Episode 16: Between the Unburied and Miss Belle

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

She recognized the naked fear and rawness in their respective gazes. Something had happened to these boys. She could see their hearts and minds were pink and pricking red at the edges where their innocence had been torn away with such force they'd not even had a chance to bleed yet.

CW: Rain sounds, references to supernatural prophecy by a child, bullying, references to death by firing squad.

Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and 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	Rusty Quill presents
0:07.0	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast,
0:13.0	and therefore may contain material not suitable for all audiences.
0:18.0	Soulist's new discretion is advised.
0:37.0	Annabelle Callaway had been the teacher at Baker's Gap School for going on three years now.
0:46.0	She was a grown and mature woman at the ripe old age of 20,
0:49.0	and she was a bit of an anomaly for this part of East Tennessee.
0:54.0	Miss Belle, as her students called her,
0:56.0	was not a native of Baker's Gap from one.
0:59.0	She had kinfolk in the general area, but so did everybody else.
1:05.0	She'd spent her early days up in the Cumberland,
1:09.0	and then traveled all over the whole state of West Virginia,
1:12.0	learning about animal husbandry and the proper management of bloodlines from her extended family.
1:19.0	When she was 16, she went down to North Carolina,
1:22.0	got properly educated to be a schoolteacher,
1:25.0	and it was rumored that in that time, she even saw the ocean.
1:32.0	Compared to the average folk of the Gap,
1:35.0	she was a world traveler and a no-man, downright worldly.
1:41.0	Like many schoolteachers of the day, she had no husband,
1:48.0	and no man had dared to try his hand to court her just yet.
1:53.0	She was pretty enough by their standards,
1:55.0	though some rougher tongues might call her plain.
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