Appalachias Deadliest Grandma: Nancy Kerley

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Appalachias Deadliest Grandma: Nancy Kerley (Nance Dude) documentary as told by The Appalachian Storyteller. #nancedude #appalachiasdeadliest #appalachia #appalachian #appalachianhistory #storyteller #appalachianstoryteller #appalachiastories #audiobookfulllength #appalachiadocumentary #appalachianoutlaws #audiobook #outlaws #appalachianoutlaws
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@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

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@magnus1001 2 месяца назад

If Nancy did leave Roberta in the cave, she definitely didn't do it alone. The rocks were too heavy. It is also worth noting that all the towns people who were so concerned and outraged by Roberta's disappearance and death were the same ones who shunned Nancy and then Lizzie for having illegitimate children instead of being good Christians and helping them the many times they had no home or food. Where was their outrage when Roberta had nothing to eat or a decent home to live in?!

@ava.artemis Месяц назад

It’s the same as it is now. They don’t really care about the children, they just like being self righteous and outraged and to look down on others.

@sherlockholmes4769 Месяц назад

Sympathy is much harder to muster than indignation. Apparently...

@magnus1001 Месяц назад

@@sherlockholmes4769 Very true.

@shulamitebeautifulbride Месяц назад

I thought the same thing❤

@jessgunn6639 Месяц назад

Like with a lot of people today more concerned with being seen as righteous Christians than actually being Christian, they always seem to forget Christ admonished those who judged others, they run off to quote the old testament instead of living by the new!

@Romanaitor3 Месяц назад

I wish people would fight like this today when injustice is done to a child

@DorothySbornak Месяц назад

They’d rather grab a phone and hit record or make a TikTok begging for money. Can’t forget the go fund me. Sad how people have changed. Our grandparents and greats would be ashamed to see us staring at phones all day. lol

@Romanaitor3 Месяц назад

@@DorothySbornak so true

@jessgunn6639 Месяц назад

If they had been more charitable and less judgemental no one would have needed to "fight", the more I see and hear the more I realise that nothing changes.

@johnnyboulware7336 17 дней назад

..SO DO I!!

@littleblackcar 7 дней назад

Would have been nice if they'd cared that much while she was alive.

@justinthomas226 2 месяца назад

Blaming a little girl for her brothers bear attack is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

💜

@TheSouthernLady777 Месяц назад

My best friend's mother blamed her for the death of her younger brother, who was accidently hung while playing with a rope in a tree.

@TheSouthernLady777 Месяц назад

Interesting name. I know a Justin Thomas.

@maevey3 Месяц назад

Oh my god! That's horrendous on both counts.@@TheSouthernLady777

@muchtested Месяц назад

Nancy was supposed to throw herself into the bear's jaws to save her much more valuable brother and didn't do it. Therefore, she earned her mother's eternal ire. Gotta obey Mother's rules.

@MsCassieCrowe 2 месяца назад

My daughter is related to Nance on her dad's side. I guess we'll never know the truth but it's still one of the saddest stories I've ever heard. Rest peacefully little Roberta 🙏🩷

@beverlybalius9303 2 месяца назад

My Grandmother raised 5. Children on her own after divorcing an Alcoholic….. She took in Laundry and picked cotton, planted garden….. sent her kids to school and took them to Church,

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

❤️

@billballaro6039 Месяц назад

She sounds like a Saint to me.

@jessicah4465 Месяц назад

Was she around at the time of this story? A grandma nowadays is a lot younger and less than 100 years old. This was a much longer time ago

@scottemory1470 26 дней назад

You're full of crap

@kittreid704 2 месяца назад

I'm only a few minutes into this story and am so glad the algorithm recommended this underrated channel. Such fantastic and vivid storytelling.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Welcome aboard!

@marciahille3155 3 дня назад

Same here😮

@pameversole5886 2 месяца назад

This broke my heart. 😭 I thank God for a Granny that truly loved me.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

RIP Roberta 💜

@andreacaughey6761 Месяц назад

Amazing how the whole area turn out to search for a missing girl yet when Roberta was alive they’d have shunned her and her family ,so heartbreaking

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

amen

@TheSouthernLady777 Месяц назад

I agree. If they were all so concerned, why did they not bother to help them to begin with!

@CaliCloud9 Месяц назад

My thoughts exactly

@Summer2285 Месяц назад

My exact thoughts...

@ChristineLee-rd5kl Месяц назад

That was hard to understand.....

@michaelstusiak5902 2 месяца назад

As much as we focus our anger and disgust on Nancy, we can't ignore the part that Nancy's mother played on this story. So very sad.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Well said, Michael, there are many, many layers to this true story

@frostyfrances4700 2 месяца назад

They all failed Roberta.

@juliamcminn9231 2 месяца назад

This is so sad….

@bettyir4302 2 месяца назад

And Will Putnam. Each one was more than the first.

@frostyfrances4700 2 месяца назад

@@bettyir4302 - Simply saying this in general, not aimed at you: That bible verse about God visiting the sins of the father on the children is a terrible translation. Should simply read 'Sins of the father will be visited on the children' which is absolutely true. Not that humans escape ultimate responsibility for their own deadly sins, but environment definitely plays a strong role. As the rod is bent ....

@kina18 2 месяца назад

I think everyone was guilty including the self-righteous town folks who didn't give a damn about the child until she was dead. They wouldn't hire her mom or grandma leaving them starving and desperate, dependant upon the lowest of men.

@monicadebolt3364 Месяц назад

Exactly!! 😢

@Wendy-Williams-NC Месяц назад

100% AGREE!!!

@lisawilliams2406 Месяц назад

True!

@o0LoveLove0o Месяц назад

Yeah some people think it’s better to not let that cycle continue horrible but I get it

@mr.joedirt8583 Месяц назад

Most of them were probably too poor to take them in and didn't know much about the situation. They didn't have internet and phones. They worked from sun up to sun down and didn't know what was going on several miles up the road and in the next hollow.

@lindacecile5647 2 месяца назад

This entire story is so horrendously sad. The perpetuating cycle of ignorance, poverty, desperation and abuse is so dehumanizing that we see how people become animalistic. In my head I recognize this. But my heart cries out for this child who was never loved. I do believe she did this because she committed this crime in rhe very same cave she knew so well. Once again, JD, you've narrated this so eloquently. We can all say a prayer in memory of this child lest we forget others who deal with these same cycles .

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Robertas story should not be forgotten. RIP

@rustylynch2 2 месяца назад

Very well said...

@TheCosmicRealm3 2 месяца назад

Welcome to planet Earth. Please enjoy your stay.

@caroleterrell3101 Месяц назад

Not sure it was the same cave. It said she lived/grew up on Iron Mountain, which is in Iron Duff (I think). The cave where Roberta was found is in Utah Mountain area, which is on Maggie Valley/Jonathan Creek side.

@lindacecile5647 Месяц назад

Thanks for the insight 😊

@Dawai108 2 месяца назад

one of the roughest lives ever and still lived to be 104...wow

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

crazy, the irony

@chauvettes 16 дней назад

The old art of telling a story is so absent today. Thanks for keeping it alive.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 16 дней назад

Thank you!

@TheSouthernLady777 Месяц назад

My Mother was raised in these very same mountains and I can see how she was the way she was. It is very sad.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

❤️

@melfreemans 19 дней назад

My grandmother was born out of wedlock back around 1900. She was put into an orphanage. When her mom (my great grandmother) met and married a man a year later she confessed after the wedding that she had an illegitimate daughter. That man went straight to the orphanage and brought that baby home. He raised my grandmother like his own and loved her until the day he died. Some men are just better.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 19 дней назад

beautiful

@samuelschick8813 2 месяца назад

No excuse for this. I'm in the Philippines and would go to a restaurant and got to know one of the female servers. I told her how I did not have a son and would love to have one. Well one night I went to said restaurant and some guy kept staring at me, after the place was empty, the waitress said the guy invited me to his table for a beer. At the table he told me a woman from his village worked in Manila and got pregnant. She then went back to the poor village, delivered the baby and abandoned it, a baby boy. He asked me if I would take this baby boy and give him a home. We went and talked to my wife and we decided we would take him in. Three days later the man shows up with the baby boy and the babys grandmother. The village was so poor they had to borrow clothes, bottles from other mothers and bring them back. That baby boy is now a strapping teenager.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Wow! are you still raising the child?

@homegrown1015 2 месяца назад

Bless you and your wife for listening to your heart and God❤

@eunicestone6532 2 месяца назад

You got a bonus grandma too!!

@samuelschick8813 2 месяца назад

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller, Yes.

@RobertaReal7980 2 месяца назад

I'm so happy to hear how this turned out. When I was reading it I thought "oh no they stole a baby". Bless you for opening your heart ❤️

@1bryanestes 2 месяца назад

That poor little girl, so sad. JD your stories are much appreciated and so captivating . Thanks for your work

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you Bryan

@SherylFranklin-u9z 2 месяца назад

I researched that story for my husband's aunt by marriage. She and my husbands grandmother tended Nancy on her death bed when they were younger in Whittier N.C. Said she came in on the train to Whittier from Ashville and her son picked her up when she was allowed to come home from prison. They thought she would tell what really happened to the child on her death bed. But my husbands aunt said she never did. His aunt said "she took it to her grave". I remember when the shack she died in was torn down for a new house after the property was sold. My husband's aunt asked me to read the legend of Nace Dude and see if I could find the cave. She said it always bothered her and she was to old to go look for herself and I was young and would I be willing to go and see to help settle her mind before she also died! She is now deceased. She said the men of the family went and found the cave and said the rocks were to large for Nancy to do it by herself. She told me where to look for the cave!! I found the cave. But I came up from the bottom of the mountain and couldn't climb to the entrance because of the huge rocks! Wr had to sneak in and the cave is nearly to the top of the mountain. It was open and I could see it. If I had come down the mountain from the top i could have walked right up to it. It's true! The rocks are huge! I believe it would have taken at least a grown men to move any of the rocks I saw there that day. I know for a fact that I could have never moved one by myself! I don't believe she did it by herself either after I went to the cave myself with my husband. I found the cemetery where she was buried. But my husband's aunt said it wasn't marked to keep mean spirited people from destroying the grave. She said it was in the back of the cemetery. But most of the graves in the back were so old and only marked with river stones at the head of the graves. So I couldn't find her. Only the area she was located. By the time I reported back to my husband's aunt I was so weary from the story! My heart was so heavy! It took me a long time to overcome it! Sometimes I wish she had never asked me to do it for her! Cataloochee is so beautiful where Nancy lived! Lake Junaluska is so peaceful where the old folks home was where Nancy claimed to have left the child. The court house still stands in Waynesville. And sometimes I wonder which of the giant trees still standing might have been the one that the people intended to hang her, her daughter and that man from when I pass by, and I always think of the story. I will always believe she took the blame to protect someone. My husband's aunt said her son was mean and they wondered if he was involved! But I've always wondered if she was followed there by the man who refused to marry her daughter! He had a hate for the child! An unbearable hate! And a motive! He wouldn't marry the daughter until that child was out of his way! Makes me wonder if the daughter was already pregnant by her father and that's why he burned the cabin down! I don't think that research will ever completely leave me in peace! There is another story to research! It's as disturbing! It's about the first woman ever hung by the neck until dead in N.C. It's the ballad of Frankie Silver! I meet her great granddaughter! That's how I found out about the story. We worked side by side in a sewing plant in Sylva N.C. She told me when I met her that I might not want to be friends with her because everyone knew who her great grandmother was. Her great grandma killed her abusive drunk husband with an axe in front of the fireplace after he came home drunk one night! He beat her and threatened to start on the children. She panicked and chopped him up and tried to hide the crime. But it all fell apart when the dog's and searchers found his head in an old tree stump on the property. It's definitely worth a video also. You have to understand how hard life was back then in the Appalachian Mountains. Starvation was a breath away! Moonshine was the making for a lot of abuse for the women who already had their hands full! Mortality rates for children was high! The older graveyards are full of babies! It's amazing Nancy lived so long with the life she was dealt! My heart hurts for the poor child! But Nancy lived an awful life for many years! And died a broken old woman in a shack with that stench about the baby hung around her neck! I will always feel sorry for her also! I believe she took the blame for some reason for a man! Either to save her daughter's lover because they did have other children together or her son! That's what I will always believe! What a pitiful life she indured! The Appalachian mountains are full of these awful stories! I can tell you three more. In Cades Cove on the Tennessee side of the Great Smoky Mountais a woman in the Cove died in child birth. The infant was not breathing either. The people of the cove buried her and the baby in one coffin together in a cemetery in the very back of the cove! For several days people kept seeing her in the cemetery. They all decided to dig her up. They did!! And found the infant alive! That's documented!! Another one is of an old woman my mother helped tend to at a nursing home In Swain Co. She came from Robinsville. Her mother died and left her to the mercy of her father and a group of brothers, way back up in the mountains! She was the only female left on the mountain! They used her for sex and she became pregnant. Another nurse told mama that the daughter belong to her own father. Her daughter was at the nursing home with her! She was so inbred she couldn't talk or take care of herself. The old woman lay in bed and fixed her eyes on the ceiling and never spoke a word until she died. Mama put her hand on the woman's forehead one night and prayed for her in silence. The old woman rolled her eyes and looked right at mama. Then rolled her eyes back to the ceiling and fixed them again until she died. Mama quit the nursing home after that. We don't know what ever happened to her inbred daughter. You just don't know how bad it was back then in the Appalachians. For the women it was awful! The other story happened on the Great Smoky Mountains. And for me personally it's the scariest story of all. It nvolves a woman's murder on the park. Her murder is unsolved! She was beat to death on the park. And her body was found just a little ways down a trail from her car. She haunt's it now! If you come across the top of the mountains around Newfound Gap and the entrance of Climans Dome at the right time at night she might hitchhike a ride in your back seat and you can hear her gasping for breath and screaming in terrible fear! Reliving the horror of her last moments of life! This will continue until you pull off the road and turn on the over head light in the car. As soon as you turn on the light the car falls silent and there is no woman in the back seat! That happened to my husband and myself one night coming home from Gatlinburg when I use to sing for a restaurant and bar called North of the Border. If I told anyone what happened to us my mountain husband would not say anything! I asked him just before he died to tell me the truth! Did it happen to us or not! That I needed to know! And I needed to know the truth!!! And if the answer was no i would accept it. He looked right at me from his hospital bed and plainly said "YES! It did happen"!!! I asked him why he never backed me up when I told someone about it! He said "I didn't want them to think we was crazy"! Just like a mountain man! Guess it was ok for them to think I was crazy! My husband died only a few days later. We spent almost 33 years together rambling these mountains! These mountains hold deep dark frightening secrets!!! I came from Jacksonville Florida when I was about 19 or 20. I'm almost 68 now! It was a huge change of life! A great awakening from big city life to mountain life in the middle of nowhere! I married a ridge runner! A sharp shooter! A mountain wildlife hunter! I've explored these mountains for over fifty years! Iv'e even seen a huge black panther on the park. And about a thousand pound Russian razer back hog with piglets. I llove the mountains! But I have learned to respect them also! And to always be very aware of my surroundings!!

@karenbrewer5864 2 месяца назад

I know these were hard times and the grandmother never really knew love. She was treated so harshly as a child, but there is no excuse for what she did to that precious little girl. To think that grandma lived to be 104, but that little girl was taken at 3 years of age . So sad. Thanks for the story!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you 💜

@iristarot999 2 месяца назад

Karma has no deadline!

@loriegosnell9355 2 месяца назад

Wow how did Nancy live so long😮

@carolleeames6659 2 месяца назад

Her history reminds me a bit of Aileen Wournos. Yes, she was a serial killer. Her home life was horrendous. It’s no excuse, but it played a part!

@Dawnsdelightsart 2 месяца назад

When you know nothing else aren't exposed to kindness, our animal instincts take over. 😢💔

@louisevisser89 2 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing all these stories. I am from South Africa and will never be able to visit these mountains. But I get a vivid picture ebery time I listen

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Glad to have you here! Greetings from the mountains of East Tennessee

@amberlynmarlowe8704 Месяц назад

It's just a plane ticket. Come on over!

@jamilea3043 2 месяца назад

Triggering for me being raised in East Tennessee. 😢 i was terribly abused, and it seemed like no one cared. In fact, they didn't.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Much love to you ❤️

@jamilea3043 2 месяца назад

I love your book so much!@TheAppalachianStoryteller

@jjframe1238 2 месяца назад

Sending love your way sorry you had to go through such a life of trial❤

@jamilea3043 2 месяца назад

@jjframe1238 thank you, that means the world to me! Bless you.

@rhondacribbs5727 2 месяца назад

Prayers for you!🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@michaelvarble4392 2 месяца назад

Such a sad story of harbored guilt and sadness ending in the death of such an innocent little girl. Thank you for telling this sad but true story. You are the best my friend

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

As tragic as this story is, Roberta deserves to be remembered.

@ValerieDee123 2 месяца назад

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Anywhere there is poverty. Especially the Appalachia's this still continues. This is the reason half of my family don't talk to the other half I don't speak to my Mother or Daughter. They're meaner than copperheads in shook up jar.

@kaytownsend5349 2 месяца назад

Such sad story for the grandmother but she chooses life over her granddaughter is unbelievable

@jesusnameaboveallnames7369 Месяц назад

09.09.2024 Yes, very sad. Even though my grandson is a young man now, I'd give up my life for him in a heartbeat. 💙😎💘

@catherinebaum9185 Месяц назад

The town didn't care one bit about Roberta while she was alive, but spoke up after she went missing.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

100% true

@Nettsinthewoods Месяц назад

@@catherinebaum9185 I think there was a culture of minding your on beeswax. That was certainly the culture in the U.K. when I was growing up. What happens in a persons home stays there. A bad concept in my opinion.

@monyacline2067 29 дней назад

@@Nettsinthewoods Truth

@conemadam Месяц назад

A close friend was supposed to be watching her brother at the beach. She turned her head, he drowned. Her parents were merciless with her. Even as an adult she carries horror within her. She is a lovely woman. What Nancy could have become in different circumstances makes your heart ache.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

oh my, Im sorry sorry to hear that from your friend

@spiralrose Месяц назад

How can a parent DO THAT TO THEIR CHILD!!! If anything, it’s the parents fault for putting a child in charge of another child! I hope to God your friend is comforted by the love she is given today by you and everyone else

@loispeterson657 2 месяца назад

What ever happened to Lizzie? Neither of those women had a chance in life but killing an innocent child is no excuse. Thank you for a wonderful story. It should make every woman who has ever had to raise a child alone today be thankful for what we have today.💋

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

I dont know what happened to Lizzie, I do remember looking her up on Find a grave, but other than her date of death, I didnt find anything else on here

@muchtested Месяц назад

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller If Nancy lived to 104, how long did Lizzie live? How long did Nancy's wicked mother live, was the longevity genetic?

@neeceeboo777 2 месяца назад

What a sad story. But like someone else commented, she wasn't loved as a kid and wasn't taught how to love. 😢😢. I couldn't begin to think of doing any of my children this way.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

amen, well said

@brunetteone4082 2 месяца назад

This story broke every inch of my heart 😢

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

a truly tragic story

@thejewelrycabana3057 2 месяца назад

Thank you for the story. Nancy Conard did have a hard life and there is a lot more to this story.

@maymellor7592 2 месяца назад

What a heartbreaking story. I'm stunned. ❤

@Rick-s4e 4 дня назад

WHAT A GREAT BUT VERY SAD STORY 😢😢😢

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 4 дня назад

I completely agree Rick. Hope you have a fabulous weekend, my friend.

@tammypetruzzi9191 2 месяца назад

Such a sad story. That poor baby.

@reneerollins4433 2 месяца назад

What a story! RIP little Roberta ❤ thanks for sharing JD😊

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you Renee

@Buck58 2 месяца назад

Glad I found your channel. I'm 66 years old, and born and raised in east TN, and still live in Bristol, TN, So alot of these stories happened close by.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Welcome aboard!

@Buck58 2 месяца назад

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Glad to be here, thanks.

@wayne-tg1xh 2 месяца назад

Love these Appalachian mountain stories.thank u sir

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you Wayne

@rustylynch2 2 месяца назад

I feel there's more to this story. A few details that can never be proven. If a 12 yr okd coukd move the rocks, id say ahe probably could too. But its certainly possible she had help. As one comment mentioned about Nancy's parents, she wasnt loved as a child. Humans have to be be taugh love, along with everything else. unfortunately it usually doesn't come naturally. J.D. Im glad you did the research on this, cause i don't think i could have. The story telling was great, but a sad story indeed.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

It was hard to tell this story- when I began researching, I never realized the details I would find or the actual pictures of the crime scene. I didn’t show them here cause they broke my heart

@rustylynch2 2 месяца назад

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller thank you for not showing them. have a good night.

@keithstewart2639 2 месяца назад

What a sad story..I live in mitchell County. But also know the area this happened in. Life was rough back it those days

@myerstalesofappalachia 2 месяца назад

That baby sure didn't deserve what happened for sure . Now she's with her heavenly father who showers with like be and kisses as she deserves.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Amen

@laura6796 2 месяца назад

Poor little Roberta, so heartbreaking. ❤

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

💜

@chrishensley6745 2 месяца назад

That was a roughin man......Times back then were brutal here in the Mountains. Take care J.D.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

It was a hard story for me to tell

@rudolpholaspari6039 2 месяца назад

I find it amazing that these men made a posse yet none of these fine men could help this destitute family. Wow, the hypocrisy. This was a great story

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

thank you

@summerfi 2 месяца назад

Abuse begets abuse in a cycle that is so hard to break. Such a sad story.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

so true Summer

@lisalu910 Месяц назад

Maybe, but not always. When my parents beat me, I always vowed I would never lay a hand on my children and I never did. I couldn't bear the thought of hurting anyone the way I was hurt.

@summerfi Месяц назад

@@lisalu910 Bless you for breaking the cycle in your family. Your children and their future generations are so fortunate.

@DianeMario-ct9tf Месяц назад

I love to hear your storytelling even though it’s a sad story. These things need to be remembered.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Thank you so much Diane

@naomidimartino6441 Месяц назад

Her young face is so majestic. It's so hard to see the world wear down what God created. This was a child. 😢😢❤❤❤

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Amen

@jayneepeters56 2 месяца назад

I'm not defending Nancy but if these justice seekers had put in the same energy at aiding Nancy and Lizzie,Roberta would have lived. Morality ends up destroying many lives.

@IlovemyChaiboi-sm4ph Месяц назад

Not morals, look what removing morals from schools has done to this place, it's a cesspool of filth nowadays. It's the radicals in all religions that are the problem. Morals create healthy communities, no morals equals California and new York.

@cynthiablandford6213 19 дней назад

Thank you for your magnificent story telling.👍👏👏👏

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 19 дней назад

Thank you 😊

@EnchantedRiversPhotography Месяц назад

Poor baby i feel sorry for all three people poverty's hell sometimes im catching hell myself but aint no way on God's green earth that i would put no one before my children! Great story 🙏 God Bless you and your family

@sw-js6eh 2 месяца назад

Wow! Although a very sad ending to an adorable and innocent little girl, thank you again for sharing with us!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you 💜

@marydellgeorge2425 2 месяца назад

You did a great job Telling this story Sir God Bless Roberta ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

thank you!

@debby705 Месяц назад

That's me subscribed. So good to have a real person doing the storytelling JD. Such a tragic story of this poor little soul 💔

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Thanks so much! Glad to have you here! Make yourself right at home

@johnbubbajohnson5630 2 месяца назад

A truely sad story. Bur thank you for sharing it with us. God bless you and your whole family...🙏🙏🙏

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you, John. Hope you have a blessed day, brother.

@kalevala29 Месяц назад

I was actually shocked when it turned out to be the same cave where she had sought refuge as a child.

@mattski1979 26 дней назад

This is SO COOL. YOU'RE SO COOL. Thank you for this option. I love your content.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 26 дней назад

You are so welcome!

@bigdan653 2 месяца назад

I love the stories about NC especially the happy ones

@FeralSheryl1818 2 месяца назад

So very sad and haunting. Bless the little children.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Amen

@trishnemeth7035 Месяц назад

It seems so hypocritical of a community that shunned these women and the little girl, who needed care, to suddenly care so violently after the girl died. It is a tragedy all the way around.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

agreed

@karena2685 2 месяца назад

Such a sad story on every level! Thank you for sharing

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thanks for listening Karen ❤️

@mattengels22 4 дня назад

The photos are amazing in all of your videos.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 4 дня назад

Thank you so much, my friend. I do my best when it comes to research.

@donnamays24 2 месяца назад

I love your featuring Nance Dude…I read the book about her story years ago…and did a lot of research about this woman..I’m distantly related to her..she had a horrific life..there is much more to her story than this..so much more..I think it’s important to note that Nance literally tried every way possible to provide for Roberta..and her daughter Lizzy was terrible selfish girl…a very sad and tragic story of extreme abuse, poverty and hopelessness! Blessings❤

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

The book is a fiction novel with some historical facts along the way, this story I told was based on court and newspaper records

@donnamays24 2 месяца назад

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller the book written that I’m referring to was all based on facts written by Maurice Stanley titled “the legend of Nance Dude”..I also read the fictional book loosely based on her story titled “the serpent slips into a modern Eden” by James A. Turpin. I obtained my copy of the Stanley book through the Haywood county historical society about 25 years ago. Included in the Stanley book are numerous records from court, local newspapers and interviews of old folks who knew Nance and lived in the community . The Stanley book also includes a lot of photos, birth, marriage and death records. I absolutely love your channel and so enjoy your posts-Good job!

@FrankHarrington-h7l 2 месяца назад

@@donnamays24I have really wondered if someone with her weight and I read she had arthritis could have physically done this! Patricia Gambino Harrington

@raymondbradley6788 2 месяца назад

JD that is one tragic story. If it’s blue, it’s blue.

@kissfan43 18 дней назад

I grew up hearing about this from my grandmother who would see here a lot when she was a little girl growing up in Bryson City she said every time her mother would see her she would say their go's that old woman that kill here grand baby

@emilypine 2 месяца назад

Hi from Australia, I’ve just stumbled upon your channel and I have to say I love hearing a human voice! New subscriber 🎉

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Welcome aboard my friend so glad to have you here there’s a large community of folks from Australia that are also in this channel and we’re glad to have you here

@rogerparris6742 2 месяца назад

Sad but great video JD. Being from Swain County, I’ve driven Conleys Creek many times never knowing this part of History. Thanks for the tremendous story…..FYI. My great grandfather John Wesley Phillips was from Eastern Tennessee. Thanks for your hard work Cuz😁

@freddielind5282 11 дней назад

Found you today! So happy i did! Really enjoyed! Look i gerw up listening to Garrison Keller I appreciate a good well told story!! TY

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 11 дней назад

Welcome aboard Freddie! Glad to have you here!

@Ashley.Michell22 2 месяца назад

Omg!! Hope the guy felt bad about telling Izzy to get rid of her

@yvettevitacaponigro 2 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing this story with us! ✌🏼😊

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you 💜

@yvettevitacaponigro 2 месяца назад

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller 👍🏻✌🏼😊

@darlenerobinson8821 2 месяца назад

Wow!! What a sad sad story JD!! Things weren't any different then...being a single mother still hold a stigma today. Poor little gal. I feel sorry for all of them.

@avacapone7572 22 дня назад

I can't help but feel sorry for Nancy. If youre treated like a monster for so long more than likely youll find that youve become one.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 22 дня назад

💜

@N2Mtns2 2 месяца назад

I’m not crying I’m not crying. Yes I am and I’m ordering your Book now.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

❤️ ❤️

@lauriemohr470 2 месяца назад

So heartbreaking. You are an amazing story teller and my new favorite RU-vidr. ❤ These stories are fascinating.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you Laurie so glad to have you here. Hope you’re having a fabulous weekend, my friend.

@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw Месяц назад

JD, I have subscribed to your channel a long while back & I click the like button to every one of your episodes that I watch. Please keep these wonderful stories coming, we need them so much. 💕

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Thank you so much Michael!

@ChrisBruggeman-ie6rf 2 месяца назад

Child versus fast strong 🐻! So how was she supposed to look after her brother in that circumstance? The mother had anymosity for the daughter before the bear attack.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Agreed

@nancyweems5270 2 месяца назад

I use to listen to your stories don't know why I didn't see them no more, Watching Miranda reminded me of you. I'm back 😊

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Glad to see you made it back Nancy ❤️

@met999000 Месяц назад

That is such a terrible way for that poor grandchild to have died; scared and alone, and fighting so hard to survive.

@stuartwhelan233 2 месяца назад

Wow absolutely brilliant true life stories across the pond really appreciate your crack that happened in the us it was a cruel ways back then so sad exactly the same in the uk too. Thanks for sharing there stories to us all they will never be forgotten....🇬🇧🇺🇸...😢😢❤

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much!

@Doug-z5o Месяц назад

Good storytelling. Good job! Thanks

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@georgeseymour7116 2 месяца назад

Another great story. Thanks

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Thank you brother

@adamcaldwell8776 Месяц назад

Thanks for the tragic but interesting story. Life was rough in that area back then. I dont live there but am too familiar with the area. My ancestors settled cataloochee in the smokies. Still have the old family house up there where my grandfather was born. Part of the park service now. Im sure this was big news for them back then. Thabks again

@mtnbee23 2 месяца назад

Wow, this is heartbreaking in every possible way. Nancy clearly did not know what love truly is, and she likely was speaking her truth when she said she "loved" that child.

@lastcoyote2355 25 дней назад

Her name was McGill .. but her friends called her Lill ..but everyone knew her as Nancy .

@Nightbird1914 2 месяца назад

Please do a story on the Legend of Nance Dude if you haven’t already. “One cold February morning in 1913, a 64-year-old woman known as Nance Dude led her granddaughter, Roberta Putnam, out of their home in western North Carolina and up the side of a mountain. She returned without the child later that day.”

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

This IS Nance Dudes story. The real story. Her name was Nancy Kerley, it was only when the fictional Novel came out about her life that “nance dude” nickname was invented.

@FrankHarrington-h7l 2 месяца назад

This story has haunted me for years! I grew up in Asheville NC and found an article about this when I was 13 and I am 55 now and it still haunts me! Patricia Gambino Harrington (I post on my hubby's RU-vid acct)

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

😮

@charlespressley6064 2 месяца назад

Good afternoon JD another great story and superbly told . All the best from Nottinghamshire County Uk .

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Hope you are doing well Charles!

@charlespressley6064 2 месяца назад

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Am i right in saying you play all the instruments? i play the mandalin very badly. I love the traditional sound.

@rebeccasblingingboutique4762 2 месяца назад

Thank you jd 🎉

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Any time!

@GrannyNoodles Месяц назад

So sad. Excellent storytelling.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Thank you

@deanlibby5878 2 месяца назад

She kept changing her story, I would say that she did it.😢

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

an absolutely terrible crime that broke my heart to research, write and tell.

@davidbigbee3556 2 месяца назад

Excellent story!!! I really like this one 👍🏻

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

thank you!

@stevecurtiss46 2 месяца назад

As much as I would like to beleive in Nancys innocence, being abused all her life could well have bent her mind. I think she did bury that baby alive. It is amazing she lived to 103 year old. I have been to Maggie Valley and Bryson City and to Maple valley outside Bryson.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

💜 thank you for your thoughts

@sevenspecie592 2 месяца назад

Times were just so hard & people so poor! I know this was horrible thing that happened to little Roberta , & how incredibly painful & the suffering she.endured! All 3 of them suffered & Nancy her life was a.nightmare since she was.a young child! So beautiful --all 3 of them! Shockingly beautiful actually! For.some reason I stopped receiving your.notifications a few months ago & I just happened.to.run across this.video! I now haven3 months worth to watch & its suppose to rain for thr.next 24 hours here. Kind of excited! Ive.missed your stories.& most definitely your.voice! God bless❤🇱🇷❤

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Glad to have you back! I hope you enjoy catching up!

@Nonniemaye 2 месяца назад

I am against violence of any kind . The Bible teaches us that our tongue is little member of our body but it has the power to speak life or death. PROVERBS 18 : 21 . This story broke my heart . A little encouragement to Nancy could have changed her whole out look on life. God help us to be careful what we say to others . At the end of the day, it's God's opinion that counts. Many thanks, JD. For sharing this story. God bless .

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

Amen Nonnie, agreed 100%

@paulfroese1469 Месяц назад

First time I've seen this channel and this story made me subscribe. Thank you!! Great story telling.

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Glad to have you here Paul, make yourself at home.

@marcopolo4576 20 дней назад

Life is hard but, it's doubly hard without a true, loving relationship with the Lord God; Jesus Christ

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 20 дней назад

Amen

@chrissmith9135 Месяц назад

So glad I ran across this channel. A lot of work has obviously went into these well produced videos...

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Thanks for this comment- each one of these videos takes 40-60 hours of research and production

@dreamofmermaids Месяц назад

This channel just popped up in my feed! Wow! Truly great story telling. What a tragic heartbreaking story all the way around. Definitely just subscribed!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller Месяц назад

Welcome to the channel my friend so glad to have you here. Pull up a chair and make yourself at home.

@dreamofmermaids Месяц назад

@@TheAppalachianStoryteller yes indeed, thank you!

@kathyowen6806 2 месяца назад

I really enjoyed watching this. I am from Macon Co., NC, so, I am aware of all the places mentioned in this story. Thanks for sharing!

@TheAppalachianStoryteller 2 месяца назад

thank you Kathy!

@ellenjames7630 2 месяца назад

In all these comments, no one is blaming the man? If he hadn't been so selfish that he insisted he couldn't possibly raise another man's daughter, none of this would have happened! Men push women to desperation, but we never blame the man!