Boogers and Haints

The regions of the Ozark Moutians is filled with frighening folktales and ghost stories of ghosts, witches, and monsters that haunt the wilderness of mountians and forests. The ghosts and goblins are prefered to  be call boogers and haints. 

The word booger originates from the Old World English term of bogeyies of bogeymen. Goblin like entities that are known for terrorizing misbehaving children in the middile of the night.

One of the most iconic boogermen is Raw Head and Bloody Bones. The entity is discribed having a skined razer back hog, the eyes of an owl, the tail of a racoon, the clwas of a bear and the fangs of a mountian lion. 

Haints are what the people of the Ozark regions call ghosts or spirits, as dose the word originates from the Old World term reffering to haunt. The spirits confined to live in the woods, brooks and places of where they have died. 

Many sighting or reports of ghosts have been seen and hear in The Landers Theater, Springfeild Cemtery, and the Walnut Street Inn.

Even the roads are haunted by glow balls of light called spook lights. Some say it's the a headless hiker carrying a lantern seaching for it's head. Other cailm it's just the headlights of cars passing through.