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EPISODE · Sep 21, 2025 · 6 MIN

The Great Sucker Highway

from Winds of W Mountain · host Johqu Bogart

🪓 'Uncle' Dick Shutts Presents:🎙️ Tunnel Engineering for the End Times: The Great Sucker Highway”(“If it ain’t natural, it’s probably a passage.”)Friends, gather close an’ mind yer ears. We’ve got a fresh-cut wax-cylinder wonder—scraped clean by jug-band intervention, by gar—and it’ll set the hair on your neck to standin’ like frost on a fence rail. This first installment—“The Great Sucker Highway and the Bradley Pond Boog”—comes kettle-hot, catfish steam and all, with old Dick Shutts tappin’ his lantern and swearin’ he’s mapped the underfoot sluiceways that stitch Champlain to Upper Chateaugay Lake like a grandma’s quilt. 🕯️🐟You’ll hear Dick talk plain on migratin’ suckers, a subcurrent thumpin’ under Lyon Mountain, and a keyhole at Bradley Pond that ain’t so pondish after all. There’s a reenactment, too—Geo. Cook & Jim Smith hookin’ fish what look bit from below—plus a tidy historical rummage through tunnels that run faster than gossip at Merrill’s Landing. And if that ain’t enough, Abner Percy chews a length of copper wire and reports the earth hummin’ like a wasp’s nest inside a church cello. 🎧😶‍🌫️Why you oughta listen (and sooner than later) ⛏️Field signs: suckers swarmin’ at East Inlet—not breedin’, migratin’.Bradley Pond: the “keyhole” flow toward the Chazy—quiet water, quick purpose.Subcurrent: bedrock talk from Upper to Lower, maybe clear to Champlain—stitched tight.Caves & cracks: Nat Collins’ Calypso Grotto—stone that sings after dark.Beast or hymn?: two fish come up chewed, and the dock timbers answer back.Old-Timer’s AdvisoryThis broadcast ain’t for jittery folks, night swimmers, nor them as hears breathin’ cellars on Devil’s Channel and calls it “just the wind.” Best taken with headphones, lamp trimmed low, and your boots kept dry. If you’re set on swimmin’ past Burnt Camp after sundown, don’t say Dick didn’t warn ye.How to fetch it 🎚️Spin it on the Steamboat Dispatch Network—whatever contraption you favor, from wind-ups to them new wire-tangle devices. Set the volume like you would a steel trap: firm, not foolish.Next week Dick pokes the root cellar that breathes like a horse. Till then, keep your eyes open and your traps wired for what walks from below. 🌑—East Bellmont Marketing & Provisions, Est. 1908 (we sell words, nails, and a fair line of skepticism)Hashtags for them web-crawlin’ critters 🕷️#WMountain #ChateaugayLake #SteamboatDispatch #TunnelEngineering #GreatSuckerHighway #BradleyPond #CalypsoGrotto #LakeSerpent #AdirondackLore #NatCollins #ChamplainTunnels #NorthCountry #HorrorPodcast #Folklore #OldTimerTales #EastBellmont🎙️ Listen now, share later, sleep maybe.

🪓 'Uncle' Dick Shutts Presents:🎙️ Tunnel Engineering for the End Times: The Great Sucker Highway”(“If it ain’t natural, it’s probably a passage.”)Friends, gather close an’ mind yer ears. We’ve got a fresh-cut wax-cylinder wonder—scraped clean by jug-band intervention, by gar—and it’ll set the hair on your neck to standin’ like frost on a fence rail. This first installment—“The Great Sucker Highway and the Bradley Pond Boog”—comes kettle-hot, catfish steam and all, with old Dick Shutts tappin’ his lantern and swearin’ he’s mapped the underfoot sluiceways that stitch Champlain to Upper Chateaugay Lake like a grandma’s quilt. 🕯️🐟You’ll hear Dick talk plain on migratin’ suckers, a subcurrent thumpin’ under Lyon Mountain, and a keyhole at Bradley Pond that ain’t so pondish after all. There’s a reenactment, too—Geo. Cook & Jim Smith hookin’ fish what look bit from below—plus a tidy historical rummage through tunnels that run faster than gossip at Merrill’s Landing. And if that ain’t enough, Abner Percy chews a length of copper wire and reports the earth hummin’ like a wasp’s nest inside a church cello. 🎧😶‍🌫️Why you oughta listen (and sooner than later) ⛏️Field signs: suckers swarmin’ at East Inlet—not breedin’, migratin’.Bradley Pond: the “keyhole” flow toward the Chazy—quiet water, quick purpose.Subcurrent: bedrock talk from Upper to Lower, maybe clear to Champlain—stitched tight.Caves & cracks: Nat Collins’ Calypso Grotto—stone that sings after dark.Beast or hymn?: two fish come up chewed, and the dock timbers answer back.Old-Timer’s AdvisoryThis broadcast ain’t for jittery folks, night swimmers, nor them as hears breathin’ cellars on Devil’s Channel and calls it “just the wind.” Best taken with headphones, lamp trimmed low, and your boots kept dry. If you’re set on swimmin’ past Burnt Camp after sundown, don’t say Dick didn’t warn ye.How to fetch it 🎚️Spin it on the Steamboat Dispatch Network—whatever contraption you favor, from wind-ups to them new wire-tangle devices. Set the volume like you would a steel trap: firm, not foolish.Next week Dick pokes the root cellar that breathes like a horse. Till then, keep your eyes open and your traps wired for what walks from below. 🌑—East Bellmont Marketing & Provisions, Est. 1908 (we sell words, nails, and a fair line of skepticism)Hashtags for them web-crawlin’ critters 🕷️#WMountain #ChateaugayLake #SteamboatDispatch #TunnelEngineering #GreatSuckerHighway #BradleyPond #CalypsoGrotto #LakeSerpent #AdirondackLore #NatCollins #ChamplainTunnels #NorthCountry #HorrorPodcast #Folklore #OldTimerTales #EastBellmont🎙️ Listen now, share later, sleep maybe.

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