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the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service to help you find your happy place in an amazing system of more than 400 national parks

including historic and cultural sites,

monuments, preserves, lakeshores, and seashores

that dot the American landscape,

many of which you'll find just a short trip from home.

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Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. It's that time of year. You're getting pelted with this supernatural from every direction on TV at the movie theater in the grocery store.

Far be it from us to miss an opportunity for a themed episode.

I'm Jason Epperson, and on today's episode of America's National Parks,

Stories of the Supernatural.

Myths from the distant past.

In fact, all of these stories come from one source.

In 1896, Charles M Skinner published a massive nine-volume collection of eerie legends from coast to coast,

many of which happened in national parks.

Not surprisingly, stories of the unexplained tend to draw from the heritage of indigenous people.

And it should be said right up front that Native American people take legends seriously, almost as if they

happened yesterday. By no means are we attempting to make light of any particular tale or to set

them aside as spooky Halloween fodder.

Many are creation stories explaining the very existence of some of our nation's treasures

or parables that help us learn more about ourselves.

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