Roots and Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast
Kevin Austin | Whisper Creek StudiosRoots and Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast 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.... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 21 | Founded | 5 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | True Crime | |||
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In this episode of Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast, we tell the story of Old 97, the Southern Railway Fast Mail train whose name would become one of America’s most famous railroad ballads.
On September 27, 1903, Southern Railway’s Fast ... more
Deep in the mountains of Appalachia, people have been disappearing for centuries.
Some walked out into the wilderness and never came home. Some vanished from quiet farming communities where everybody knew their name. Others disappeared in places so ... more
In 1987, something unusual was happening in the skies over Southwest Virginia.
Across Wytheville and Wythe County, people began reporting strange lights moving through the night. These were not quick glances or distant flashes. Witnesses described o... more
This week on Roots and Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast, we head into Smyth County, Virginia, to a quiet stretch of land along the South Fork of the Holston River, an area that doesn’t look like much at first glance, but once held one of the most... more
In September of 1996, in the small town of Marion, something happened that this community has never fully moved past.
She was 68 years old. A retired schoolteacher. The kind of woman people didn’t just know, they remembered. For decades, she taught ... more
In this episode of Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia, we explore two lost treasure stories rooted deep in the mountains of Appalachia, both tied to real places, real history, and mysteries that have never been fully solved.
The first story takes ... more
In the late 1700s, long before Tennessee became a state and while much of Appalachia was still considered the western frontier, something began taking shape in the mountains that most people have never heard about. It wasn’t just talk or frustration ... more
In 1942, something happened in the mountains of Southwest Virginia that most people today have never heard about… but for a short time, it shook a quiet Appalachian town in a way that couldn’t be ignored.
It started with two soldiers, Charles Joseph... more
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