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. 8 | The Flatwoods Monster (WV, 1952) | The Skies: The Thing on Fisher Hill
Flatwoods, West Virginia, 1952. A group of boys sees something bright drop behind a hill on the Fisher farm. With one brave mother and a flashlight, they climb that hill in the dark. The Holler Nights finale.
Holler Nights Ep. 7 | The Sheepsquatch of West Virginia | The Woods: The White Thing
It's been called the White Thing, the Devil Dog, and the Great Horned Yeti. Today most people call it the Sheepsquatch: a pale, shaggy, horned creature that has haunted nearly a century of West Virginia stories.
Holler Nights Ep. 5 | The Grafton Monster (WV, 1964) | The Woods: The Thing on Riverside Drive
Grafton, West Virginia, 1964. A young newspaperman driving home along the river catches something in his headlights: tall, pale, smooth as a seal, and without a head.
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.
Holler Nights: The Woods — The Mothman of Point Pleasant
November 1966. A seven-foot figure with glowing red eyes near an old power plant. Thirteen months of sightings, strange men in black asking questions no one could answer — and a bridge collapse that would tie Point Pleasant to legend forever.