Holler Nights
Not every story from these mountains is a case file.
Some of them never made the news. They made it into the stories people still tell around fires, on porches, and late at night. Passed down, changed a little each time, half remembered and half believed.
Holler Nights is an eight-episode bonus series from Bramble and Bone, stepping outside our usual casework into the lights, ghosts, creatures, and old ways of Appalachia. Some of these stories are documented. Some are legend. We tell you which is which.
All eight episodes are below, sorted into four kinds of stories.
Told by Silas Cade. Researched and produced by KT.
Keep your porch light on.
🛸 The Skies (unexplained lights and encounters)
Ep. 2: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter (1955) | Four Hours 'Til Dawn
Ep. 8: The Flatwoods Monster (WV, 1952) | The Thing on Fisher Hill
👻 The Restless (ghosts that never left)
Ep. 3: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum | The Asylum That Held Eight Times Its Limit
Ep. 4: The Ghost of Laura Foster & Tom Dooley | The Grave on the Ridge
🐾 The Woods (cryptids and creatures)
🌙 The Old Ways (folk magic and mountain legends)
Holler Nights Ep. 6 | The Raven Mocker (Cherokee Legend) | The Old Ways: Sit With the Dying
The Great Smoky Mountains, 1887. Something flies over the ridges at night, trailing sparks and crying like a diving raven, looking for a house where someone is dying. The Cherokee called it the Raven Mocker.