Sam Raimi's Haunted Cabin Story

It's funny you should say that, John, because there is in fact a little-known

horror story that takes place-

All right, so this is American filmmaker Sam Raimi,

best known

for directing the original three Spider-Man movies with Tobey

Maguire. But back in 1981, Evil Dead put him on the

map. Here he tells his true story of what

happened to the man who built

the cabin that they filmed the Evil Dead in. Check it out.

In the cabin that we shot Evil Dead in.

This cabin was built about 100 years ago,

and the man who built it died maybe a week after he built the

place. And it's located in this valley

surrounded by these mountains that have an incredible amount of iron ore

in them,

so that during thunderstorms, most of the lightning bolts are attracted

to this valley. So it's really an incredible thing to see

when

you're there during a storm.

Well, no one lived in this cabin for the next 20

years, and it was

probably around 1910 or so when a family of three moved

into the place, a mother, daughter, and a grandmother.

So really three generations of women.

One night during a thunderstorm, this little girl woke up

and she was scared by all the lightning happening around the cabin.

So she ran into her mother's room and pulling back the covers to climb into

bed

with her, she found that her mother was dead.

Well, she was so frightened, she ran screaming into her grandmother's

room.

And somehow that same evening, she had died also during the night.

They still don't really know why both of these women would simultaneously die in

this place.

Well, the little girl ran out into the storm

about four miles to the nearest farmhouse through this raging

thunderstorm out through the night.

And

they found her screaming, banging on their doors,

and they brought her inside and

they got the story from her. Well, they took care of her after that

and no one

lived in the cabin

since. The people at the farmhouse raised this

little girl.

She had never been the same since. And during thunderstorms, she would

oftentimes wander off from this cabin and they would find her wandering around

in

the woods.

And sometimes,

well, here's where we come into the story.

The Tennessee Film Commission said, yes, we've got this one cabin that's knocked,

the cows have knocked down. It's full of dung,

but you can use it. But it's haunted. And we said, well, that sounds fun.

So we went there.

As we were shooting,

the fella from this farm came by and he said, he told us the story of

exactly what happened and how his folks had taken in this little

girl who is now a

very old woman.

And that because there had been this thunderstorm the night before, he

was looking

for this woman because it's possible she had returned to this cabin.

And

as far as we know, they never found the woman while we

were down there shooting.

And she could still be roaming those woods around Morristown, Tennessee.

The strange, strangest part of the story is

that a week after we left the

cabin in Tennessee,

as reported by the Tennessee Film Commission,

a bolt of lightning hit the cabin and

it burned to the ground.