Back in the 1920s, residents of Cades Cove, Tennessee, lived in fear of the legendary Wampus Cat, a creature known to be vicious, supernaturally strong, and sly. The Wampus Cat was so sly that no one had actually seen one, but there were those who swore that it existed. One loud shotgun blast echoing through the Cove would warn the men of the town that the Wampus Cat had been sighted, and they'd all grab their guns and go out hunting it. Only after the legend of the Wampus Cat was passed down through many generations did the old-timers finally confess: the legend had been started as a hoax. It was a way for the men-folk of Cades Cove to circumvent Prohibition. When someone came across an especially good batch of moonshine, he would shoot one time in the air. This was a signal to the other …