The Hermit of Indian Echo Cavern

Strange Familiars

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Alison and Timothy relate the story of William Amos Wilson, also known as The Pennsylvania Hermit. After his sister was tragically hanged, Wilson became a hermit and lived in a cave for 19 years. Chad, Alison, and Timothy visit Indian Echo Caverns - Wilson’s Cave - for an underground tour and a visit to Wilson’s former residence. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Strange Familiars ‘Awoken Tree’ t-shirts are available in our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739690857/strange-familiars-podcast-awoken-tree Check out the Strange Familiars ebay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/strangefamiliars Strange Familiars t-shirts and other designs are available here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/darkhollerarts Episode 182 notes and links: Indian Echo Caverns: https://indianechocaverns.com 90 Days to the Perfect Puppy: https://perfectpuppies.sithappens.us/90-days Timothy’s new book, with co-author Joshua Cutchin is now available on Amazon: Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon, volume 1 Strange Familiars Photo of the Week #33: Rakish Dandy This photo is available in our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/846820659/rakish-dandy-strange-familiars-photo-of Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Our Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lostgrave Alison: https://www.etsy.com/shop/odpeacock Chad’s YouTube channel where you can see some videos of Pandemonium, the dynamite shack and more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com The closing song is The Corday Waltz (from Marat/Sade) as performed by Timothy. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to be. They claim that dark eyes was just to be created a slightly different than what they are.
0:28.0	We talked and she came to her. Oh, Welcome. Welcome to Strange Familiars.
0:55.0	If you've seen something strange,
0:59.0	something paranormal, whether it's a cryptid like Bigfoot, a ghost, a UFO or an alien, anything
1:05.6	paranormal, or if you know of a story you think we should cover, you can email us
1:10.1	strange familiars podcast at gmail.com.
1:15.0	Welcome back, Allison.
1:17.0	Hi Tim.
1:18.0	It's hermit time.
1:20.0	I think that I think we're going to see a rise of hermits I think hermits are coming back
1:26.9	I can see why yeah
1:29.7	It's not an unappealing lifestyle this time.
1:33.0	I've had several people say to me off-handedly that they're just kind of done with humanity on a general level at this point.
1:39.0	I understand how this could happen particularly at this time period. Sure. Well this is going to be the earliest
1:45.5	term it we've covered yet. And one of the earliest stories I think we've covered that actually
1:50.0	has a lot of primary source material that you can actually find. I think that's interesting to me about this whole story is that it just sounded like BS to me when I first heard it. I was like, oh, this is just like a traditional song like a folk story yeah yeah it's just
2:06.2	sounded like a folk story didn't sound like something that actually happened it sounded like
2:10.3	you know an amalgamation of sort of moralizing tales telling women to not get involved with men who
2:13.2	in a morelizing tales telling women to not get involved with men who deceive them
2:18.1	and to...
2:19.1	Right, well that's part of it.
2:21.1	That's part of it. So this is the story of one William Amos Wilson, also known as the Pennsylvania
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