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Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast

and therefore may contain material not suitable for all audiences.

So listen to discretion is advised.

Hardbuckle Kentucky, 1941

In every mountain community across these old and blessed hills that we call Appalachia,

they are folks who stand ever vigilant and watchful.

Against what they would not tell you, not under threat of death, nor torture.

Bloodlines that are touched by neither the green nor the inner dark directly but are well aware of both.

Ordinary folks walk in and live in an implaneside who would never once give you any indication

that they have brush shoulders with things beyond the understanding of their neighbors.

Folks whose families pass down the duties of keeping watch on things that shift through the shadows of small towns

and remote amlets wardens of dark beings that might bring harm to the good folk that inhabit those precious homesteads.

In the towns closer to the cities, it often fell to the elder folk who had a hard time in this age of science and industry

to convince the next generation that haints and boogers and witches were real.

The old miss so-and-so back up in, Booker Holler actually knew what she was doing with all her granny medicine and hex marks.

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