Old Gods of Appalachia - Episode 86: Cry Little Sister

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

Wild hearts take to the road and shadows follow.CW: References to narcotic use, the death of a partner, burn care, family strife/arguing, the satanic panic, aggressive evangelism, vampire stuff.Written by Steve Shell and Cam CollinsProduced and edited by Cam Collins and Steve ShellNarrated and performed by Steve ShellSound design by Steve ShellThe voice of Miranda Coffey: Andie Marie TillmanThe voice of Troy: Adam KampourisThe voice of Denise Ramey: Autumn BoegemanThe voice of Micah Ramey: Aaron BentleyThe voice of Brendan McDaniel: Craig RiceThe voice of Lori Powers: Allison MullinsIntro music: “The Land Unknown (The Home is Nowhere Verses)” written and performed by Landon BloodOutro music: “Neon Dracula" by Violent Fear (a.k.a. Jacob Danielsen-Moore; available for download on Bandcamp.)Special equipment consideration provided by Lauten Audio.LEARN MORE ABOUT OLD GODS OF APPALACHIA: www.oldgodsofappalachia.comCOMPLETE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA RITUAL:FacebookInstagramBlueskySUPPORT THE SHOW:Join us over at THE HOLLER to enjoy ad-free episodes, access exclusive storylines and more.Buy t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and other Old Gods merch.CLASSIC MERCH: merch.oldgodsofappalachia.comTOUR MERCH & SPECIALTY ITEMS: oldgodsmerch.com.Transcripts available on our website at www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/episodes.© 2025 DeepNerd Media. All rights reserved. No part of this audio production or its written transcript may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/old-gods-of-appalachia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Clay Morgan, Virginia 1991 Denise Ramey and her cousin Micah hadn't even made it through the front door when Denise's mama Debbie strode up to the pair and snatched the flyer from their hands. She scanned the cobbled together page and shook her head. Absolutely not.

Micah, I don't know why I let you talk me to taking you out to that charny-ass record store in the first place. Ain't nothing but drugies and devil-worshers in a place like that. No wonder they keep it hid from respectable folk. I mean, you have to go all the way around to the back of the building to even find it. Huh, backdoor records is right. Denise pictured the stacks of vinyl occupying a graffiti-covered building near the college in Tipton. A customer would have to navigate through several roads. was a pop and country before finding something anyone would call remotely scary, let alone satanic.

All the heavy stuff was tucked away in the back corner, and you really had to know where to look to find the bands that inspired the wrath at the local hellfire and brimstone preachers. Backdoor felt more like a head shop that decided to sell records and some sort of a cult meeting house, but she imagined her mama would have been suitably traumatized if she had went inside. I didn't even see you snatch this out that bulletin board. What would people think if they seen you do that? That I wanted to go to the show, maybe? Denise narrowed her eyes and stepped closer to her mother.

Mom, you barely go to church, and you've taken me to the record store a million times. You even dropped me off at shows over in Paradise. Why are you so suddenly worried about devil worshippers? Debbie Rainey had the grace to blush. but she still clutched the flyer, staring down at the pictures of the bands that have been taped and Xeroxed into gray-scale immortality, the glowering face of John David from violent fear

resplendent in a ski mask with fake blood smeared about his mouth held her transfixed. I might not go to church every Sunday, but I know the devil when I see him, Denise, and I heard all them rumors about cults and human sacrifices, and I didn't believe them. I still don't. I know people exaggeration.

and the preacher down at his church will say anything to scare people into getting saved, but I didn't know the things you went to were like. Well, like this. This looks evil, Denise, Ramey. I don't want y'all having nothing to do with people like this. Micah rolled his eyes leap into the defense of his favorite band. It's not like that, Aunt Debbie. Violent fear ain't even heavy.

Their name, it's kind of a joke. They're like, I don't know, Depeche Mode, with mortgage. Tars. Micah pointed at the bloody-mouthed masked man, leering out at the world from the flyer, realizing as he spoke how this must sound to someone his aunt's age. They just go for the shock value. Denise's mama looked at Micah like he just sprouted a second head. He looks like he's going straight to hell if you ask me. I ain't stupid, boy.

It says the word atheist, right here on this poster. Foxhole atheist is just a band name. It doesn't mean anything. Y'all go to something like this. You'll come back. brainwashed or queer or worse? Micah flinched as if she'd struck him. Denise glared at her mother.

A half second too late, Debbie Ramey realized what she'd said. Oh, Micah, honey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean, but Micah wasn't listening. He bolted up the front door and snatched his bicycle from the front porch and tore off down the hill. Denise watched him go, then turned to glare at her mother. Great job, Mom.

sound just like your brother-in-law. Denise stormed down the hallway to her bedroom at the end of the single wad and slammed the door. I didn't mean to hurt his feelings. I'm sorry! Denise's door opened a crack and she yelled back down the hall. I'm not the one you need to apologize to. Denise managed to get another full slam out of the door despite barely opening it. Flustered, her mother nevertheless insisted on having the last word. I never meant to upset anybody, but,

Under no circumstances are y'all going all the way to Knoxville to see this kind of garbage? You hear me, Denise? Denise? The light gets swallowed. Aase that feels like home. I'm turning to strangers. And you cast your eyes through the winding road. Keep your foot on the gas, your eyes straight forward, clear your heart and mind. Best leave them goals behind. When the hearth grows cold

And home is nowhere Then you might as well When darkness calls run like hell 70-odd miles south of Glaymorgan In the shabby collection A single wides known as Windsor court The door to another mobile home swung open A young woman was ushered through it with

Enthuscious hospitality She was scared And she was more pissed off And frustrated than anything else Two men followed her over the threshold And latched the door behind them The first older man She knew to be the one in charge

Even though he appeared to be a normal person And not Like her at all The second was tall And built like someone who worked outside for a living With thick curly black hair He wore jeet jeans and a black pea coat despite the warmth of the summer evening.

Miranda could tell that he was, for lack of a better term, like her. The older of the pair, Glenn Shelby, bustled her through the entryway and into the tiny living row. She scoched around the table, perching on the edge of an overstuffed armchair, and Glenn dropped his old bones onto the love seat closest to her. Here we go, Miss Miranda. Home again, home again. Mr. Troy, would you make sure the door is secured properly, can't have our young friend here going on walkabout again. How can we?

I've done told y'all, this ain't my home and I don't want to be here. Please, I can take care of myself. Just get me to the highway and I'll be out of y'all's hair. I got friends I can go to. I'm sure you do, my dear, and if you value their lives, you will stay very far away from them for a good little long while. Those charged with your care have sent you here until you have solidified your grasp on your new life and can be trusted to operate within the system that keeps us all alive. So while you might not like it, this is home for the time being. The man Lynn Shelby had addressed as Mr. Troy, returned from the rear of the trailer and

nodded back the way he'd come. All locked up, sir. You need to listen to Mr. Shelby. This ain't a game. In the cities, we're like tiny gods. We feed as much as we want. We feed as we want and from who we want and nobody notices because the herd is thick enough to let us do it. Out here, you might as well be in outer space, girl. We're like astronauts floating from rock to rock with the help of people like this man. I don't want to live in some nasty ass old trailer out in the middle of bumfuck. I had a life. I had friends. I had a job. I had a boyfriend. And then your boyfriend turns you into a vampire.

And a couple weeks later, he got high out of his mind and didn't get in for the sun come up. This left you without a maker or anybody else to teach you shit about your new life or how to survive it. The girl moved to interject, but Glenn cut her off. Oh, I imagine he taught you a thing or two, like how to throw a pitiful glamour. How to hide your teeth when you need to? Am I getting warm? Miranda nodded. Then cast her eyes down to the coffee. table dejectedly. Did he teach you how to close a wound so you can drink from the same well twice?

What about running water? Garlic? How to turn into a bat? We can turn into bats? No, of course not. You meet one of your kind that can change his shape. You get as far away from that some bitch as you can. Sure sign of corruption or packed with something darker than you need to be dealing with. And you'd know this if you hadn't been sired by some child whose main motivation was getting his fangs wet. Did he tell you who made him? Do you even know from whose blood you draw your eternal life, girl? Miranda's head shook almost imperceptively. Mikey was from Florida.

I don't know whose people were. With our kind, blood is everything. I can't imagine this life without my maker's helping guidance. I would have been dead in a week without... I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. I hope you will find others to guide you on your path. If I... Glenn moved to cut the stranger off

before he got any more involved in the affairs of Windsor Court. There was something about the tall creature in his smoldering eyes and broad shoulders that he didn't like. He didn't care if his Rosalie knew him from... Before. There was something off about him. Oh, thank you, Troy. But Miranda here is in fact quite fortunate.

and Elder Cyrus himself has kindly stepped in to provide... Fuck Cyrus. He's a drug dealer and an asshole. He's probably the one that got Mikey killed. That very well may be. But Cyrus Robinson is the elder of the oldest bloodline in the Fair City in Oxford, and he's agreed to sponsor your time here with us until you have a better idea of what to do with yourself.

I know you probably thought you were signing up for some Anne Rice nonsense, but the reality is nothing like that. You're lucky Cyrus and his lot realized you weren't with your maker when he burned and brought you here before you did more harm. There are rules you must learn and follow. Those rules will keep you alive. Speaking of keeping yourself alive, going out in the sun is not how you do that here. Put this on your burdens, it'll help. Glitt and Shelby removed the lid from a small mason jar of an off-white cream and placed it on the coffee table.

The room filled with the scent of something molded. in a crawl space, the stench of sealed air and decaying flesh. Oh, God! Smells like roadkill. I can't put this on my hands, let alone my face. It does have a pungit bouquet, but Miss Rosalie makes it herself and it will ensure your skin heals up nice and pretty. Your body will recover from most entries within reason, but sun damage is... can leave nasty scars if you don't take care of it, right?

So now, rub it in thoroughly, you won't be sorry. Miranda smeared the foul-smelling salve onto her burned forearms, and the relief was nearly instantaneous. She might have wept in gratitude if she weren't so busy rubbing it over her hands, arms, and face. When her task was done and the sting had sufficiently been taken out of her burns, she turned to her host with a pleading expression. She knew she had to look pitiful, all burned up and covered in deadpossum cold cream or whatever this was. But I can go out at night, right?

Once you were properly trained, yes, it's far too soon for you to be taken off back to the city to see some silly concert. We don't know if you can ever show your face there again. Someone likely saw what you did, and you may have to accept that your life in that town is over. Once your time here, what Miss Rosalie has done, you'll, You'll be free to go wherever you wish in accordance with the rules. Hey, probably for the best. You got lifetimes to live, girl. Why would someone lucky enough to be turned while so young and pretty?

Want to spend them in Knoxville of all places? I have friends there. I made a whole life there. I've already lost my first real boyfriend. And now you're telling me I can't see my friends neither. I didn't ask for this. I didn't want this. I just want to go home and live my life.

And that silly concert, as you call it, is important to me. My friends are putting out an album that they've worked hard on, and I just want to be there for them. Please let me go. I'll come right back, I swear. Sweet girl, you haven't it since you got here. You nearly got yourself burnt into cinders. Now, if we let you near a living soul right now,

You tear them limb from limb. Well, you're not like me and him, and I ain't killed you yet. That has to count for something. Oh, my dear child, you have so much to learn. I am not one of you, no, but I belong to Miss Rosalie, not as a lover or as a spouse. I am her possession. Your senses do not even register me as a living thing, and even if they did, trying to feed on me would not end well for you.

And on that note, Mr. Troy, if I could trouble you once more. The vampire in the peacoat turned and strode into the small kitchen. He opened the avocado green refrigerator and returned a moment later with a styrofoam cooler. He popped the lid off revealing bags of human blood, neatly packaged as if for delivery to a hospital. Supper time, now don't that look scrumptious? That plus the ointment should heal you up nicely. We'll talk again tomorrow evening when your belly is full and you're left. cranky. I'm truly sorry you are unhappy with your current circumstances, but right now you need to

stay here. Sweet dreams, my dear. Mr. Troy, thank you for your help this evening. Let's leave Miss Miranda to her supper. Over the mountain in Glemoreg. In lot number 13 of Cherry Hill, rituals were underway. The prohibitions laid down by Debbie Ramey had proved toothless as usual. She'd informed Denise and Micah that she'd be going to. out of town with her on-again, off-again, boyfriend Wiley Stidham, Thursday evening through Saturday afternoon. She left them money for food and gas on the kitchen counter and asked that they please not burn the place down.

This particular on-again was no coincidence. Wiley had come through Denise's checkout line at the Palesce earlier that week and had, as manners would dictate, asked how her mama was doing. Denise had indicated that her mama was fine, if a bit lonely, and maybe overdue for a night or two out on the town with a handsome man with money. Wiley Stidham was neither of those things, but he took the hint and called Debbie Ramey as soon as he got home. With her mom out of the way, the teens had pulled their money for fuel and gas station wine

obtained for them by an older friend, and by the time Denise had finished her shift, the other members of their friend group had already let themselves into her trailer to begin the evening's preparations. Normally, the black eyeliner and such didn't make its way into the scene until the sun had dipped beneath the horizon, but the three-hour drive to dead. downtown Knoxville had dictated that the transformative process begin early. When Denise walked through the door, she found the air filled with the fragrances of Aquanette, St. Ives, Apricot scrub, Fantasia incense, and clove cigarettes.

Concrete blonde blared from the skinny boombox in her bedroom at the end of the hall. Jeanette Napolitano warning that the sky is a poisonous garden tonight. Denise slipped into the bathroom located next to it to get ready, applying her cosmetology training to transform from the skinny blonde checkout girl to a creature she thought of as Little Dead Riding Hood in her most private thoughts. She applied a mixture of foundation and concealer in the palest shades she could find at the drugstore, topped with a layer of translucent corn silk powder with a bit of iridescent sheen, then brushed pale lavender eye shadow onto her cheeks for blush.

Next she moved on to her eyes, applying matte black shadow onto her lash line and a pure shimmery white to the upper eyelid up to her eyebrows. Between these, she brushed on a swoop of deep blackberry. She lined her eyes in cold black, first using a pencil liner that she gently smudged along her bottom lashes, then drawing a graceful cat eye with liquid liner along the upper lashes. Finally, she used the same black pencil on her lips, actual black lipstick being in short supply in rural southwest Virginia.

The only time the niece could ever find it was around Halloween when Kmart dedicated a single aisle to costumes, and that stuff was trash. It was greasy and thin, didn't last worth a damn and smeared all over besides. In the bedroom, her best friend, Lori Powers, sat at the battered old vanity table Denise had scrounged up from a yard sale when she was 12, using Debbie Ramey's old light-up makeup mirror to transform her own pretty cherubic face into a tempteress from the shadows. On the daybed beside her sat the newest member of their little coterie, Brendan McDaniel.

Brendan had relocated from a school in Jacob County, Kentucky, where he had been a star athlete through his junior year, lettering in several sports. His dad's abrupt job transfer across the state line into Esau County, combined with a torn ACL acquired in the final basketball game of last season, meant he'd been unable to play sports his senior year. No sports meant no scholarships, which meant Brendan had to stay on top of his grades if he wanted to get into UK in the fall.

He'd met Lori in Spanish 3, a subject he would not have passed without her help. That class had been a nightmare for the Kirby girl with immaculate eyeliner and perfectly dyed hair as black as midnight in a cold mind. It was filled with the standard-issue mean girls who seemed to take issue with every element of Lori Powers' existence. When the hot new boy told them all to eat shit and mind their business, Brendan's social standing in his new school had taken a dive, but he didn't seem to mind. He enjoyed Lori's company and had followed her like a puppy right into their little coven of outcasts and weirdos. While on the surface, Brendan appeared to be a clean-cut jock. Once they all got to know the new kid, they found he fit right in.

He was into bands like Metallica and Ministry, whom he'd been introduced to by an older kid named Kevin at his old school. Brendan talked about Kevin a lot. How Kevin got him into this band or that cult classic movie or Kevin taught him how to make stir fry would not. Nothing more than soy sauce and spright for the seasoning. His prize's possession was a watch that Kevin had given him for his 17th birthday. Denise, Lori, and Micah were pretty certain that Brandon and Kevin had been a bit more than just friends, but they didn't press for the details. They figured he'd get around to tell them about that in his own good time. With his incongruous saved by the bell haircut, 9-inch Nails T-shirt, and black jeans,

Brandon looked as though he was trying on a whole new identity tonight. Micah was painting his nails a dazzling shade of purple glitter. He watched an amazement as his fingertips became a sparkling forest of violet gemstones. He studied them for a moment as a look of heavy, pondering thought crossed his face. I think I hate my name. Why do you hate your name? It's just so generic. It's like there were too many brandons in the world, so they changed one letter.

my dad might as well have named me football. I need a cool nickname. What do you all think of Thorne? Ain't nobody calling you Thorne, baby, doll. Why not? We're out of school. It's not like the Chads and the Travises are going to fuck with me now, though I would kind of like to see him try.

Brendan grinned to himself. Bad knee or not, he could probably take most of the boys on the Pioneer's offensive line if it came down to a fair fight. He might have spent this school year on crutches in the better part of the last six weeks in physical, therapy, but he'd been all-region football and wrestling at his old school. He'd done his best to keep the rest of his body in shape without doing himself further injury. Shug, for one, you don't get to pick your own nickname.

You want to go down to the courthouse and change your government name? You can do that. But you don't get to pick your nickname. For two, you wouldn't be a thorn. I see you as more of a sugar tits. Sugar tits. I mean, I have been working out my pecks lately.

Brendan struck an exaggerated bodybuilding pose, and Micah let out a cackle, struck by the hilarity of their token jock friend flexing like a pro wrestler with his sparkly purple nails. He laughed so hard he had to set the nail polish down for fear of spilling it all over Denise's bed. Oh, yes, baby. Sugar mania is running wild.

Show us what you got. Woo! Brendan scoop Micah up and delivered the gentless body slam he could onto Denise's daybed, nearly sending the box filled with her nail polish collection flying. Oh, God, I've been sugar slammed. As the hooting and laughing reached his crescendo, Denise poked her head around the corner to see what the fuss was about. What's going on in here? Y'all already getting into the Boone's Farm without me? Micah, get off my bed. Ooh, Brendan, I like your nails.

Brendan held his hands out in front of him, wiggling his fingers while swinging his hips to the beat of the tape, shaking what the good Lord gave him, as John Atnipolitano wailed. All of them joined in singing the final chorus to The Beast. Laurie's powerful voice soaring above the others, harmonizing perfectly with the lead singer of Concrete Blonde's signature crew. By the end of the song, all of them were leaning on each other and laughing, glowing with the kind of camaraderie that only comes along once or twice in a person's life.

A sort of connection that would fade into the golden sunset of youth before they knew it. Denise hated to be the one to break this. but since her older brother Bradley had left town, it had fallen to her to be the responsible one. And she needed to herd these cats into the car if they wanted to make it to the show on time. All right, let me go get my crap out of the back seat so y'all have a place to sit. We need to get on the road. Mika, make sure you put the lid back on the nail polished good and tight, okay? That purple glitter wasn't cheap.

Lori, can you make sure he does it right? Last time he spilled my Lincoln Park after dark and I still ain't found that exact color again. I got you, Shug. You twist them on good, yanging. I got it. I got it, Dee, calm down. Denise walked down the hall through the living room and out the front door where their chariot awaited. The vet, as they called it, sat in the driveway in all its dusty gray glory. Bradley used to brag about the vet he got for his 16th birthday.

The joke being the car in question was a shove-ed and not a corvette. In point of fact, he had received a cake from food line and a card with $10 in it when he reached that magical age. The car he bought himself. mowing lawns and cleaning out gutters for two summers to save up enough to buy the ancient hatchback from Rogers Auto Sales a half mile down the road. He'd plastered the back window with band stickers, Sabbath and anthrax, and some old punk bands like minor threat and social distortion. Denise had been slowly adding her own to the mix since she'd inherited the car. The Cure, of course. Bowhouse and Joy Division and a smattering of local bands like No More Light, Violent Fear and Punching Judy.

Denise lit up a cigarette and leaned into the backseat, pulling out jackets and sweaters, a couple spare uniform tops, and various other shit she would have taken inside ages ago. Her brother would have never allowed so much to accumulate. While in typical teenage fashion, his bedroom might have looked like the aftermath of a tornado, he had been meticulous about the vet. Spending a couple hours every weekend washing, waxing, and vacuuming out her interior. He'd been so proud of that car. Denise could hardly believe it when her brother had handed her.

the keys the night he told her he was leaving. The vet had been as much a part of Bradley Ramey as his crooked smile or the sandy brown hair that he'd worn to his shirt collar since he was old enough to go to the barbershop by himself. She'd called lifelong shotgun the day he brought it home and Bradley would let her drive at home after shows occasionally even before she had her own license when it was late and he'd had a beer or two too many. From time to time she'd taken it to work when their mama's car was in the shop, but it

it felt weird to slip behind the wheel and claim the vet as her own. And truth to tell, she'd rather have him than the damn car. She missed her big brother. Four years older than Denise, Bradley had hung around for a couple years after graduating Lay Morgan High, taking classes during the day and delivering pizza at night. She had known he was trying to save up money to get out of Esau County, but it is still come as a shock when he told her he was leaving. He'd earned his certificate in welding from the local community.

community college and was going to North Dakota, of all places, to work on the pipeline. It was long hours but good money, far better money than he could earn anywhere around here, and that he could use to build a real life for himself. That's what he called it. A real life. And it struck Denise that maybe she too could dream of something beyond what Southwest Virginia had to offer. Her brother, like everyone else, assumed she would just get a job at a local salon after she passed her cosmetology exam, but at this point, Denise wasn't sure she even wanted to take the damn thing. Did she really want to spend the rest of her life putting perms on the old ladies

holding down the pews at her Uncle Buck's fire and brimstone church? Sure, she enjoyed doing hair and makeup, but she wondered if she could do something more. Or hell, just do it someplace else. She wished she could talk to Bradley about it, but he didn't call much. He was pulling 14-hour shift six days a week, he told her the last time they spoke. I mean, he was obviously excited about his prospects, but he sounded exhausted too. Her mama was no help. Debbie Ramey was afraid to set foot outside the mountains.

Even their annual trip over to paradise to buy school clothes at the mall had obviously made her a nervous wreck, as she was convinced any town bigger than Clay Morgan was bound to be a hotbed of criminal activity. She would grab Denise's arm and clutch her purse if anyone other than a sales girl at JC Penny so much glanced in their direction, and then snap at her daughter when Denise inevitably. rolled her eyes. Bradley's easy-going manner and sense of humor had acted as something of a buffer between the two generations of ramy women.

He could usually diffuse the arguments that flared up between them with increasing frequency as Denise grew older with the deaf change of subject or one of his goofy jokes. Without him, the atmosphere and the single wide grew ever more tense. Denise heard the screen door bang open behind her, interrupting her wool gathering as their tiny coterie marched out into the late afternoon sun, a rag-tagged, company dressed in black the color drained from their faces courtesy of mabeline and mary k it was strange to see them

all gothed out in the middle of the day but she also felt a glow of pride here we are cherry hill your children of the night what music we make hey hey hey shotgun oh man i wanted shotgun for once the hell you say ladies up front sugar tits in the back mica and brend clambered into the back of the car grab ass in and carrying on the way boys do. Denise stood just inside the open driver's side door, hesitating for a moment before she took her place behind the wheel. You okay, Shug? Yeah, I think so.

I've never made a drive this far on my own. Bradley usually drove. Yeah, I miss his dumbass too. It's going to be fine. You got this. I can drive some on the way back if you need me too. No fence, but you're blinder than I am at night, and you drive like about out of hell.

All right, let's go. that, the vet rumbled to life, and the dark heart of Glay Morgan took to the road in search of good friends, good music, and good time. About an hour after sundown, and a house somewhere out near Big Gap Road in Baker's Gap, a kitchen phone began to ring, and Cody Blevins plucked it from its place on the wall before it could finish its chirping song a second time. Uh, hello? Uh, It's Glenn Shelby. Hey, Glenn. Everything all right up there?

Oh, we do have a small situation. We brought Ms. Miranda back to the property and told her very sternly that she was not to leave her rooms tonight, but... She got loose again. I know. Come across the CB about 20 minutes ago. Ayer's boy spotted her getting into a service fan

for an HVAC company out of Severeval. They were following up on it. Oh, good. You know the Ayer's boys well enough, I think. Could you reach out to them and see if they... It's too late, Glenn. They clocked her earlier today when she was in town. Like I said, it was on the CB. Everybody heard it. Call claim on it. Wouldn't surprise me if she's already in the wind. I'm sorry, man, there. There ain't nobody can reason with that woman once she's on the hunt. Oh, I see. And... Don't do nothing stupid now, Glenn. This is Bird we're talking about.

You know, I know, I know. Y'all have your protocols and we have ours. Have a good night, bear. You too, Glenn, and for what it's worth, I'm sorry. So am I, bear. So am I. Well, hey there, family. Thank you all for sticking with us as we journey into the deepest shadows of the early 90s here in the final arc of season five of old gods of Appalachia run like hell.

We have bodies in motion from both sides of the proverbial state line headed towards the big city in Knoxville. Who do y'all think is following on their heels? Guess we'll have to come back next time and find out what bird of ill omen might be casting its shadow over our young folk both living and dead. I hope you'll join us. I truly do. Now, if you want even more stories of the green and the dark that wander all over the timeline from the 19th century through the late 20th, you could cast your tithe into collection plate and join us over in The Holler, our paid subscription service, where you can access hours upon hours of exclusive storylines like Build Mama, Cawthon, Blackmouth Dog, familiar and beloved, alongside studio productions of some of our live show stories such as easy money or the ties that bind.

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Our theme song is by Brother Landin Blood. and our outro music Neon Dracula is by Violent Fear, aka Jacob Danielson Moore, and it's currently available over on Jacob's band camp, and you can find a link to that in the show notes. The voice of Miranda is Andy Marie Tillman. The voice of Troy is Adam Kampurus. The voice of Nish Ramey is Autumn Bogerman.

The voice of Michael Ramey is Aaron Bentley. The voice of Brendan McDaniel is Craig Rice, and the voice of Lori Powers is Allison Mullins. We'll talk to you soon, family. Talk to you real soon.