i’ve read about some places that are haunted along the AT. anyone got any spooky experiences while thru-hiking? i’ve also noticed that the trail runs within a mile of burkittsville, md; the place where the supposed blair witch lives. i know it’s just a movie and all, but did anyone get any chills while hiking near there? i love a good scary camping story!
m.d.
After a long day hiking, which ended up going over Hump Mountain, I ended the day at Apple House Shelter. There is a story that this shelter is haunted. Ulike most other shelters, this one is fully enclosed with a standard doorway opening. As the story goes, the apparition of a boy sometimes stands outside the doorway and gazes into the shelter. I didn’t mention it to Huck who was also there with me. As I settled into my sleeping bag, and turned my headlamp off, the story was on my mind and I couldn’t help but turn my eyes in the direction of the shelter entrance now and then. As expected, I didn’t sleep all that well. I kept waking up and forcing myself to look at the shelter doorway, expecting some eerie glowing ghost, which a couple of times, I could have sworn I saw (or maybe dreamed?). I don’t even want to think about what it would have been like to sleep in this shelter alone that night!
Easy Strider
I’ve read about a ghost at the Mizpah Spring hut. Something like a little girl ghost running around. Supposedly the Jim and Molly Denton hut is haunted also, with Mosby’s Confederates. As for the Burkittsville area, I’ve never hiked near there so couldn’t comment on that one. I have seen pictures of a house somewhere in VA that looks like the Blair Witch house though. :oh
zagbot
When I was going thru in 07 right before the 500 mile mark at the Old Orchard Shelter in Virginia. Someone painstakenly created some very neat rock sculptures in front of the shelter. I was hammocked behind the shelter and could swear that I could hear the clink clink clink of the damned sculptures moving around at night. Very creepy. Wouldn’t you know it … by the time I made it to Vermont there were at least 2 more huge sites of rock sculptures! Very Blair witch like.
Doggiebag
H-m-m-m, I don’t believe in ghosts. After all that outside sleeping on the trail and exploring a graveyard or two during my hike, I figure one would’ve offed me by now.
Diva