EDISON – Councilman Robert Diehl remembers a few years ago giving a tour of the Dismal Swamp to 100 first-graders, but all of the young students were afraid of the forest and the outdoors. Diehl ...

SUFFOLK, Va. - Legend has it if you go into the Great Dismal Swamp late at night you'll see the image of a woman paddling a white canoe on a lake with a lamp, looking for her lover. It's one of the ...

This image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows coal trains that derailed in the Great Dismal Swamp national Wildlife Refuge in Chesapeake, Va., Wednesday June, 26, 2019. (Chris ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WVEC) — The 15th annual "Paddle for the Border" is this weekend. The seven-and-a-half mile-long trek is a great way to get out and see the historic Great Dismal Swamp. Paddlers push ...

A swamp may not be the first thing that comes to mind while planning your spring break activities, but with everything that the Great Dismal Swamp has to offer, you may reconsider. There are over 50 ...

At night, when complete darkness envelops travelers in the Great Dismal Swamp, when bobcats and birds loose screams that sound human, tales of ghosts in black waters and fiendish witches don’t seem ...

For centuries, slaves came to the Great Dismal Swamp seeking freedom. There is evidence that even in the 1640’s and 50’s there were Africans who had escaped from their owners and fled to the Dismal ...

Most Americans know about the Underground Railroad, the route that allowed Southern slaves to escape North. Some slaves found freedom by hiding closer to home, however — in Great Dismal Swamp. The ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A body with gunshot wounds was located along the Dismal Swamp Canal Trail on Sunday afternoon, Chesapeake Police said. At approximately 12:45 p.m., police responded to 1200 ...

Editor’s note: This story orginially ran in the 2014 Halloween edition of The Virginian-Pilot. At night, when complete darkness envelops travelers in the Great Dismal Swamp, when bobcats and birds ...