3 True Creepy Stories from the Appalachian Mountains

A pastor's concern for a child's strange dream involving 'underpants trees' and 'make-do dolls' led to Deputy Isaac uncovering a decade-long child predator ring operating in Godby Holler. Isaac, discovering his own brother's involvement, executed the three perpetrators and disposed of their bodies to prevent the community from being torn apart by the truth.

Joshua's dream of 'underpants trees' and 'make-do dolls' after being sick; a prostitute's similar hallucination; Isaac finding dogwood trees with underwear 'trophies'; his brother's confession under torture; Isaac's subsequent killing of the three men.

The brutal, motiveless murder of Mr. Levi in Jefferson, NC, was investigated as a potential continuation of the century-old Hatfield-McCoy feud. Research revealed Mr. Levi's lineage to a governor who protected the Hatfields, and a significant number of McCoy descendants in the area, suggesting a historically motivated revenge killing.

Mr. Levi's decapitated and stabbed body; no clear motive or evidence; his connection to Governor Emmanuel Willis Wilson; the discovery of 11 Bad Frank Phillips (McCoy) descendants in town, with only one having an alibi.

During a gas station robbery in rural North Carolina, a meth-addicted assailant aimed a handgun at the narrator's head. The gun unexpectedly exploded in his hand, severely injuring him and allowing the victim to escape unharmed, an event the narrator describes as a miraculous intervention.

The robber's 'meth mouth' and twitchy demeanor; his aiming the gun at the narrator's head; the gun bursting into pieces in his hand; the clerk's subsequent advice to leave immediately.