Roots and Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast
Kevin Austin | Whisper Creek StudiosRoots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia is a narrative podcast exploring the hidden history, folklore, and true crime of the Appalachian Mountains. Through careful storytelling and lived perspective, the show examines heritage, identity, and the silence that shaped generations. These are stories of family, faith, prejudice, survival, and truth that is told with respect, depth, and humanity. Where eve... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 12 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | True Crime | |||
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An old brick house beside Interstate 81 in Seven Mile Ford, Virginia holds nearly two centuries of Appalachian history, mystery, and folklore.
From a Wilderness Road tavern and a cave discovery to the unusual life of writer Lucy Crockett, the Preston... more
In June of 1990, a quiet Appalachian town in southwest Virginia was shaken by a crime that many people here still remember decades later. In the small community of Saltville, nestled in Smyth County, life moved at the steady rhythm familiar to so man... more
In the mountains of Appalachia, some families carried a name that set them apart. Melungeon.
For generations in Southwest Virginia, and East Tennessee Melungeon families lived in the space between racial categories. In court records they were labele... more
In far southwestern Virginia, near the Tennessee border, the small mountain community of Taylors Valley carries one of Washington County’s most enduring ghost stories, the Legend of the Creekfield Woman.
Taylors Valley sits just outside Damascus, Vi... more
In 1989, something changed in Smyth County, Virginia.
What began as separate acts of violence slowly started to feel connected. Reports came in from back roads, small communities, and gathering places where people had once felt safe. A convenience s... more
On Christmas Eve, 1924, the town of Saltville, Virginia went to bed expecting morning.
What came instead was one of the most devastating industrial disasters in the history of Southwest Virginia.
Saltville sits in Smyth County along the North Fork ... more
It started the way a lot of things do in the mountains, with long winter nights, too much boredom, and a group of young people looking for something to fill the quiet.
What followed wasn’t a jump scare or a campfire story, but a slow unraveling. A O... more
The manhunt was over.
By mid-1984, all six escapees from Virginia’s death row had been captured. Lem Tuggle Jr., Willie Leroy Jones, Linwood Earl Briley, James Briley, Raymond V. Clark, and Derick Peterson were once again behind bars. The immediate ... more
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