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Top Comments of this video!! :3
The Ghost of Elvis helping a witch run for mayor is like a 70s live action Disney comedy premise.
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Almost 2 hours into this documentary and you pull out a full in-person interview with her, you absolute legend.
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This is surreal. This is one of my favorite youtube channels and I just watched a video that is based in my hometown about a woman that I thought was just a local celebrity.
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I am from South America, as South as it can be, from a small town in Chile and there's not a single day that I don't have the feeling you describe in this video, small and forgotten towns can feel like prisons sometimes, I kinda wish we had our own witch sometimes, someone to conjure spirits and talk strange tales in the local paper. Amazing video as always.
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The closing song is "Witch's Love Song" by Barbara, The Gray Witch, for anyone else who is wondering. It's credited within the music credits, but just wanted to put it in comments, in case anyone else felt haunted by it and wanted to know too
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As someone who also grew up in the Appalachian region, this video really hit home for me. Not only because Iām familiar with small town mountain life but I also had an aunt who always claimed she had visions of the dead . I swear your interview at end with Joann reminded me so much of her āramblingsā and just the accent and choice phrases that generation used. It makes me miss her and feel homesick. I really love your channel and wanted to say , keep making videos you feel passionate about.
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Around two hours in I was not expecting to hear and see her. I honestly thought you were going to talk about the aftermath of her death or something but then there she is. Amazing
Fantastic video. Thank you for all of the effort you put into your videos.
Also the intro of you talking about your old town had a certain...magic and yet dread to it. Just so well done!
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Just a little factoid, pink carnations are given in times of death to say "I'll never forget you", or as a thank you for being in my life. It was a genuinely kind gesture, in my opinion. Flowers, especially in the past, have such intricate individual meanings when given (yellow roses being a sign kindness, affection and therefore q great chouce to give for a close friendship/family member) so there's a lot people have communicated through the flowers they've chosen to give. If I sent my mother in law a bouquet of flowers, she could infer my intentions from those flowers.
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Brave words about that town.
I grew up in Tennessee, and while I have met the sweetest, most honest people in the world down South, I have also met the most close-minded and stubborn there, as well.
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You were very sweet to her. I was worried that she might have some psychotic features or seem obviously delusional. Sheās had quite an eventful life but she is just a rebel in a novel environment.
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Hearing this story, the further into it goes, the more it reminds my mother. She was a spiritualist but devout God believing person who heard voices that would predict what would happen that fed into her erratic behaviors. These voices cause my mom to run away from home during her freshman year of hs, and supposedly moved me upwards to 40 times in my life. My mother has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and though this titular women was able to hold herself together with great strength, it still brings me to my childhood of all these spirits and voices of God telling my mother what to do. Some good, allot bad, but shaped me to the person here today, a person who can now see why im such a counter culteralist who strives to find meaning behind the weird from norm.
Seeing the live interview at the end, makes me think this is what my mom will become in her later years. It's been 6 years since I've cut my mother out of my life to push her to get help after trying everything I could to help her. I miss my mother dearly and want her to get back to a state where she's not abusing everyone around her to appease these voices. I think her condition was formed from certain kinds of trauma from her childhood that really messed her up, worse stuff than was talked about in the video that I don't wanna trigger for other readers.
Did this get personal? Maybe too much? Probably, but that's how life tends to be, and the weird little things that can pull us together. Better to live your life unabashed than full of regret not doing it.
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Growing up in a small town in Eastern KY, I can relate to so much of this videos intro and the experience growing up in Morganton. This, good sir, might just be your masterpiece. We are enriched for having you in our lives thru this channel.
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my friday just got so much better
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I applaud your honesty and bravery. Make no mistake, speaking out in such a demographic is a dangerous business. It's horrifying to realize how prevalent hatred remains in the southern states. So much has changed, yet so much remains the same, or worse. Here in Jacksonville, we like to think that things are getting better-to think that acceptance, tolerance and brotherly love fill our hearts. But the battle isn't over. Stay safe. You have friends in Florida.
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Oh my god yes. The fact that he got this video out before Halloween is such a serve. For my movie marathon 31 for 31 this year I actually chose a bunch of movies that he recommended just so I could go back and watch the videos again with new eyes. Hope you have a very spooky Halloween!!!! Edit: holy shit this video is 2 hours long? Crying screaming yelling ect THANK YOU!!!!!!!
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Listening to the first ten minutes of this I cant help but empathize. I'm from a terribly similar Appalachian region myself and am treated a bit like a witch for my own "eccentricities".
Stand tall, brothers and sisters.
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Wendigoon recently made a video about Morganton, The Brown Lights, and Table Rock. Of course the town's history was not the center focus of the video but referenced here and there. He definitely didn't mention it was the place where the first white woman was hanged in the U.S. or that it was the last place where some one was trialed for being a witch. It was interesting to get the perspectives of some who passed threw it and some one who was raised there.
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This is the best video Iāve ever seen on YouTube ever. Iām from TN and was raised Mormon so I relate to the yearning to break the mold and escape the āprisonā you were born into. Beautiful, captivating, honest, and fun. Wonderful work here.
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I grew up in Morganton and went to a seance at Joann Denton's house in 1976. The table shook a bit but I don't recall anything else unusual happening. But the evening was quite memorable because of Joann's showmanship and the general atmosphere of her house. I was a high school student and I had the feeling that she let me and my friend experience a little spookiness and sent us on our way. There were two gentlemen there, one of whom had come from Philadelphia to see her, and I think they got more into some deeper stuff after we left.
My mother had known Joann from youth and thought she was just an attention-seeker. We used to see her around town all the time and she was always playing up the witch thing. Some Burke County residents may remember a public-access cable TV show she did in the early 1980s with two friends. It was called "Voices From Gray Shadows" and was a hoot. Joann would bring in articles from the Weekly World News and they would comment on them. Oh how I'd love to see some of those episodes again! It was unintentional side-splitting hilarity.
I always found Joann to be intriguing yet friendly. This video makes it seem like the entire town was in an uproar about her for a time but that wasn't the case. Some people got worked up but for most it was an attitude of "It's just Joann being Joann". Bemusement and amusement mostly. The Appalachian foothills have a long tradition of unique characters and spooky stories, and Joann was the 1970s installment of that.
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@InPraiseofShadows
1 year ago
Happy Halloween! I hope you are doing well, thank you so much for watching this new video. It really means a ton to me, this is the most personal project I have ever taken on and has been a little surreal making it. Strange videos like this are hard to gain traction on the internet, so I would ask you that if you liked this please share it around and tell people you know who may like it. It is important for me that this one does well, Iām extremely proud of how it has turned out and I think it is something that should be seen. I hope you are having a great fall, and that your upcoming Halloween is excellent, stay safe! Two corrections need to be made about statements in the video: !!! SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS !!! At one point I say that I didnāt know who lived in Gray Shadows. At the time that I said that I believed that to be true. The interviews I did for this as well as all other document evidence suggested that Gray Shadows had been sold some time in the late 90ās, but that is not true. I learned two days ago that the family still owns it and at that point it was too late to change that section of the video. The other is that Joannās mother is not named Clarence but instead is Jina. Clarence used to be a gender neutral name in the south, and when she is referred to in print she is always called Mrs. Clarence Denton, but that was referring to her husband and Joannās father. The rest of the events surrounding her are accurate to what was published at the time. Thank you again so much, and Iāll see you again soon.
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