| This story comes to TSN as an eyewitness account as told by a man who had lived in the Appalachain Mountains all his life. He was seventy years old when the told this tale and that was in the early seventies. Now, he is dead and his story was almost lost until it was rediscovered and recorded here. Sometime in the early part of the twentieth century, the man in question moved from South Carolina to an area called Townes Country. While travelling he decided to find a place to camp for the night along the road. He finally found a spot and asked a bystander if the place was safe. In reply the other man told him that he should continue on up the road to the next turnoff to spend the night since the area he was currently at was rumored to be haunted. Brushing off the warning as general nonsense, he told the man that he would stay where he wanted, and set up camp at the location that he had been warned to stay away from. After a hasty supper the experiencer and his companions bedded down for the night, but had not been asleep long before they were awakened when they heard something coming that sounded like a big wagon. At first they saw nothing but soon it came into view, and resembled a large white covered wagon making an erie rattling noise. The man hollered at it, but it didn't go very far before it came right back. The man became so riled that he took out a hunting knife to cut at it, but was surprised when the blade only struck air. The accursed vehicle kept it up all night, and the next day the man learned that the wagon only appeared when someone had been killed in that area. Whether or not a murder had taken place the man didn't wait around to find out and vacated the campsite. |