The Creatures
Mothman, Flatwoods Monster, Wood Booger, Painter, Wampus Cat, Snallygaster, black dogs and more.
THE APPALACHIAN BOOK OF THE LIVING AND THE LOST · VOLUME TWO
The mountains have a shadow side.
Creatures people swore they saw. Houses nobody wanted to sleep in twice. Lights moving down ridges with no lamp behind them. People who vanished on ordinary days and were never seen again.
- Mothman, Flatwoods Monster, Wood Booger, Wampus Cat and other mountain creatures
- Haunted places, drowned towns, asylums, battlefields and empty homeplaces
- Brown Mountain Lights, vanishings, granny women, old signs and Cherokee stories
- Documented fact, inherited folklore and modern invention kept clearly separated
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The darker Appalachian stories finally have a book of their own.
The creatures, hauntings, strange lights, disappearances and old beliefs that never belonged inside a survival guide — collected and expanded in one illustrated volume.
THIS IS WHY VOLUME TWO EXISTS
“You could scare a body half to death, but you told it true.”
That is the rule running through the book. If something is a matter of record, it is treated as record. If it is an old story, it is told as a story. If a modern invention has been dressed up as ancient Appalachian lore, the book says so.
The mystery stays. The made-up nonsense does not get a free pass.
You always know whether you are standing on documented history, testimony, folklore or a tale that grew later.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Six parts that move from creatures in the dark to the oldest stories in the mountains.
The Haunted Places
Bell Witch, Greenbrier Ghost, Trans-Allegheny, Waverly Hills, Moundsville, drowned towns and haunted tunnels.
The Lights and the Strange
Brown Mountain Lights, other spook lights, and sounds with no obvious cause.
The Vanishings
The ones the mountains kept, the Lost Girl of Elk Creek, the Sodder Children and Lost in the Smokies.
The Old Beliefs
Granny women, yarb doctors, signs, tokens and the dead.
The Older Beings
Nunnehi, Spearfinger, Raven Mockers, Uktena, Tsul Kalu, Kanati and Selu.
“This book is its shadow side. It concerns the things up here that were never meant to be explained.”
— Otis Boone41 CHAPTERS · 6 PARTS
Famous cases, old beliefs, and the stories that never found an ending.
You will move from well-known sightings into haunted places, unexplained lights, disappearances, folk medicine, death signs and the older Cherokee stories of these mountains.
- Mothman
- The Flatwoods Monster
- The Wood Booger
- The Painter
- Wampus Cat
- Snallygaster
- The Bell Witch
- The Greenbrier Ghost
- Brown Mountain Lights
- The Sodder Children
- Lost in the Smokies
- Granny Women and Yarb Doctors
- Spearfinger
- Raven Mockers
- Uktena
- Tsul Kalu
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PAGE 11 · CHAPTER ONE · THE MOTHMAN
A WORD FROM OTIS
“Come sit with me a spell.”
The first volume was about staying alive in these mountains. This one is about the things people saw, feared, remembered and could never quite explain.
The point is not to make you believe everything. It is to tell the stories properly, show you where the record ends, and leave the unanswered parts where they belong.
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BEFORE YOU BUY
You should know what kind of book this is.
I'd rather make the fit obvious now than dress the book up as something it's not.
THIS IS FOR YOU IF
- You come to Otis Boone for Appalachian folklore, cryptids, strange history and old beliefs.
- You want real cases mixed with inherited mountain stories.
- You want a substantial forty-one-chapter book, not a short cryptid list.
- You want an illustrated digital book you can keep and return to.
SKIP IT IF
- You only want practical survival instruction — that is Volume One.
- You want every story presented as proven supernatural fact.
- You only want a quick monster cheat sheet.
- You are looking for a physical hardcover.
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Haints, Monsters, and the Unexplained
The creatures, haunted places, strange lights, vanishings, old beliefs and older stories of Appalachia.
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A FEW THINGS TO KNOW
What kind of Appalachian book is this?
Do I need Volume One first?
No. Each volume stands on its own. The bundle is for readers who want both sides of the collection.
Is everything in the book presented as true?
No. The book separates documented record, testimony, inherited folklore and modern inventions instead of treating them all the same.
Is this a physical book?
No. The launch edition is a fully illustrated digital PDF.
How do I receive it?
Checkout and delivery will be handled through Gumroad. After purchase, you receive immediate access to the PDF.