A cat was saved from a Cherokee County house fire on Tuesday morning, according to officials. The fire began just before 10:30 a.m. at a home on Upper Sweetwater Trail near Canton. Firefighters ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Legend says that if you’re in the forests of Appalachia late at night, watch out for the Wampus Cat. “It sounds like every boogeyman story we've ever heard," East ...

The Wampus Cat, a product of Cherokee mythology, is a sort of magical hybrid between a woman and a mountain lion. An Indian maiden was transformed and doomed to roam the hills after she cloaked ...

In Cherokee folklore, there are a few explanations ... Similarly in Appalachia, the legend of the Wampus Cat is portrayed as the "catlike embodiment of a cursed woman who was punished for her ...