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2. To read a full account of this story, please pick up a copy of Haunted Tennessee by: Charles Edwin Price
4. To read a full account of this story, please pick up a copy of Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee by: Charles Edwin Price
5. To read a full account of this story, please pick up a copy of The Ghosts of Virginia Volume VIII by: L.B. Taylor, Jr.
In 1777, the Cherokee Indians made a pact with white settlers, and were forced to leave their beloved sacred ground- an island on the Holston River today known as Long Island. Previously, the place was a holy ground where meetings took place to discuss peace- no man or woman was to be killed there. Before they left, a disgruntled shaman placed a curse on the land, proclaiming loudly that no white person would ever be able to live on the island in peace. Indeed, since that day, no one has had peace there. Aside from the peculiar behavior of some pets, and the bad reputation the place has for vandals, there have also been murders there.
The first notable murder was in 1925, when the sheriff devised a clever rouse to capture a wanted killer. When the murderer Kenny Wagner got there, he gunned down the sheriff and his men.
In the1950's, parents would steer their children away from hot and heavy foreplay on the deserted island by telling them that there was a father who caught his daughter in heavy petting with a local young man, and clubbed the both of them to death.
Indeed no white person may live happily on the land, because today Eastman has half of their sewer treatment on the property. The other half is a park owned by the city of Kingsport. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The part of Long Island that is assumably haunted is blocked off to the public, however.
