The killer who become an Appalachian ghost-Finding Mose Blackburn and Garnet Richmond

The killer who become a Appalachian ghost-Finding Mose Blackburn and Garnet Richmond
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[@karaamundson3964]

Garnet Richmond's story is so tragic. A veteran--a young veteran--a father, a husband, a guy just doing his job. You folks are so right...the victims' stories are really important and truly enrich the the overall tale. My boyfriend has a rich mine of Hatfields in his family. They're finally calming down!

[@wendyburnett4086]

Garnett was a very brave man it sounds like. This story was told so well and the scenery was incredible. Thank you and Heather for what you are doing. I think when you tell these stories it is history, of course, but by learning this history we learn that there are so many heros out there that we should remember. I hope that made sense.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Aww thank you so much 😊

[@wendyburnett4086]

I wanted to also say that your channel is my favorite. And that you and Heather seem so genuine. In your stories I can hear the care in your voice. That through your research and telling of the stories it like you've come to actually know the people who are the subjects of the story. You show such respect. Thank you.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you so much! means a lot to us

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

Such a tragedy. You told it so respectfully. It was eminently clear that Garnet's story tugged at your heartstrings. It was nice to see your compassion & empathy. Thank you for an excellent video

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you so much

[@knightowl3577]

Thank you for taking us along with you. You are right, this was the story of a young man who had already served his country, only to die tragically while serving his community.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks 🙏

[@deborahautry569]

Hello Leo & Heather! I just watched your Garnet Richmond video & thought I’d tell you about my connection to his widow & children. When Garnet was killed, his widow, Ola Mae was pregnant with his namesake. Her name is also ‘Garnet’. Ola Mae married my uncle Jim McCoy & they became a part of our family. We have lived in the same town for many years & stay in touch. Ola Mae & Garnet’s other daughter passed a few years ago & she was also much loved. Sadly, at the time of Garnet’s death his wife was living on the same hill as the hospital where he died & they had a view of the street where he died.

[@gearhead2017]

RIP pvt garnet richmond,thank you for your service sir,I've heard about the old hospital on youtube

[@Duececoupe]

Williamson, West Virginia, that's Norfolk & Western country isn't it....one of my first loves of US railroads, together with Delaware & Hudson. They've been favourites for 40 years now! Keep these excellent videos coming! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🥇🏆 Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow, Scotland....

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Yes, exactly! Thanks for the support. Maybe we will show that huge old train depot here soon.

[@cherylverhelst8245]

The two of you amaze me with the stories you tell. I love that you find these stories about people that should never be forgotten. Very interesting story. Sad that the young officer lost his life. Thank you for sharing.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you Cheryl

[@13bravo72]

Nice video! Well done! The 16th Tank Battalion was part of the 16th Armored Division, who liberated the city of Pilsen Czechoslovakia. Rest in peace Garnett.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Interesting thanks 🙏

[@annemarielovejoy8577]

Being bred,born and raised in WV (Lincoln county mostly) I love watching these videos. You both tell the stories ahh so well. It gives me joy to know that someone is out there that can tell us about WV's history that so few of would even know about if it wasn't for the 2 of you. Thank you so much for your history lessons!!!

[@trishrowland7782]

I just found your site a week ago. These stories fascinate me because I grew up in Kentucky (Elizabethtown) and have lived in Lexington since 1967. The stories I've seen so far I am not familiar with, but they are very interesting. Thanks for your work on this.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Glad you like them!

[@stephenryan3494]

Hello from Scotland what wonderful stories keep then coming mate

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks, will do!

[@mariallen3995]

You two make this kind of history so interesting. I don't get out much so these videos are great. You can giggle all you want. You don't get to hear me. Thanks.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Our pleasure! Thank you 😊

[@robertbelt5515]

Man I’d love to come over there and meet you guys and spend a day or two just finding some of those old historical sites, I never realized that they buried Jim Vance so far up in the woods, I figured they buried him close to Anderson and the Hatfield Family Cemetery, I could sit and listen to them old stories all day long, y’all keep up the good work.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks Robert! I guess that's his family cemetery. But being he was murdered , who knows who buried him there and why. I guess just a mystery forever. Maybe his kids were there or people he loved. We can only guess.

[@rhondaking6433]

I Agree .. RIP Garnet .. Thank you for your service.🌹

[@jjdjj5392]

Yes i agree with these posts. Garnett was a hero and a veteran that should be honored. Im glad you honored him and highly respected him.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you 🙏

[@annarobinson8183]

Thank you for sharing this story my family is from Pendleton gap Virginia, and I know there are a lot of cemeteries that they don’t even know who the families are

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks Anna

[@ninah9955]

I.m enjoying your channel.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Awesome, thank you!

[@bobberguy1]

Thank y'all for the research, history and scenery you bring to us. God Bless.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks for watching!

[@bobgaysummerland]

You tell a good story. Not many people can do that. Thank you.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks Bob, very nice compliment

[@lindasimons691]

🥀Interesting and nicely told. I'll be back. Thank you~

[@arkansasboy45]

Lots of history in Kentucky. Where I'm at here in Arkansas, we have an old Tuberculosis sanatorium that is still in operation today to house those with developmental, or mental issues. Some say part of the old building is haunted.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Oh very interesting, I'm sure it is really. A lot of emotions in those places

[@WhispersFromTheDark]

Thanks for telling the story. I agree with you, this is Garnets story. Bless his heart! :::::salute::::: Thank you for your service, and rest in peace Officer Richmond, you will not be forgotten.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you!

[@kathybradshaw3722]

❤thanks for honoring the dead Always enjoying your site,

[@larryshepherd5380]

Leo, thank you for this channel and the great content you and Heather does. I get hyped when i see a new video or find a old one i haven't seen yet. Y'all help my home sickness. Lol. Thanks.

[@auntiejen5376]

I have some Blackburns in my family tree, but I haven't researched them extensively yet. Sometimes the history of the people of Appalachia reminds me of the stories about the Wild West. Just seeing a notation of "gun fight" on a death certificate conjures up those kinds of images.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Absolutely

[@kitchiesmom]

Mose Blackburn is in my family tree in my mother's side

[@jfd53]

I am new to your channels and have been binge watching both. Your research is impeccable and I sincerely enjoy Leo's sweet spirit. You are both so knowledgeable and insightful. Many thanks for telling the stories.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks so much 🙏

[@tomlowe7947]

I too was born in that hospital and my mother was a nurse there for many years. She didn’t have any ghost stories. Reality was strange enough.

[@judypierce7028]

By the way, I watched the video on Mamie Thurmond and her story is downright scary!!

[@jamielieberg7053]

another great video you make it so real thank you until next time peace out

[@sandyjustice1139]

Thank You for sharing, my son's great grandfather was Moss Hatfield mamaw Hatfield Justice was his daughter Norma she married Dick Justice from up the road. Xo Xo Xo.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Awesome!

[@annehorstman6071]

Thank him for his service. Thank you for sharing.

[@donnaboisen6003]

Wow! What an interesting story. That’s why you’re the best. Thanks for doing what you do. Yes, police officers will tell you those domestic disputes are the scariest for them. I wouldn’t want there job.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I appreciate that, thank you

[@EntitySevenParanormal]

This was Very helpful. I will be at the old hospital very soon to investigate it.

[@quebot1111]

Another great video. Thank you

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks 🙏

[@michaelbedinger4121]

Very sad story about Officer Garnett, may he rest in peace 🙏 I noticed only his name on the grave marker, I wonder if his widow is still alive? For Mose, you raise some interesting speculation. I wonder 🤔 if Mose saw Garnett's ghost 👻 and freaked out! What do you think, Leo? Beautiful country as always, beautiful cemeteries. Thank you very much, Leo and Heather, for another interesting story, and video. Take care. 😊

[@brendawells2876]

I just started watching your videos and I love what you and your wife do I also am fascinated with old cemetery's all summer and fall I travel as far as I can looking for them and walking through looking at the headstone you have a new fan with me I will be watching all your videos 😊

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks for watching

[@Skunkape74]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

You bet

[@lmichel6636]

I am a new subscriber and have enjoyed the stories and history of the southern people. Thank you. Keep up the good work.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks 🙏

[@gmanette188]

Enjoyed the video Sometimes I close my eyes and just listen

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you!

[@allencarroll8868]

I really like your videos I live in arkansas but my mother was a Blackburn from Pikeville

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks Allen 😊

[@timdyer3551]

Just curious where you get ideas for episodes? Appreciate the work you both do.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

We look through old newspapers and sometimes just check into headstones, see what story they may have. We get pretty inventive though. Having ancestry websites really help

[@bethgiesey9405]

You always show respect & are so humble when doing these videos. Thank you I really respect the two of you for that

[@judypierce7028]

Oh my! What an absolutely awesome video. Fascinating!!! I can hardly wait for you to post your next video because all of them are so well done especially the research. Did you know there is a Hatfield - McCoy Museum in Cave City, KY which is about 40 miles north of Bowling Green? Thank you again for such an awesome piece of history.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

More to come! I did know that, but I had forgot 😅 thanks

[@marvmattison5248]

Thanks for another interesting video, the history and scenery. I subbed you twos channel today. It's awesome out there with the mtns and all. I live by terre haute, indiana where it's mostly flat with muddy creeks and rivers. My girlfriend and I drove thru west Virginia on the way to Martinsville, va. to see a nascar race. The rocky clear creeks and rivers there are amazing as i love to hunt for indian artifacts and just be outside. Thanks for sharing!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thanks so much

[@cathymcglasson6947]

RIP GARNET THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. I think Mose inner demons got the best of him RIP Mose.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Seems so and thank you

[@Houndini]

Anything is possible in Bloody Mingo. Working mainly in Logan & Mingo all my life I heard numerous stories a lot I feel is true. I had a 1st cousin & still bunch my 2nd cousins live down there.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Oh for sure

[@Houndini]

@@thehillbillyfiles I can't place him. Guess its your husband. But his voice sounds so familiar, And his face is so familiar except he maybe older now. Appears somewhere in the past I meet him or been around him somewhere before. I born in Logan County worked & lived in that area for over 50+ years. Now I mainly live in Pocahontas County. Maybe 1 day it with hit me where I saw or meet him before?

[@stephenhobbs1174]

Often forgotten with time, but a time should become a remembrance despite the clock you and I live by.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Indeed

[@marlenataylor8758]

Thank you for sharing this story, sad but true. God bless you both

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you too

[@deerslayer9point]

I was born there too! ❤️

[@jonathanbrown4933]

bobby hatfield, what a great singing voice

[@fredpierce9363]

Bobby Hatfield, one of the Righteous Brothers, was born in Beaver Dam Wisconsin. His Parents were not from that area down there. I don't know if he was distantly related or not.

[@mycharmedunicorn8715]

Could you do a nature video this spring? Would love to see what spring is like in the WV mountains.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

We will do a lot of nature things this spring

[@melindaschluter1669]

You really know how to make me cry! But that is a good thing. Lol

[@michaelhaiden6718]

I agree also there is no one left that actually knew them if it was be cool to interview them and I also wonder about there spouses how did there life turn out etc

[@m988022]

Can you just imagine a man in a hospital gown come flying out of a 3rd story window.

[@artcflowers]

Psst try reaching around in front of your camera and using your finger to point out the window(s) you mention. Thanks for this story.✌♥️

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Its almost impossible to do that on a go pro, you should try it

[@artcflowers]

@@thehillbillyfiles doh! There in lies the rub! You'll need an old school pointer! Lol. I really enjoy your vids and you have gotten better about pointing to things. Thanks. Ps. Had i known y'all were coming to tunesville i could've shown you a bunch more celebrity burial places and various monuments and things of interest. Next time... ✌♥️

[@frankmarullo228]

Good video my friend ! Every one of your video's that I have seen ( remember I'm new to your channel, ) you mention a Hatfield ! You are right about that. I'm not sure if you did , but if not could you do a video on the Hatfields and Mc Coys ? I bought the Kevin Costner video years ago. But with your accent no one could do better. THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA.......

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Thank you. If you go back through our videos, we have done several of those. Enjoy. :-)

[@judypierce7028]

@@thehillbillyfiles You took the words "out of my mouth."

[@ronnac.7143]

Hi,I looked for an email or something but anyway..if u ever get out around Manchester ky..which is clay county..there’s a story I have mentioned to several u tubers..Kevin McDaniel was a 16 year old that was killed horrifically in about 1987-88..it would be an Awsome story and a memorial to a great guy!!

[@ghostcityshelton9378]

Talking about wonderful & careing police, when I worked security guarding the outlet stores by Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersy a very nice officer would pop in & say; "hi" & we'd chat. I worked 10 pm to 6 am --- he was in his patrol car & I was in mine & after the chat he drove off I came back from the rest room & over my radio came; "Oh my God, whose going to tell his wife?" In short, some drunk folks in a car hit the officer's car head on, he died = the drunk driver & buds were fine. It wasn't but say 10 min after he left after our chat that he was killed, leaving a wife & 6 children. I just sat in the car & cried. Point is, enjoy your time while you can, you never know when your time is up. The officer in your story sounds like he was a very nice, loving & careing man and thanks to folks like you he won't be forgotten "Mr. Garnett, thank you for your service, God bless you." I know he's no longer here to read this, but it still doesn't hurt to say it. The guy that killed him, like the guy that killed my police officer's friend, it takes ALOT to 'forgive' at times but if "we' want to ask for forgiveness then 'we' have to also 'forgive'. We all make mistakes & we all need forgiveness from time to time. God bless you sir, for caring the way you do.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

We do all need forgiveness sometimes

[@kitchiesmom]

Mise Blackurn would be my 8th cousin in my mother's side going up through the Duckworth line.

[@garymanuel4710]

Have to say them there W Virginians have some interesting history, I think Mose was tossed out the window , if he wanted to kill himself he could have jumped from his hospital window i would think anyway, he might have ran down the hallway to escape & when the guards caught him they kind of said you want to escape? then they gave him a helping hand you might say lol, But was funny they just went down grabbed him from the ground & carried him back & tossed him in his bed lol, But sad Mr Richmond survived the war, came home, took a career to keep the peace & had to die this way, Rip Mr Richmond, Again thank you for sharing, Just love hearing you tell the stories, you got that born talent of making your listeners pic the scenes in their minds, not many story tellers can do that, Again a dying art really,

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Very nice comment and yes I agree it's fishy, thank you 🙏

[@Lisa1111]

Good grief! Skidmore type of an attack!

[@robinhall1795]

Mose Blackburn was my Great Uncle. Mose' sister, my grandmother, is buried in Mt View. I knew Ance, Mose' dad too. I knew all Mose' brothers n sisters. Sadly Mose died before I was born. I didn't get to meet him. I was always told growing up that Mose was pushed out the window in retaliation for killing "one of their own". I'm sorry for the mans family he shot. But this story keeps getting told that he jumped. They are all guessing. So why not tell it either he jumped or was pushed. But no! That wouldn't be. Exciting for this supposed ghostly hospital. Yes, it was in the Williamson Daily News that he jumped. That's not proof. Who saw this take place? I think things are conjoired up in people's mind about this hospital. I had my first baby in this hospital. But during my pregnancy I had complications and was put in this hospital for weeks at a time. Guess what, I saw no ghosts! Furthermore, I was put in a room all alone , saw nobody for hrs at a time. I was just on bedrest. So the devil could be creeping into some people ya think? Yes I'm angry the way the story gets told . Show me an eye witness who saw Mose"jump". Under oath and I'll believe the story. Pray before entering the hospital. GOD Bless all of ya!

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Yea I agree, thats why we told it the way we did

[@stanleysteemr1316]

Creepy things happen in remote small towns that are far from the main-stream world. Ask me how I know..

[@JBB4118]

It's a shame....if things turned out another way you could have known him as chief Richmond.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Very true

[@darleenmccauley8220]

They must not have xrayed or missed fractured rib which they would do nothing for but puncture could have be en repaired.

[@donhinchey9148]

Sad 😢

[@stevelechner6832]

Sad story

[@twalatka]

I think every WV town has a Pike Street. 😊

[@thehillbillyfiles]

Haha yes

[@stevelechner6832]

Sad song

[@tamarapalmieri8283]

Do popcorn Sutton he was a legend in moonshine making. Please and thank you In 2007 he was caught with over 650 gallons of moonshine Sadly he took his life back in 2009

[@thehillbillyfiles]

we are going to do his video soon!

[@haroldcurry8069]

I was born there

[@sandrahoward1105]

Myfamilywerecoalminersfromwvandhavesomefamilyinkentuckeyirelatedtoalcaponethegangesterhewasmygrandfather

[@homerwiggins3965]

Did I miss the part about a ghost? I watched again and didn’t catch it. Please excuse my ignorance..

[@thehillbillyfiles]

I mentioned the legend of his ghost story, but no, I didn't actually go into the ghost story itself.

[@mariallen3995]

Are there any Native American cemeteries that you know about?

[@judypierce7028]

There are two Native American mounds in Kanawha County. One is in Spring Hill, a little south of Charleston and the other at Shawnee Park at Institute. Institute is right off of I-64 South like you are going towards Huntington.

[@relicman]

Cherokee, NC has some of course.

[@stephaniecoggins733]

In Bly and Beatty Oregon there are some

[@samanthagarnes8391]

Moundsville, Charleston, Huntington are the three main area to visit if you want to see native American burial mounds in WV. But they are plentiful across West Virginia and many other states. Many are on private property and not open to the public though, unfortunately.

[@thehillbillyfiles]

We plan to head to Moundsville soon, but there is some here. Hidden mainly. I showed a area at the end of the Appalachian axe murderer video

[@marvinjohnson424]

👍🇺🇸

[@ROKgem]

So sad

[@joshuabeatty7406]

Most likely old Mose was being tormented by Demons