Pierson's Hollow

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1. To read a full account of this story, please pick up a copy of Digging Up Bones by: Charles Edwin Price

Pierson’s Hollow in Unicoi was named after Mr. Pierson, a hermit and a moonshiner. He would take his lamp at night and venture into the woods to check on his liquor, and then stumble back home drunk. One early morning, his house caught on fire and he burned up alive inside, assumabely too drunk to flee; the cabin was found in this condition weeks later by a wandering hunter. This legend was told to explain the phantom light that appears on the mountain, glides down a path, and seems to enter a cabin. But, Mr. Pierson’s lamplight isn’t the only specter in the hollow. His horribly burned face has been seen in windows throughout the hollow on late nights. 1