Episode 85: When You're Strange

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The final arc of season five begins. Two trailer parks, unalike in dignity, is where we lay our scene.

CW: Highway sounds, truck sounds, descriptions of mobile home parks, banging on door sounds, description of religion-themed family strife.

Written by Steve Shell

Produced and edited by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Narrated and performed by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

The voice of Miranda: Andie Marie Tillman

The voice of Troy: Adam Kampouris

The voice of Denise Ramey: Autumn Boegeman

The voice of Micah Ramey: Aaron Bentley

Intro music: “The Land Unknown (The Home is Nowhere Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: “Neon Dracula" by Violent Fear (a.k.a. Jacob Danielsen-Moore. Available for download from Jacob’s Bandcamp

Special equipment consideration provided by Lauten Audio.

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0:00.0	Well, hey there, family, if you love old gods of Appalachia, I want to help us keep the home fires burning, but maybe aren't comfortable with the monthly commitment. Well, you can still support us via the ACAS supporter feature. No gift too large, no gift too small. Just click on the link in the show description,
0:21.6	and you too can toss your tithe in the collection plate.
0:24.4	Feel free to go ahead and do that.
0:26.7	Right about now.
0:32.5	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast and therefore may contain material
0:40.8	not suitable for all audiences.
0:45.6	So listener discretion is advised.
0:48.7	Thank you. Baker's Gap, Tennessee, 1991.
1:06.5	It was 4.45 on a Wednesday evening, and Cody Blevins was just about whooped.
1:12.2	He'd been back and forth in the company tow truck every hour on the hour
1:15.5	since he clocked into Blevins' towing in service at 6 that morning.
1:19.4	He'd towed two cars out of two entirely different fender benders on opposite ends of town before lunch.
1:25.4	After that, he got the privilege of handling two blowouts up on the interstate by exits 46 and 50, respectively.
1:32.0	He'd just returned to the garage from that run when he got a call informing him that the pastor's wife was having engine trouble out at Rising Creek Baptist.
1:40.3	Since his shop had replaced her alternator last spring and it was still under warranty,
1:44.5	off he went to work through his lunch hour in the sweltering summer sun.
1:49.3	After he got her back on the road, another request came through on the CB radio that sent him out to Red Fork Falls,
1:55.8	where some dumbass out of towner had busted his oil pan.
1:59.1	As if that pothole-ridden nightmare of a road wasn't bad
2:01.6	enough, the whole area was ripe with poison oak. It had been a long day. And now he sat in the
2:09.6	drive-thru of pal's sudden service, waiting for his double big pal, two chili dogs, large
2:14.3	french fries, and peachy tea. Hell, he might not even make it home with his
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