Jobe Cemetery

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According to Charles Edwin Price’s book Haunted Tennessee, Jobe Cemetery in Erwin is haunted by a knife-wielding specter from the early days of the Clinchfield Railroad. Price documents locals have nicknamed this frightening ghost “Old Dawg”.

There is a strip of woods between Jobe Cemetery and the lower end of the Clinchfield Railroad yard. Price documents stories that “tramps” would frequently camp in the woods before jumping a train to another town, except for Old Dawg who called the place home. Legend maintains he murdered a number of other “hobos” there and that to this day his ghost will approach late night visitors, clutching his knife.

Perhaps this tale is a warning about train jumping. The site would be a perfect place to catch a train slowly pulling out on the way to North Carolina. Even at such a slow pace, however, train jumping is illegal and frequently deadly.

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