Legends of Tennessee, Part Two | Guest Eric Freeman Sims

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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If you think you’ve heard all there is to know about Tennessee’s haunted past, think again. While legends like the Bell Witch and Elvis’s ghost at Graceland get most of the spotlight, the small towns scattered across Tennessee are brimming with chilling stories that aren’t so well known.

Eric Freeman Sims is a seasoned paranormal investigator, and he opens the door to those lesser-known haunts in his new book, Small Town Haunts and Legends of Tennessee. Eric shares eerie tales of forgotten spirits, long-buried secrets, and the restless echoes that refuse to fade. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience—and a lifetime of eerie encounters that began with a full-body apparition at age eight—Eric guides us deep into the heart of the Volunteer State, where folklore meets the unexplained, proving that sometimes the scariest stories come from the places you'd least expect. This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:00.0	Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation with author Eric Freeman Sims about the legends of Tennessee.
0:09.6	We mentioned the Battle of Franklin being the five bloodiest hours of the Civil War, but the Shiloh National Military Park, that battlefield saw a lot of death.
0:22.7	Yeah, about 20,000 dead between both sides.
0:26.0	I can't even wrap my brain around that.
0:28.1	Yeah.
0:29.2	I just can't.
0:30.1	There were so many killed people and horses that there's a pretty good size pond that turned red with blood.
0:41.1	Yeah, because you think 20,000.
0:43.6	You can go to a concert at the arena here, and if it's sold out, that's 15,000.
0:50.1	You know, that's just, it's just overwhelming to think about.
0:54.6	Yeah.
0:55.3	Is the Shiloh National Military Park, where exactly is that?
1:00.5	That is in West Tennessee kind of south along the Mississippi border.
1:06.3	Does that location have reports of hauntings?
1:10.0	There's all kinds of reports of haunting.
1:11.7	There has to be.
1:13.5	Yeah.
1:14.1	Yeah.
1:14.4	That was really a stupid question.
1:18.2	There's lots of sounds of, of course, battles going on, gunshots, cannon fire, things
1:22.2	like that, men screaming.
1:23.9	Horses is another one, like I talked about at Carton with the Battle of Franklin.
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