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1

The Night They Burned Superman in West Virginia

2

Worse than Savages: The Bloody Legacy of Kirk's Raiders

3

The Long Walk Home: The Harrowing Journey of Mary Draper Ingles

4

James Harrod: The Kentucky Pioneer and his Mysterious Disappearance

5

The Woman-Hating Hermit of Kentucky

6

The 1895 Flat Top Coal Strike

7

Exploring the Cumberland: The Story of Kasper Mansker

8

The Old Red Fox of East Tennessee: Daniel Ellis

9

Von Shores: The Daredevil Pilot of the Cumberlands

10

The Kirkland Bushwhackers

11

Appalachia's Blues Brothers: Stick and Brownie McGhee

12

Off To See the King: The 1730 Cherokee Mission to London

13

The Cursed Rails of the Big Bull Tunnel

14

The Dark Shadows of Blue Ridge, Georgia

15

Outlaws of the High Country: The Story of the Eller Gang

16

When a Final Wish Became a Circus: The Story of the Sunshine Woman

17

The Tennessee Moonshiner the Law Couldn’t Hold: The Story of Hut Amerine

18

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On: The Story of Appalachian Piano Man Roy Hall

19

The Tally War: The 1906 North Carolina Railroad Riot

20

The Lost Town of Mortimer, North Carolina

21

A Christmas Morning Disaster: The 1882 Millboro, Virginia Train Wreck

22

The Long-Haired Red-Bearded Beast of Georgia: John Pemberton Gatewood

23

Moonshine, Murder, and Legend: The Story of Lewis Redmond

24

Emma Gatewood's Walk in the Woods

25

Greed, Gold and Deception in Cocke County TN: The 1909 Murder of A. J. Slagle

26

The Death of Jack Allen: The Hillsville Aftermath

27

The Confederate Exodus: The Story of Ezekiel Pyles And The Confederados

28

The 1925 Asheville Sessions: The Spark Before the Bang

29

Tenth Anniversary Special: Two Tales from the Dark Side of Appalachia

30

Two Men and a Plane: The Drug Smuggler Who Fell Out Of The Sky

31

The 1912 Ligonier Valley Train Crash

32

The Bridge Burners of East Tennessee

33

Stories of Helene: David Biddix, Spruce Pine, North Carolina

34

Stories of Helene: Kevin Behm, Marion, North Carolina

35

Stories of Helene: Maria True, Erwin, Tennessee

36

The Jellico Troop Train Disaster of 1944

37

The 1919 Torrent, Kentucky Nitro Explosion

38

Christopher Gist and the Opening of Appalachia

39

Bloody Vengeance in Appalachia: The Battle of Dug Hill/The Officer House Massacre

40

The Rhea County Spartans: The South's All-Female Cavalry Unit

41

The Kentucky Longhunter, Henry Skaggs

42

Mountains, Moonshine and Mutiny: WW1 Desertion in North Carolina

43

Michael Stoner, Legendary Longhunter of Appalachia

44

The Assassination of William Taulbee

45

The Shinnston Tornado

46

The Harrison Gang's Last Train Robbery: The West Virginia Heist of 1915

47

The Greeno Mine Disaster: Tacoma, Virginia

48

An Appalachian Preacher’s Fall: Bigamy, Abduction and Deceit

49

Beyond Bristol: The Legacy of the Johnson City Sessions

50

Appalachia’s Iron Lady: The Story of Nannie Kelly Wright

51

The Lumber King of Appalachia

52

Tragedy on the Frontier: The Corbly Family Massacre

53

The Story of Gus McCoig, Appalachia's Little Dillinger

54

Tennessee’s Gilded Getaway: The Rise and Fall of the Tate Springs Hotel

55

The Thousand Mile Yoyage: The Appalachian Roots of Nashville, Tennessee

56

Land, Power and a Little Fish: The Tellico Dam Story

57

The First Tennesseans: William and Lydia Bean

58

The Story of Isaac Cline, Appalachia's Weather Man

59

Standoff in Jefferson County: The Haunting Case of W. B. Johnson

60

Jellico's Darkest Day: The Explosion That Rocked Appalachia

61

Kentucky's Packhorse Librarians

62

The Strange Disappearance of Polly Feltner

63

The Dunkards of Appalachia: A Story of Faith and Survival

64

Whiskey, Dynamite and Faith: An Appalachian Preacher's Fiery Battle

65

The Battle of Kings Mountain

66

Ballads from the Mountains: The Life and Legacy of Jean Ritchie

67

Revenge on the Frontier: The Tragic Tale of Old Tassel and the Kirk Family Massacre

68

Ale 8 One, Appalachia's Homegrown Soda Legacy

69

Feud and Fury: The Dark Legacy of Bad Tom Smith

70

Chief Nimrod Jarrett Smith: How One Cherokee Leader Changed History

71

Philippi, West Virginia- The First Land Battle of the Civil War

72

Bloody Harlan: W. B. Jones and the Battle of Evarts

73

The Spruce Pine New Years Eve Blast

74

The Frontier Trailblazer: Elisha Wallen, Longhunter

75

The 1902 Quarter House Battle

76

The Night of Endless Rain: The Flash Flood of 1924

77

The Deadliest Show on Earth: The Appalachian Wild West Show Shootout of 1905

78

The Himlerville Experiment: Appalachia's Only Miner-Owned Coal Town

79

Appalachia's Ginseng King

80

The Legend of John Henry, The Steel Drivin' Man

81

Pop Kramer: The Appalachian Daredevil on Two Wheels

82

When the Mountains Drowned: The Great Flood of 1916

83

The Moonshine Roots of NASCAR

84

Fiddlin' John Carson: Mountain Melodies and Dark Shadows

85

The Great Locomotive Chase: A Daring Civil War Raid

86

Appalachian Nightmare: The O'Neal Family Massacre

87

The Daring Rescue of Jemima Boone

88

A Whiskey Fueled Tragedy: Willis Hatfield and the Death of Dr Edwin Thornhill

89

The Most Haunted Place in Appalachia? The Story of The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

90

The Mysterious Disappearance of Blaise Harsell

91

Appalachia's Mysterious Mountain of Lost Souls

92

The Ashland Tragedy

93

Appalachia's Oldest Man

94

The Appalachian Roots of Dr. Pepper

95

The Day the Road Burned: The Deadly 1972 Wreck on Bloody 11W

96

Kid Curry's Knoxville Showdown

97

Wrapped In Mystery: A Pair of Appalachian Mummies

98

The Sacrifice of Lucinda Mills: A Kentucky Family's Descent Into Madness

99

Wings Over Appalachia: The John Paul Riddle Story

100

Beneath the Lakes: The Lost Communities of Loyston and Butler

101

Granny Dollar, The Cherokee Matriarch of Lookout Mountain

102

The Saltville Massacre: A Tale of Courage and Cruelty

103

The Mystery of the Beale Treasure

104

A Bristol Millionaire's Tragic End In New Orleans

105

A Cherokee Murder That Hastened The Trail of Tears

106

When The Whirlwind Came: The 1929 Tragedy at Rye Cove, Virginia

107

The Long Hunter’s Legacy: James Smith’s Survival in Appalachia

108

The Story of the Humming Bird Car: An Appalachian Innovation on Wheels!

109

The Mendota Gunslinger? The Story of Texas Jack

110

Devil John Wright of the Cumberlands

111

Deathwind in the Wilderness: The Lewis Wetzel Story

112

Appalachian Goliath-The Tale of Tennessee's Strongest Man

113

The Punch Jones Diamond, Appalachia's Hidden Gem

114

The Hanging Judge's Executioner

115

The 1970 Hurricane Creek Mine Explosion

116

Frontier Justice: Russell Bean and Andrew Jackson

117

The Greene-Jones War

118

The Kingdom of the Happy Land

119

Billy Dean Anderson: Appalachia's Most Wanted Outlaw

120

Amos Owens: The Cherry Mountain Moonshiner

121

Dr. John R. Brinkley: The Goat Gland Doctor from Appalachia

122

The Tragic End of Outlaw Joe Brown

123

The 1921 West Virginia Capitol Fire

124

The Tragedy at the Cowee Tunnel

125

Bettie Simms, The Queen of the Moonshiners

126

Appalachian Christmas Traditions

127

Tinker Dave Beaty, Union Guerrilla/Outlaw

128

The 1902 New River Coal Strike -The Battle of Stanaford

129

The Fentress County Witch

130

Orlean Hawks Puckett. Appalachian Granny Woman

131

The Gun Battle of Thorn Hill, TN

132

The Eccles Mine Disaster

133

Cora Wilson Stewart and the Moonlight Schools of Kentucky

134

John Forbes Nash, Jr.: Appalachia's Mathematical Genius

135

Dark Deeds in the Mountains: The Twisted Tale of Thomas David Carr

136

The Sanctified Hill Mudslide

137

The Curious Case of L. K. Garber

138

The Battle of Point Pleasant

139

The West Virginia Mine Wars: Matewan

140

The Hanging of Cal Logston: An Eerie Prophecy From The Gallows

141

The West Virginia Mine Wars: Paint Creek and Cabin Creek

142

The Savant of Rhea County, Tennessee

143

The Dark Mystery of Booger Hole

144

The Great Glen Alum Payroll Robbery

145

From Darkness to Hope: The Appalachian Journey of Bob Childress

146

The Laurel Mine Disaster of 1884

147

Woodrow Derenberger And The Man From Lanulos

148

Appalachia's Petticoat Government

149

The Goat Man

150

The Blue People of Kentucky

151

The Mysterious Christmas Eve Fire: The Missing Sodder Children and their Haunting Legacy

152

The Dark Mystery of the Sensabaugh Tunnel

153

Haunted Waters: The Tragic Tale of the Siren's Song in the French Broad River

154

Sam's Magnificent Beard

155

The Appalachian Insurrection of 1917

156

The Kentucky Cannibal: Boone Helm

157

An Appalachian Frontier Legend: Simon Kenton, Part Two

158

An Appalachian Frontier Legend: Simon Kenton, Part One

159

French, The Alderson Lion

160

The Amazing Life of One-Armed Jimmy

161

The Buffalo Creek Disaster

162

The Outlaw Otto Wood: Appalachian Escape Artist

163

The Flatwoods Monster

164

Uncle Bush's Magnificent Funeral

165

Hell's Cabin

166

The Girl From Slab Fork, West Virginia

167

The Man Who Wanted to be Alone - Uncle Nick Grindstaff

168

The Knoxville Race Riot

169

The Legend of the Moon-eyed People

170

The Last Public Hangings in Lawrence County, Kentucky and Wilkes County, North Carolina

171

The Unfetchable Moonshiner

172

The Outlaw Kinnie Wagner

173

The Last Gunfight of Troy and Elias Hatfield

174

The Legendary Revenuer: Big Six

175

The Appalachian Prophet

176

The Appalachian "Bat-Man"

177

Hillbilly

178

The Cloudland Hotel

179

Christmas Traditions in Appalachia

180

The Saltville Muck Dam Collapse

181

The Hatfields and the McCoys: After the Feud

182

Frankie Silver: An Appalachian Woman Hanged for Murder

183

The Great UFO Invasion of Appalachia

184

Appalachia's Lonely Hearts Club Con Man

185

The Road to Nowhere

186

The Building of the Western North Carolina Railroad

187

The Murder That Never Happened: The Story of Condy Dabney

188

The Witch Dog

189

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

190

The "Hillbilly Girl" Murder Case: Edith Maxwell

191

The Howard-Turner Feud

192

The Bombing of the Gouge Home

193

The Dunglen Hotel

194

Bad Talt Hall

195

Champ Ferguson

196

A Civil War Tragedy in Cade's Cove

197

The Night Marauder of Blount County, Tennessee

198

The Farmington Coal Mine Explosion

199

Robert Porterfield and the Barter Theater

200

The Appalachian Rip Van Winkle

201

How Gatlinburg Got Its Name

202

The Trial of Wilson Howard

203

That Time Roy Acuff Ran For Governor

204

Belle Boyd, The Siren of the Shenandoah

205

General John D. Imboden

206

The Legend of Swift's Silver Mine

207

The Murder of the Richards Sisters

208

The Showgirl and the Tobacco Heir

209

Good Trouble

210

Hog Greer of Big Bald Mountain

211

Joash And The Beast

212

The Battle of the State of Franklin

213

Asheville's Ponzi

214

The Harlan County Coal War

215

Dr. Ralph Stanley

216

The Crash Of The Shenandoah

217

General John Hunt Morgan

218

The Last Survivor of the Sultana Explosion

219

The Silver Legion

220

Jenny Wiley's Escape

221

A Criminal Operation

222

The Bloody Harpes

223

Ida Mae Stull

224

The Crash At Clingman's Dome

225

The Regulator Movement

226

The Witch Murders

227

The First Integrated Little League Team In The South

228

Blennerhassett and Burr

229

Death By Psychic

230

The Fraterville Mine Disaster

231

Encore: The Krampus

232

The Thealka Explosion

233

The Lost Children

234

Green Allen Brooks, "Mountain Man"

235

Cap Hatfield's Run

236

A Robbery Gone Awry

237

Lewis The Robber

238

The Trial Of Dr. Smith

239

The Sevier/Jackson Duel

240

The Bridge To Vulcan

241

The Rugby Colony

242

Moses Stepp

243

The Knox Mine Disaster

244

Escape(s) From The Yancey County Jail

245

Part Two: Davy Crockett Goes To Texas

246

The King of the Wild Frontier, Part One

247

Snakebit

248

The Batts And Fallam Expedition

249

Blair Mountain

250

The Hillsville Courthouse Shootout

251

The Secret Still

252

An Unsolved Appalachian Mystery

253

Wonderland

254

Maggie Bailey

255

The Execution of Daniel Dean

256

Mack Elliott

257

The French Settlement

258

Joseph Martin

259

The Draft Dodger

260

Who Am I ?

261

Earl

262

The Scopes Monkey Trial, Part Two

263

The Scopes Monkey Trial, Part One

264

The Kentucky Meat Shower 2021

265

Cassius Marcellus Clay

266

George Washington's Lost Colony

267

Bouncing Bertha's Appalachian Ghost

268

Kidnapped!

269

The Marshall University Plane Crash

270

Fire In The Hole!

271

The Greeneville Cholera Epidemic of 1873

272

The Shelton Laurel Massacre

273

Appalachia And The First Anti-Lynching Law

274

The Lady Chained To The Wall

275

The Wild Man Of The Smokies

276

The Wright-Templeton Gang

277

The Murderous Landlady

278

The Natural Tunnel Train Wreck

279

Ty Cobb And The Heckler

280

Jock Yablonski

281

Brushy Mountain's Prodigal Son

282

The Krampus

283

Tsali

284

A Courtroom Tragedy

285

Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

286

Appalachian Travellers

287

The Last Gunfight In Knoxville

288

The New Market Train Wreck

289

Ghost Stories 2020/A Look Back Over Five Years

290

Will Harris

291

Raccoon John Smith

292

More Short Stories

293

Ollan Cassell

294

Worcester v. Georgia

295

Cinder Bottom

296

Shanksville

297

William Fayssoux

298

D. C. Stephenson

299

The Cane Ridge Revival

300

Lillie Ladd

301

The Bunch Gang

302

The Governor

303

Pocahontas Hale

304

Abijah Alley

305

Beulah and Jean

306

Martin Van Buren Bates, The Kentucky Giant

307

Sara Jane

308

The Escape Artist?

309

Pictureman

310

193-0

311

Der Furrier

312

The First Woman Convicted Of Bank Robbery In Kentucky

313

L. W. Wright, Nascar Legend

314

The Murder of Lillie Davis

315

The Fast

316

The Spanish Flu, Part Two

317

Atomic Breakdown

318

Divided Loyalties

319

Virgil Q. Wacks

320

Jackie Mitchell

321

The Spanish Flu

322

Mother Jones, Part Two

323

Mother Jones, Part One

324

Wiley Oakley

325

Tabitha Holton

326

Nancy Ward

327

The Fall

328

Tweetsie

329

The Luther Elkins Petroglyphs

330

Homer and Geneva

331

An Insurance Scheme in Pike County, Kentucky

332

Attakullakulla and Dragging Canoe

333

A Fugitive Returns

334

The Flood of '77

335

Elgin Baylor's Boycott

336

The Murder Of Judge Lawler

337

The Wreck Of The Old '97

338

Cas

339

The Hermit Of Pound Gap

340

Boneyard Hollow

341

Tizrow McGhee

342

The Knoxville Football Riot

343

The Rowan County War

344

Uncle Dyke

345

The Shooting Of E. E. Carter

346

Hugh Morton And Grandfather Mountain

347

Buster Duggan

348

The Prophets Of God

349

The Asheville Election Riot Of 1868

350

Robert Sheffey, Circuit Riding Preacher

351

Chief Benge

352

Napoleon Hill

353

The Hawk's Nest Tunnel

354

Two True Tales Of Crime In Appalachia

355

The War Of The Roses

356

Lesley Riddle

357

A Soviet Spy in Appalachia

358

The Judge Who Ran Both Ways

359

The Kidnapping of Peggy Ann

360

Massacre at Lattimer

361

Nance Dude

362

The Baroness

363

Highlander

364

Tennessee Ernie Ford

365

Dock Boggs

366

Another Batch of Short Stories

367

The Homestead Strike

368

The Murder of Mary Magdaline

369

John Peter Salling

370

Andrew Taylor Still

371

The LaFollette Bombing

372

The Election of '88

373

McClure

374

A Jailbreak in Wise

375

Three Gun

376

A Dispute Over Liquor

377

Bristol Motor Speedway

378

Dr. Thomas Walker

379

Merry Christmas!

380

The Potter's Field

381

The Hensley Settlement

382

The Pine Grove Fire

383

It Fell Out Of The Sky!

384

The Kidnapping of Alice Stoll

385

Nancy Hart Douglas

386

The Shadow

387

The Strike at Salt Lick High School

388

George Roby Dempster

389

Elsie

390

The Funeral

391

The Nerve Gas Train

392

Floyd's Cave

393

More Short Stories

394

A Sacrifice

395

Flossie

396

John Fox Jr.

397

The Long Arm Of The Law

398

A School Shooting in Grundy

399

War Fever!

400

Appalachian Internment Camps

401

The Salve

402

Joe Brown

403

The Church Arsonist

404

Lord Dunmore's War, Part 2

405

Lord Dunmore's War, Part 1

406

Politics

407

Appalachia's Most Wanted

408

The Prestonsburg School Bus Tragedy

409

The Wild West of Appalachia

410

The Confederate Treasury

411

The Moonshine Battle of Cades Cove

412

The Legend of Headless Annie

413

The Unwritten Law

414

The Distinguished Senator From Tennessee

415

The Great Kanawha County Textbook War

416

Who Was Steve White?

417

The Collapse of the Keystone Bank

418

The Tucker County War

419

Charles Johnson

420

George Washington's Appalachian Land

421

The Great Appalachian Earthquake of 1897

422

Ira Jackson Seay

423

Daniel Boone, Part Three

424

Daniel Boone, Part Two

425

Daniel Boone, Part One

426

The Bombing at Bluefield

427

Merry Christmas!

428

A Tale of Two Mountains

429

The Great Flood of 1916

430

The Big Bull Tunnel

431

The Baby Seller

432

The Fightin’ Blalocks

433

The Train Wreck

434

The Woman In The Blue Polka Dot Dress

435

Haints And Boogers

436

The Last Civil War Veteran In Scott County

437

Clifton Branham

438

Boston Corbett

439

The Esau System

440

Jack Daniel

441

Monongah

442

Lynchings in Appalachia

443

The Case Of The Missing Appalachian Drug Smuggler

444

Governor William Goebel of Kentucky

445

George L. Carter

446

The Scottish Empire Builder

447

Colonel John Dils, Jr.

448

The Black Widow

449

The Black Hand

450

July 4, 1900

451

All Hail The Cheese!

452

Interview With Francis Gary Powers, Jr.

453

Revolution!

454

Escape From Brushy

455

The Kentucky Meat Shower

456

Rotherwood

457

Zoo Man

458

Them Pills

459

Stephen F. Austin

460

The Story of Big Foot Spencer

461

The Great Train Robbery

462

The Mothman

463

The Feud

464

Hit’ll Tickle Yore Innards!

465

The Devil Monkey

466

The Story of Brandy Jack

467

The New Year’s Eve Blast

468

The Bunkers of Mt. Airy

469

The Feud, Part Five

470

The Feud, Part Four

471

The Feud, Part Three

472

The Feud, Part Two

473

The Feud, Part One

474

A Star Faces Justice

475

The White Caps of Sevier County

476

The Donelson Expedition

477

Jack Tales

478

Parson Brownlow

479

The Christmas Flood

480

Juan Pardo

481

The Stories of Abner Vance

482

Squeaky’s Run

483

A Pot Of Gold In Cocke County

484

Glenn Roberts, Appalachian Basketball Superstar

485

The Grundy Christmas Fire of 1915

486

Katy Sage

487

Mountain Tales, Volume 3

488

The Independent State of Dade

489

The Coal Creek War

490

The Legend of Pilot Knob

491

Letters to Santa

492

Forsyth

493

The Lights In The Sky

494

The Laurel Creek Murders

495

More Mountain Stories

496

The Kentucky Fried Chicken War

497

Lots For Sale In Appalachia, Virginia

498

Eko and Iko, The Ambassadors From Mars

499

The Robbery of the Bank of Huntington

500

Thomas’ Legion

501

Mountain Life in 1891

502

Jenny Wiley

503

Helen Timmons Henderson

504

Sam Houston

505

Halloween Stories!

506

The Stories of Penn’s Cave and Blowing Rock

507

St. Albans Sanatorium

508

The Brown Mountain Lights

509

The Notorious Kinnie Wagner

510

The Bristol Water War

511

The Mysterious Lights of Holston Mountain

512

Crime Stories

513

The Night They Almost Nuked Big Savage Mountain.

514

The Shootout in Clintwood, Virginia

515

The French-Eversole Feud

516

The 1982 Knoxville Worlds Fair and the Butcher Brothers

517

The Escape

518

George Went Hensley, Snake Handling Preacher

519

The Swinging Bridge Collapse

520

Eric Robert Rudolph

521

The Integration of Clinton High School

522

Baseball in Clintwood, Virginia in the 1940’s

523

The Hellfire of Centralia

524

The Letter

525

The Franklin County Moonshine Trial

526

The Southwest Virginia State Mental Hospital

527

The Year Without a Summer

528

Tarzan of Appalachia

529

The Birth of West Virginia

530

Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu (The Trail Where They Cried)

531

The Wytheville Polio Epidemic

532

The Wilderness Road

533

The Flood of ’89

534

Bloody Harlan

535

Giants in the Earth

536

Popcorn

537

Clark Dyer’s Flying Machine

538

The Battle of Kings Mountain

539

Buried Alive!

540

The Death of Edward Wentz

541

The Melungeon Trials

542

The Moon-Eyed People

543

The Duke of Asheville

544

The Deadly Harpes

545

The Strikes of ’29

546

The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell

547

The Great Cholera Outbreak

548

The Greenbrier Ghost

549

The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia

550

John Brown

551

The Hermit of Big Bald Mountain

552

The English Doctor

553

The Dictator

554

The Appalachian Trump

555

The Greenbrier Bunker

556

Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley

557

The POW From Cracker’s Neck

558

The Day The Eastman Exploded

559

Francis Gary Powers

560

Hank’s Last Ride

561

The President’s Wife

562

The Carroll County Courthouse Shootout

563

The Story of Shifty Powers

564

Blair Mountain

565

The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950

566

The State of Franklin

567

The Bristol Sessions

568

The Ghost of the Tavern Tart

569

The Rye Cove Cyclone

570

The Walton War

571

The Red Jacket Mine Explosion

572

Lloyd Ford’s Will

573

Matewan

574

The Travels of Gabriel Arthur

575

Witchy Woman?

576

Christmas Stories

577

The Story of Condy Dabney

578

The Petticoat Government in Clintwood, Virginia

579

William Dudley Pelley, Asheville Fascist

580

The Pound Gap Massacre

581

The Battle of Athens, Tennessee

582

The Day The Circus Came To Kingsport

583

Swift’s Lost Silver Mine

584

John Randolph Neal, Jr., East Tennessee Advocate

585

Mickey Ray Hendricks, All American Redhead

586

Chief Benge’s Last Raid

587

The Norton Braves

588

Andrew Jackson, East Tennessee Lawyer

589

Alfred Dean Slack, Kingsport Spy