The story of boojum and hookin annie

Eagle Nest Mountain stands at the southern edge of the Balsam
mountain range and was once home to the luxurious Eagle Nest Hotel,
built in 1900 by a Mr. S.C. Satterthwait of Waynesville. Guests at the
hotel soon began to hear the story of a strange creature who lived in
the area. The thing was not quite a man and not quite an animal — it
stood about eight feet tall and every inch of its body was covered with
shaggy grey hair, except for its human face. The creature was named
Boojum, and he seemed to be harmless enough, but he did have two all-too
 human habits.

The first of these was the Boojum was greedy and he loved to hoard
gems. Rubies and emeralds are found naturally throughout the mountains
of North Carolina, and Boojum loved to hunt for these pretty, precious
stones and hide them away in his own treasure hoards. Being a thrifty
mountain type, he would scoop up the discarded liquor jugs thrown away
by tourists and fill these with his gems. He would then bury them in one
 of the secret caves on the mountain that only he knew the whereabouts
of.

Boojum's other bad habit that made him a little more man than animal
was that he loved to look at pretty girls. Back in those days, a young
woman who wanted to have a bath might head off into the woods to find a
secluded pond at the base of a waterfall. There, safe from human eyes,
she could strip down to her naturalness and go about getting herself
clean. But Boojum seemed to have some kind of sense about what was going
 on, and a young woman enjoying herself in the water would often hear a
rustle in the bushes and look up to see his hairy face peering down at
her.

Now, most of these girls would quickly gather up their clothes and
run off back home as soon as they saw him. But one young woman named
Annie was braver than most, and one day when she was bathing in a stream
 deep in the balsam groves on Eagle Nest, she looked up and saw Boojum
staring down at her. But Annie didn't run, in fact, she looked into
Boojum's sorrowful eyes and saw that above all else he was just another
lonely soul living on the mountain. Annie fell in love with those sad
eyes, and she fell in love with Boojum, and she left her home and her
family to go and live with Boojum deep in the mountain woods as his
wife.

As much as Boojum loved Annie, and as much as Annie loved Boojum,
Boojum still hung on to his love of jewels. On certain nights, he would
leave his bride alone and go searching for jewels on the mountain.
Annie, growing lonely, would go out in search of Boojum, and she
developed a peculiar holler, something that sounded like a cross between
 a monkey and a hooting owl, that she would use to call out to Boojum.
Boojum would use the same cry to call back to her, and eventually the
two calls would come closer together until they came together on the
hills.

Annie and Boojum calling to each other was often heard by guests at
the Eagle Nest Hotel. Folklorist John Parris has said that Annie's
owl-like holler was the source of the term "Hootenanny," which appeared
in the language around the turn of the twentieth century and meant any
kind of party or get-together. It was in the 1960s when the term was
introduced to the wider public by Pete Seeger and Woodie Guthrie that it
 came to mean specifically a gathering of folk musicians.

That Annie's approach to encountering a giant shaggy beast was to
marry him is testament to the well-known friendliness of North
Carolinians. It may be that Annie and Boojum had children. for
occasionally, even to this day, a shaggy, ape-like creature is seen in
the balsam groves of Haywood County.