Roots and Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast
Whisper Creek StudiosRoots and Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast is a narrative podcast about Appalachian history, true crime, folklore, legends, missing persons, old mountain communities, and forgotten stories from Southwest Virginia, East Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky, Southern West Virginia, Western North Carolina, and beyond. Hosted by Kevin Austin, the show explores family, faith, hardship, survival, mystery, an... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 28 | Founded | 6 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | True Crime | |||
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As America celebrates 250 years of independence, Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast takes you back to the Appalachian frontier to explore one of the most overlooked chapters of the American Revolution.
When most people think about the Revo... more
On March 14, 1912, a quiet morning in the mountain town of Hillsville, Virginia, turned into one of the deadliest courtroom shootings in American history.
It started with a guilty verdict.
Less than two minutes later, Judge Thornton Lemmon Massie, ... more
This week on Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast, we travel into the mountains of Harlan County, Kentucky, for one of Appalachia’s darker pieces of folklore: the legend of Red Dog Holler.
Harlan is a place known for coal, conflict, labor st... more
Most people have never heard of Cloyd’s Mountain, but in one brutal hour it became the bloodiest Civil War battlefield in Southwest Virginia.
In this episode of Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast, we travel to Pulaski County, Virginia, nea... more
What happened inside the Russell County Jail on the night of May 29, 1960?
That question has lingered in Southwest Virginia for more than six decades.
In this episode of Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast, we travel to Lebanon, Virginia, ... more
In this episode of Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast, we travel into the mountains of Southwest Virginia for the story of Robert Sawyers Sheffey, a Methodist circuit rider, mountain preacher, and one of the most unusual religious figures r... more
In this Memorial Day special of Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia, we remember Appalachian men and women whose lives became tied to some of the most difficult moments in American military history.
Memorial Day is often confused with Veterans Day ... more
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
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