The Children of Hollow Ridge: The Forgotten Appalachian Mystery That Should Never Have Been Discovered
During the summer of 1968, deep in the forgotten mountains between Kentucky and Virginia, two hunters followed the trail of an injured deer to a place most of the locals had stopped talking about decades before.
The woods were dense, the trails overgrown, and the old family properties scattered across the hills had gradually disappeared under the inexorable ravages of nature. To outsiders, it was just a deserted corner of the Appalachians, a place where empty houses crumbled underground and forgotten names had faded away.
But hidden behind a wall of trees stood an old wooden barn.
The hunters later stated that they had almost driven past without stopping.
The building seemed unchanged for generations. The planks were gray with age. The roof sagged under the weight of storms accumulated over the years. The doors
