![]() ![]() ![]() "Nearly all of the old-time hillfolk are firm believers in ghosts and wandering spirits, although few adult males will admit this belief to outsiders nowadays," wrote folklorist Vance Randolph in his book, "Ozark Magic and Folklore," in 1947. While ghosts and their stories age with time, their presence has been part of the region since before anyone nowadays came to be. That there are spirits who live thereabouts to scare and prove their presence in a variety of unwelcome ways. Some of these ghost towns are, as old timers would say, hainted. ![]() The wispy wind gives voice to ghosts and the towns where they live throughout the region's hills and hollows. The blow and breeze of changing seasons in the Ozarks brings more than falling leaves and thermometers, or crackling fires and stories around the woodsmoke. ![]()
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