S5 Ep16: Hi Ho! It's Off to Appalachia We Go! The Legend of the Moon Eyed People

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Legend has it that there was a race of small, white, day-blind folks who lived inside the Appalachia mountains and were there even before the Creek, Iroquois, or Cherokee. Were they Welsh refugees? Some kind of mountain hobbit? Or were they... ALIENS????

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Alastair Campbell from The Rest is Politics.
0:02.0	Nishkevar here from Pod Save the UK.
0:03.9	And Christiana Fierrez from outrage and optimism.
0:06.7	Rising inequality, conflict, climate disaster is very hard to find reasons to be hopeful about the future.
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1:33.6	How are legends made? How do some stories stick and grow while others fade? Does every myth contain a kernel of truth, or do we invent them from nothing?
1:47.0	And what purpose do they serve?
1:53.3	Welcome to strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I used to love hiking and camping. My dad and I did
2:00.2	quite a bit of it when I was very young.
2:02.6	Recently, I suggested to my husband that we take a family camping trip, and he, who also used to love such adventures, replied,
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