Miss Virginia heads west while young Tommy stays behind as Jack’s right hand man and discovers that things are almost never what they seem.

CW: Animal carcass eaten by a monster, geese.

Written by Cam Collins

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Intro Music: “The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro Music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness” by Those Poor Bastards

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In which two ambitious young folks from Esau County come to the city of Paradise, and meet with both misfortune and opportunity. 

CW: Assault and robbery.

Written by Cam Collins 

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Intro Music: “The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)” written and performed by Landon Blood

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He had always wanted to come here, to this diamond in the rough wedged in-between kissin’ cousins of a state line: Paradise — a city split down the middle between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Tennessee — was a bustling town in the early winter of 1928.

CW: Discussion of historical slavery and military desertion, human trafficking, assault and robbery.

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The light dies and the darkness comes to the big parlor house out in the gap. There will be blood. There will be death. The conclusion of the The Railroad Man and the Local Magistrate storyline.

CW: Discussion of agency and consent, gunfire, body horror, decay, aging, death by magic, death of human appearing monsters, familial stress and conflict.

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The voice of The Railroad Man: Yuri Lowenthal

The voice of Jerry Brotherton: Corey Ryan Forreseter

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The Railroad man and his new friends follow Vera Blevins to Baker's Gap in 1913, and things will never be the same.

CW: Mention of death of a family member by illness, family strife, mention of consentual sex work, verbal threats, discussion of religious issues.

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In 1913, a girl escaped the company-owned parlor house where she'd been kept against her will in possession of company property. She headed south via rail to her family's home in Baker's Gap, TN. She was followed.

CW: References to historical racism; references to consensual sex work; descriptions of human trafficking; mention of excrement; non-specific mention of the deaths of children; descriptions of sex work-related (but non-sexual) violence, injuries and death; description of monster-inflicted dismemberment and death; consumption of a human corpse by a monster; gore; sounds of a pig-themed monster in distress; mention of death of a parent by illness; body horror. All pig-related sounds are taken from samples of pigs being fed and pigs just being pigs. No pigs were harmed in any media related to or sampled by this podcast.

Written by Steve Shell

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Intro Music: "The Land Unknown (The Hollow Heart Verses)" written and performed by Landon Blood

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We journey back in time to the end of the 19th Century in Combe County, North Carolina so that we can gain proper perspective on where that incident with the local magistrate and the Railroad Man sprung from. 

CW: Institutional Racism/Brutality. Violent work related death. 

Written by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Produced by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

The voice of Jerry Brotherton: Cory Ryan Forrester

The voice of The Railroad Man: Yuri Lowenthal

Intro Music: “The Land Unknown” (The Hollow Heart Verses) written and performed by Landon Blood 

Outro Music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness” written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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The truth comes out about the hard death of Frank Tilley and Sheriff Andy Hodge has a tough choice to make.

CW: Descriptions and depictions of physical and emotional domestic violence, monster violence, gore, disfigurement, dismemberment, religious trauma.

Written by Cam Collins

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Sound design by Steve Shell

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Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "In the Pines" performed by Steve Shell and Matt Evans

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Three months before Frank Tilley met a hard death on the tracks outside Baker's Gap, Esther Campbell moved to Baker's Gap in search of a new life and a new way of worship.

CW: Discussion of Domestic Violence, Fundamentalist Religious Themes

Written by: Steve Shell

Narrated by: Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood 

In story song: “Am I Born To Die? (Traditional) performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: “I Cannot Escape The Darkness,” written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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Our holiday trilogy comes to a close as we witness two different joinings of souls for all eternity. Headphones recommended. You are not prepared, Family.

CW: Gore, Monster Violence, Desecration

Written by Cam Collins and Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Music: "The Bride" by Landon Blood

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