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Episode 58: Opportunity Knocks from 2023-11-30T10:00
“I told you to be quick, young ones. Best yourun.”
CW: Gunshot, kidnapping, threats of physical harm, industrial doors slamming, sound of a man screaming in the distance, ...
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A Special Message from WOGA Radio from 2023-11-23T16:09:40
We're thankful for you, family, and thus we present this special holiday broadcast.
Featuring:
"Hollow Men" by Brother Landon Blood
"Don't Turn Away" by Jacob Danielsen-...
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Episode 57: The Land of Nod from 2023-11-16T10:00:19
“And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.”
CW: Kidnapping, threats of physical harm, industrial doors slamming, descripti...
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Episode 56: The Traveling Marvels from 2023-11-02T09:00:47
There are many threats to children who wander alone into these woods. Even those who may be wolves.
CW: Carnival ambience, chicken sounds, description/discussion of exploitative tr...
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Performance Review from 2023-10-31T16:00:25
Standard protocol for all employees of Barrow Mineral Resources.
CW: Automobile engine sounds. mentions/descriptions of death by fire, decapitation and asphyxiation, threats of for...
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Episode 55: The Matter of the Chilldren from 2023-10-19T09:00:07
Can there be justice for the children of the Clutch?
CW: Kidnapping, confinement, ambient sounds of a large crowded room, sounds of gagging, choking, moaning and other pain-r...
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Episode 54: Caveat Emptor from 2023-10-05T09:41:16
Jack confronts a face from the past he cannot name.
CW: Kidnapping, confinement, ambient sounds of a large crowded room, sounds of gagging/choking, court/legal proceedings, v...
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Episode 53: Due Process from 2023-09-21T09:00:21
Let all come to order.
CW: Kidnapping, confinement, ambient sounds of a large crowded room, sounds of gagging/choking, court/legal proceedings, monster noises, environmental ...
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Episode 52: The Men of the Rock from 2023-09-07T09:00:40
J.T. Fields of Paradise and his young companion find themselves the unwilling guests of a mysterious sect.
CW: Kidnapping, confinement, dungeon/cave sounds, slamming doors, grindin...
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Episode 51: Season Four Prologue from 2023-08-24T09:00:31
Welcome to Season 4, family. Join us as we look down from the mountain top and ponder the tales we’ll be spinning this season.
CW: References to mutilation, hunger, pov...
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Season 4 Official Trailer from 2023-08-12T01:54:18
See you soon, family. See you real soon.
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The Price of Progress: A Live Theatrical Experience from 2023-02-17T17:59:10
This spring, the darkness comes foryou.
Welp. You invited us in. You only have yourselves to blame. Old Gods of Appalachia is pleased to announce our 2023 national tour. This ...
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Meet Our Cousins: Gundog from 2023-02-02T19:41:07
From the writer of The Book of Eli and co-writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story comes an all-new sci-fi epic starring Shannon Woodward (Westworld)...
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Episode 50: The Horns of the Altar from 2023-01-12T15:50:35
Blood is spilled, good-byes are said. Season three comes to a close.
CW: Car accident sounds including screeching brakes and impact, gunshot sound effects, gun violence, death of a...
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Episode 49: Sackcloth and Ashes from 2023-01-05T13:49:19
Jonah Hellbender and friends set out to find someone who can help him learn the truth about his origins.
CW: Gunshot sound effect, gun violence, death of a caretaker / parent, grie...
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School Spirit from 2023-01-01T05:00:41
Two boys struggle to make it through a weekend of community service in the corpse of their old southwest Virginia high school in the winter of 1983.
CW: Loud / percussive noises, g...
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Episode 48: By Reason of Mine Affliction from 2022-12-15T12:53:18
Plans are made. Things are sought and found.
CW: Death of a caretaker/parent, grief, gore, monster related violence, child endangerment/death via religious themed cult/occult activ...
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Episode 47: Cast Me Forth Unto the Sea from 2022-12-01T10:00:02
Three children flee from the husk of the place that used to be their home in search of answers they were never meant to find.
CW: Death of a caretaker, grief, lizards.
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Episode 46: Lay Not Upon Us Innocent Blood from 2022-11-17T10:00:17
It is the summer of 1941. There is a boy looking for answers in the deep woods of Kentucky. You should pray to the god that made you that he doesn't find them.
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Cheap Meat from 2022-10-31T22:33:14
On October 31st, 1972, an old pick up truck carried an even older man down the mountain to do his tradin' at the Cas Walker's in Stonega, VA. He never asked for no trouble. Y'all just remem...
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For Your Consideration, Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon from 2022-10-31T00:00
For your consideration, family, we present the first two chapters from our friends at Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon.
An artist, still broken from a horrific family tragedy, takes on a com...
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Episode 45: Hollowed Be Thy Name from 2022-10-20T09:00:17
Beasts will only bear burdens for so long.
CW: Discussion of death by burning, abandonment trauma, mild profanity, monster violence.
Written by Ste...
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Meet Our Cousins: Eliza from 2022-10-17T06:00
What you’re about to hear is a new show we want to share with you.
Eliza: A Robot Story is a ground-breaking new podcast that forces listeners to confront questions around evolving tec...
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Episode 44: A Brace of Kinsmen from 2022-10-06T09:40
An old man with a second chance. A darkness that will not stay buried. New places, new faces, same dark mountains.
CW: Description of scars and bodily trauma, historical reference ...
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Episode 43: Escape From Paradise from 2022-09-22T11:25:52
Tommy puts Jack’s plan into action and journeys into darkness with a little help from an old friend.
CW: Train sounds, train disaster, explosions, stabbing, references/depictions o...
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Episode 42: A Fool's Paradise from 2022-09-08T09:00:17
Mr. J.T. Fields of Paradise prepares to offer a very specific form of assistance to young Tommy Adkins.
CW: Depictions/discussion of poverty and financial stress, alcohol, workplac...
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Episode 41: Return to Paradise from 2022-08-25T09:00:37
We find ourselves in familiar company as we rejoin Mr. J.T. Fields, otherwise known as Jack, and his young charges in Paradise.
CW: Depictions/discussion of poverty and financial s...
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Episode 40: The Well of Remembrance from 2022-08-04T12:36:40
Act II of Season Three comes to an end.
CW: depiction/discussion of religious fundamentalism, gore, reference to death by monster, frank discussion of historical sex work, bodily i...
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Episode 39: The Blood of the Mountain from 2022-07-21T09:00:01
Sheila Walker’s diary comes to a close, but Miss Belle’s story is far from over.
CW: depiction/discussion of religious fundamentalism, gore, reference to death by monster, frank di...
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Episode 38: Diary of a Preacher's Daughter from 2022-07-07T09:00:37
Miss Belle discovers more about her mamaw Sheila in the pages of her diary.
CW: depiction/discussion of religious fundamentalism, gore, reference to death by monster, frank d...
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Episode 37: The Other Walker House from 2022-06-23T10:02:46
Miss Belle discovers her roots in another dead town.
CW: references to deaths of parents and siblings, reference to death by monster, frank discussion of historical sex work, bodil...
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Meet Our Cousins: Afflicted from 2022-06-16T13:06:20
Afflicted is a horror thriller audio drama best described asLovecraft CountrymeetsTrue Blood, told in an anthology format likeAmerican Horror Story Listen
Episode 36: Eminent Domain from 2022-06-09T09:00:25
A voice from the past calls a family to go back home one last time.
CW: Loud telephone ring, references to deaths of parents and siblings, death of a mother and child in childbrith...
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Meet Our Cousins: Malevolent from 2022-05-30T18:14:55
Arkham Private Investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness.
Blind, ...
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Episode 35: More Harm Than Good from 2022-05-12T10:19:47
The people of Bower County have had just about enough of Polly Barrow and the boys, and decide to do something about it.
CW: An armed mob, references to witchcraft practices, fire,...
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Episode 34: On Oak Mountain from 2022-04-28T09:00:08
Polly Barrow and her boys make another special delivery, this time to the Underwoods of Oak Mountain. Discoveries are made.
CW: References to historical racism and law enforcement, hap...
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Episode 33: Special Delivery from 2022-04-14T09:00:09
Polly Barrow and her Hollow Men, Mr. Crain and Mr. Churchman, venture into the heart of coal country to make special deliveries to those who deserve them.
CW: References to occult phen...
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Episode 32: Runs in the Family from 2022-03-31T09:00:34
In the early decades of the 20th century, unions are on the rise in coal country. Those who toil beneath the dark earth balk under the yoke of the Barrow family’s rule, and something must be don...
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Episode 31: Season Three Prologue from 2022-03-17T09:00:14
Welcome to Season 3, Family. Join us as we walk in the shadows of the mountains and see a few of those who we might meet in the dark.
CW: References to mutilation, occult phenomena...
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Date Night from 2022-02-14T16:08:09
Valentine’s day is a holiday steeped in blood, sacrifice and violence. Come with us as we show you how bloody it can get.
CW: gore, marital infidelity, murder by stabbing, mutilation, ...
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Salt of the Earth from 2021-12-25T17:38:35
It's Christmas Eve 1924, and Pretty Polly Barrow has come all the way from the home office in Pennsylvania to deliver a special holiday message from the family to the workers at Barrow Alkali Wo...
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Springtime in Boggs Holler – Chapter Three: Briar Vine from 2021-12-23T15:37:22
Glory Ann Boggs does what she can to help Cowboy, and there are repercussions.
CW: mutilation, simulated harm of a child, descriptions of wounds/bleeding, injury via thorns/flora, inte...
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Springtime in Boggs Holler – Chapter Two: Hunger Pains from 2021-12-16T10:00
Melvin Blevins and young Cowboy run afoul of the locals.
CW: monster violence, mutilation, death by auto accident, earthquake sounds, worms, mucus, endangerment of a child, attempted k...
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Springtime in Boggs Holler – Chapter One: A Cowboy Calls from 2021-12-09T10:00
Glory Ann Boggs receives unannounced early morning company.
CW: Discussion of mortality, aging, death.
Written by Steve Shell
Narrated by Steve Shell<...
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Meet Our Cousins: Black Box from 2021-11-09T15:50:30
BLACK BOX is a new sci-fi podcast series that evokes the nostalgic thrills of Stranger Things and time travel antics of Back To The Future. With a powerhouse cast including Joel McHale (Communit...
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Family Meeting: All Hallows 2021 from 2021-11-01T18:57:20
Gather round, family. Steve and Cam have some important news to share about what's coming for the rest of 2021 and heading into 2022.
- Black Mouthed Dog& Porch Light, co... Listen
Bumper Crop from 2021-10-31T22:30
Stuck covering the night shift, Ada Spivey was having a hard time finding her Halloween spirit. It found her instead. A standalone tale set in the world of Old Gods of Appalachia.
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TEASER: Black Mouthed Dog – Episode 0: Prologue from 2021-10-15T09:00
The girl was not meant to be in the woods alone at night. She wasn’t supposed to be in the woods at all. And Maggie Bentley would soon wish she'd listened to her Granny and kept to the road...
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BONUS: Steve and Cam Interview Yuri Lowenthal and Corey Ryan Forrester from 2021-09-16T14:45:09
Steve and Cam join Yuri Lowenthal and The Buttercream Dream himself, Corey Ryan Forrester to talk about parts of season 2, experiencing the Old Gods while under the influence of the green, strip...
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BONUS: Season 2 Q+A Retrospective: Part 1 from 2021-09-02T12:58:12
Steve and Cam answer your burning questions about Season 2 and more! Hosted by our dear friend Jordan Shiveley of Dread Singles fame (@hottestsingles).
To learn more about Old Gods of ...
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BONUS: Steve Interviews the Railroad Man Yuri Lowenthal from 2021-08-19T09:00
A half hour sit down with everyone’s favorite villain in a bespoke charcoal suit — or at least the actor who played him. Yuri Lowenthal talks with Steve about horror podcasts, voice acting, good...
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Episode 30: The Dead Queen from 2021-07-15T10:09:16
We gather to face the dark. Together.
CW: Gore, monster violence, mutilation, frank discussion of historical racism, assault, references to lynching, references to death of a child, de...
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Episode 29: A Friend of the Family from 2021-07-01T09:00
A light walks before darkness falls.
CW: Gore, murder, mutilation, frank discussion of historical racism, assault, references to lynching, references to death of a spouse, hornets, des...
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Episode 28: Paradise Lost from 2021-06-17T09:00
Miss Virginia heads west while young Tommy stays behind as Jack’s right hand man and discovers that things are almost never what they seem.
CW: Animal carcass eaten by a monster, geese...
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Episode 27: Strangers in Paradise from 2021-06-03T09:00
In which two ambitious young folks from Esau County come to the city of Paradise, and meet with both misfortune and opportunity.
CW: Assault and robbery.
Written by...
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Episode 26: Welcome to Paradise from 2021-05-20T09:00
He had always wanted to come here, to this diamond in the rough wedged in-between kissin’ cousins of a state line: Paradise — a city split down the middle between the Commonwealth of Virgin...
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Episode 25: The Siege of Pleasant Evenings from 2021-05-06T09:00
The light dies and the darkness comes to the big parlor house out in the gap. There will be blood. There will be death. The conclusion of the The Railroad Man and the Local Magistrate storyline....
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Episode 24: Charcoal Suit and All from 2021-04-22T09:00
The Railroad man and his new friends follow Vera Blevins to Baker's Gap in 1913, and things will never be the same.
CW: Mention of death of a family member by illness, family strife, m...
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Episode 23: A Bad Night for Hollow Men from 2021-04-08T09:00
In 1913, a girl escaped the company-owned parlor house where she'd been kept against her will in possession of company property. She headed south via rail to her family's home in Baker's Gap, TN...
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Meet our Cousins: Unwell from 2021-04-01T18:20:17
The horror podcasting community is a vast and wondrous thing, family. We are pleased to introduce you to some of our extended family: Unwell.
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Episode 22: Paper, Ink and Sorrow from 2021-03-24T09:00
We journey back in time to the end of the 19th Century in Combe County, North Carolina so that we can gain proper perspective on where that incident with the local magistrate and the Railroad Ma...
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Special Announcement About This Week's Episode from 2021-03-22T14:41:33
Episode 22 of Old Gods of Appalachia will be released on Wednesday, March 24th in recognition of the finale of The Magnus Archives this Thursday. Our next episode will drop in its regularly sche...
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Episode 21: A Worthy Grave from 2021-03-04T10:00
The truth comes out about the hard death of Frank Tilley and Sheriff Andy Hodge has a tough choice to make.
CW: Descriptions and depictions of physical and emotional domestic violence,...
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Episode 20: And Am I Born to Die? from 2021-02-18T11:00
Three months before Frank Tilley met a hard death on the tracks outside Baker's Gap, Esther Campbell moved to Baker's Gap in search of a new life and a new way of worship.
CW: Discussi...
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The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter Three: Something Old, Something New from 2021-02-14T23:09
Our holiday trilogy comes to a close as we witness two different joinings of souls for all eternity. Headphones recommended. You are not prepared, Family.
CW: Gore, Monster Violen...
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Episode 19: Where the Sun Never Shines from 2021-02-04T10:00
When the shadows of gods and monsters fall across Baker's Gap, we look across the mountain for help. We look to Family.
CW: Descriptions of injuries resulting from domestic violence, d...
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Episode 18: Where the Cold Wind Blows from 2021-01-21T10:00
Frank Tilley was not a nice man, nor one beloved by his community. He may even have been a pain in Sheriff Andy Hodge's buttocks. But no man deserved to die like that.
Tonight, the dar...
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An Interlude: The Scenic Route from 2021-01-08T01:26:06
CW: Frank and intimate out of character discussion about the pandemic, death and suicide. In character mentions of child labor, child and parental death and disfigurement.
There is a d...
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The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter Two: The Gift of the Lesser Magi from 2020-12-25T13:57:34
Set in the year before a certain stock market crash would change American life forever, The Gift of the Lesser Magi is the second chapter of a new trilogy to be released on the hallowed days of ...
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Episode 17: The Boy Who Could Not Die from 2020-12-03T10:00
The ties that bind us to this world are usually fragile things, gossamer strands spun on the looms of great, great grandmamas that we will never meet until our thread is snipped clean. Cowboy he...
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Episode 16: Between the Unburied and Miss Belle from 2020-11-19T10:00
She recognized the naked fear and rawness in their respective gazes. Something had happened to these boys. She could see their hearts and minds were pink and pricking red at the edges where thei...
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Meet Our Distant Cousins: The Oyster from 2020-11-13T14:00:32
From the creators of Darkest Night and Deadly Manners comes a brand new immersive sci-fi podcast called - The Oyster.
In a not so distant future, due to overwhelming carbon emissions, ...
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Episode 15: A Funeral in Pine from 2020-11-05T10:00
The county had taken a narrow little valley and dug themselves a reservoir to provide drinking water for the whole town and then some. As pretty as the lake and the surrounding woods were, it wa...
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The Holiest Days of Bone and Shadow, Chapter One: Blood is Blood from 2020-10-31T22:35
Set in the years between Season One and Season Two, Blood is Blood is the first chapter of a new trilogy to be released on the hallowed days of the year. Nadine Rigg was born to a life of privil...
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Episode 14: On Death Island from 2020-10-22T09:00:17
Give a group of boys from anywhere a backyard, a stretch of woods, hell, a vacant lot even — and you can watch it rise to a place of hallowed glory. A patch of trees in between houses becomes an...
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Episode 13: The Dark Earth at Night from 2020-10-08T09:00
"Ricky held his pistol at the ready, fully prepared to act as the angel of mercy, but then the thing stepped fully into the moonlight, and all thoughts of heaven fled Ricky Lee Gibson." The Gibs...
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Episode 12: The Other Queen from 2020-09-24T15:29:58
These yarns were spun to teach you to stay safe and mind common sense, and most importantly, your mama. The stories that get lost though — the ones hardly nobody ever lived to tell — were often ...
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Episode 11: Season Two Prologue from 2020-09-10T09:00
O Appalachia: mother and maw that births and devours us, roots sunk deep and winding as gnarled hands clasped in prayer, hold us fast and give us foundation. O knotted cage and vine wrought chai...
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Build Mama a Coffin Finale Announcement from 2020-07-27T12:32:46
If you've been listening to Build Mama a Coffin over on The Patreon you know who I am. And if you ain't and ye don't, well you're about to. See, if i whispered my whole name — the one I was made...
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A Once-Told Tale: The Wolf Sisters Part Three from 2020-04-16T15:04:34
The Walker Sisters and their man Melvin journey into the darkest night Baker's Gap, TN has known in thirty years in this thrilling finale to The Wolf Sisters series, originally performed live on...
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A Once-Told Tale: The Wolf Sisters Part Two from 2020-04-09T10:06:24
In which we properly meet The Walker Sisters and their man Melvin.
CW: Frank discussion of historical racism and treatment of migrant workers, depictions of period racism, cult activit...
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A Once-Told Tale: The Wolf Sisters Part One from 2020-04-02T09:00
To be a wolf is a thing of spring loaded joy, of black gummed panting death. Of pack and ground. Torn tendon and blood and broken bones in feasting abandon beneath a split and howling sky. But t...
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Meet Our Cousins: The White Vault by Fool and Scholar from 2020-03-23T10:26
The horror podcasting community is a vast and wondrous thing, family. We are pleased to introduce you to some of our extended family: The White Vault by Fool and Scholar.
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Build Mama a Coffin: Trailer from 2020-02-06T16:48
A whole new story set in the world of Old Gods of Appalachia. Exclusively on Patreon. Come tithe and come a with us to Esau County, VA in the fall of 1927.
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Episode 10: The Witch Queen Chapter III: Last Harbor: Season Finale Part 4 from 2020-01-30T20:02
Season One comes to a close as we follow Daughter Dooley to the far reaches of Last Harbor and witness what changed her and The Black Stag whose name sounds like, but is not Horn-ed Head or Horn...
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Episode 9: You Ready to Go Home? Season Finale Part 3 from 2020-01-23T23:20
In this, our penultimate episode of Season One, we examine what makes a home and the power of kinfolk as we say good-bye to young Sarah Avery.
CW: Religious themes, endangerment of a c...
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Episode 8: Homecoming : Season Finale Part 2 from 2020-01-16T16:18
We return for a visit with the good Pastor of the Tabernacle of the Elder Covenant, as he and his family prepare to relocate.
CW: Death of spouse and family members by monster-related ...
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Episode 7: Afterbirth: Season Finale Part 1 from 2020-01-09T17:00
Before our time in Barlo moves forward towards its inevitable conclusion, we take one last look back to honor a life that might otherwise remain overshadowed and left hanging from the branches o...
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Episode 6: The Witch Queen Chapter II: Doubt from 2019-12-26T11:00
"To live forever and keep this land..." was the promise made. What happens when a promise is kept but with a vile and broken spirit?
CW: Physical trauma as a result of a fall, descript...
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Episode 5: The Boy: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Five from 2019-12-19T10:00
Who speaks for the young dead lost beneath the fair earth? The Boy comes to Barlo.
CW: Frank discussion of historical child labor and depictions of injuries/death as a result of child ...
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Episode 4.5: The Bad Death and Resurrection of Annie Messer from 2019-12-13T10:00
An interlude.
CW: Religious themes, gore, eye mutilation/blinding/death/ facial mutilation/resurrection by monsters/supernatural means.
Written by Steve Shell
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Episode 4: The Sacrifice: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Four from 2019-12-05T10:00
In the wake of the Old Number Seven Disaster, the Tabernacle of the Elder Covenant does what it can to save their own. Choices are made that cannot be unmade.
CW: Frank discussion of r...
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Episode 3: The Covenant: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part Three from 2019-11-28T08:00
Cletus Garvin should have died in 1910 but instead has been the pastor of The Tabernacle of the Elder Covenant for the past seven years. Debts are called to account in the shadow of the Old Numb...
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Episode 2.5: Let There Be Green from 2019-11-21T10:30
An interlude.
CW: Supernatural events involving a child.
Written by Steve Shell
Sound design by Steve Shell
Narrated by Steve Shell
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Episode 2: The Schoolhouse: Barlo Kentucky 1917: Part Two from 2019-11-14T10:00
Ten year old Sarah Avery continues to deal with the fallout of the elders of Barlo's choices. A promise is made.
CW: Frank discussion of historical racism, explicit gore, death by indu...
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Episode 1: Old Number Seven: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part One from 2019-11-07T05:00
Darkness comes to the tiny town of Barlo in the form of the worst mining disaster in Kentucky history. Young Sarah Avery runs.
CW: Frank discussion of historical racism, explicit gore ...
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Episode 0.5: The Witch Queen from 2019-11-06T22:59
They say there's a witch in that valley and you'd do well to stay away from there. Join us as we journey back to the settling of the central plateau and witness the power of mountain women.
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Episode 0: Prologue from 2019-10-31T04:00
Welcome to our Appalachia, where hearts are good, hands are strong and no one wants to talk about what sleeps beneath us. First come, first served.
Written by Steve Shell
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