Cottonmouth Water Moccasin

Cottonmouth

Editor’s note: the articles below have been challenged by several readers, calling Dale Grubaugh’s comments “misleading,” and “false.” While StateoftheOzarks respects many differing viewpoints, Grubaugh’s recorded experiences are just that: recorded. An actual experience cannot be labeled “false” if it has occurred — and Grubaugh’s experiences occurred. His writings are presented here objectively. For a…

Seth Daughtry

Plague Child’s Doctor excerpt with art by Seth Daughtry

Original artwork by Seth Daughtry. Plague Child’s Doctor by Joshua Heston There was a flicker of afternoon sun through sighing leaves. Movement came back into the world. The ratchet-like scrape of butcher knife against sharpening stone. The rustle of old newspapers being spread out on the floor.  Dirty yellow curtains billowed in the wind. The…

Cold Dark: Eureka Springs’ Art

Cold Dark: Eureka Springs’ Art by Joshua Heston Into the cold dark. Rainwater glistened black streets. Rising clouds of mist obscured tops of ancient buildings. Normally unnoticed trees became ghost sentinels, undulating in a haunted night. Above the narrow alleys and close crowded windows and beyond the now-silent streets, the rainbow lights of Eureka Springs’…

Keith Scales, House of a Hundred Rooms

HOUSE OF A HUNDRED ROOM: stories the ghost tour guides do not tell by Keith Scales

House of a Hundred Rooms: stories the ghost tour guides do not tell by Keith Scales If anything in these legends should shock the faith of the over-scrupulous reader, he must remember the nature of the place, and make due allowance; he must remember that he treads the halls of an enchanted palace, and that…