Great Smoky Mountains national park will host Halloween Fireside Stories of Ghosts and Witches

The 100 year old buildings at the Oconaluftee farm museum will serve as the perfect backdrop this Halloween to learn about how the people of historic Appalachia far back before the park was even formed celebrated All-Hallows-Eve with scary stories that were meant to entertain and frighten.

Starting a 5:00pm and running for about an hour park employees and volunteers will add to the chills and thrills with some scary old time stories, warm apple cider and homemade molasses taffy.

The Oconaluftee Farm Museum is right by the Cherokee North Carolina entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains national park on Newfound Gap road (US 441).

Accident with injuries at Oconaluftee Farm Museum in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

A ride in the field at the Oconaluftee Outdoor Farm Museum by the Oconaluftee Visitor's center at the Cherokee entrance of the Great Smoky Mountains national park went horribly wrong when the driver somehow ended up in a drainage canal.

An occupant on the back seat of the car had injuries serious enough to require being airlifted by helicopter to a nearby hospital while another occupant of the car was taken by ambulance to a hospital.

Luckily no other cars or bystanders were injured in this completely avoidable accident and traffic flowed smoothly on Newfound Gap road even though there were almost a dozen park, rescue and police vehicles and flat bed tow trucks at the scene which gave officers a change to use brand new forensic Nikon equipment to investigate and document the accident.

The driving of cars or any other motor vehicles off of designated roads and in fields is prohibited in the Great Smoky Mountains national park and presumably the driver of the vehicle has been issued a citation for at least this offense.