Mabbitt Springs

Tennessee · United States · Haunted site

Camping late at night you see a single fire out in the woods. Walk towards it and a voice calls your name.

Camping in these woods on Signal Mountain, Tennessee, late at night, you see a single campfire out among the trees.

Walk towards it and a voice calls out your name.

Go closer and a greyish hand reaches out of a shadowed tent. Step closer still and the hand withdraws, and what is attached to it is the rest of the account.

The structure is what makes this one work, and it is a very old structure. The story is built as a series of steps, each requiring the listener to choose to continue, with the worst thing at the end. That is how a story gets told around a fire, to people who are themselves sitting around a fire in the same woods.

Signal Mountain overlooks Chattanooga and the Tennessee River gorge, and the Confederates used it for exactly what its name says.

The woods are public in places and private in others.

FAQ

Where is Mabbitt Springs located?

Mabbitt Springs is in Tennessee, United States.