I give thanks to your family that they left the Native American Burial ground in peace. So many people don’t.❤️🐝❤️

Thanks for showing respect to Native Americans! They loved this land and they still do!The land is sacred! " Man belongs to the Earth. Earth does not belong to man!" Chief Seattle!

Daddy said that back around 1935 when the dinner bell rung at the noon meal that the mules would pull the plow at a run to the end of the row knowing they would get feed and rest

Your voice is the voice of so many that I have known and loved all my life. So many are gone now so your voice is like music.

I moved up north about 7 years ago, I have a beautiful wife, and a happy life, but sometimes I really do get homesick for the woods, and hills, and pines, the smell of the red clay soil after a morning shower, this channel really makes me feel like I'm back there even if it's just for a few minutes. I've said it before, but I'll say it again, thank you so much sir for keeping our history alive with this channel.

Hello from Washington State! I just found your channel and am absolutely loving these old stories! I wish more people would record these, this is our history ❤ bless you and your family for respecting the Graves of Native Americans!

Great story! My grandfather worked on the Norris dam. I still have some harness for my grandparents mules and drawn plows. Thank you.

What a cool story. One of the many ways the old people were in touch with the land back then. Thank you! Can't wait for the "superstition" video☺️

Donnie thank you for sharing this I truly believe in land watchers that's what I call them I have seen and heard a lot of things that I can't explain there's a lot of things people need to leave alone. James from Luray Virginia

Great story Donnie. I just found your channel and really enjoyed this one. I live near to Fall Creek Falls State Park in Bledsoe County I am half Native American. My mother is Shawnee Cherokee her mother was Shawnee and her father was Cherokee they were brought up in Oklahoma near Tahlequah. I moved here 22 years ago and bought an old shack and 27 Acres on the Cumberland plateau. The old house I live in was built in 1895. It has very low ceilings and at the time was a poor man's house and is still a poor man's house. I live here alone with my dogs and tend my vegetable gardens. I frequently see visions of Indians around the property and even coming through the house. There is an old spring on the side of the mountain just below my house that has old rock walls at the back. There is still two old grinding Stones where they ground their grain at the edge of the spring. All Old-Timers around here said that the walls around the spring were put there by the native people. I love this place and I love the spirits that come through. I have never felt afraid or threatened or anyting.

Awesome Donnie!!! You know for a fact that there was plenty of Indians in this area. Great hearing stories that are so close to home👍👍👍

That was decent and right of your folks to respect that field. There was an Indian burial mound on one of my grandpa's land. He just left it in woods and never even logged near it. Speaking of guardian spirits, I was raised on property that was passed down on the other side of the family. One of my great uncles farmed it just before us and he really loved that land. I had been working in his old orchard and didn't start walking hime till after dark. When I got to a spot where he'd built a springhouse decades ago (and long gone), I distinctly felt a presence and the hair stood up on the back of my neck, but I wasn't afraid. I spoke softly to the presence and just said a bit about what I'd been doing that day. I could feel a sense of relief in the night air and I don't know, I just felt like it was OK with the presence for me to keep walking home. My wife has said she saw someone checking on her when she spent the night at my folk's house. I never saw anyone, but I believe my great uncle's spirit still watches over the place.

Good Story Donnie, no doubt that was an Indian Burial Ground on Your Kinfolks Farm 🙂.

Very interesting tale, Donnie! There are things unexplained in this old world...perhaps because these folks respected the Indians of this field, they were left alone!💖

I've seen a land watcher before! It was when I lived in Ky! I kinda always felt they were looking after me too ❤ I would stay up on that mountain all by myself 33 1/2 acres! And felt as safe as a baby in it's mama's arm's❤ the nearest neighbor up the mountain was a half mile away, and the nearest neighbor down the mountain was a mile an a half! I just turned 51 this past January 12th,but I will never forget the peace and love I felt there❤❤❤ thank you soo much love always😄

Wow! What a great story Donnie!!😊👍🏻 Loved this one! ❤️ It’s easy to tell you were raised by a wonderful family and that you come from ancestors that had such a great respect for the land. They instilled in you a great love of the earth and all who dwell on it. We who love & take care of the Earth much as the Native Americans did and still do, are few and far between these days. It’s such a shame that so many are not as evolved or as enlightened about taking better care of the earth especially now with climate change. We as a collective really need to have a greater respect for her and thank God for his beautiful creation and all that she provides in nourishing and sustaining us every day. 🙏🏻🌎❤️🙏🏻🌎❤️🙏🏻🌎❤️

Thank you for the story you have a great voice could listen to you all day new subscriber

That was a very interesting history lesson Donnie! And given my heritage, I greatly appreciate this story. And I agree with your family’s beliefs, and agree that this was a burial ground, and the old ones where protecting it. And I couldn’t think any higher of your family’s respect for this piece of land. This comes from my heart kola. Blessings you, and your ancestors…

Good ol' mountain ghost story one of my favorite things from my childhood was setting around with the elders and hearing some amazing supernatural stories told as the truth thank you sir from over in Carter county. it was great!

Donnie I so believe this story! My father and I and a cousin, leased land in Lashmeet WV. across from Shawnee park. One evening I was resting and eating a sandwich, after a long hard day rolling hay, in the field across from the park. When I heard the words 2 times, Waapa Helini Naakala! Week went by, I told dad and the others, they laughed at me. The next morning as we came back, Archaeologist were digging Native American graves up. We had to move our cattle and leave! Those 3 words Waapa Helini Naakala, ate at me i wanted to know what they meant! I tried searching but no luck! Later I contacted an Archaeologist I knew. He searched books and found it meant, "White Man Leave." God Bless you! (Glen). WV.

I have great respect for people who refuse to be scared off by apparitions. It takes a special kind of courage. I bet their Christian faith gave them that strength. Realky enoyed this one.

What is sacred..never dies. It's to be respected & honored ♡ where remains become 1 with the Earth. Loved this..What a precious story my friend

thank you a spiritual land and a strong people, with respect for the past and the future....

Thank you Mr. Donnie, I sure do believe this. I'm a old timer myself. I 64 years old. I enjoy so much of your d Tories. Brings back hard time for myself.❤

Great story. I do believe there are places better left alone, and a Native American burial ground is one. I like your narrative style, it’s as though I could listen to you tell stories for hours 🙂

I grew up fishing Lost Creek back in Sharps Chapel. When the fish weren't biting I would walk the shorelines. You could see old house seats and even a couple wells when the water was low, I would occasionally find arrowheads and other artifacts laying in the mud & dirt. There is a rich Indian history in this area.

Howdy Donnie- that was a real interesting story. Lots of things can’t be explained. Take care and God bless

Man oh man did I enjoy this one here... Ty ty ty so! 😁

Great history lesson. Respect one another and respect the land.

Donnie I love your videos and stories! What a wonderful thing that your family respected the past history of the land. I’m sure the Indian Spirits blessed them for it ♥️

Hello Donnie Laws Like to let you know I live in Johnson City I really like the videos on the Norris lake area I also enjoy the history that you've been teaching us on east side of Tennessee and your short stories If there's any history that you can do videos on Over here by Johnson City area boon dam watauga dam area I would greatly appreciate it Once again thank you

The people of that subdivision are going to pay dearly for something they don't even know about. A haunting is one thing but an Indian spirit is totally another. Thanks for the story and sorry that your people lost the land.

Great video sir. I really believe in Guardians. My grandparents were Apache's and they cleared fileds for farmers and rancher in the 1900; s and they lived in tents in the middle of nowhere. My Granny told me what time she saw an Indian running alongside a creek while she was fetching water and vanished before her eyes. Thank you for sharing the story and God Bless.

Thank very much for sharing these stories

This channel is a solace to me. June 28 I became very ill (not covid) and I'm very shut in and so bored. I'm thankful to have found it.

Another good one

Listening to you tell stories, I feel like I’ve listened to you speak for an hour. Not because it’s boring, but your voice puts me in a dreamlike state and by the end of your tale I feel like I’ve been on a long journey. Thank you 🙏

Thankyou for the telling of this story, I enjoyed your voice and the content very amazing.

So neat my Grandfather broke up his farm with animals and plows too they also found Indian burial grounds there too. But the government never investigated it, just because they did not then. This brought me back to his stories!! Thank you for sharing!!

Love ghost stories!

Looking forward your next story!

The wife and I really enjoy your videos. Every time we watch my wife says...his voice is sooooo relaxin. I could listen to him talk all day... Keep it up friend. Middle TN here

Great story Donnie! Thanks for sharing.

I absolutely love it when you share your stories with us! Many Blessings to you my friend. 🤗💕

Donnie has the gift of storytelling,, I love it.. ty

You are the best Appalachian Storyteller Mr. Donnie!! That's real happenings because you just can't make this stuff up ! Take care my friend ❤️

When I was a little boy there was an old fellow in our community who believed he had a homegaurd. He would leave food for it. He was Native American and I have heard that it is a belief that it is usually a friendly spirit, sometimes a relative who has passed on, who gaurds your house. I was a teacher and mentioned something about it. One of my students said, "we have one. He comes through the kitchen and living room and goes upstairs. " I said ,"do you ever follow him to see where he goes?" " Not me," he said, "if I follow I might come out some place I don't wanna be."

Great Story, thank you. Sacred Land is not to be messed with.

The people are long gone but the stories will live on and on. thanks for sharing, your friend, Louise

Very interesting story.Thank you for sharing🌟

I'm from Huntington wv and I love your channel wish there were more like yours . I love hearing old storys and tales of superstitions. My dad and sister went to my papaws old home place and they felt like something was watching them so they took pictures and when they got them developed in one of them pictures was my papaws moms face coming outta tree branches and shed been dead since the 50s. There was an old cemetery outback their house up the hill and they said you could hear drumming at night

Hi Mr Donnie. Glad you are starting to feel better. Good for you. This one was interesting too. Thx 😊

Brilliant up load relly injoyed it amazing work as allways kerp up the hard work and see you at the next 👍

Wonderful story.

Thank you, Donnie, for another story on the unexplained . God 🙏 bless.

Sacred ground. Beautiful story.

What a cool story. A case of two groups living in harmony. You leave me my little piece undisturbed and I will let you have the rest to farm on. Thank you for sharing Donnie

What a great story and video, thanks!

Wow what a beautiful story! The Native American people were still protecting their sacred grounds. Thank you for sharing this Mr Laws, I appreciate you & your videos. I always feel at peace when you’re telling these stories to us. Blessings always! ❤️✝️

Union County born and raised now you see why I call you uncle Donnie lol I loved this sir Ty so much for this story

Love it!!

Wonderful story. Thank you.

Love Love Love your stories Donnie! Hope you have a lot more. Thank you so much for sharing them.

Wonderful story Donnie, I was thinking even before you mentioned it. That is was an Indian burial ground. It was sacred to them, that's why they showed themselves when your ancestors tried to farm it. Thank you Donnie for sharing this story with us.

My dad and grandpa told me of the story about this. They grew up in sharps chapel. Even though I was young, but the way they told it, it really had me believing. Their last name is Rouse. Thanks Donnie for bringing up some good memories.

liked & subscribed and thank you for always including closed captioning. lost my hearing during military service 1970 stone deaf, your caring means a great deal to me & others.

I love it. You're right about applachians being superstitious people. I love this channel you have it's a good one. You made me think of four or five ghost stories I heard growing up we kids would retail them to each other scaring each other. Seems like there was always one kid who always ended up crying. We swear up and down we seen something smells something touched by something.!. 😂. I moved from there and the thing I miss most is stories.

Whoa Donnie...!..I just checked this video out ..there sure was something other worldly down around that part of that farm ......Thank you for the super video Buddy..!........

Thank you for the awesome video ✌️. Enjoy them all ☀️. I have heard many stories / history from my family on both sides from Giles county , Blacksburg and Kentucky . I love history, we all learn from it . And together maybe we can all continue to move forward together ✌️.

Thank you Donnie for the great story!!!

who else could listen to this guy talk all day?

Thanks for the story! God bless you Mr. Donnie

My favorite, most relaxing ways to start my day, listening to your stories of days gone by❤

Thank You Donnie. You are a de-stressing, story telling Treasure.

I just come across your channel and man I am happy I did, I am hooked so hooked in fact I just realized I have been watching for almost 2 hours stright. I love it!

Love it!! Keep them going.

I've been enjoying all your story telling and I would love to move to the mountains. I'm from Canada and I did visit Tennessee back in 2010 and I loved it there. There is nothing like the mountains. I had some similiar lifestyles when I was a kid living here in Ontario Canada. I'm thinking that I should write down my stories and share with my children. I would love to go and visit this field and see the native Americans. I feel so sorry for them being pushed out of their land, so it's no wonder that they come back to have a pow wow. Thanks Donnie and keep on telling the history.

Wonderful story. It is heartbreaking to think of the Native American (and African American) burial sites that are ignored and often completely disrespected. I'm sure there have been many times that the builder or farmer had no idea what they were doing. Peace to the spirits who experience pain over this.

Donny, lm a third generation farmer up here in the Hudson Valley of NY state. I have felt and seen spirits around the farm and surrounding lands most my life. The other day l pulled over to pick up a foam cooler to store my potatoes in down in my root cellar.As l got in my truck l looked into my rear view mirror for any oncoming vehicles but saw a slender fellow from his shoulders to his shoes walk across the road. l whipped my head around and poof, he was gone. He was wearing a pair of 1860s faded blue federal soldiers pants , typical brown shoes of that time and lighter blueish shirt. l think it was the old timer that worked his farm down there.A bunch of them folks joined in the fight of the 1860's from this hamlet of ours. Even the fellow that lived here where l am now was in that war and lost an arm from the elbow down. my dad saw him one morning years ago looking in the window and he turned around and vanished . always, farmer john

I feel Like iam sitting next to my papaw telling me this story and the Wood burner burning oh thank you so much god bless you and your family

As a boy my neighbor and I would hike the forested areas around our home just doing what youngsters do. One day we found an area that contained several mounds of raised earth.My friend was the first to bring up that they were possibly indian burial mounds.We decided we would return with a shovel and dig one up to see what was there.We returned and I was elected to begin the dig.As soon as my foot pushed the shovel into the ground we heard the most blood curdling scream one could imagine. I threw the shovel and we both ran! That shovel stayed back in the woods for years. My moral to my story is if it looks like a grave leave it be.Before cemeteries people were buried sometimes where they fell.

Thank you for the story..Yes Sir..see you next time

I just recently found your channel and I love listening to you tell stories. It reminds me of my Grandpa and how he always had a story to tell me and my brothers. I didn't realize how much I missed that. Thank you for all the time you put into this channel.

Always a great story to end my evening. Thank you

Thank you to you and your ancestors for always respecting our ancestors who watched over that field 🦅🇨🇦🌎

Love your stories. I was in TN once as a teenager & fell in love with it's beauty.

What a beautiful place!! Thanks Donnie for sharing.

Enjoyed this video....thanks for sharing. There's tons of the unexplained tied in with the history of this area. No telling what lies beneath the surface we will never know about.

What a wonderful story Thanks

Thank you for sharing this great story! Love it!. We are so blessed to have you telling these stories!

I love that you're keeping history alive on your channel! Love your videos! 💙

Love your stories. Very interesting. I’ll be watching for more💕

I love your stories, Donnie, thank you so much.

Thank you Donnie, another Appalachian story well told.

Love your stories! ❤️

Glad to know strange events happened even back then. My friends bought some land here in eastern NC. They said they had what appeared to be apparitions of Indians on horseback riding thru the backyard on more than one occasion. They finally told them that the land now belongs to them and they can no longer come on this land. They said they haven’t had any more encounters after that night. Keep the stories coming.

Mr. Donny. This stuff is priceless. Just discovered your work and all I can say thru a tear of joy is thank you for preserving our history of true humanity. It only takes one tiny pebble to start an avalanche. Btw... I done experienced the native spirits on more than one occasion out in the wilds. Alright then.

I've got an old Indian graveyard on my property. Before I finally realized what was there, I couldn't get within 100 yards within it with a tractor or truck. Anything mechanical would just die soon as you got close. Drug it out, it'd fire right up. The dogs and the cows wouldn't get close to it. In the house, you'd hear faint chanting, things would move, you'd catch a glimpse of a Indian moving around the corner of your eye. I did some research and found out my property once had a Cherokee settlement on it in the late 1870s and 1880s. I got ahold of a Cherokee medicine man who came out and blessed the area, laid em back to rest id reckon. I never meant to bother em, and to this day I've got that area fenced off. That was nigh on 20 years ago. I was always taught, being part Indian myself, you don't mess with an Indian graveyard. You just let em be. I occasionally still catch a glimpse of a brave out in the field or hear faint chanting but they quit messing with my tractors and trucks, quit screwing with me

Thank you for sharing !

Love these old stories