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Roots 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, and the hidden history of the Appalachian Mountains. Where every root tells a story, and every shadow hides one. A Whisper Creek Studios production.
Unknown Host hosts Roots and Shadows: The Real Appalachia Podcast, a true crime show with 27 episodes published.
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 m
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, Ju
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 kn
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
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 t
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 mo
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 ofte
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, 1
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. Oth
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 f
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
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 remembe
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
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 wa
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
In the mountains of Southwest Virginia, there are places people don’t talk about unless you ask, and even then, you might not get much more than a short answer and a look that tells you not to press it any further. This
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 wri
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 st
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 c
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 s
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