“There’s so many people in Alabama who have no idea about the scary and paranormal things that are a part of the [state’s] history,” Joshua Dairen said. “There’s so much history packed in that should be told, and somebody needed to tell it.”
in Prattville, which garnered responses from relatives and residents who shared their own sightings of the grieving mother.“Lived in that area all my life. These people are superstitious in the comments. Don’t believe in ghosts and there won’t be none,” said one user on a post aboutBut whether you believe them or not, Dairen says his videos contain more than just ghost stories.
Dairen traces many of the urban legends he covers back to enslaved Alabamians, or to freedmen like Horace King, who built a number of now-haunted bridges throughout the Southeast., the mostly-Black town of Easonville that flooded in 1926. “I could go to every plantation house in Alabama – I’m sure I could find tons of urban legends around those, and hauntings,” he said. “But I really do try to center some of the history that’s been lost in the process of Alabama growing.”
And TikTok, which is mostly geared to younger audiences, could be the perfect opportunity to highlight those stories, he said, especially in places where book bans and limits on history instruction may restrict what children can be taught in the classroom.
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