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Bramble and Bone Podcast
by Bramble & Bone
Step into the dark with me. Let’s see what we find when the fire dies down...Hosted by KT, Bramble and Bone is an intimate, shadow-drenched journey into true crime, forgotten dark history, and eerie global folklore. While our roots lie deep in the misty hills, we wander wherever the mysteries are cold and the stories are haunting.Each episode is a quiet ritual. Pour a warm cup of tea, light a single candle, and pull your chair closer to the hearth.Subscribe now, and I'll see you in the next chapter, dear listener.
Episodes
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Case File 013: Granny Witches and Haint Lore
Southern Appalachia, 1920s. A snowstorm, a swollen creek, and no doctor for a day’s ride. So you went and fetched Granny. This week on Bramble and Bone, we sit down with the granny women of the mountains: the midwives and healers who carried herbs in one hand and whispered charms in the other…
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Holler Nights Ep. 6 | The Old Ways: Sit With the Dying
HOLLER NIGHTS · Episode 6 of 8 The Old Ways: Sit With the Dying The Great Smoky Mountains, 1887. A young ethnologist named James Mooney climbs into the high country to write down the stories of the Cherokee elders. Among them is one the old folks didn’t like to tell after dark. Something flies…
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Case File 012: Logan County, 1932. The Woman on Trace Mountain
Logan County, West Virginia, 1932. A young man picking blackberries on Trace Mountain finds the body of Mamie Thurman, a policeman’s wife and one of the most respected women in town. Within days, a banker is in jail. Within weeks, the whole town is whispering about a private club, a secret list…
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Holler Nights - The Woods: The Thing on Riverside Drive (BONUS)
Grafton, West Virginia, 1964. A young newspaperman driving home along the Tygart Valley River catches something in his headlights: tall, pale, smooth as a seal, and without a head. Tonight, Silas Cade takes you to a quiet railroad town where one late-night sighting sent teenagers with flashlights...
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Case File 011: Burke County, 1831. Die With It In You, Frankie.
Three days before Christmas, 1831, a fire burned for days inside a small cabin in the Toe River valley. Nineteen-year-old Charlie Silver had gone missing, and his young wife, Frankie, said he'd never come home. But the truth was hidden in the ashes. Sixty years before Lizzie Borden, the North...
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Ghosts: The Grave on the Ridge (Holler Nights Bonus)
🔦 A Holler Nights Bonus Episode Wilkes County, North Carolina. May, 1866. Before sunrise, a young woman named Laura Foster slips out of her father's house on his old mare, carrying a bundle of her best clothes, to meet the man she plans to marry. She never comes home, but the horse does. Three...
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Case File 010: Wilkes County, 1956. Caught by a Barbed Wire Fence.
🥃 Case File 010 Wilkes County, North Carolina, 1956. Federal revenuers have chased a young whiskey runner down mountain highways for years and never once caught him on the road. So they stop chasing and start waiting. This week, we're taking a breather from the darker brambles for a lighter…
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Holler Nights Ep. 4 — Ghosts: The Grave on the Ridge 🕯️
🔦 A Holler Nights Bonus Episode Wilkes County, North Carolina. May, 1866. Before sunrise, a young woman named Laura Foster slips out of her father's house on his old mare, with a bundle of her best clothes, to meet the man she plans to marry. She never comes home, but the horse does. Three…
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HOLLER NIGTHS [BONUS] - The Departed: The Asylum That Held Eight Times Its Limit
In the hills of Weston, West Virginia, stands a building so vast you could walk its main hallway for a quarter mile and never reach the end. It was built with good intentions — a state-of-the-art asylum designed to house 250 patients in dignity and light, following the progressive Kirkbride model...
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Case File 009: The Boy on Bluff Mountain
Bath County, Virginia, 1891. Four-year-old Ottie Cline Powell walks into the woods with a group of older boys to gather firewood for his one-room schoolhouse — and never comes back. Five months later, hunters find him at the top of Bluff Mountain. Seven miles from where he disappeared. Through...
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The Skies: Four Hours 'Til Dawn (Holler Nights Bonus)
🔦 A Holler Nights Bonus Episode Kelly, Kentucky. August 21st, 1955. Eleven people are crowded into a farmhouse for a summer evening of cards — until a young man walks out back for a drink of water and sees a silver light drop out of the sky. What follows is four hours of gunfire aimed at…
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Case File 008: The WVU Coed Murders
Mared Malarik & Karen Ferrell — Morgantown, West Virginia, 1970 On the evening of January 18th, 1970, two West Virginia University freshmen — Mared Malarik and Karen Ferrell — caught a showing of Oliver! at the Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Morgantown. Afterward, looking to catch a ride back…
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[BONUS] Holler Nights: The Woods — The Mothman of Point Pleasant
Something a little different this week. Holler Nights is a limited, 8-episode bonus series from Bramble and Bone — diving into Appalachian aliens, ghosts, cryptids, and old mountain folklore. Unlike our usual true crime cases, these are campfire stories: some documented, some legend, all told in...
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Case File 007: Dyatlov Pass Visual Dossier, Part Two — The Science That Solved It
Five hikers were dead. Four were still missing — swallowed by the mountain, buried under thirteen feet of snow. In Part Two, we recover the final four bodies and confront the details that turned this case into one of the most enduring mysteries in modern history: catastrophic internal injuries…
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Something New From the Holler 🌲
If you love the kind of stories we dig into here, you need to check out Holler Nights — a new Appalachian folklore series covering cryptids, ghosts, aliens, and the legends that never made the history books. Episode one is live now: The Woods — The Mothman of Point Pleasant. The 1966 sightings…
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Case File 007: Dyatlov Pass Visual Dossier, Part One — Nine Skiers Vanish in the Ural Mountains
In January 1959, nine experienced hikers set out to summit Mount Otorten in the heart of the Soviet Ural Mountains. Weeks later, rescuers found their tent slashed open from the inside — abandoned in the middle of a blizzard, boots left behind, footprints leading barefoot into the dark. This is…
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Case File 007: Nancy Dean Morgan — The Truth Was Worse Than the Conspiracy
In June 1970, VISTA volunteer Nancy Dean Morgan came to Madison County, North Carolina to help a community desperate for it — setting up a grocery store, driving people to medical appointments, building trust in a place that didn't easily give it to outsiders. Four days after she went missing…
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The Sodder Children, Part 2: The Cover-Up Unravels (Visual Dossier)
The Sodder Children, Part 2: The Cover-Up Unravels On Christmas Eve 1945, five Sodder children vanished from a house fire that left no trace of their remains. In Part 1, we uncovered the cut phone lines, the missing ladder, and the eyewitnesses who swore the children were alive. In Part 2, the…
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Case File 006: The Greenbrier Ghost — A Killer Named From Beyond the Grave
Show Notes: Livesay's Mill, West Virginia. 1897. A young bride is found dead at the bottom of the stairs. Her husband won't let anyone near her neck. The doctor writes it off in an afternoon. She's buried within a day, dressed by her own husband's hands — a stiff high collar cinched tight around...
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File 004: The Sodder Children — A Visual Dossier | Part One
"Your house is going up in smoke... and your children are going to be destroyed!" Christmas Eve, 1945. Fayette County, West Virginia. A fire tears through the Sodder family home, and five children — Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jennie, and Betty — never make it out. But the house doesn't just burn. It...
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Case File 005- Nine Skiers Vanish Into the Storm
In February 1959, a search party trekked into Russia's Ural Mountains looking for nine missing hikers. What they found was one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in modern history — a tent slashed open from the inside, footprints leading into the dark showing no sign of panic, and injuries the...
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Case File 004- Vanished in the Flames: The Sodder Family Mystery
Episode 4: The Sodder Family Mystery On Christmas Eve, 1945, fire tore through the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Two adults and four children escaped — but five Sodder children were never found. No remains. No bones. Just ash, and a family that spent the rest of their lives...
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Chapter 003 [Regional Folklore]: The Beast of Bladenboro Visual Dossier
About This Chapter:Welcome to our very first Regional Folklore episode. In the dark, damp cypress swamps of Bladen County, North Carolina, the winter of 1953 brought something terrifying out of the shadows. What began as mutilated, bloodless livestock and crushed hound skulls quickly spiraled…
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EP 03: The Vampire Cat of 1954 | Regional Folklore & Monster Myths
🎙️ Episode Summary In the dead of winter between 1953 and 1954, an unseen predator emerged from the dark waters of Big Swamp in Bladen County, North Carolina. What began as a series of gruesome, bloodless livestock and hound killings quickly spiraled into a media circus, bringing over a thousand...
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Case File 002: The Vanishing at Jumping-off Place (Sherry Hart & The Search for Richard Lynn Bare)
In the dead of winter in 1984, 24-year-old mother Sherry Elaine Hart stepped into a white 1977 Ford Mustang for a late-night drive along North Carolina’s Highway 16. She never returned home to her 5-year-old daughter. For eleven agonizing months, her disappearance remained a silent mystery across...
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Case File 001: Visual Dossier - [THE CLYDE TOWNSEND DOSSIER ]
[UNLOCKED ARCHIVE] Step into the physical investigation room. This video presentation serves as the official Visual Evidence Dossier for Case File 001. Designed to be viewed alongside or after the audio master, this visual companion reconstructs the primary evidence kit, physical field notes…
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Case File 001: The Thaw of Watauga County
The Teaser: In February 1972, a historic, unpredicted blizzard slammed into Watauga County, completely isolating the mountain town of Boone. But under the cover of that blinding whiteout, a dark and calculating force was moving up an unpaved mountain incline. When family members finally breached...
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Prologue
"Step into the dark with me. Let’s see what we find when the fire dies down..." Welcome to the quiet corner of the audio world where the shadows talk back. In this introductory episode of Bramble and Bone, host KT invites you to light a candle, pour a warm cup of tea, and pull your chair just a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Step into the dark with me. Let’s see what we find when the fire dies down...Hosted by KT, Bramble and Bone is an intimate, shadow-drenched journey into true crime, forgotten dark history, and eerie global folklore. While our roots lie deep in the misty hills, we wander wherever the mysteries are cold and the stories are haunting.Each episode is a quiet ritual. Pour a warm cup of tea, light a single candle, and pull your chair closer to the hearth.Subscribe now, and I'll see you in the next chapter, dear listener.
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