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Episode 39: The Blood of the Mountain

Old Gods of Appalachia

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The Blood of the Mountain

Belle Callaway eagerly flipped to the next page of her Memos diary. Sheila Walker Felt something like hope October 20th 1874 I got one of the boys from the diamond to run me up to where the mine is still burning. That place ain't right The air up there is greasy and wrong Breathing that stuff would give any man strange dreams. My man is just slipped by the guards posted there to keep people out and to do what I need to do This'll either work or he'll kill me At least I hope he will if it don't work Either way I ain't having him in Aunt Patty's house sleeping in a room She died in doing his foul business up

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