The Beast of Bay Raven

Podcast: Southern Ghost Stories · Southern Ghost Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

Here's a fun one for Tennessee Tales Tuesday! Tucked away on Old Douglas Lane in Gallatin, Tennessee, the 1820s Douglass Cemetery—better known as Bay Raven—is legendary not just for restless spirits, but for a bizarre, evolving monster. In the 1950s, tales of an insatiable, bull-sized, gorilla-like creature devouring livestock, dried apples, and allegedly thirty-six dogs in one night drew a reporter from The Tennessean out to investigate. Over the decades, the folklore transformed the beast into a terrifying half-man, half-raven hybrid linked to a local dare: walk three times around a certain cemetery tree to summon it. Balancing eerie...