{"id":3460,"date":"2025-03-14T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2025-03-11T10:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:03:02","slug":"the-strange-disappearance-of-polly-feltner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Disappearance of Polly Feltner"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this episode, we tell the strange tale of Polly Feltner, a young woman from Hyden, Kentucky, who vanished in 1897 under mysterious circumstances. \u00a0<\/p>\n

What began as a search for a missing person quickly escalated into charges of murder, a frenzy of suspicion and mob justice, targeting an innocent man. As tensions rose and a near-lynching unfolded, the story took a dramatic twist that no one could have anticipated. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Join us as we tell Polly’s unique Appalachian story. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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In this episode, we tell the strange tale of Polly Feltner, a young woman from Hyden, Kentucky, who vanished in 1897 under mysterious circumstances. \u00a0 What began as a search for a missing person quickly escalated into charges of murder, a frenzy of suspicion and mob justice, targeting an innocent man. As tensions rose and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,96,46,34,5],"tags":[928,104,368,523,927,625,938,930,925,934,929,926,932,937,923,935,936,374,933,931,924],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-mob-justice","category-the-1890s","category-the-coalfields","tag-19th-century-kentucky","tag-appalachian-history","tag-appalachian-stories","tag-appalachian-storytelling","tag-early-feminism","tag-family-tragedy","tag-folklore","tag-gender-identity","tag-historical-mystery","tag-historical-narratives","tag-hyden-kentucky","tag-missing-persons","tag-mob-justice","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-polly-feltner","tag-rural-america","tag-social-justice","tag-true-crime-tales","tag-unsolved-mysteries","tag-womens-independence","tag-womens-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-TO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}