The Hillbilly Files - Legends and Locations
We are based in West Virginia and Kentucky, in the Hatfield & McCoy trail and historic areas. We explore Historic sites , tell stories, we try and go to the locations/graves when possible and cover anything that we find interesting in and outside of West Virginia, Kentucky and beyond.
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We do not do family ancestry research, You can find that information with Ancestry.com, contact with stories only please.
The Forgotten Cemetery of Chattaroy West Virginia - Howards Holler
Mob in the Mountains: The 1927 Leonard Woods Lynching : Pound Virginia
Addicted to Murder The Dark Decisions of Lydia Sherman
The Wolfords Under the Road - Tragic Deaths and the Mass Grave That Finally United Them
West Virginia Cemetery Lost for Decades: A Difficult Search with a Plot Twist Ending
The Tragic Final Walk of Dr. Orie Whitt - Matewan West Virginia
Old Pond Cemetery: Forgotten Lives of Appalachia: Belfry Kentucky
The Angel on the Trail: The Mysterious Disappearance of Frances Apperson-Linville Falls N.C
-Exploring Leatherwood Kentucky-Keeping Warm With Dewbu Heated Hoodie-
Exploring The Hatchet Man of Hickory Flat Cemetery-Overpeck Ohio
Finding The Killed Women Of Howard Holler -Sad Past Of Mary & Sulia in Chattaroy, West Virginia
Staying Overnight in Ohio’s Most Haunted School-Ghost Children, Baby Farm & Train Wreck Spirits
Haunted Matewan: What the Town Still Hears After Dark: West Virginia
Gunned Down in the Mountains - The Dr. Dennis Sandlin Story - Leatherwood Kentucky
A deadly Appalachian clash buried by time… until now
Hidden History: Stonewall Jackson’s Family Cemetery in the Hills of West Virginia
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Where Rosemary Kennedy’s Story Still Haunts
Beyond the Feud- Devil Anse’s Grandson Dies at 39 -Doctor Daniel Hatfield
The Unforgiven- Revenge Massacre Of Two Slain Preachers- 1865 West Virginia
The Night Abel Axed His Family of 10 - Frontier Horror Of 1805
Mildred’s Last Summer - 4 Year Old Killed By Her Brother- July 4th 1922- West Virginia
They Sawed Off His Leg and He Changed the World- James Hanger- Philippi, West Virginia
Where Stonewall Jackson Grew Up: The Sad Life of a Legend- Jane Lew West Virginia- Jacksons Mill
Paul Brewer and the Gothic Line, 1944 A West Virginia Boy’s Last Battle:
Hanged Over a Bridge: The Forgotten Story of Edgar Jones, Weston West Virginia- 1892
Mummies of the Insane- Mummified Women of Philippi West Virginia- Lurch- Civil War Artifacts & More
The Mayor Who Never Came Home -Mendal Kirkendal -Delbarton’s 1951 Tragedy -Location & Grave
The 1987 Forgotten Bank Robbery & Mountain top Murder in Kermit, West Virginia
Colonel Joseph Mickey’s Last Tragic Day at School, Belfry Kentucky
I Found a Wrecked Vehicle While Kayaking The Tug Fork River