Stories and Songs Hosted By Blueswoman Alabama Annie

I recently learned I am being inducted into the Alabama Blues Hall of Fame! I feel very humbled to learn this. I ain't no flashy guitarist or pianist or the most amazing songwriter/storyteller you've ever met, but I can hold my own. A lot of you have asked me over the years who were my influences so I'm gonna tell you....Transcript

A man's home keeps being broken into so he sets up some traps to stop them and falls victim to one of these...

Sitting on the trail in the woods on a cold, sunny day talking about things I've seen and experienced in the woods and an excerpt from a song called...Nobody Here But Me

A short talk about the Little People...

A moonlit night and two park rangers on patrol in the Great Smoky Mountains and a car that fell from the sky!

A story from 1931 about a clothesline that helped to snag a convict...

Some bleach white bones that a very old tree has grown over and through on the side of Chandler Mountain here in North Alabama...

A visit to a place Where I have written several stories and songs that you can find here on this podcast and Youtube...

"My Grandmother took me on a walk to a secret place deep in the Redwood forest and what I saw that day I will never forget."

The lady on the stairs...Fuller Brushes...a stranger in a bed...travelers on the porch...and those darned footprints with a little tune entitled Train to Birmingham!

An episode about lost treasures and a wedding band that returned on the wind with a song from the 1920s called.....I Found a Dream

A Story about one of the Mission Schools established to educate Native American children and some ghosts who haunt the site...and a verse from my song entitled Trail of Tears...

A Story about a boy named Robbie and his annual summer visit with his aunt and uncle where he first hears of the Virginia Creeper and is convinced it is going to get him!

A story about a mysterious light we saw in the woods one night and a verse from a song called Porch Light...

The misadventures of three boys who went up on Lookout Mountain to try and see the Union Soldiers on their march to Chattanooga and a boy named Hank Jones who lost his life on the side of the mountain.

A stagecoach robber, a constable and some stolen goods leads to the arrest of a man who later becomes a well know author who committed his crimes for the experience so that he could write his books!

An escaped gorilla from a circus that came into town by train and his disappearance on Lookout Mountain during the days of the Scopes Trial up in Tennessee, and an answer to the question about whatever happened to Bosco.

Aunt Mamie needed a turkey for Thanksgiving and she got one and raised it from a chick, and then?

The legend of a cave just off US Highway 11 at the foot of Lookout Mountain...some spelunkers and a pair of glowing green eyes in the darkness...

A hot summer day...a farmer takes his mule down to a place called Blue Water to let her drink, and the rest is the stuff legends are made of...

Clowns....what do you think of them? Me? I hate the nasty little things...Here's a story about a clown that's perfect for the season!

An upstanding family with a little secret hidden out in the woods and a trap door in a bedroom floor...

Halloween on the street of some little town in America...a ghost and a wizard and a creepy green hand!

A return home to the swamps...a case of mistaken identity and a girl who made a big mistake.

A Trip home from a football game on a fall night in the family station wagon. Mom is driving with two boys in back, and as they round a curve in their driveway, they see him, clinging to the barn door....and he's the size of a large raccoon!

Perhaps Clarence should have paid more attention to those dreams he'd been having and he would have stayed around a little longer.

An extensive cave system, some bootleggers, the Army Corp of Engineers, some unusual artifacts and a big explosion!

A little town called Collinsville, Al. and an annual tradition involving some turkeys, a celebration and a band playing in the park.

A dark country road, a farmer in a truck, a body beside the road and an old playing card.

Some information about a particular cave and a large species of bat found on Lookout Mountain in Alabama and a lady who said, "That was no bird!!"

Hanging Nathan had sentenced three trustees to life in the jail but over the years they had all become trustees and did work for the judge...and as one last favor they dug his grave when he died and it saved their lives!

Every year the Gypsies used to pass through this neck of the woods, rumored to be dangerous, bad people who stole children, chickens and shiny things, but here is a story that paints a different picture of them...

A family looking for work and a home during the days of the Great Depression meet a farmer who needs help on his farm and he also has a cabin they can live in but the cabin is very very haunted and they don't live there long.

A deathbed confession from a man who knew all too well about alien spacecraft, how they flew and how much fun they could have in them!

A couple takes a hike to a dry creek bed and find some ancient human bones.

An old empty house in a little town where Mr. Tompkin's lived...and still does!

A story about some star-crossed lovers who can be seen...swirling, swirling in the Sweetwater...

Ever walk through a place in the forest that makes you want to hurry away? There is a reason those places are the way they are, and there are ancient spirits there, watching. Some of those places need to be left alone. Here is a tale about one of those.

A tale of an old man who was descended from a Knight's Templar, four boys who believed his tales and the find of a lifetime...

It's good to eat locally sourced foods...but when the food seems creepy to you, that's something else!

Does lightning strike twice in the same place? You could ask Mr. Bolt, but he is no longer with us...may he rest in peace.

Some hunters seek shelter inside a mountain cabin from a snow storm when a hail of gunfire erupts out out of nowhere.

A man waiting for a train to hop a boxcar and go home with only a nickel in his pockets and a tornado coming across the delta and money falling from the sky!

A lady buys a farm at auction from the US Army and suffers a case of exploding chickens....

A hidden still, a cave, an old one eyed cat and a bootlegger gets a terrible fright!

During America's first gold rush in the North Georgia Mountains, a group of prospectors are driven from their claim in fear for their lives by a band of Little People.

A story from the days before the Indian Removal, the Willstown Mission School a reverend and an unruly horse....

An old Ford owned by a convicted bank robber who served his time, lived in squalor and always claimed he'd never taken the money but a retired FBI agent solved the case after the bank robber died....

A hidden cave becomes a lair for some boys where they play fighting monsters and other games until they outgrow pretending and go exploring deeper into the cave than they have ever been and find something remarkable inside.

A man learns a lesson about stealing Native American artifacts...