The Cursed Rails of the Big Bull Tunnel
The Big Bull Tunnel in Wise County, Virginia looks like any other railroad tunnel, just a simple cut through a hillside. Looks, though, can be deceiving, as the tunnel’s history is packed with accide...
14 Feb 24min
The Dark Shadows of Blue Ridge, Georgia
Today we tell not one but two stories, both involving the same community in Fannin County, Georgia. In 1864 two men, brothers-in-law Elisha Stanley and Evan Hughes, became the victims of a gang of vio...
7 Feb 16min
Outlaws of the High Country: The Story of the Eller Gang
This week Rod and Steve tell the story of a gang of robbers who cast a long shadow over Ashe County, North Carolina in the unsettled years after the Civil War. One by one they fell, until only Linvill...
31 Jan 14min
When a Final Wish Became a Circus: The Story of the Sunshine Woman
This week’s story is the bizarre true tale of Leila Davidson Hansell, known as "The Sunshine Woman," and the controversy surrounding her final resting place in Hendersonville, NC.Leila's final wish up...
24 Jan 16min
The Tennessee Moonshiner the Law Couldn’t Hold: The Story of Hut Amerine
Born in Blount County, Hut Amerine grew into one of East Tennessee’s most notorious moonshiners. After the Civil War, federal whiskey taxes ignited a bitter conflict between mountain distillers and re...
17 Jan 22min
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On: The Story of Appalachian Piano Man Roy Hall
James Faye Hall, better known as Roy Hall, was born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in 1921. He died in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee in 1984. Between those dates is a story about a hillbilly boogie pianist who...
10 Jan 22min
The Tally War: The 1906 North Carolina Railroad Riot
We’ve told the story of labor conflicts from Harlan, Kentucky to Blair Mountain, West Virginia. This week, we tell a story that’s not set in the Kentucky or West Virginia coalfields, but in Western No...
3 Jan 13min
The Lost Town of Mortimer, North Carolina
A once thriving lumber and mill town in the mountains of western North Carolina, Mortimer rose fast, becoming prosperous…until it was washed away twice in massive flooding events.Shortly after a 1916 ...
27 Dec 202513min
