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Welcome to Tales to Terrify. Good evening, Children of the Night. North Carolina is home to a story that if you're

fan of particularly old-timey country music, you may have heard the Kingston Trio song, Tom Dooley.

The song's lyrics are not complicated, but tells a brief story of Tom Dooley killing a beautiful

woman on the mountain with a knife,

and then alludes to a man named Grayson, capturing Tom Dooley,

which leads on to a hanging from a white oak tree.

Legend goes that in 1866, a dashing Confederate veteran returned from the American Civil War by the name of Tom Dooley,

that spelled D-U-L-A,

meets beautiful Laura Foster, who was being courted by a schoolteacher named Bob Grayson.

A personal interjection, when I was a freshman in sophomore in high school, the school's

principal was a fellow named Bob Grayson, likely no relation.

Continuing on, Laura falls in love with Tom, but meanwhile another woman named Ann Melton

falls for him as well. Anne is married, a-oh, wealthy, beautiful, and most of all, jealous.

After finding out that Tom is in love with Laura, not her, she stabs

Lord of death and a rage of jealousy. Tom is to blame, and he flees to Tennessee. Bob Grayson

forms up a posse and extradites him back to North Carolina where he stands trial. Noble Tom

Dooley, in some sort of sense of duty, doesn't push the blame

of the murder on Anne, but takes a hit and is executed. The legend continues that Laura progressively

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