Roots & Shadows | Appalachian True Crime Podcast

Roots & Shadows: The Real Appalachia is an Appalachian true crime, history, and folklore podcast exploring real cases, forgotten history, and local legends from across southwest Virginia, southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, western North Carolina and east Tennessee of the Appalachian Mountains.

Each episode examines the stories that shaped mountain communities,  from unsolved murders and historic tragedies to regional mysteries and long-held folklore , grounded in public records, archival research, and local memory.

This is storytelling from the mountains, about the mountains.

New episodes weekly.