Episode 27: Strangers in Paradise

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In which two ambitious young folks from Esau County come to the city of Paradise, and meet with both misfortune and opportunity.

CW: Assault and robbery.

Written by Cam Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Intro Music: “The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro Music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness” by Those Poor Bastards

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0:00.0	Rusty Quill presents
0:07.0	This Christmas discovered the Whitney Houston story you never knew
0:14.0	From the right of Bohemian Rhapsody, this is what they want, America sweetheart, you won't give it to them, just watch me
0:23.0	I want to dance with somebody, only in cinemas now
0:26.0	I'm from a small town in Lancashire and growing up I just always wanted to move away
0:31.0	But then my geography teacher took us a rumbling, so I'm there walking through nature and it begins explaining our home to us
0:37.0	Why it's so special?
0:38.0	He showed me the trails my grandfather took and also his grandfather before him
0:42.0	Not to teach taught geography but really it was teaching me who I was
0:47.0	Thinking about teaching to get advice on the application funding and courses
0:52.0	Search get into teaching events
1:02.0	Old gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast and therefore may contain material not suitable for all audiences
1:12.0	So listener discretion is advised
1:28.0	By the standards of Esau County, Tommy Atkins was an ambitious young man
1:34.0	Whereas most boys in the area had followed their daddies down into the mines by the age of 15, if not sooner
1:44.0	Tommy had never wanted to follow in those particular footsteps no sir
1:48.0	Boyd Atkins had spent his whole life working in the mines and it was honest work sure enough
1:53.0	Tommy had been down in that hole a few times to be sure when they were shorthanded or the family needed extra money
1:59.0	He'd do what needed to when he came to it
2:04.0	But the truth was Tommy hated it deep underground in the darkness under the mountain
2:13.0	And it wasn't that he was scared of the dark hill note when they was kids
2:17.0	Tommy and his best friend, Greeny Kaiser used to sneak out all hours of the night and go exploring in the woods
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