Hell in the Woods

Podcast: Southern Ghost Stories · Southern Ghost Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

Tucked deep within East Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau, the Scott County coal town of Helenwood earned a brutal reputation as one of the bloodiest settlements in the state—ignited two days before Christmas in 1896 by an unthinkable betrayal. One-armed schoolteacher Mike King murdered his elderly benefactor, Aaron Beck. After a suspicious sheriff forced the killer to carry the frozen corpse from its shallow grave, King was hanged in Huntsville, kicking off a notorious year of shootouts that saw forty-seven people shot in a town of barely two hundred. In this Tennessee Tales Tuesday edition of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy explores th...