Episode 20: And Am I Born to Die?

Old Gods of Appalachia

Horror, Folk Horror, Anthology, Science Fiction, Fiction, Appalachia, Eldritch

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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: Discussion of Domestic Violence, Fundamentalist Religious Themes

Written by: Steve Shell

Narrated by: Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

In story song: “Am I Born To Die? (Traditional) performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness,” written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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0:00.0	Rosti Quill presents
0:07.0	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror and thalagy podcast,
0:14.0	and therefore may contain material not suitable for all audiences.
0:20.0	Solicitor discretion is advised.
0:29.0	Baker's Gap Tennessee, 1927, about three months before Frank Tilly died hard.
0:49.0	Esther Campbell was freezing.
0:54.0	She was dressed in her warmest layers and standing in the cold,
0:59.0	outside of rising creek Baptist Church in the pre-don darkness shivery,
1:04.0	and had been for about a half hour.
1:08.0	She had walked the entire way over from her boarding house carrying a big old picnic basket full of plates and cups
1:15.0	and other sundry things in order to be early to do good service for her community.
1:21.0	She just hoped to ride what and run and late and she didn't freeze the death.
1:28.0	Esther had moved to Baker's Gap from Arnie, Tennessee, about three months ago.
1:34.0	Shortly after the town of Arnie officially ceased to be.
1:38.0	Arnie weren't but ten miles or so up the mountain from Baker's Gap
1:42.0	and once featured two whole churches, a feed store, and briefly a commissary for the railroad.
1:48.0	When the railroad work around Arnie was done, the town was passed over for an official stop or station.
1:56.0	Well, the bleeding started and didn't stop until the corpse was dry.
2:04.0	So Esther, a spencer at the absolutely dusty age of 26, took a secretarial job at Bernie's industrial farm supply and Baker's Gap proper
2:14.0	and spent her days organizing the files of that story to establishman's larger accounts
2:21.0	which lately felt more like filing obituaries for failed farm after failed farm.
2:27.0	She was steady work though and the people were not enough.
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