Just a heads up. This episode might be a little too spooky for our very youngest strangers.

I'm Lauren Orton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives, for stories that can't quite be explained.

Strangers, we're doing something a little different today,

and we're keeping up the theme that we began with our main feed episode on the alleged Georgia werewolf, Emily Burt.

Because when we were deep into our research on her story,

we ran, on four feet even, straight into another southern werewolf legend,

one out of Tennessee.

Unlike our last tale, it doesn't center on a person, but rather on a place.

Hall Spring or Hall Springs, we've heard it called both, in Dixon County.

It's an area better known as Werewolf Springs.

And interestingly enough, it gets brought up in relation to another ghoulish Tennessee story,

the legend of the White Bluff Screamer.

The main reason for this is likely proximity,

since Hall Springs and White Bluff are only 10 or so miles apart.

But there's a little more to that story,

and some crossover beyond geography.

So let's get into it, shall we?

We'll start with some very brief context.

Dixon County is just west of Nashville and is home to Montgomery Bell State Park.

According to its official website, the nearly 4,000-acre park, quote,

was once the center of the iron industry in Middle Tennessee.

The park's namesake, Montgomery Bell, founded one of the largest iron industries in Tennessee. Iron was

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