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Deery Inn

If visitors hear disembodied hysterical laughter and quick footfalls while in Deery Inn in Blountville, it might be the spirit of a woman who once set fire to the inn. According to an article in Kingsport Times-News on 10/29/1995:

There is the historic Deery Inn in Blountville, which [retired ETSU Professor Dr. Nancy Hamblen] Acuff said is still haunted

by a woman who was locked into one of the inn’s rooms after she set fire to her own home and several others after the Civil

War. Apparently, Acuff said, she had access to some sort of flame while she was sequestered in the inn.

“She was, today what we’d call, a pyromaniac,” Acuff said. “She gave the Deery Inn a pretty good scorching. They

banished her and her entire family from Sullivan County. Sometimes when people would go in after she left, they would get the

sense of her setting fire and running and laughing.” (Kingsport Times-News)

Bibliography:

Lifford, Brad. "It's Hauntingly Familiar." Kingsport Times-News [Kingsport, Tennessee] 10/29/1995: Page: 10E.

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