Case File 011: Frankie Silver | Burke County, 1831. Die With It In You, Frankie.
Three days before Christmas, 1831, a fire burned for days inside a small mountain cabin. Charlie Silver had gone missing, and his young wife said he never came home. Sixty years before Lizzie Borden, the North Carolina mountains had an axe case of their own.
Case File 010: Junior Johnson | Wilkes County, 1956. Caught by a Barbed Wire Fence.
Federal revenuers chased him down mountain highways for years and never once caught him on the road. So they stopped chasing and started waiting. A lighter story from the foothills: Junior Johnson, Wilkes County moonshine, and the fence that finally did what the law couldn't.
Holler Nights Ep. 4 | The Ghost of Laura Foster & Tom Dooley | 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. This is her story, and the one folks near that ridge still whisper about.