron Burr tried to start using slaves, and his capture and trial close to the Trace. Each of the books claim that the Harp brothers operated on the Trace as far down as Natchez. Natchez is the second oldest city in the United States and as soon as it became part of the United States a town named Washington, just a five minute ride today from Natchez became the legal capital of the territory. It was there, according to the books that Little Harp came in to identify his brother's head to collect the bounty for positive identification. Back then it was too hard to haul a body the entire way to the distant law office, so heads were cut off, rolled in clay and transported that way. When Little Harp identified his brother there was someone present who could identify Little Harp and he was arrested, hung from a tree on the Trace and left to rot. When there was nothing left except skull and bones, the skull was stuck into a place in the tree and a sign was put up saying something like "This is what is left of Little Harp, this is what we do to murderers.
    Of course, over the years I have seen books and videos about the Harp story taking place all the way up the Trace to the Cumberland Trail and beyond, so I doubt that even though there are old records from newspapers of the day, that we will ever know where they really roamed and were caught.
    Of interest, in the Natchez Trace park office in Tupelo, Mississippi, the half way point from Nashville to Natchez, I was allowed to check out the original map made by the Park of the original Trace and where route that the Parkway takes. Along with that I checked put an actual travel guide to the Trace that was put together in the late 1700s. It listed miles between each stand (or inn, hotel, B&B) with a description of what each was like. Some provided travelers with the best and others nothing more than a lean to to sleep under and one even carried the warning, "It is best if you keep going and make your way to the next stand because the owner here is a nasty sort." So we think that since the automobile arrived that such things were invented but truth is, these guides existed long before our great, great, great grandparents were born.

  • @RobertCBaker-gq6mc
    @RobertCBaker-gq6mc Рік тому +3

    I love your stories and the history! Your voice reminds me of one of my uncle's sittin around tellin a story.
    Keep up the great stories Sir.

  • @sheltowee8079
    @sheltowee8079 Рік тому +3

    That's some bad ass music in the background, pretty cool knowin you wrote that part to, these remind me of a modern version of the old radio programs our grandparents listened to. There just as entertaining to.

  • @lindabriggs5118
    @lindabriggs5118 Рік тому +11

    I'm not originally from the Appalachian's. My parents were French and we could trace our genealogy back to the mid 1770's to Normandy France where our ancestors started. Then two brothers sailed to Canada and our families eventually settled across the Saint John River into Maine at Van Buren, Aroostic County. My parents were from there, but after WWII they moved to Los Angeles, California where I was born and raised. But my parents have pasted years ago and to be closer to my own granddaughters I have retired and have settled in the Southwestern Appalachian's of NC. I've been in many countries across the world and this area is quite beautiful. Autumn is my favorite time of year here.
    I've always enjoyed the histories of places were I have lived, and the Appalachian's are no different. I enjoy hearing the stories from the really older people who remember what it was like. But I'm no spring chicken, I'm one of those old people too. LOL. My own history has been an adventure, but my family here are as redneck as they come. They are just the newer generation of the Appalachian's and they survived these difficult times. But I am blessed as I have gotten to watch my granddaughters grow up here.
    So I love your tales of the times that are now gone. It wasn't an easy life. But, like people everywhere they made do, survived their own ups and downs, and the children of today learn from the stories you tell and record so others may know. Thank you. It would be fun to sit at a campfire and listen to the stories you tell.

  • @marycorzette6562
    @marycorzette6562 Рік тому +8

    Wow! What a crazy pair! Thanks for another great story! I much appreciate every story. Even the bad ones. God bless and Happy Holidays to you and yours.

  • @mortenwallinjensen
    @mortenwallinjensen 10 місяців тому +2

    As a Danish boy from 1959, when I was a child I learned about America from the TV, and most of our outdoor playtime was spend playing cowboys and indians. (We vere alvays playing around) Later I watched Sergio Leones movies and Soldier Blue, and found out, that the word isn't black and white. Now in an age of 64, I found your channel. I must say: You are an incredible good storyteller. There are a lot of stories to be told, and you do it incredible good. Thanks. :-)

  • @rebeccadees2300
    @rebeccadees2300 11 місяців тому +4

    I’m amazed that they remembered all the names of the people they murdered.

  • @derekkelly4816
    @derekkelly4816 Рік тому +10

    Factual inconsistencies aside, and there were a few. This story I had never heard before and I thank you for telling it so well. Keep up the good work. Because history needs you.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +3

      Yeah there’s a lot of different schools of thought on this story- and I took some creative liberties to tell it in my own style

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +3

      @@mikeuyeda2330 dont let the door hit ya in the arse

  • @thomaswright5492
    @thomaswright5492 Рік тому +8

    The book American Nations by Colin Woodard devotes a lot of the story of different groups to those who came to America from the Borderlands of Scotland and Ireland due to poverty. These people were independent and many as mean as could be but their story makes up a huge part of what our country is today.

  • @markdickerson6757
    @markdickerson6757 Рік тому +2

    Another excellent story of Old Appalachia! Love to learn about the history of the mountains.

  • @alleysensei
    @alleysensei Рік тому +121

    I don't doubt the truth of this story, but how did the Harp brother have a revolver in 1799, when it was invented in 1831?

    • @redtobertshateshandles
      @redtobertshateshandles Рік тому +7

      It was a Pepperbox pistol.

    • @nifty1940
      @nifty1940 Рік тому +18

      They didn't. The narrator is taking a lot of license with his imagery, which bears no reality to the weaponry of the era. There are no known images of the brother's, just descriptors. The abbreviated version is best told via Wikipedia, and on other sites.

    • @dullahan7677
      @dullahan7677 Рік тому +5

      @@nifty1940 Hatfields at 18:36.

    • @AjninHaru
      @AjninHaru Рік тому +16

      Revolver is often used as a synonym for handgun. It drives me crazy to hear people still say police revolver when modern police almost exclusively use semi automatic pistols.

    • @6mm250
      @6mm250 Рік тому +8

      They didn't have lever action rifles either

  • @kristinasheltonburns519
    @kristinasheltonburns519 Рік тому +6

    This was crazy!!! I couldn't stop listening to this!! To think this happen around my home in Knoxville is just WOW!!!

  • @JasonSmith-mn8ew
    @JasonSmith-mn8ew Рік тому +10

    I've heard of these brothers before but I didn't know all the details! I don't think many people realize just how brutal the Revolution was, especially in the back country.

  • @ChristyDPrice
    @ChristyDPrice Рік тому +6

    Wonderfully told!! Like the use of first person pov. Excellent!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +3

      I wanted to bring the story to life and have the story told by the killers themselves, I must admit that when I finished recording the narration for this video I felt physically sick

  • @followerofmanus1
    @followerofmanus1 Рік тому +35

    I love hearing about the stories of the Scots-Irish settlers in the Northern Appalachian American Colonies. So much history that is documented, but not nearly as known of but instead spoken of between townsfolk and passed down generations.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +20

      Indeed, nowadays, many folks think what they see in Hollywood is the only true stories, im doing my part to share our history here

    • @rhondabuce8348
      @rhondabuce8348 Рік тому +4

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller I absolutely love the true stories you tell, even though some may be harsh and brutal. That's what our heritage and country consists of. Good and the, even terrible.

  • @edwardkellogg1284
    @edwardkellogg1284 Рік тому +19

    This story was really good. It kept you involved in the storytelling. These brothers were pretty gruesome on the people they killed and the way they did it. I've heard other stories about the cave in the wall. Have a great weekend.

  • @markmartin3256
    @markmartin3256 Рік тому +20

    This story needs to be made into a movie! Thank you for the history lesson.

  • @conryykrobertson
    @conryykrobertson Рік тому +6

    Excellent history! This all happened right around where I am.. crazy to think about I've passed by some of these spots hundreds of times. Would definitely make a good trip finding all these places following their steps. Maybe one day! Thanks for sharing

  • @rogerironhide4220
    @rogerironhide4220 Рік тому +8

    Great Story!!! & gruesome as hell smh 💯🍻👍🏻... I love your channel as it is very informative & yet Educational for anyone interested in more about "Our" ancestors. We're all different & each has a unique story of they're own. Too bad Soo much has been lost in my family, It's going to take a lot of work tracking down. I've Soo far managed to find somethings out & still better than nothing. I think my family came right before the Civil War & they fought for the South, as most of my family over here are from The South - Maryland, Carolina's, Virginia, Tennessee, & Texas. Keep up with the outstanding research & awesome stories. I just love the American Wild West 💯🍻.

  • @figgiefigueroa7372
    @figgiefigueroa7372 Рік тому +25

    This is the best documentary style story ever.
    I wonder they should do a mini series about Appalachian history.
    I'm from the Caribbean but my ancestors came from Spain. But like you guys I'm always looking for the family history.
    Congratulations on your accomplishments and successful story narratives.
    Love it !!!!

  • @stephenernsberger9678
    @stephenernsberger9678 Рік тому +3

    WOW.....! JUST GOT FINISHED CHECKING OUT THIS UPLOAD.... AWESOME BROTHER TRULY AWESOME! SICK DUDES... GREAT STORY...!. THANKS AGAIN..

  • @deeplydark
    @deeplydark Рік тому +1

    New subscriber here… great videos! I’ve learned so much already. Can’t believe I had never heard of these two delightful young men, thanks so much

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому

      These ole boys didn’t mess around

    • @leonceboudreauxwolf
      @leonceboudreauxwolf Рік тому

      Delightful young men ? Murdering women, children and babies ? Murdering people who gave them hospitality ? Yeah, they were "delightful" alright. The story was told very well though, and like someone said , history, good or bad is still history and shouldn't be cancelled out. Many thanks to the Appalachian Storyteller for it..

    • @deeplydark
      @deeplydark Рік тому

      @@leonceboudreauxwolf ever heard of sarcasm??

  • @jackgoodner6789
    @jackgoodner6789 9 місяців тому +2

    WOW! What a story J. D. I love your work, keep it up.

  • @sandyhawks5240
    @sandyhawks5240 Рік тому +5

    What a wonderful story. You have the voice for it. They were mean dudes.

  • @Moonewitch
    @Moonewitch Рік тому +2

    Thank you for ALL that you do! You are appreciated. ☮🤍

  • @jarkoer
    @jarkoer Рік тому +10

    16:48 Certainly there were very rare (and very heavy) prototype flintlock revolvers in Europe in 1799 owned by a few very rich people, but I don't think revolvers were in common usage in America until Sam Colt came along in the 1830s with his percussion cap revolver.

    • @nifty1940
      @nifty1940 Рік тому +1

      Yep, it's a pity the style of firearms are so inaccurate as to distract from the authenticity of the narrative. The lever action rifle was 1873+, for example.

  • @rmsmith8098
    @rmsmith8098 Рік тому +3

    Keep bringing these stories to the next generation!

  • @JesusIsaFlatEarther
    @JesusIsaFlatEarther Рік тому +3

    You made the sickest story I ever heard sound interesting.

  • @bonitamartin4954
    @bonitamartin4954 Рік тому +3

    Ok, that was creepy. It made me giggle. Keep 'em coming!

  • @clydefield584
    @clydefield584 Рік тому +5

    I'm not sure about revolvers being around in 1799?. I'm gonna fact check that.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +2

      Stopler revolver is arguably the world's oldest revolver known and existing today. It was made in 1597 by a German gunsmith named Hans Stopler. He made the gun in his shop in Nuremberg.

    • @SlickRickDownSouth
      @SlickRickDownSouth Рік тому

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller Just because it was invented doesn't mean they had them. No army up to the 1840s had them. Please just admit you were wrong on that part.

  • @Smokymtnfaith
    @Smokymtnfaith Рік тому +2

    I'm very thankful for the story thank you. I love anything like this or about civil war are native Americans or mtn ppl Appalachian ur very Awesome story teller thank you

  • @tessieroberts5298
    @tessieroberts5298 Рік тому +5

    Fascinating story. I have never heard of them before. Keep up the great videos.

  • @bigiron8831
    @bigiron8831 Рік тому +8

    J.D, I don't know how you can top this story but I have a feeling you will.
    My daughter lives close to Cave in the Rock and we camped there back in August and we heard the Illinois version of this story but yours is the best. Stay safe out there my friend 🙏

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +3

      Preciate you brother, I did my best to bring the tale to life

    • @bigiron8831
      @bigiron8831 Рік тому +2

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller
      It was awesome, I shared it with my daughter who thought she knew all of Cave in the Rock history. Stay safe my friend 🙏

  • @JBowman-ps2ri
    @JBowman-ps2ri Рік тому +6

    Great Story & Narration!!! You are 1 hell of a storyteller Sir!!! 👍

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +1

      Thank you my friend! preciate you!

    • @JBowman-ps2ri
      @JBowman-ps2ri Рік тому +1

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller I'm a big fan, greatly appreciate you! Still hoping to see if you do something on the topics I mentioned before... The one about the WV coal wars & shootings, I sent you some info in email about it & the sheriff that was gunned down on the courthouse steps in the aftermath... & especially about the origins of Lake Shawnee & the first settlers there & the Shawnee Indians ... And the haunted amusement park that's there now, you had a video had the Ferris wheel picture in a frame of the video... Thats a very interesting place!!! Very close to my home also, just on the other side of the county line of Wyoming & Mercer County... But I really enjoy your content & you can tell a story good & got the voice for it! Your full blooded hillbilly like me I can tell! Lol

  • @joseleswopes1400
    @joseleswopes1400 Рік тому +7

    This was a very interesting story I thoroughly enjoyed hearing it. Unbelievable how crewel people were in those days. I'm not saying they aren't today just different 🙏💕

  • @christopherblevins1968
    @christopherblevins1968 Рік тому +5

    Dang! Their cornbread was still doughy in the middle! They were literally monsters.
    Why have I never heard of this before?

  • @outdoorlife5396
    @outdoorlife5396 Рік тому +10

    Finally, a story that is new. A story about a new outlaw. Not Jesse James, Bonnie & Clyde, Billie the Kid, they place some of these stories to death

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +2

      Thank you my friend

    • @outdoorlife5396
      @outdoorlife5396 Рік тому +2

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller Question, I have heard of a bootlegger/moonshiner named Lewis Redmond but can't find out much about him. Do you know where I could?

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +1

      @@outdoorlife5396 Cant say I know him

    • @outdoorlife5396
      @outdoorlife5396 Рік тому +1

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller He was a child during the CW, he became a Robin Hood moonshiner in the late 1800"s after the CW. As you may guess he pissed some people off, who hunted him down like a dog. He had many successful escapes. The last time he got in a shootout with LEO's. They left him for dead in his corn field. He got well and was tried and sent to prison. He made good whiskey, so a manufacturer wanted him to work for him. I believe the story goes Gov Wade Hampton of SC pardoned him or he got a presidential went to Columbia SC and lived a quiet life for the rest of his life. I heard it a story telling around a campfire in Jackson County NC. I have found some of the story goggling him, but not much

  • @Tornado1861
    @Tornado1861 Рік тому +12

    I found out a few years ago these evil brothers killed my 6G grandfather in 1799.
    Edit:
    After watching the video that is him at 16:25

  • @bigdog593
    @bigdog593 Рік тому +1

    My heritage is traced from Scotland and back to the vikings I'm from wva yes a true hillbilly I'm 70 and still going strong love 2 all

  • @GS-xt8fu
    @GS-xt8fu Рік тому +9

    My grandfather did fight in the revolutionary war and so did two of his sons. One of them fought at kings mountain as well. My grandfather helped keep the British from coming around in a counter move from the British. My grandfather was out of the wheeling fort area when this was the wild open west. You can find him when you goggle. Moses Williamson. He actually knew Lew Wetzel.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +1

      wow!

    • @jdisdetermined
      @jdisdetermined Рік тому +6

      Wait.. your grandfather was alive in 1776? So you must be like.. 150 years old?

    • @bobhamulak3646
      @bobhamulak3646 Рік тому

      @Keith Olsen: Yeah, I agree! There is NO WAY that someone who is alive today that had a grandfather who fought in the Revolutionary War! I suspect this person is full of s**t! It makes me wonder whether the story of the Harpe Brothers was true also! Throughout the story, which supposedly took place around 1790 or so, they kept showing pictures of men with lever-action rifles, which weren't invented for another 100 years! People are so gullible, they wanna' believe anything they're told!

  • @Knards
    @Knards Рік тому +6

    Superb storytelling!

  • @CharacterMatterz
    @CharacterMatterz Рік тому +3

    I thoroughly enjoyed the story, sir, and I appreciate you tellin' it. Thank you...

  • @MDR-hn2yz
    @MDR-hn2yz Рік тому +5

    “Take a big tall tree and a short piece of rope. Hang em up high and let em swing til the sun goes down.”
    Charlie Daniels- “Simple Man”
    ***
    Great story. 👍

  • @jamesmainstream3112
    @jamesmainstream3112 Рік тому +11

    The people hating on the embellishing of this story don't understand how storytelling works. This man has a gift.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +2

      Thank you for that...

    • @garyhighley9022
      @garyhighley9022 Рік тому +3

      Helluva lot better and more entertaining than some fake robot voice from Wikipedia.

    • @yankee2666
      @yankee2666 Рік тому

      Where have you encountered these 'story haters'? (Fool!)

  • @stephenmayne4886
    @stephenmayne4886 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for sharing this great story. Merry Christmas 🎅

  • @debroahisaacs2452
    @debroahisaacs2452 Рік тому +25

    Really an awesome story. I enjoyed the history. How horrible. I am Appalachian and I traced my ancestors to 1785 Scotland and Cherokee Virginia. I am so sorry for what your parents went through.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +17

      it wasn't my parents. I just told the story in first person to breathe life into it.

    • @rogerjrusa
      @rogerjrusa Рік тому +6

      Yeah the 1700’s were tough.

  • @AintSkeerdNWO
    @AintSkeerdNWO Рік тому +1

    Wow! Graphic narration!! Great True Crime stories!

  • @Brunzy1970
    @Brunzy1970 Рік тому +1

    New subscriber....started watching 👀 then 4 hrs later, I subscribed!

  • @dee4732
    @dee4732 Рік тому +4

    Hey JD hope you and your family are well..
    That was amazing story.. phew....the tomahawk special
    Dee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✝️

  • @dellajoycebairdmoses7890
    @dellajoycebairdmoses7890 Рік тому +6

    Wow 😳
    I was watching Tucker the other day and he had James Wood, the actor on his program. James said he was going to be inducted into the Sons of the Revolution..bc his ancestors was in that war. When I saw the James Wood in your story I was wondering if that was who he was talking about. It could be!
    Thanks JD for another great story! 🖐😃

  • @Rswipes83
    @Rswipes83 Рік тому +2

    I went too school with big Harp. We went on to serve together in the loyalist militia. We had some right laughs together.

  • @lesscotford1419
    @lesscotford1419 Рік тому +3

    Damn!!! Those two make every other story of cowboy killer's tame. Come on Netflix it'll be a major hit.

  • @mmwvids
    @mmwvids Рік тому +15

    Cutting a man's head off while he's still alive enough to insult you during the process is truly hard core.😳 Then putting the head on a stick in the road! 🤯 I can't believe that someone hasn't made this story into a movie yet.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +2

      It’s a hell of a story

    • @theheyfields1
      @theheyfields1 Рік тому +3

      Because not all of this is true

    • @jaybethatdude
      @jaybethatdude Рік тому +4

      @@theheyfields1 word, i doubt he said anything while getting his head cut off,
      other than "Ahhhhh!" lol.

    • @brandonkinney4896
      @brandonkinney4896 Рік тому

      look up the harp Brothers first serial killers of the kentucky frontier. 1st in America.

  • @rodneyharp802
    @rodneyharp802 Рік тому +4

    I am a Harp don’t hold it against us.

  • @stephenernsberger9678
    @stephenernsberger9678 Рік тому +1

    SEE THIS IS WHAT I"M SCREAMIN ABOUT...! AWESOME STORYTELLING....! GREAT STUFF! KEEP ROLLIN & I'LL KEEP LISTIN...! STEVE, CHARLOTTE, N.C. P.S. I'M HITTIN THE LIKE BUTTON.. TWICE! IF I CAN... GOOD LUCK....

  • @jamessmith7691
    @jamessmith7691 Рік тому +2

    Great story thanks for posting it.

  • @terrychorn1503
    @terrychorn1503 Рік тому +6

    Little Harpe said he emptied his revolver into a man in the woods. Revolvers didn't exist until 1836. Colt Patterson.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому

      First revolver was invented in 1597. www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/11/15/worlds-oldest-known-revolver/

    • @nifty1940
      @nifty1940 Рік тому

      @@TheAppalachianStoryteller Totally unrelated to your depiction of the savagery of their use of a practical and proper functioning revolver, and your inaccurate image, giving a false impression to the viewer. Pretty poor stuff, and that's why you're being called on such obvious mistakes.

  • @edavidson38
    @edavidson38 Рік тому +6

    Good tale...unfortunately Chattanooga didn't exist in the 1780s, nor did Tennessee as a name of a State. Originally part of western North Carolina and then the SW Territory until 1796. Chattanooga was a small town in 1819 and then a trading post after Chief John Ross established it near Moccasin Bend in 1838.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +3

      You are correct, I used the modern name of the area when telling the tale as most folks wouldn’t be able to follow otherwise

    • @anjing7684
      @anjing7684 Рік тому

      Knoxville didn't either

    • @joeldale7943
      @joeldale7943 Рік тому

      That’s why it’s bs ! No good writer or historian would write like that

  • @thatfestus8296
    @thatfestus8296 2 місяці тому +1

    I really enjoy the storytelling. I’m from Russellville and enjoy the history of my Ole Kentucky home.

  • @tucknrollbish
    @tucknrollbish Рік тому +2

    Very cool video. Awesome job.

  • @jeffchapman5742
    @jeffchapman5742 Рік тому +11

    Wow they were truly brutal! I wonder what became of their wives and children

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +3

      I’m not sure, I didn’t research them, im curious though

    • @kingfisher9553
      @kingfisher9553 Рік тому +2

      They heaved a sigh of relief. They couldn't leave on their own, they needed "divine providence" to end it for them.

    • @jaybethatdude
      @jaybethatdude Рік тому +1

      @@kingfisher9553 but they had multiple chances to get away, but went back
      to them each time. I think they should have done some prison time.

    • @nifty1940
      @nifty1940 Рік тому

      Wikipedia knows. I'm surprised that the storyteller is fast and loose with his depictions, and can't even tell us what happened after the brothers were finally dead.

  • @chrismaurer2075
    @chrismaurer2075 Рік тому +4

    WOW ! These brothers were maniac's . I'm glad they were eventually caught and killed . Great story telling that's why I have been a subscriber for some time now . Looking forward to more.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому

      Thank you Sir, next video is coming out tonight! A Christmas Story, no less!

    • @gmac8852
      @gmac8852 11 місяців тому

      I bet they could really liven up a party.

  • @michaeljoseph3528
    @michaeljoseph3528 Рік тому +2

    Don't know when last I heard a real story. Great job.

  • @brucegoodall3794
    @brucegoodall3794 Рік тому +2

    Some people deserve the Tomahawk special and the Rock Treatment. 🤘 I know a few.

  • @frostyfrances4700
    @frostyfrances4700 Рік тому +5

    Sounds like some of my neighbors.

  • @daneen0311
    @daneen0311 Рік тому +3

    Never heard of these two. Thanks for the story!

  • @stevefranklin9920
    @stevefranklin9920 Рік тому +2

    Another great story from a gifted storyteller!

  • @stonereaper1157
    @stonereaper1157 Рік тому +4

    Never heard of these brothers thank you for the history

  • @amypaparone55
    @amypaparone55 Рік тому +4

    That was insane! Those men were damaged at a young age. Mind blowing!

  • @wowbagger3505
    @wowbagger3505 Рік тому +3

    Lever action rifles in the American Revolution? South Carolina must have been way more advanced than my ancestors in the upper Ohio Valley where all they had flintlock Pennsylvania Rifles during the Revolution!

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +1

      I just liked the photo and used it since the photograph hadn’t been invented yet. Thanks for watching

  • @deborahbarry8250
    @deborahbarry8250 Рік тому +1

    Those boys were created Monster's!
    The heart ache and violence they witnessed... perfect combo for psychosis 😈👿 the brothers grim

  • @armageddon1403
    @armageddon1403 11 місяців тому +2

    Amazing story! Again!

  • @jackkunkel
    @jackkunkel Рік тому +4

    Sounds like a fun family!

  • @1justinp61
    @1justinp61 Рік тому +4

    I don't know how much of the story is fabricated, but there were some liberties taken with Big Harps death. He was killed not far from where I live and the fork in the road where his head was impaled is still called Harps head fork.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому

      Thanks for watching my friend. It you have a picture of the sign of Harps head road, please email it to me at theappalachianstoryteller@gmail.com

    • @rebeccafloyd5603
      @rebeccafloyd5603 Рік тому

      There is a bronse state marker on 41A between Poole and Dixon KY that states that big Harp's head was there at that spot...the way you told it. Only the cutting was done starting from the back of his neck. Intentionally, so it would take longer for him to be dispatched. This is how Harp was able to curse his executioner.
      Webster co. KY.
      I can see where multiple counties in this area would want to claim such a sensational story as there own
      It says Harp was shot in Muhlenberg co. Head brought here. I will Send pic of marker to your email.

    • @1justinp61
      @1justinp61 Рік тому

      @@rebeccafloyd5603 I'll have to find my book and read the story again, but IIRC the man that cut his head off was family of one of Harps victims. The story read that they put his head in a saddle bag with ear corn that was brought along to eat. That night some wouldn't eat the corn because of the blood on it. It's been many years since I've read the book.

  • @TheMrsCourville2022
    @TheMrsCourville2022 5 місяців тому +1

    This has been the hardest one to listen to but I still enjoyed the history

  • @Rswipes83
    @Rswipes83 Рік тому +1

    All the best from Glasgow. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

  • @KathysTube
    @KathysTube Рік тому +9

    Geez... that's nightmare material for me!
    Being 30% Scots, I never thought about how bad it could have been for new settlers back then...
    Thanks JD for the history 🤗❤️

  • @mutavhello6654
    @mutavhello6654 Рік тому +3

    Yeah I remember reading about these guys. I read that one of them bashed one of their own newborn babies against a tree when it wouldn't stop crying...

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +4

      yup thats the one. Said it busted the babies head into a dozen pieces and he flung the body as far as he could into the woods, then went back to eating breakfast. I didnt include that murder in the story because I felt like most folks couldnt handle it. Good thing I didnt, because a lot of folks already couldnt handle this video.

  • @milliebanks7209
    @milliebanks7209 Рік тому +2

    Such cruel men in this world! They are the reason there is the seventh ring of hell and I hope they are there!

  • @Dontwlookatthis
    @Dontwlookatthis Рік тому +1

    That picture of two mountain men that is on your Wanted poster is a cartoon by Frederic Remington who put the caption as the man without the feather in his cap says to the man with the feather in his cap saying, "I almost mistook you fer and Injun."

  • @garymorgan654
    @garymorgan654 Рік тому +4

    A fun listen but a few anachronism. Mostly in the video portion. I don't believe they had revolvers or lever action rifles at that time. I could be wrong though.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +2

      good catch... they actually killed with tomahawks, knives and brute force for the most part. I took some creative liberty by introducing the revolvers to the story.

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +2

      but for what its worth
      Stopler revolver is arguably the world's oldest revolver known and existing today. It was made in 1597 by a German gunsmith named Hans Stopler. He made the gun in his shop in Nuremberg.

    • @anjing7684
      @anjing7684 Рік тому

      They didn't

  • @cadeevans4623
    @cadeevans4623 Рік тому +4

    They were very brutal never heard this story before

    • @TheAppalachianStoryteller
      @TheAppalachianStoryteller  Рік тому +1

      yes sir, and some of their killings were so violent, I didnt include them in this video, cause I didnt think the average viewer could take it

  • @massonman9099
    @massonman9099 Рік тому +1

    love the sound effects!

  • @tammyevans7333
    @tammyevans7333 Рік тому +2

    Wow, first time hearing about them, thanks