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, late at night. Passed down, changed a little each time, half-remembered and half-believed.
Holler Nights is a limited series from Bramble and Bone, stepping outside our usual true crime casework to explore the aliens, ghosts, cryptids, and old mountain folklore of Appalachia. These are campfire stories — some documented, some legend, all told in the spirit of the mountains they come from.
We cover four kinds of stories:
🛸 The Skies — the lights people have seen over these mountains for decades that nobody's ever been able to explain away
👻 The Restless — the ghosts that never quite left, still walking halls and bridges and back roads long after anyone remembers their names
🐾 The Woods — the things people swear they've seen moving between the trees
🌙 The Old Ways — the folk magic, the charms, and the mountain wisdom our grandparents swore by
I'm Silas Cade, and every episode, I'll bring you one more story from these hollers.
Keep your porch light on.
Holler Nights : Ghosts - The Grave on the Ridge
Wilkes County, 1866. Laura Foster rode out before sunrise to meet the man she planned to marry. She never came home, but the horse did. The song made Tom Dooley famous. Tonight, we tell her story, and the one folks near that ridge still whisper about.
Holler Nights : The Restless - The Halls That Never Emptied
Weston, West Virginia. They built it for two hundred and fifty souls. By the 1950s, it held nearly two thousand. Tonight, we walk the quarter-mile halls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, and ask whether some of those two thousand ever really left.

