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Stagecoaches, Soldiers and Ghosts- The Story of the Glen Ferris Inn
This week we have not one but two podcast episodes for you!
In this one, we go to Glen Ferris, West Virginia, a town at the falls of the Kanawha River…
4 months, 1 week ago
A Dark December in Kentucky: The Disappearance of Mamie Womack
This week we have not one, but two episodes for you!
For this story, we travel back to December of 1908, when people in Russell and Adair counties in …
4 months, 1 week ago
Into the Unknown: John Lederer's Journeys Into Appalachia
In the late 1600’s, Dr. John Lederer, a German immigrant to the Virginia colony, became one of the first Europeans to explore the Appalachian region.…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Varmint of Burkes Garden
The highest mountain valley in Virginia is Burke’s Garden, also referred to as “God’s Thumbprint” for its bowl-like shape.
It was here that something …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
They Claimed They Spoke For God: Appalachia's 19th Century New Eden
This week we tell the strange and little-known story of the Mountain Cove Community, a spiritualist commune founded in the mountains of what’s now We…
5 months ago
The Night They Burned Superman in West Virginia
In 1948, a small town in West Virginia became the center of a growing national fear over the perceived evil influence of comic books. There, in the …
5 months, 1 week ago
Worse than Savages: The Bloody Legacy of Kirk's Raiders
George Washington Kirk was a carpenter from Greene County, Tennessee.
He was also a feared and hated Union soldier/bushwhacker during the Civil War, o…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Long Walk Home: The Harrowing Journey of Mary Draper Ingles
In 1755, the frontier settlement of Draper’s Meadow was shattered by a brutal Shawnee raid in which many settlers were killed and the survivors captu…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
James Harrod: The Kentucky Pioneer and his Mysterious Disappearance
James Harrod was a soldier, a longhunter, an explorer and the man who founded Kentucky’s first permanent pioneer settlement. But in February 1792, th…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Woman-Hating Hermit of Kentucky
Roger Tandy Quisenberry had every advantage in life: wealth, education, and opportunity, but chose a path few could understand. From the California G…
6 months ago