Featured USA Folktales

Back in the old days, I had a successful bake-shop in Albany. I had a good business, a plump wife, a…

Near the upper Hiawassee is a cave where a pile of human skulls was found by a man who had put up hi…

Claas Schlaschenschlinger was a wealthy cobbler living on New Street in New Amsterdam. He was a cont…

We were up-river with a tour group looking at all the natural beauties here on the Rogue River when …

It was the sound of laughter and children’s voices that caught my attention. Curious, I materialize…

Oh, you hear the stories about how dangerous Ouija boards are, but hey—it’s just a game. Mary waited…

Well, some folks don't like the weather in Arizona, but I ain't one of 'em. Why, the air in Arizona …

One rainy autumn, a traveler got lost in the mountains of Arkansas. He was tired and hungry, and so …

A laundress, newly moved to Charleston following the Civil War, found herself awakened at the stroke…

Aunty Greenleaf was a scrawny old woman with a wild thatch of gray hair and a crooked nose. She live…

Susan and Ned were driving through a wooded empty section of highway. Lightning flashed, thunder roa…

Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south an…

“Hell, with the fires out,” is what the Bad Lands of Dakota have been called. The fearless nomenclat…

If you travel to Bear Lake in Utah on a quiet day, you just might catch a glimpse of the Bear Lake M…

Because he was so much younger than Babe and was brought to camp when a small calf, Benny was always…

The Master of the plantation was a firm supporter of the Confederate President and had committed to …

Turns out, the rough and tumble life of a Texas Ranger wasn’t enough to satisfy Bigfoot Wallace. No …

Bigfoot Wallace was as crazy an individual as they come. He could spin a yarn better than anyone, an…

Bigfoot Wallace – that wild and wacky Texas Ranger — returned to the wilds of frontier life once th…

Now I hear tell that Paul Bunyan was born in Bangor, Maine. It took five giant storks to deliver Pau…

A storm was raging that night in 1735, when Mother Leeds was brought to bed in childbirth. The room …

When Felix Agnus put up the life-sized shrouded bronze statue of a grieving angel, seated on a pedes…

He smiled as he sipped at his coffee. It had been an excellent hike. He was glad his friend had reco…

Mad Henry was a hermit who lived alone in a decrepit mansion at the edge of town. Rumors were rife …

The nefarious pirate Blackbeard (who's real name was Edward Teach) was a tall man with a very long b…

I found it extremely annoying that one of the bathrooms on my dorm was permanently closed. Especial…

She lived deep in the forest in a tiny cottage and sold herbal remedies for a living. Folks living i…

My stepmother was vile. I guess most kids think that when their father remarries. But in this case…

Old Man Whales was an evil man who loved money more than anything in the world, except his wife.

Farmer Manheim sat brooding in his farmhouse near Valley Forge, as his daughter, with a hectic flush…

I asked my friend to come to my seaside cottage with me one weekend in early spring. I wanted to hav…

A Delaware man went to war during the American Revolution. For entertainment, he brought with him tw…

You know how they say some folks are lucky at cards and some are lucky at love? Well, that fit Bobby…

Well now, that rascal Brer Fox hated Brer Rabbit on account of he was always cutting capers and boss…

One fine morning, Brer Fox decided to plant him a patch of goober peas. He set to with a will and be…

One day, Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox and Brer Coon and Brer Bear and a lot of other animals decided to …

Now Brer Rabbit was skipping down the road one day heading for his home in the briar patch when he s…

Well now, out of all the animals that live in the woods, Brother Bear had the biggest house. The ho…

Well now, Brother Rabbit had made friends with Old Man Tarrypin, a big turtle that lived in the pond…

Well, it was a crisp autumn day, don't ya know, and Brother Fox, he decided he wanted to go hunting.…

It seems the infamous crimper Bunko Kelly was commissioned one night by a ship's captain to find him…

There once was an evil priest who did not fear God or man. His duties for the church included counti…

She was sophisticated, poised, and cultured. In retrospect, this should have made them suspicious. …

Tall talkin' in Mississippi has been termed "Callin' the dog" ever since that famous tall-tale sessi…

Casey Jones, that heroic railroad engineer of the Cannonball, was known as the man who always brough…

We lost everything after the treaty was signed. The white men wanted the Indian's removed, and so w…

Now, here in the South, we all do not approve of your so-called Connecticut Yankee peddlers. So when…

After cow punching for nigh on fifty years, a Texas cowboy went on to his reward. There was consider…

One day, Coyote was walking along. The sun was shining brightly, and Coyote felt very hot. "I would …

Now Wishpoosh the monster beaver lived in the beautiful Lake Cle-el-lum which was full of fish. Ever…

Long, long ago, when the world was still new, the Inuit lived in darkness in their home in the fastn…

The girl hurried through her schoolwork as fast as she could. It was the night of the high school da…

Late one night, Daniel Boone and a friend went out fire hunting. Fire hunting involves the shining o…

Well, they say that Davy Crockett, the most famous bear hunter in the U.S. of A, once ran for electi…

One winter, it was so cold that the dawn froze solid. The sun got caught between two ice blocks, and…

It is midnight. The streets of Cohoes grow silent as the citizens turn off their lights one by one a…

Within an hour of my arrival at Fort Union, my new post, my best friend Johnny came to the barracks …

My granny was told as a child that Captain Kidd, knowing the law was on his trail, traveled up the J…

My sisters and my baby brother danced about the house, whispering to each other excitedly about the …

There was something odd in the tone of the dispatcher’s voice when he called to tell me a person nee…

Life seemed perfect to Mark when the widower brought his new bride Lisa home to the lovely two-story…

She commandeered the room in the basement of her dorm as soon as she realized she would have to pull…

Jonah was a big strong man who worked as a carpenter. Most everyone in town liked him, but they all …

Back in the early days, the Plains folk were often in need of a good drought buster during the hot s…

My supervisor radioed me just after sunrise on a warm summer morning in 1929 to report another incid…

There was once a man named Joost who was plodding home on Saturday night, his fiddle under his arm. …

The gravel bar on our left is called, Dunkelberger gravel bar. The reason I mention it to you, is b…

There is an old tale which claims that at midnight, on Christmas Eve, the cattle will kneel in the b…

Following the Homestead Act of 1862, many Scandinavians pioneered the lands of the mid-West. These f…

After getting the lay of the land, so to speak, frontier man Bigfoot Wallace moved from Austin to Sa…

I roam alone in the woods, listening to the enchanted children's voices calling to me. "Little girl,…

Ethan Allen, the leader of the Green Mountain Boys, who defeated the British at Fort Ticonderoga, wa…

For days, a ragged old man had hung around the Newark Central Station. The stationmaster kept runnin…

My friend Liverpool Jarge was a small man, wiry and tough, but soft-spoken. Jarge had one glass eye…

There is a story told in Troy and Albany about a couple returning home from a trip to New England. T…

In the beginning of the world, it was Bear who owned Fire. It warmed them on cold nights and gave t…

Well, the spring floods here in Vermont are mighty fierce, doncha know. One young farmer named Tom …

You can talk 'til you're blue in the face about the thickest of fogs in ye merry olde England, but I…

Lawyer Elderkin stood on the porch looking up at the night sky. Clouds were rolling in, obscuring th…

Now it happened that there was a mining camp in Colorado where more than an average number of the mi…

My wife Jill and I were driving home from a friend's party late one evening in early May. It was a b…

Rumors were rife about the alleyway behind the tavern. It was haunted, folks said. Haunted by the gh…

I saw her out of the corner of my eye while I was studying in a remote corner of the second-level st…

The train rumbled around him as he adjusted the throttle. The night shift was always the toughest, i…

He had just graduated from Harvard University and was living in Manhattan. He loved the city and was…

When Captain Don Sandovate voyaged from Spain to the New World in search of treasure, he found gold …

Ringwood Manor you say? A lovely old house. But no place, my child, to go on a dark night with no mo…

He was sulking a little, standing at the sidelines while all the other men danced with their pretty …

There was once a monk at the mission who loved money and power more than he loved God. He would hear…

J. Dawson had two goals in life: to find a rich vein of gold and to find a bride. So far, he hadn’t …

He never paid much attention to the neighbors living on his city block until the day the pretty midd…

Well now, when old Johnson came to town, I knew there'd be trouble. That Yankee Peddler was a scound…

There once was a lighthouse keeper who had lived on St. Martin's Island with his children, whom he l…

For many nights and many days, the guardian spirit of Tisayac watched over the beautiful valley of Y…

Once there was an old woman who went out in the woods to dig up some roots to cook for dinner. She s…

There were warnings all over campus about a Hatchet Man who was supposedly abused and killed a woman…

The soft thud of following footsteps echoed behind him as he hurried through the snowflakes toward h…

She was brand-new history teacher to the school and had been preparing her first lesson in her mind …

California must be the healthiest state in the union, yes sir! I know of one chap who's grandfather …

Something was going on. Jason felt it in his bones. Polly was too happy, too cheerful. No woman coul…

Heron and Hummingbird were very good friends, even though one was tall and gangly and awkward and on…

Shmul and Benin, two of the wisest men in the town of Chelm, went one day to take a steam bath. As …

Yep, I remember what it was like before the railroad came through these parts. I used to earn my liv…

Now the Pennsylvania hoop snake is something to be reckoned with. It is long, and its colors vary wi…

There's an ongoing debate here in the great state of Indiana over the origins of the word "Hoosiers"…

Well now, Bigfoot Wallace was jest about the roughest, toughest Texas Ranger that ever rode west of …

One day, old Brother Terrapin was a-grumbling and a-fussing, because he had to creep on the ground. …

Well now, Brother Deer and Brother Terrapin were both courting of Mr. Coon’s daughter. Brother Deer …

A young warrior came to the coast with his wife and mother one summer and settled in the place where…

One day when the earth was new, Nanabozho looked out the window of his house beside the wide waterfa…

Mama told me I should never to walk along the marsh shortcut that led from our plantation to the tow…

We knew right from the start that Johnny was going to be a soldier. Even as a child, all his concent…

There was an abandoned house sitting in the middle of a fancy neighborhood in Calgary that nobody wo…

We here in Idaho are right proud of our potatoes. Our fields are so chock full of potatoes that you …

A couple of Welsh miners came to Nevada to help mine the Comstock Load. They were quite a pair of tr…

Once, a Kansas farmer sent his son Jack to check on the growth of the corn in the field. Now Jack wa…

Jack was a nasty fellow who beat his wife and kids and was an all around bad chap. So the Devil came…

After a long day of unlucky hunting, I found myself stuck in the middle of the marshlands for the ni…

Jean Sot was sitting gloomily on the dock of the marina casting a fishing line into the Bayou when h…

One day, Jean Sot's mother wanted to go to town. "Now Jean," she said, "I want you to guard the door…

One day, as Jesse James and his gang were riding through Missouri, they saw a farmhouse and stopped …

Joaquin Murietta and wife Rosita lived with his older brother Carlos in California. The three Mexica…

Now John Henry was a mighty man, yes sir. He was born a slave in the 1840's but was freed after the …

Johnny Appleseed was a hermit and a wanderer who was welcomed wherever he went in the Ohio territory…

Joseph Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon, was the King of Spain. Unsuccessful in defending Spain ag…

Jumbo Reilly was a giant of a fellow with the build and strength of a grizzly bear and a ferocious n…

One night, in 1881, a fierce storm broke over the Des Moines river valley. The storm raged through t…

Waneta, daughter of a chief, had plighted her troth to Kayuta, a hunter of a neighboring tribe with …

Marie-Josephte Corriveau was a beautiful but ruthless woman. She married a good-looking man but soon…

Once there was a widow who wished to marry a rich nobleman. However, the nobleman did not want to ra…

My friend Isabela called me one evening before dinner. She was sobbing as she told me that she and h…

There is a ghost that walks along the Seventeen Mile Drive on foggy nights. She is called the Lady i…

We didn't believe in ghosts, so when the fellow checking us in warned us that our room on the sixth …

Folks traveling the Oregon Trail looking for a new life left almost everything behind them when they…

I'd been transferred to the Hudson Division of the New York Central system, and was working the rail…

They say that the Llorona was once a poor young girl who loved a rich nobleman, and together they ha…

There was once a railroad conductor named Joe Baldwin who was working for the newly rebuilt Atlantic…

Something people often ask about, and you might be curious also, are the trees you see along the riv…

Andover, New Jersey, was quaint and quiet in the days before the American Revolution. It offered few…

Dr. John McLoughlin came to the Pacific Northwest with the Hudson Bay Company and fell in love with …

Michigan winds are fiercest in the spring. Why, just last year, the wind knocked one of our mountain…

She was just another poor, bedraggled woman, struggling to feed her family. He saw them all the time…

A visitor to Mississippi decided to take a walk along the river in the cool of the evening. His host…

Moll DeGrow was a wicked witch who once lived on Gully Road in what is now Newark, New Jersey. She t…

Shortly after I got married, I went to settle on the north side of the Big Muddy with my new wife, M…

She climbed the sand dune swiftly, giggling nervously at her daring, as the soft mist of an early ev…

Well now, old Sam Gibb, he didn't believe in ghosts. Not one bit. Everyone in town knew the old log …

Among the Berkshire Hills, more than a century ago, lived Francis Woolcott, a dark, tall man, with p…

He had just passed an abandoned missionary Baptist church when the forest grew quiet around him. The…

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, on the night before Christmas, a little child was wandering…

Peggy and her boyfriend Tommy were driving down a lonely stretch of highway at dusk when a thunderst…

Elizabeth and James Wilson were Irish immigrants from Londonderry, Ireland. In 1720 they set sail fo…

To say that the weather in Oklahoma is subject to extremes is an understatement. Instead of rain sto…

In folklore, "chestnuts" are old jokes that everyone seems to know.

There were just the two of us—Mama and me. The only other relative we had was a cousin — old Grann…

It's not hard to catch a meal in New Hampshire, no sir. Take my neighbor, Old Man Moses, who lives d…

Now everyone knows that Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was the ultimate sailor. He was the captain of a m…

One day Old Stormalong, the ultimate sailor, was sailing the Courser through the deepest part of the…

In the sun lives the Lord of Life. In the moon lives Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies. She has six children,…

There is only one word for Fort Mifflin during a reenactment. LOUD! My ears were ringing as I hurr…

“Young man, I'll give you five dollars a week to be caretaker in Printz Hall,” Mr. Quidd said angril…

There is a tale once told of a Mississippi riverboat captain who called all of the passengers to the…

Napioa, the Old Man who made the earth, is determined to have the bags that hold the summer and wint…

There once lived a man in the north, who had ten daughters, all of whom grew up to womanhood. They w…

The Palatine gleamed in the sunlight as she set out with a full crew, a long list of passengers, and…

One winter, shortly after Paul Bunyan dug Lake Michigan as a drinking hole for his blue ox, Babe, he…

One spring day, the loggers on the Wisconsin River discovered a huge log jam, the biggest they'd eve…

The Whistling River – so named because twice a day, it reared up to a height of two hundred feet and…

One winter, Paul Bunyan came to log along the Little Gimlet in Oregon. Ask any old timer who was log…

Now, Pecos Bill had a way with wimmen. No doubt. He had dozens of wives during his time. But his one…

Well now, Texas jest became too tame for Pecos Bill once he killed off all the bad men, so he struck…

Now everyone in the West knows that Pecos Bill could ride anything. No bronco could throw him, no si…

Ohi'a and Lehua loved each other from the moment they first saw each other at a village dance. Ohi'a…

A couple were driving through Spokane, Washington one evening. They were hungry and tired and neede…

Now when Colonel Howell of the British Army chanced to meet the daughter of the wealthy farmer Jarre…

When the guys proposed we take a day-hike on Grandfather Mountain, I agreed with enthusiasm. Grandf…

He couldn't believe it when she fell ill just a few short weeks before their marriage. His betrothed…

The passengers were grumpy and heavy-eyed as they boarded the train in Salisbury during the early mo…

Dr. William Kiel, a radical preacher who broke from the Methodist church, formed his own church and …

There once was a crazy ghost over Poughkeepsie way that got folks so plumb scared that nobody would …

She was always in the garden. Day after day after day. It drove him crazy. Supper never came when…

Dah-dah-dum-dum-BLAT! Charlie winced when his wife hit the wrong note on the piano for the thirty-se…

He was a jolly, round little man with a cherry red face and a button for a nose. He sat every day in…

Callahan was huddled in a cavern near the Pacific Ocean when the Feds closed in. There were still s…

Now Rabbit had a favorite place on the river where he always went to drink water. It was on a bend i…

It was so cold. Snow fell constantly, and ice formed over all the waters. The animals had never seen…

Adam Gimble was the very best fiddler in Texas. Folks came from miles around to the weekly barn danc…

Way back in the deep woods there lived a scrawny old woman who had a reputation for being the best c…

The infamous Red Dwarf (Nain Rouge) of Detroit was reputed to be the foul offspring of the Stone God…

There was a dance that night at the Oh Henry Ballroom, so he slicked back his hair, jumped into his …

An old lady from Kentucky was going to New Orleans with a load of lard to sell. It was her first tim…

Well now Paul Bunyan scouted around the north woods of Wisconsin for quite a while afore he found th…

Davy Crockett done married the prettiest, the sassiest, the toughest gal in the West, don't ya know!…

Many years before the American Revolution, there was an old man named Sam Hyde who became famous thr…

One of the old timers who lives here in Sangamon County, Illinois is always saying that Sangamon Cou…

I got up at the crack of dawn and drove to Larry's place to pick him up. We were going hiking along …

Take a look over at this gravel bar on our left. It's called Bony Point, and we saw something here …

She worked in a box factory, and her salary was not large. She made just enough to cover the cost of…

Shmul was on his way to the market in Chelm one afternoon when he saw his good friend Bein on the st…

Long ago, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, two Inuit boys were walking from their own home to a fa…

The old storage sheds along the tracks were abandoned shortly after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad wa…

A miner was on his way to Dos Cabezas, where here heard there was good prospecting, when he found hi…

A sheep herder from Montana fell afoul of the law and hired a lawyer to get him off if he could. The…

There was once a beautiful old house right on the edge of a lake, surrounded by woods. But no one wo…

Nevada rivers empty into a series of small lakes which have no visible outlets. These lakes are call…

Way up in the mountains of Colorado lurks the slide-rock bolter. This creature has a huge head, slit…

The great chief Quaquahela lived in peace with his people on the banks of the River Styx where it en…

Once in old New Amsterdam, there was a brave trumpeter named Anthony Van Corlaer who would blow his …

She lurks below the surface of the lake near Presque Isle, her lithe form forever swimming through t…

Long, long ago, on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, there lived an old woman with her little grandson.…

It was noised about New Amsterdam, two hundred years ago, that a round and bulky ghost ship flying D…

Wallen's Ridge, a rough eminence about a dozen miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee, was once an abidin…

Today the water drums of the Lower Falls in Yellowstone beat strongly, just as they did back in 1870…

Well now, you've probably heard it rumored that here in Deadwood we have such a tough neighborhood t…

Two sisters were motoring through Cape Cod late one stormy night in the early 1900's when their car …

As I drove down the seemingly endless dark road, I cursed my friends. “A quaint little bar in the mi…

Well now Pecos Bill was born in the usual way to a real nice cowpoke and his wife who were journeyin…

I came home late one night after work and found my wife Ethel puttering about the kitchen with a big…

The Phelps place was an old, abandoned property with a monstrous, decrepit Victorian house that was …

We were having a sleepover at my house that Saturday night. Me and my four best friends; Alex, Bian…

The story was told furtively, in lowered voices. Buried treasure. Near the blue rock. A long time a…

Massey was a soldier unfortunate enough to cross me, his commanding officer. He did not live to reg…

The blizzard was raging fiercely around them as the brothers stumbled down the long road. they were…

“Why do people not treat me as they treat you?” said a Wasp to a Canary on bright summer morning. "…

At the peak of this mountain lived the Catskill witch who managed the weather for the whole of the H…

It happened in Georgia not long ago, that a farmer and his wife decided to sleep late, like the rich…

According to the latest reports, there is a crystal mountain residing somewhere in Wyoming. You can'…

Now Colonel Buck was not what you'd call the most virtuous man in town. No sir! He had an eye for th…

A man ignores a promise he made to his dying wife, with dire consequences.

The devil was in the Mississippi River that night. You could feel it with every eddy swirling agains…

Now, Pecos Bill didn't live forever. Nope, not even Bill could figure out how to do that. Here's how…

Away down South, an old custom dictates that if someone comes up to you on Christmas Day and says "C…

Little Simeon came running into the surgery. He bent over, winded, and gasped desperately several ti…

Once a hunter in the mountains heard a noise at night like a rushing wind. He went outside his tepee…

The medical student toppled into love as soon as he set eyes on Sheila, the beautiful new transfer s…

“That’s it!” Black Rooster crowed to himself when he spotted Red Rooster flirting with the hens agai…

At the time when the Christ Child was born all the people, the animals, and the trees, and plants we…

Once long ago, Man went hunting along the water's edge for seals. To Man's delight, many seals were …

One fine day an old Maine man was fishing and fishing on his favorite lake and catching nary a thing…

A Man caught a Fox, and asked her: "Who has taught you Foxes how to cheat the dogs?"

She was nervous and excited as she approached the psychic's store. Normally, she didn't go in for f…

The young wife of a chief’s son died, and the young man was so sorrowful he could not sleep. Early o…

Tom Bowers, who mined on Misery Hill, near Pike City, California, never had a partner, and he never …

Some years before the outbreak of the Civil War, a man with his wife and daughter took up their resi…

A small party of gentlemen on the day before a crisp, cold Christmas, started from Gulfport in a lar…

Long ago, in a village in Alaska, there lived a man with his wife and five sons, of whom they were v…

He was a bright, sunny child from birth, with blond curls and a sweet smile and fabulous, shining bl…

A young woman lay suffering on her deathbed, her stillborn baby lying against her chest. Her young h…

Well now, there was a chap that got real sick of working in the big city. One day, he quit his job, …

It was a very hard time for the newly wed couple. The Depression had hit hard, and the young husban…

In the year of our Lord 1848, vast swarms of crickets descended upon our settlement. Twas a judgment…

Polly was the sweetest, prettiest girl in Goldsboro, yes sir. All the local boys were chasing her, …

Once there was a lovely young woman growing up in a wealthy shipping family in New York. In those …

One cold winter night, early in the New Year, a certain Dutchman left the tavern in Tarrytown and st…

A wealthy businessman who worked behind the political scenes both in Georgetown and Charleston owned…

Our friends Josh and Sandy were firm believers in ghosts and claimed to have seen the mysterious red…

Excerpted from Spooky Campfire Tales The reports had been on the radio all day, though she hadn&#821…

The house was called the Isle of Pines, after a buccaneers' rendezvous in the West Indies, and the o…

It was a week of pandemonium! In January of 1909, the Jersey Devil emerged from the Pine Barrens and…

I was putting the finishing touches on a nice big dinner – meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, p…

One day, the King of Sharks saw a beautiful girl swimming near the shore. He immediately fell in lov…

He had not expected to meet the woman of his dreams, but there she was strolling along in the moonli…

It was the night the dear Christ-Child came to Bethlehem. In a country far away from Him, an old, ol…

Little Red Hen found a Wheat Seed that, if planted, would grow up and when ripe it could be made int…

She lost her husband and her hope at a young age, and the beautiful girl could not find her way thro…

All the men working in the Melt Shop of the steel mill soon learned to be very careful around the fu…

Old Man McManor was the foulest-tempered fellow you ever did see; but he owned and operated the only…

She lived alone in a rickety house in White Plains, and the only thing of value she possessed was a …

In times past, a poor man was living with his wife and children in a beautiful part of the country. …

A Farmer went to town, on a market day, and bought five peaches. He gave one to his wife, and one to…

I gasped a bit as I wheeled my heavy bag toward the white-trimmed double doors leading to the hotel …

Gouverneur Morris, American minister to the court of Louis XVI, was considerably enriched, at the cl…

Scratch. Scratch. Peck. Cock was strutting around the yard, busily looking for good things to eat…

A pillar of snowy salt once stood on the Nebraska plain, about forty miles above the point where the…

There once was a woman traveling home from England who lost her pooch somewhere between Salem and Sp…

When the Civil War ended, Jeremiah Jones, found himself a free man. Eager to make a new life for him…

The boy had been out looking for work all day with no luck. When night fell, he was far from home. H…

In this Halloween Treasure Hunt, a rascally skeleton steals a cauldron of candy right out of the hal…

We were on our way back to Yuma following a futile attempt to find Pegleg's lost gold mine out in th…

I'd just reached the old the hunting trail that led to the other side of the low gap. It was a short…

A farmer owned a mule which he used for work all week. But being a Church-going man, he let the mule…

Three men set out on a hunting expedition, but when one breaks his leg, the others abandon him in a …

About a mile back from the river stood the cabin of Nick Wolsey, who, in the 1800s, was known to the…

Rabbit and Terrapin met near the stream one morning. It was a lovely clear day, and they both basked…

A while back there was a family I know of – a mother, a father, and several children. Four of them h…

Once a Spanish soldier married a beautiful native woman and they had two children whom the soldier l…

They say that the Wampus cat used to be a beautiful Indian woman. The men of her tribe were always g…

A traveling salesman came to Goshen Hill for a few days, selling his wares from door to door. He was…

Snippity-snip, snap and swill, The tale begins upon a hill… The air was crisp and cool. The sky was …

Tommy Knockers are the spirits of departed miners that help miners find ore. They also knock on the …

Everyone laughed at jumpy Uncle Phil, who believed the world was largely populated with monsters and…

There lived a hunter in the north who had a wife and one child. His lodge stood far off in the fores…

We timed our visit to Pendleton to coincide with the Roundup, and managed to snag one of the very la…

She was nervous when her husband said they were to stay in the abandoned house, for it contained th…

When the samurai warrior Kane first came to California from Tokyo, be brought his new wife, the beau…

I don't do battlefields. Oh, it's not because I am against history. Nope, the truth is I'm psychic…

A preacher was riding to one of the churches on his circuit when darkness fell. It was about to stor…

The storm lasted so long that they thought they would starve. Finally, when the wind and swirling sn…

There once was a beautiful girl engaged to a soldier who caught the eye of an evil woodsman who had …

“Go straight to the store and don’t fool around,” his mother said sternly as she handed over the mon…

In hindsight, I suppose it wasn't a good idea to go ancestor-hunting in the local cemetery at dusk, …

In the early 1800s, the White Lady and her daughter were supposed to have lived on the land where th…

They were not even close to the main camp when the sandstorm storm hit, blasting hot sand into their…

She snapped awake out of a deep sleep, screaming aloud in terror. In her nightmare, a large white wo…

Once long ago, Dog was married to Cat. They were happy together, but every night when Dog came home …

Black Cats weren’t always considered bad luck. In early Egyptian times, dating back as far as 3000 …

Back in the old days, Brother Lizard was an awful lot like Brother Frog, meaning he could sit uprigh…

One day, Opossum was walking in the woods around sunset when he spied Raccoon. Now Opossum had alway…

One evening, Opossum was playing in a field with her babies when Big Bat came swooping down and grab…

Did you hear how come that old Sis Pig can see the wind? You never heard that? Well, maybe you have …

Rabbit and Possum each wanted a wife, but no one would marry either of them. They talked over the ma…

In the middle of St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park is a small island halfway between two shores…

When he left his tribe to work with the white lumbermen, he changed his name to William Cloud, and t…

One spring in the early 1880s, a North Dakota pioneer was plowing his land. As he broke through the …

Yancey was a quirky old-time pioneer, gold prospector and Civil War veteran —perhaps the last of tha…

Jane wore a yellow ribbon around her neck everyday. And I mean everyday, rain or shine, whether it m…

Once long ago, Sam, a young slave from Alabama, was sent to the market in Georgia with his master's …

One dark, windy night, the town drunk was meandering his way home after the bar closed. Somehow he g…