American Folklore was started by a young man named Hal Owen. Owen was born in a jack-o-lantern and grew up in an abandoned haunted house in rural Maryland. In 2001, Owen began having terrible attacks of schizophrenia that were extremely acute. As a vessel to channel this schizophrenic mindworld, Hal Owen started recording songs about his visions under the moniker of "American Folklore" because, after all, that is what it is. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.