The Spruce Pine New Years Eve BlastThe Spruce Pine New Years Eve Blast
On New Year’s Eve 1959, the quiet town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, became the stage for a teenage prank that would put the town in newspapers all around the
On New Year’s Eve 1959, the quiet town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, became the stage for a teenage prank that would put the town in newspapers all around the
In 1892 Neil Mathieson was chartered to open the Mathieson Alkali Works in Saltville, Virginia, run by his son Thomas Train Mathieson, producing soda ash, bleaching powder, and other alkaline
With Christmas fast approaching, Rod and Steve talk about the history and the folklore behind Christmas in Appalachia… You can subscribe to the Stories podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PlayerFM,
It is Christmas week, folks, so join us as we talk about Old Christmas and some Appalachian Christmas folklore. Merry Christmas, all! https://youtu.be/2VWrqxTJFpE https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/v2/episodes/52218846/download.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe:
This holiday season has been a tough one for us, so we haven’t had the opportunity to put together this year’s Christmas episode. Instead we give you last year’s wonderful
On this day in 1930 Leon Roberts was jailed in Knoxville, Tennessee. His crime? Wearing a Masonic pin when he wasn’t a Mason. Roberts, from Alabama City, Alabama, was in
Christmas is fast approaching so this week, as we do at this time of the year, we tell a Christmas story. And, since this is the pandemic year, 2020, what
It’s Halloween so Rod and Steve each have a bit of Appalachian folklore for you, in the form of two ghost stories. Stick around after the stories, though, because Halloween
A traveler uncovers a local legend about an old hermit living in a cave on the Virginia/Kentucky border, so he sets about to investigate. We tell you that story, this
Happy Halloween, y’all! Today we tell a little tale about a man who was unjustly hanged in the mountains of North Carolina, so he put a curse on those who