Episode 39: The Blood of the Mountain

Old Gods of Appalachia

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

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Walker’s diary comes to a close, but Miss Belle’s story is far from over.

CW: depiction/discussion of religious fundamentalism, gore, reference to death by monster, frank discussion of historical sex work, bodily injury and disability, emotional trauma, endangerment of a child, historical depiction of disability used in a deceptive manner.

Written by Steve Shell and Cam Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced and edited by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Intro music: “The Land Unknown (The Pound of Flesh Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness" written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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1:35.0	Belle Callaway had been sitting in silence for a while now.
1:40.0	She'd managed to tear her eyes away from the story pouring like spilt molasses from her memo Sheila's diary for a moment so she could try to sort through the feelings warring within her.
1:52.0	It's seen there had always been some form of darkness crossing paths with the women of her line.
1:58.0	The sounds of quiet feet and grey dresses slithering over stone floors called to her from somewhere deep in her memory but she shook it off.
2:08.0	The echoes of her family's past surrounded her here held this house was their past, their legacy, their place of origin as a family.
2:19.0	The cleft in the mountain where the spring of Walker blood poured forth like a green blessed river was an old condemned parlor house in a dead town less than a day from being raised to the ground.
2:31.0	That wasn't some sort of statement about the nature of blood and kin she didn't know what was.
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