The Woman In The Blue Polka Dot Dress

In 1932 a woman's body was found alongside a road in Logan County, West Virginia. The woman was wearing a bloodstained blue polka dot dress.

There were two trials of two different men later that year in which salacious gossip about this woman's alleged affairs were told. In the end one man was acquitted and the other man, a black handyman, was convicted of her murder.

And ever since that time, it's been said, you can see that woman, Mamie Thurman, walking the roads around Logan looking for a man to give her a ride to...who knows...

Today we tell the tale of Mamie Thurman, the woman in the blue polka dot dress, another bit of the folklore of Appalachia.

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