Historic Rugby Village: Where the Past Never Left, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
Tucked away in Northeast Tennessee, Historic Rugby Village was founded in 1880 as a bold experiment in ideal living. Created by author Thomas Hughes, the village was meant to be a utopia—orderly, enlightened, and harmonious. The dream didn’t last.
Disease, hardship, and disappointment took hold, with typhoid fever claiming many of Rugby’s earliest residents. Though the village survived, something of its original hope seemed to fracture—and never fully leave.
Today, Rugby remains remarkably preserved, its Victorian buildings standing quietly among the hills. With a population of just 75, some say the town is far more crowded than it appears. Visitors and investigators report activity in nearly every structure, from footsteps and voices to the unmistakable feeling of being watched.
We explore the lingering spirits and unfinished stories of Rugby with Miranda Young, uncovering why this tiny town may be one of the most haunted places in America.
For more information on Rugby, visit their website at historyhighwayshaunts.com or find them on Facebook at Historic Rugby After Dark. For more information on Miranda Young, you can search Ghost Biker Explorations on Facebook.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the historic rugby village with Miranda Young. |
| 0:11.4 | Do you think that perhaps Thomas Hughes and or his mother might still be there in the village? |
| 0:20.1 | So one of the buildings that we do allow paranormal investigators to investigate is called Uffington |
| 0:26.7 | House. |
| 0:27.6 | Uffington House was the home that was originally built from Madam Hughes. |
| 0:32.6 | And so this house is technically three houses that was put together. |
| 0:42.1 | And they built this for her not very long in early 1881 after she had come to the area. And so we get a lot of different things that |
| 0:51.8 | we feel is associated with Madam Hughes. |
| 0:54.3 | It's actually one of the more active buildings that we do guided ghost hunts and paranormal investigations in. |
| 1:01.7 | We also included on our North Village Lantern tour. |
| 1:05.8 | Whoever is in that house is, they will definitely want to respond to you when you start talking about |
| 1:13.0 | missing England and talking about English customs. |
| 1:17.9 | We do smell flowers in there a lot. |
| 1:22.5 | Madam Hughes was known for the gardening that she did there on the property. |
| 1:26.8 | She actually brought her books and brought some plants and stuff from England when she |
| 1:33.1 | came. |
| 1:34.3 | There's also somebody that runs up on the second floor. |
| 1:40.1 | And they tend to, I mean, we've even had people put motion lights up there and or motion detectors. |
| 1:50.5 | And when you hear running, it'll set the motion detectors off. |
| 1:54.9 | So Uffington is one that we do get a lot of activity from. |
| 1:58.6 | And that would have been where Madam Hughes as well as Emily Hughes resided at. The Thomas Hughes House, even though he did not live there, |
| 2:08.5 | that is also one of the original structures. It was built in 1884. And of course, he never lived in |
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