I really enjoyed this video. I'm 62, my first husband was a coal miner in West Virginia.... Love my Appalachian roots dearly! ❤ Thank you Donnie! 🙏👍💪❤️
My wife was born and raised in Coalfield Tennessee, in Morgan County. The Coal Camp was right beside their home, but all the old houses have been torn down,where the miners and their families lived.A good story Donnie, some things are hard to explain. Thanks Friend and God Bless and Take Care 🙂.
We would leave early Sunday mornings, for a 2 hour drive to visit with my Dad's parents on Sandy Ridge. He'd make a right turn at Coeburn and drive up Tom's Creek to The Ridge. That dark, narrow valley managed to hold a good size creek, a railroad, a paved road and a mine with the biggest slag pile I've ever seen. The smoke and fumes off the slag and the creek fog would swirl around creating a scene out of a horror movie but we could men stop working at the tipple to watch us pass. The only problem was the mine had closed after the war and no one was there. Tom's Creek was haunted. Thanks for another piece of our mountain history.
Thank you Mr Laws for this very reflective video on how hard our ancestors work and lived to help provide us for the lives we have now. We should never forget this.
So true Donnie. Thanks for sharing the memories and history of those old mining camps. We have the old mining camp houses scattered throughout southeast Ohio and across the river in Mason County WV. A lot of the these little houses have been patched up and still lived in today. I remember Grandma telling us kids about life in the mining camp. She told of the immigrants and people of all races living there. Even though it was hard work I could tell she had fond memories. Grandpa worked for the Pittsburgh coal company. They had a small farm too. He worked from the time he was fifteen until retirement and didn't even get a busted finger but lost two of his brothers to a cave in. I appreciate your stories of the Appalachians. God bless you.
My grandparents in the 50’s bought a very nice 2 story home that was in a area of a coal camp, that house was insanely haunted. Everyone in the family had experiences in that place all the way up to the day it was torn down.
Sometimes the secrets of the past refuse to be hidden. The old farmhouse my family owned was never peaceful and my personal experience with the unexplainable was not ignored by family members. My cousin once said “ We ought to burn it down.” He did disassemble it and graded the lot.
Great video Donnie ❤️Those miners had a hard life….Thanks for keeping them relevant and a part of our history….God Bless You 🙏🏻☦️❤️🙏🏻🇮🇱 Lord willing I will see you next time 👍
Hi Donnie, wow, I am going to say it to you again, you ARE the best story teller of these stories! I always tear up from these old stories! I came from a poor background so I know what it’s like as being a child and living poor and missing a few meals! Thank you so much for showing a true heart when telling these, I feel it well! June
The Lady's soul was finally free.. free from the only life she ever knew.. even though it was filled with poverty.. it still was her home.. but in the end she was finally set free from herself.. Great Video
May GOD rest their souls. Some bright and shining day, we will get to thank them for their sacrifices for their families. Those stories stir memories of many struggles of families that I currently know trying to begin in this tough old world with few material things now. Thanks Mr. Donnie, another great video.
Way back in my child hood 50 yrs ago , we lived in Kingsport Tennessee for a few years and we burned coal up in the attic ?!?! I’ve seen those camps with my own eyes , might be one reason I’m a big Loretta Lynn fan , really good video
Great Story. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The figure in the door, must have been the woman who formerly resided there. The ball of light was her spirit, taking a last look at her home. Sidenote. I had a friend who used to dig for Indian relics. Once Tommy was digging a grave in the Wytheville, Va. area. Tommy told me that a blue light came up out of the grave. He covered the grave up and left. Tommy had dug all sorts of Indian relics for years in Chilhowie, Va. area Chilothe, Ohio many other places. He was still scared when he told me this story. May ❤️🕊️❤️ Tommy ❤️🕊️❤️ 🌹🌹 Rest in Peace 🌹🌹
My Momma told me about you. She's who got me to listening to you. She was always enjoying your videos. She's passed away now and I want to thank you for keeping her entertained. Thank you and God Bless.
Thanks for the video brother Donnie, there's definitely things that you can't explain in this old world God bless you old man. Choose Jesus Christ today folks!!!
I love listening to you tell these stories. It feels like I'm sitting by the fire with my grandpa, snug and warm inside a house built by hand a hundred years ago. Thank you for letting me hear your memories and tales.
Thank you for keeping the stories and the people alive.my grandpa was a coal miner and my uncle's and cousins to.thats all they had .rock lick is where my mamaw was born and raised.she married papaw and she was 15.they lived hard lives but they were happy alot more. Then now and days.
A lot of hard work and coal came out of these mountains. Many risks were taken and some never made it out. They men deserve to be remembered for their commitment to their families and putting food on the table. God bless them all and may they rest in peace until we all meet again in the mighty Kingdom of God. thank you for sharing these stories. Your friend, Louise
Thank you Mr Law for these amazing glimpses into the past history of Appalachia my grandfather was a coal train Engineer running coal out of Cumberland until the depression hit , he used to tell us grandkids they were lucky to eat so well one night it was Beans and Taters the next night it was Taters and Beans and on special nights biscuits and Fat Back gravy or cornbread. My Father would ask my mother to cook a pot of beans and some fried taters and onions with cornbread at least once a month until the day he passed . Also you use the word Haints in the video this not a common word outside of the south my friend in Southern Mississippi where she lives they call the bigfoots ~ Haints she said some people have seen the bigfoot ~ Haints turn into Orbs of energy and shoot off into the woods .
I would love to visit some places where there are buildings still standing of mining camps. I love history but the main reason is, I feel things and take the past to heart. I do understand how very hard our ancestors worked just to make it through life. Giving us a chance to make it through life! I cannot even imagine how hard they worked and how hard life was.
Think of all the spirits there.. not just miners but all the Native Americans and all those in between.. stories lost in time.. perhaps never to be told.. except! Except for you Mr. Donnie.. thank you for taking us on this journey.. it was AWESOME 😎🥰
My best friends Dad is from Harlan, I'll have to ask if He familiar with that coal camp. My Dad only spent a couple years in the mines ( up by Stone, KY before a 900 pound chunk fell on him and broke his back, He came up here to Michigan and became a taxi driver/dispatcher. That's how I became a misplaced southerner, I feel like I'm home when I hit Kentucky/West Virginia and sleep great when visiting. I never felt at home here in Michigan. Thanks for the story and history.
@Donnie Law I want to thank you for keeping the spirit of the Appalachian people alive. My Mom was born on Black Mtn, and later moved by wagon to Forest City. I was born and raised here in NC and I’ve always made a Fall trip back to the these hills to walk the backroads that my Mom walked as a young girl. And I’m proud to call NC home. I love your videos. I hope you continue to bring light to this beautiful area of our country through your wonderful and interesting stories. Much Love & Light to you sir.
Neat story and historic pictures Donnie.....we just don't know what some things are.....that was strange how that one orb went all through the equipment like it did.....it's a good thing that equipment didn't all of a sudden take on a mind of its own ...that would have been time to head for the hills for sure.... Thanks again for the great video Brother.
Happy Happy, I just love looking forward to the stories you tell that bring back so many memories. Halloween will be coming up, keep the scary stories coming. I know it is a pagan holiday, l use to take our kids around our neighborhood and then we would go to church for Trick or Trunk, for games and more 🍬 candy, thsnx as always Mr Donnie. God Bless you and your family.
Dear Mr. Laws: PLEASE tell us more stories....We love listening to you. More Ghosts, Witches, Bigfoot, Unsolved mysteries, murders, missing, Whatever you can come up with from those mountains....Thank you so much for your time and knowledge.
Greetings Donnie, watching your playlist & praying for you every day. Your videos remind me of my fish technician days working for Indiana Dept of Natural Resources. Boss said he hired me because I identified all fish correctly! Hiking on private property was awesome like your videos. God bless you & heal you 🙏🙏🙏
That music in the opening was good enough to use in a horror movie. 👍🏼👀 Very good video. You are so right about those mountains holding so much history and legends. So interesting but very sad, too. I often wonder if people realize just how easy it is today. People worked so darn hard back then. They had to wore out their bodies long before it should have. God bless these people. Thank you for another wonderful part of your history. I watched this twice. It was so interesting.
new subscriber here. just wanted to say thanks for doing this, donnie. i love every bit about your videos, especially your narration....as a german i have no problems understanding you with your accent, and i really enjoy the unbridled authenticity of it all. i came to love the mountain people and their mountain talk via, you name it, popcorn sutton. what a down to earth peculiar authentic guy. its true, i guess, that your kinda talk and culture is declining, so youre doing actually historical work here.
What accent? Mr Laws doesn't have an accent. I understand him perfectly. But, I'm from western North Carolina and grew up with people who sounded just like him. ☺ Best Wishes, sir.
YOUR STORY TELLING PUTS ME TO SLEEP 😴 EVERY NIGHT NOW. CLOSE MY EYES AND PICTURE DAD MOM AND THE REST OF US SITTING AROUND THE FIRE LISTENING TO EVERY WORD OF THE OLD DAYS. I'M A COUNTRY BOY KIDNAPPED BY THE CITY BACK THEN.
Donnie thank you so much for bringing back the lives and mysteries of the coal mines and Appalachian mountains. You have shown me so much more than I knew.
Seeing them girls reminds me of a song called Patches by Dickey Lee. The boy tells the story of a girl who lived in the coal camps. He fell in love with her and "they plan to marry when June brought the summer". But the boy's mommy and daddy wouldn't let him marry the girl, saying she would bring him disgrace. It's a sad song, I won't tell anymore in case you want to listen to it for yourself. Thanks for the video and story Donnie, great one as always!
sure miss the old days in the hills of West Virginia, miss my creek, grandma, her birds she raised to make money, seeing her with ladys from the church quilting, grandpa and his Mail pouch chewing bacca and his spit toon and lots more...precious memories in my old age. Thanks Donny God bless.
Mr Donnie, I believe that despite stories having gone quiet and the secrets being left untold, they aren't lost to time... merely waiting to be happened upon and made known, but only at the behest of those long gone wanting it told. Once again, thank you for sharing. Signed: 3rd time here.
I can remember Mary Helen coal camp very well . I had an Uncle that worked , and lived there . I can even remember the old commissary there . I worked there many years later , but that was after all the old camp houses had been torn down , and the company had been renamed as Great Western Coal Co . I never did see any haints there , but I don't doubt for a second what these people say they saw . My Grandfather , and my Uncles have told me many stories , and strange happenings that have taken place around these old coal camps . You are right , coal miners are all brothers . Coal mining is the only job I ever had where after about 30 minutes after our shift started we were all the same color .
Thank You Donnie for taking your Time to Share the History of The Lives of the Coal Miners Lives and Their Family's. It was Hard Times back in the Earlier Days. of the Haints remain Looking for Their Lost Loved One's is My belief but Only our Lord God Knows Why They Stayed Behind. Blessings to Y'all and Your Family
I was born in Harlan, my husband is a coal truck driver, he works all over them places. I love your channel, I’m a subscriber, I always like and share many of your videos 😊❤ Great job as always.
@@utubegeneric Born in but not raised. Went back in 75 worked at Benham to 78 then at Eastover till it sold out to Clyde Bennett and got laid off. After it became Bananapan it turned into a dog hole mines.
Here in NC we've had mine disasters also. In 1904, a flood swept through the old Barringer mine in Stanley Co., NC flooding the shafts and killing eight people. Many of the mine accidents in NC were in the old gold, mica and feldspar mines but allot of folks don't realized that NC was also a coal producer. There is still considerable reserves in Chatham Co., NC southwest of Raleigh. On May 27th, 1925 a mine explosion killed 53 people. The coal formed along a fault that dips sharply adding to the difficulty in removing the coal seams which go down to considerable depth. The surface coal was mined off and on from 1850 till the 1930's but is mostly inactive today. I went down in an old abandoned gold mine one time many years ago and swore I can hear whispering in the shaft and the occasional sound of pick axes hitting rock. Really eerie place. The state has barricades up there now and you can't get inside it anymore. Thanks again Donnie for a great informative video.
My grandmother was raised in a Coal Camp (Ameagle, WV). It’s not there anymore. Her daddy was killed in an explosion when she was 3. When the miners came home each day, she’d run out to each of them calling “daddy”… she couldn’t distinguish between them with the smut on their faces. It was very hard for her and her siblings. Their mom raised them alone. The boys went off to war. Some didn’t make it home. They’re buried in Winifred on the side of a mountain. (I think I told you Zenith once before, but it was Winifred).
Been there & drove by there countless times. Really seam of coals there was pretty good high quality selling coal. I still get shocked the amount per clean ton some of that coal is sold for. Now days only 1 train of 100 car loads lot times go for 1+ million dollars. A train load. Zenith or 1 is in Monroe County near Waiteville or something if I am not mistaken. Been there it's a ghost town about 15 years ago.
Melancholy. She was probably still keeping house....poor soul. Well, at least she knew to fly up eventually. Very interesting story Mr. Donnie.....thank you so much. 👏👏
Hey Donnie Tommy from Jonesboro I love these old ghost stories living in Jonesboro it's one of the most haunted places in Tennessee it's full of story's to and they are having the storytelling this week to it's fun time inviting Averyone that's never been
Thank you very much for sharing your talent and these wonderful historic stories with us. I found your channel today and I’m totally captivated. Wishing you and yours a great weekend. I’m sending y’all big thanks from Texas.
I believe and have seen unexplained visions with my own eyes. I grew up in the coal country of SE Kentucky. There are many stories and I enjoy them all!
Thanks for sharing your very informative. From your friend from Wyoming keep up your good amazing story telling. Thanks again always looking forward to see your videos.
I didn't come from the coal fields. But my dad and grandpa both worked for springs cotton mill. And those coal field house sure makes me think of the mill house where my pop grew up at. Great videos!! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for sharing this story with Donnie, i enjoy these old ghost storys, from around these mountains, i do believe in ghost by self. When i was young i seen a lady and years later i seen a picture of this lady that did live in that house years before i was born, she had been past away years before i was born, but it was her Miss Charlie Chester. God bless you and your family sir......🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊🙂😀
Sad and hard, hard, hard times. Those old mining camps even when people were living in them looked so very lonesome,nothing but dirt no grass or flower or tree's. I fill sorry for the little kids. But they didnt know any different. Some people dont even know what it feels like to be real, real poor. I do though. Thank God its better now. Praying for all the very, very poor people in this old world today. The spirts hopefully went straight to heaven that your friend and everyone else seen. Thank you for this sad story. You are the best true storyteller.❤
More views than likes people please give this man the thumbs up he puts a lot of time and energy into his videos.
Thank you friend. God bless you.
He is awesome, all his content! #1 FAN of the Man from Tennessee!!!
His voice. It just takes you, video after video. I went back.👍🏻😃
Amen to that. Just wonderful. 🙏🏽
I agree
I really enjoyed this video. I'm 62, my first husband was a coal miner in West Virginia.... Love my Appalachian roots dearly! ❤ Thank you Donnie! 🙏👍💪❤️
Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this.
Folks don’t even know how comfortable life is today, so many folks take so much for granted. Thank you for bringing our culture to light
So true my friend. Your very welcome.
My wife was born and raised in Coalfield Tennessee, in Morgan County. The Coal Camp was right beside their home, but all the old houses have been torn down,where the miners and their families lived.A good story Donnie, some things are hard to explain. Thanks Friend and God Bless and Take Care 🙂.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
@@donnielaws7020 Donnie I recently bought a 1900 log cabin right near Norris Lake and I'd like to ask you about it. Can I message or email you?
@@troysexton5661 Facebook message me my friend.
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@@donnielaws7020 I see two accounts on Facebook. Hopefully I sent it to the correct one
We would leave early Sunday mornings, for a 2 hour drive to visit with my Dad's parents on Sandy Ridge. He'd make a right turn at Coeburn and drive up Tom's Creek to The Ridge. That dark, narrow valley managed to hold a good size creek, a railroad, a paved road and a mine with the biggest slag pile I've ever seen. The smoke and fumes off the slag and the creek fog would swirl around creating a scene out of a horror movie but we could men stop working at the tipple to watch us pass. The only problem was the mine had closed after the war and no one was there. Tom's Creek was haunted. Thanks for another piece of our mountain history.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
History and ghost, the best kind of stories by the best storyteller on you tube. Love it. Thank you.
Awesome my friend. Thank you for saying. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Donnie, You are an Appalachian treasure.
🙏🏻❤️🕊🐾🦌🌲
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Thank you Mr Laws for this very reflective video on how hard our ancestors work and lived to help provide us for the lives we have now. We should never forget this.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing this.
great story my friend, thanks for sharing Appalachias history
Thank you my friend. God bless you and your channel.
I LOVE your stories and your respect for the South. Thanks for telling the history of these people. Blessings from Michigan.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
I am in Michigan also and love listening to Donnie. Calms my heart you know?
So true Donnie. Thanks for sharing the memories and history of those old mining camps. We have the old mining camp houses scattered throughout southeast Ohio and across the river in Mason County WV. A lot of the these little houses have been patched up and still lived in today. I remember Grandma telling us kids about life in the mining camp. She told of the immigrants and people of all races living there. Even though it was hard work I could tell she had fond memories. Grandpa worked for the Pittsburgh coal company. They had a small farm too. He worked from the time he was fifteen until retirement and didn't even get a busted finger but lost two of his brothers to a cave in. I appreciate your stories of the Appalachians. God bless you.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
My grandparents in the 50’s bought a very nice 2 story home that was in a area of a coal camp, that house was insanely haunted. Everyone in the family had experiences in that place all the way up to the day it was torn down.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I would love to hear some stories about that old house....if you ever care to share, email me and we'll work on the specifics.
Sometimes the secrets of the past refuse to be hidden. The old farmhouse my family owned was never peaceful and my personal experience with the unexplainable was not ignored by family members. My cousin once said “ We ought to burn it down.” He did disassemble it and graded the lot.
@@delorestaylor8114 WOE! Thanks for sharing this.
Great video Donnie ❤️Those miners had a hard life….Thanks for keeping them relevant and a part of our history….God Bless You 🙏🏻☦️❤️🙏🏻🇮🇱 Lord willing I will see you next time 👍
Thank you friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Hi Donnie, wow, I am going to say it to you again, you ARE the best story teller of these stories! I always tear up from these old stories! I came from a poor background so I know what it’s like as being a child and living poor and missing a few meals! Thank you so much for showing a true heart when telling these, I feel it well! June
Awesome my friend for saying this. God bless you. I know cause this is how I was raised to. Thank you. Your very welcome.
June, I grew up very poor also, I know how them little kids felt. ❤
The Lady's soul was finally free.. free from the only life she ever knew.. even though it was filled with poverty.. it still was her home.. but in the end she was finally set free from herself.. Great Video
She didn't need to look after her old house any more maybe ♡
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
@@elspet3813 I agree , Loretta Lynn made up her mind to just live and coexist with her civil war ghost
May GOD rest their souls. Some bright and shining day, we will get to thank them for their sacrifices for their families. Those stories stir memories of many struggles of families that I currently know trying to begin in this tough old world with few material things now. Thanks Mr. Donnie, another great video.
@@scottmishoe3490 amen Scott , and I think there was just something about this VIDEO that “stired “ us all , I’m still thinking about it ?!?!
Mr Donny I just want to thank you so much for all your beautiful videos. And all your hard work on them. God Bless you
Thank you very much for sharing this my friend. Thank you. God bless you.
Way back in my child hood 50 yrs ago , we lived in Kingsport Tennessee for a few years and we burned coal up in the attic ?!?! I’ve seen those camps with my own eyes , might be one reason I’m a big Loretta Lynn fan , really good video
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.
Great Story. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The figure in the door, must have been
the woman who formerly resided there.
The ball of light was her spirit, taking
a last look at her home.
Sidenote.
I had a friend who used to dig for Indian
relics. Once Tommy was digging a grave
in the Wytheville, Va. area.
Tommy told me that a blue light came up
out of the grave.
He covered the grave up and left.
Tommy had dug all sorts of Indian relics
for years in Chilhowie, Va. area
Chilothe, Ohio many other places.
He was still scared when he told me this story.
May
❤️🕊️❤️ Tommy ❤️🕊️❤️
🌹🌹 Rest in Peace 🌹🌹
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Hi there catching up on some great channels and you are one of them thanks for sharing your tales with us.👻💀👻
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Thank you.
@@donnielaws7020 😁
My Momma told me about you. She's who got me to listening to you. She was always enjoying your videos. She's passed away now and I want to thank you for keeping her entertained. Thank you and God Bless.
I'm so sorry my friend to hear that. God bless you.
Thanks for the video brother Donnie, there's definitely things that you can't explain in this old world God bless you old man. Choose Jesus Christ today folks!!!
Amen my friend. God bless you.
Amen👍
Jesus changed my life!
Thanks Donnie for sharing another great story of the past.
Your very welcome my friend.
You give such a great perspective and make the history lesson so fun. Thank you for continuing to give us the great video's.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Every one of these stories takes me back to my childhood. Thanks again Donnie!
Awesome, Your very welcome my friend.
I love listening to you tell these stories. It feels like I'm sitting by the fire with my grandpa, snug and warm inside a house built by hand a hundred years ago. Thank you for letting me hear your memories and tales.
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
Thank you for keeping the stories and the people alive.my grandpa was a coal miner and my uncle's and cousins to.thats all they had .rock lick is where my mamaw was born and raised.she married papaw and she was 15.they lived hard lives but they were happy alot more. Then now and days.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your story. God bless you.
Thanks again Donnie, for keeping the history alive
Never get tired of your stories, Mr Donnie.
Awesome my friend. Thank you.
A lot of hard work and coal came out of these mountains. Many risks were taken and some never made it out. They men deserve to be remembered for their commitment to their families and putting food on the table. God bless them all and may they rest in peace until we all meet again in the mighty Kingdom of God. thank you for sharing these stories. Your friend, Louise
Thank you Mr Law for these amazing glimpses into the past history of Appalachia my grandfather was a coal train Engineer running coal out of Cumberland until the depression hit , he used to tell us grandkids they were lucky to eat
so well one night it was Beans and Taters the next night it was Taters and Beans and on special nights biscuits and
Fat Back gravy or cornbread.
My Father would ask my mother to cook a pot of beans and some fried taters and onions with cornbread at least
once a month until the day he passed . Also you use the word Haints in the video this not a common word outside
of the south my friend in Southern Mississippi where she lives they call the bigfoots ~ Haints she said some people
have seen the bigfoot ~ Haints turn into Orbs of energy and shoot off into the woods .
WOW Thanks for sharing your memories with us my friend. God bless you.
Hey Donnie. Love the video. Thanks friend and have a great evening!
Thank you friend. God bless you.
I would love to visit some places where there are buildings still standing of mining camps.
I love history but the main reason is, I feel things and take the past to heart.
I do understand how very hard our ancestors worked just to make it through life.
Giving us a chance to make it through life!
I cannot even imagine how hard they worked and how hard life was.
Thanks my friend for sharing this. They worked very hard and didn't think much of it. God bless you.
Think of all the spirits there.. not just miners but all the Native Americans and all those in between.. stories lost in time.. perhaps never to be told.. except! Except for you Mr. Donnie.. thank you for taking us on this journey.. it was AWESOME 😎🥰
Thank you so much my friend for sharing this. God bless you.
My best friends Dad is from Harlan, I'll have to ask if He familiar with that coal camp. My Dad only spent a couple years in the mines ( up by Stone, KY before a 900 pound chunk fell on him and broke his back, He came up here to Michigan and became a taxi driver/dispatcher. That's how I became a misplaced southerner, I feel like I'm home when I hit Kentucky/West Virginia and sleep great when visiting. I never felt at home here in Michigan. Thanks for the story and history.
Another misplaced Southerner here from Stone. Pike county KY, also living h michigan.
I love ghost stories. Don't ever want to see one, but I love the stories.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
@Donnie Law
I want to thank you for keeping the spirit of the Appalachian people alive. My Mom was born on Black Mtn, and later moved by wagon to Forest City. I was born and raised here in NC and I’ve always made a Fall trip back to the these hills to walk the backroads that my Mom walked as a young girl. And I’m proud to call NC home. I love your videos. I hope you continue to bring light to this beautiful area of our country through your wonderful and interesting stories. Much Love & Light to you sir.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Neat story and historic pictures Donnie.....we just don't know what some things are.....that was strange how that one orb went all through the equipment like it did.....it's a good thing that equipment didn't all of a sudden take on a mind of its own ...that would have been time to head for the hills for sure....
Thanks again for the great video Brother.
He told me he thought it was trying to stop the machine. Thanks for sharing this my friend.
.....that would have definetly been cause for alarm....
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Yay Spooky Storytime🤸♀️& Thanks Mr Donnie👻❤️
Your very welcome my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 😊
Happy Happy, I just love looking forward to the stories you tell that bring back so many memories. Halloween will be coming up, keep the scary stories coming. I know it is a pagan holiday, l use to take our kids around our neighborhood and then we would go to church for Trick or Trunk, for games and more 🍬 candy, thsnx as always Mr Donnie. God Bless you and your family.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
Donnie, you shed more light on the minors than I've ever heard.
Thanks for the education you've shared.
Your very welcome my friend.
Dear Mr. Laws: PLEASE tell us more stories....We love listening to you. More Ghosts, Witches, Bigfoot, Unsolved mysteries, murders, missing, Whatever you can come up with from those mountains....Thank you so much for your time and knowledge.
Thanks my friend for sharing this
Your very welcome.
@@donnielaws7020 I enjoy your voice and accent too.
Nice to see this video a second time.
I Like to keep these stories alive in my memory. Thanks again for sharing, your friend, Louise
Thank you. Your very welcome my friend.
Once again, Thanks Donnie. I watch these videos and feel a connection to these people.
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless.
Thanks Mr Donnie 😊 Feel better soon. I am watching your older ones while you are healing. God bless you and thanks for all you do for us all.
Thanks Donnie God bless🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Your welcome my friend.
Simply excellent my friend
Thank you friend.
Greetings Donnie, watching your playlist & praying for you every day. Your videos remind me of my fish technician days working for Indiana Dept of Natural Resources. Boss said he hired me because I identified all fish correctly! Hiking on private property was awesome like your videos. God bless you & heal you 🙏🙏🙏
That music in the opening was good enough to use in a horror movie. 👍🏼👀 Very good video. You are so right about those mountains holding so much history and legends. So interesting but very sad, too. I often wonder if people realize just how easy it is today. People worked so darn hard back then. They had to wore out their bodies long before it should have. God bless these people. Thank you for another wonderful part of your history.
I watched this twice. It was so interesting.
Thanks my friend for sharing this. Your very welcome. Thank you.
Haints haven't heard that word in many a year.. ty Donnie for so many great old words/stories..
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new subscriber here. just wanted to say thanks for doing this, donnie. i love every bit about your videos, especially your narration....as a german i have no problems understanding you with your accent, and i really enjoy the unbridled authenticity of it all. i came to love the mountain people and their mountain talk via, you name it, popcorn sutton. what a down to earth peculiar authentic guy. its true, i guess, that your kinda talk and culture is declining, so youre doing actually historical work here.
Awesome my friend. Welcome to the channel. Your very welcome. Thank you and God bless.
What accent? Mr Laws doesn't have an accent. I understand him perfectly. But, I'm from western North Carolina and grew up with people who sounded just like him. ☺ Best Wishes, sir.
I love these kinds of stories! 👍🏻
Thank you friend.
YOUR STORY TELLING PUTS ME TO SLEEP 😴 EVERY NIGHT NOW. CLOSE MY EYES AND PICTURE DAD MOM AND THE REST OF US SITTING AROUND THE FIRE LISTENING TO EVERY WORD OF THE OLD DAYS. I'M A COUNTRY BOY KIDNAPPED BY THE CITY BACK THEN.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my. God bless you.
Always appreciate the stories, thank you Donnie.
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Donnie thank you so much for bringing back the lives and mysteries of the coal mines and Appalachian mountains. You have shown me so much more than I knew.
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Seeing them girls reminds me of a song called Patches by Dickey Lee. The boy tells the story of a girl who lived in the coal camps. He fell in love with her and "they plan to marry when June brought the summer". But the boy's mommy and daddy wouldn't let him marry the girl, saying she would bring him disgrace. It's a sad song, I won't tell anymore in case you want to listen to it for yourself.
Thanks for the video and story Donnie, great one as always!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
I believe you Donnie. So many things are just unexplainable. Awesome tale. God bless you friend.
So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing this story with us. Another great one my friend.
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Great stories and great Memories thank you for your time
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sure miss the old days in the hills of West Virginia, miss my creek, grandma, her birds she raised to make money, seeing her with ladys from the church quilting, grandpa and his Mail pouch chewing bacca and his spit toon and lots more...precious memories in my old age. Thanks Donny God bless.
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing your memories
God bless you.
Mr Donnie,
I believe that despite stories having gone quiet and the secrets being left untold, they aren't lost to time... merely waiting to be happened upon and
made known, but only at the behest of those long gone wanting it told.
Once again, thank you for sharing.
Signed: 3rd time here.
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I can remember Mary Helen coal camp very well . I had an Uncle that worked , and lived there . I can even remember the old commissary there . I worked there many years later , but that was after all the old camp houses had been torn down , and the company had been renamed as Great Western Coal Co . I never did see any haints there , but I don't doubt for a second what these people say they saw . My Grandfather , and my Uncles have told me many stories , and strange happenings that have taken place around these old coal camps . You are right , coal miners are all brothers . Coal mining is the only job I ever had where after about 30 minutes after our shift started we were all the same color .
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories with us. God bless you friend.
Thank You Donnie for taking your Time to Share the History of The Lives of the Coal Miners Lives and Their Family's. It was Hard Times back in the Earlier Days. of the Haints remain Looking for Their Lost Loved One's is My belief but Only our Lord God Knows Why They Stayed Behind. Blessings to Y'all and Your Family
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I was born in Harlan, my husband is a coal truck driver, he works all over them places. I love your channel, I’m a subscriber, I always like and share many of your videos 😊❤ Great job as always.
Awesome my friend. Thank you so much. God bless you.
Another Harlan county born and raised.
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Born in but not raised. Went back in 75 worked at Benham to 78 then at Eastover till it sold out to Clyde Bennett and got laid off. After it became Bananapan it turned into a dog hole mines.
It's always a blessing to listen to your awesome stories .
God bless.
It was and awesome ghost story Donnie' I enjoy ghost story so much and thank for sharing with us.Hope you have a great Week.
Thank you for sharing this my friend.
Good story! Thanks😊 have a good one !
Thank you friend.
Here in NC we've had mine disasters also. In 1904, a flood swept through the old Barringer mine in Stanley Co., NC flooding the shafts and killing eight people. Many of the mine accidents in NC were in the old gold, mica and feldspar mines but allot of folks don't realized that NC was also a coal producer. There is still considerable reserves in Chatham Co., NC southwest of Raleigh. On May 27th, 1925 a mine explosion killed 53 people. The coal formed along a fault that dips sharply adding to the difficulty in removing the coal seams which go down to considerable depth. The surface coal was mined off and on from 1850 till the 1930's but is mostly inactive today. I went down in an old abandoned gold mine one time many years ago and swore I can hear whispering in the shaft and the occasional sound of pick axes hitting rock. Really eerie place. The state has barricades up there now and you can't get inside it anymore. Thanks again Donnie for a great informative video.
Earthangel here good story thanks for your time its appreciated really
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My grandmother was raised in a Coal Camp (Ameagle, WV). It’s not there anymore. Her daddy was killed in an explosion when she was 3. When the miners came home each day, she’d run out to each of them calling “daddy”… she couldn’t distinguish between them with the smut on their faces. It was very hard for her and her siblings. Their mom raised them alone. The boys went off to war. Some didn’t make it home. They’re buried in Winifred on the side of a mountain. (I think I told you Zenith once before, but it was Winifred).
Been there & drove by there countless times. Really seam of coals there was pretty good high quality selling coal. I still get shocked the amount per clean ton some of that coal is sold for. Now days only 1 train of 100 car loads lot times go for 1+ million dollars. A train load. Zenith or 1 is in Monroe County near Waiteville or something if I am not mistaken. Been there it's a ghost town about 15 years ago.
That's a sad story my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
@@donnielaws7020 yeah but it made her a very strong independent woman! Lol … there’s always a bright side 💚
@@MimsysGarden Amen my friend.
Thank you so much Mr. Donnie loved the story and have been looking forward to another one. Take care and stay safe. ❤️🍀
Blessings,
Teresa
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Melancholy. She was probably still keeping house....poor soul. Well, at least she knew to fly up eventually. Very interesting story Mr. Donnie.....thank you so much. 👏👏
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Hey Donnie Tommy from Jonesboro I love these old ghost stories living in Jonesboro it's one of the most haunted places in Tennessee it's full of story's to and they are having the storytelling this week to it's fun time inviting Averyone that's never been
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Love your videos!
Thank you friend.
Thank you very much for sharing your talent and these wonderful historic stories with us. I found your channel today and I’m totally captivated. Wishing you and yours a great weekend. I’m sending y’all big thanks from Texas.
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Very interesting History! These folks were true Hero’s! Thank you for sharing this! God Bless! 🙏🤗🙏
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing your stories and history with us!
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Thank you Donnie much respect ! My Daddy worked the mines in SE Oklahoma and SW Arkansas when he was young!
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Yes. I love talking about Haints from the south even in the houses and land
Amazing video loved it very interesting thank you
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I believe and have seen unexplained visions with my own eyes. I grew up in the coal country of SE Kentucky. There are many stories and I enjoy them all!
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Great story Donnie. Thanks for sharing.
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Some of your stories remind me of my dad and the stories he would tell thank you for all the you put into the stories
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I love your respect for the mountains and people and your voice is so soothing.wonderful job you do sir.
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend.
Thanks for sharing your very informative. From your friend from Wyoming keep up your good amazing story telling. Thanks again always looking forward to see your videos.
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Thank you Donnie.
Always love ghost stories.
I grew up in a haunted house.
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I didn't come from the coal fields. But my dad and grandpa both worked for springs cotton mill. And those coal field house sure makes me think of the mill house where my pop grew up at.
Great videos!! Keep up the good work!
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Thanks Donnie for another story. God Bless you my friend.
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Thanks for these history lessons Donnie. So informative and so interesting and educational.
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I believe I believe I believe, dang DONNIE , what a video ! Fixing to watch again !!!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
There's still traces of mining and logging up here on Gobey Mt in Morgan Co, TN. Fun stuff to discover. Thanks Donnie.
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Thank you for sharing this story with Donnie, i enjoy these old ghost storys, from around these mountains, i do believe in ghost by self. When i was young i seen a lady and years later i seen a picture of this lady that did live in that house years before i was born, she had been past away years before i was born, but it was her Miss Charlie Chester. God bless you and your family sir......🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊🙂😀
WOW Thanks for sharing this my.
These are my Favorite! Thank you and God Bless you and your family
Sad and hard, hard, hard times. Those old mining camps even when people were living in them looked so very lonesome,nothing but dirt no grass or flower or tree's. I fill sorry for the little kids. But they didnt know any different. Some people dont even know what it feels like to be real, real poor. I do though. Thank God its better now. Praying for all the very, very poor people in this old world today. The spirts hopefully went straight to heaven that your friend and everyone else seen. Thank you for this sad story. You are the best true storyteller.❤
Amen my friend. Them were hard people living hard times. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
DONNIE GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY... thankyou for shairing these videos.
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Thank you Mr. Laws get all your do. God Bless you and yours sir.
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Please please do another spooky video like this, again.i love this video and I will watch it over and over again, thank you so much...
More to come my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Love the hear about ghost and spooks haints at this time yr be safe my friend
Thank you friend for sharing this.
I love this Appalachia history, thanks for sharing
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Thank you for another great video Donnie and God bless you brother and all reading this 🙏
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Thanks again Donnie for another great video 👍!God bless.
Your very welcome my friend.