People laughed when he talked about Dracula. Not the vampire nonsense. Sam didn’t care about capes, coffins, or women fainting in candlelit bedrooms. What interested him was one strange little detail buried in Stoker’s old story — blue flames appearing on certain nights, marking places where treasure lay hidden. Blue flames over buried treasure. Strange lights over lonely country. Old-world folklore crossing an ocean and settling into the hills, hollers, and backroads of Green Country.

Oklahoma tourism describes Green Country as a place of rivers, lakes, tallgrass prairie, rolling green hills, Route 66 adventure, and small-town character, which gives the region exactly the kind of landscape where folklore naturally gathers.