10 Sounds The Old Folks Never Ignored (Old Mountain Warning Signs)

📖 My book, The Appalachian Book of the Living and the Lost: https://www.otisboone.com The old folks in these mountains never let a sound pass without naming it first. A tick in the wall, a buzz coming up out of the ground, a scream rolling down off the ridge after dark - each one meant something, and ignoring it could cost you. This video walks through ten of those warning sounds, where they come from in real mountain life and natural history, and what the old people did the moment they heard them, from a death-watch beetle ticking in the timbers to the landslide roar that tore through Fairview, North Carolina, during Hurricane Helene. You'll hear the true story of two girls who ran from a scream on Iron Mountain, the real death toll from the Peeks Creek slide, and the century-old ghost story out of Mountain City that still has no good answer. By the end you'll know which sounds mean stand still, which ones mean run, and which one you never open the door for. More of this old mountain knowing is gathered in The Appalachian Book of the Living and the Lost, linked below. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:41 A Ticking in the Wall 2:38 A Buzz Underground 4:14 Screaming on the Mountain 6:21 Laughing in the Bottom 7:34 A Freight Train Off the Mountain 9:37 The Rain Crow 10:40 A Buzz in the Leaves 15:08 Three Knocks at the Door #AppalachianFolklore #MountainLore #OldWivesTales #AppalachianHistory #blueridgemountains