Dusty talks to Randy Russell. Randy Russell was born in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Oklahoma. Described as a “ghostlorist,” a folklorist who has a special interest in ghosts, he is the author of four ghost story collections, including Ghost Dogs of the South, The Granny Curse and Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tennessee, and Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina. Russell hosts ghost-lore programs all across the South.