Appalachian Folklore w/ Chuck Corra
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Appalachia is a hotbed of spooky things - ghost stories, UFO sightings, well known cryptids. But what is it about this region that makes it so mysterious? We’re joined by Chuck Corra of the Appodlachia podcast to discuss what it is that makes us so fascinated with Appalachia!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of slavery, indentured servitude, gun violence, death, racism, homophobia, violence, discrimination,
Guest
Chuck Corra is the host of Appolachia, a progressive-leftist podcast and media platform about Appalachian culture and politics. They believe accents are sexy, John Brown is a hero, unions are good, and redneck is a term of endearment.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to Spirit's podcast to Boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:32.7 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:36.9 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.0 | Today we are joined by the fabulous Chuck Cora of the podcast media platform at Podlacha. |
| 0:44.4 | Chuck, welcome to the show. |
| 0:46.3 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:47.5 | It's such an honor to be on here. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:50.1 | We are so excited to have you, particularly here to talk about something that is near and dear to our hearts that I think we realized very early on in starting the podcast. |
| 1:01.6 | Appalachia is, I would say, a hotbed of creepy things. |
| 1:06.3 | Would you agree with that statement, Chuck? |
| 1:07.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:09.6 | Very, very much so. Probably, I mean, I know that some |
| 1:13.0 | people would debate this depending on what region of the country they're from, but I would argue |
| 1:16.8 | that Appalachia has some of the best and most creepy things, cryptids, ghosts, UFOs, unidentified |
| 1:25.1 | other phenomena, you name it, the woods out here have it. |
| 1:29.0 | Absolutely agree. I think every time we get like a listener submitted story or we kind of |
| 1:33.7 | touch around the pool that is like West Virginia folklore or Appalachia folklore, we just like |
| 1:39.9 | see the creepiness of the shadows of the deep and we're like, oh, I don't know. How deep do we want to |
| 1:45.0 | get into that? I am really excited to have you here to talk about that. But before we really get |
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