The Corn Field Day One
Playing head games with the moonshiners was getting boring. A lot of the old guys were gone and these new ones just stood around bogarting buds
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Category: Alabama Stories
Alabama Stories
Alabama Civil War Sites
Alabama Ghost Towns
Alabama Ghosts and Haunted Places
Alabama Treasure Legends
Bama Dew – The Story of Alabama Moonshine
Gold in Alabama
Melvin’s Alabama History
Selected Readings from Volume II
The Raven
Alabama legends, myths, folklore and american Indian tales.
Digital Alabama curates, edits and publishes many historical publications as well as original content. Many stories include our fictitious characters: Melvin, our explorer from the past, and Raven, Melvin’s grandson that inherited all of his grandfather’s helpers and a passion for exploration of Alabama.
French Treasure Ship Yet To Be Found
In September, 1989, novelist and historian Dr. Clive Cussler attempted to find the wreck of the Bellone. His team did locate what could be the remains of the wreck but did not attempt any salvage operations.
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Louina Alabama
Louina Alabama in Randolph County Alabama was settled by the Indians, pushed to Alabama by the white settlers from the overcrowded east in the 1830s. Louina’s trading post quickly became the metropolis of its day with the area producing quantities of gold. Today Louina is a ghost town.
According to tradition and folklore, the Louina area coughed up gold and silver.
The Raven – Chapter 3 Part 1: Agent Foxx Talks With Mama
The truth of the matter is that Agent Foxx had no intention of trying to prosecute Raven and Kenny. In fact, he would not even report the incident. Chancing a flirting glance at Raven he was convinced the kid was wearing a mask, the false face of the Indians. Raven had passed his second test. Again Foxx had what he had come for – confirmation that Raven Cane was born to be a spy.
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The Raven: Chapter 3 Part 3: Sheriff Mac, Owls and Cougars
How can you be so sure there are no moonshiners in the county; have you looked?” “Don’t have to. The owl lets us know what’s going on.”
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Introduction: The Raven
The Cherokee have an ancient saying, “The world is full of stories, and from time to time they permit themselves to be told.”
The Raven is such a story. It is a fictionalized account of true stories about a North Alabama farm boy that dreams of righting many wrongs. In this first book, Discovery, he discovers he is destined to have his dreams realized. He is to become the stuff of today’s legend and myth. He is The Raven.
A novel by Tracy O. Crane and Terry W. Platt
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The Raven Chapter 2 Part 4: Raven Meets Harley
“You do understand, right? Cash only, you never met me and you don’t know where this place is.
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The Raven Chapter 2 Part 2: Contents of the Fissure
Raven found the break in the cave wall just as Melvin had said. He was not sure he could fit in the opening as he was taller and heavier than Melvin but he knew also that his grandfather would not have directed him to crawl in if he had any doubts about his ability to do so.
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Tales Of Treasure In Shoals Flooded Caves
Local historians say they have heard tales about treasures hidden in flooded caves and other areas of the Shoals.
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Yuchi Gold Of Paint Rock Alabama
One of Alabama’s most famous lost gold stories is the Yuchi Gold of Paint Rock Valley.
Legend says that somewhere just southeast of Huntsville, Alabama there is a fortune in gold hidden in a cave. According to the legend, the cave has gold ingots stacked within. This Alabama Treasure Legend speculates that the gold came from Spanish soldiers who were killed near Tuscaloosa Alabama by the Yuchi tribe around 1699.
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Treasure Legend Of Cherokee Chief Doublehead
Doublehead (1744–1807) or Incalatanga (Tal-tsu’tsa in Cherokee), was one of the most feared warriors of the Cherokee during the Cherokee–American wars.
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2: Encounter With The Horse Barn Mafia
Encounter With The Horse Barn Mafia The fact that Raven was growing up in a rural farming area that
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THREE YEARS IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE: CHAPTER II
The batteries, which had been ably planned, but imperfectly constructed, under direction of Capt. Harris, of the Engineer Corps, contained forty-four guns, mostly 32 and 42 pound smooth-bores, with a few 64-pounders and one or two 100-pound rifles.
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Melvin’s Homemade Cane Syrup
Gourmet suvival cooking recipes and methods shared by Melvin Cane is the novel “The Raven.”
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Goanther
This morning, Raven’s question was “Hey, Goanther, old gal, where is your partner in crime?” but the bird offered no answer. Instead, it turned away from Raven in silence. Haven’t seen him all morning Goanther thought to herself. She knew that meant her twin brother, Hipmoflux, was probably off doing what he usually does—causing trouble somewhere. She could not see how to ravens, hatched only minutes apart, could be so different.
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1: Raven and The Hornets’ Nest
Raven would harass the bees and wasps—he would torment them. If he found an insect in a blossom, he would slap the blossom shut using both hands trying to squash the insect gathering the nectar.
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Sheriff Mac: Day One
Sheriff Mac: Day One “I think Raven has his own ways of passing on information; he does it in a
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The Moonshine Investigation
a novel by Tracy O. Crane and Terr W. Platt
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Raven and Kenny in The Cornfield
Raven wished now he had gone to Bankhead National Forest like Kenny had suggested.
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The Long Lost Ark of the Covenant – A Wonder Verified
The Long Lost Ark of the Covenant – A Wonder Verified Research continues on an incident that allegedly occurred in
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Hipmoflux Sentences Melvin To A Lifetime in Alabama
Brother, have you ever thought about our future? I mean like what becomes of us after we’re finished with Raven.
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