Meet Our Cousins: The Harbingers

Meet Our Cousins: The Harbingers

Author: DeepNerd Media April 2, 2026 Duration: 52:49

Well hey there, family. This week Old Gods of Appalachia is taking an extra week off, as we do in between story arcs, and we will return on Thursday April 16th with the second arc of Old Gods of Appalachia Season 6: Long Shadows. We’ve got a whole new story we can’t wait to share with you. If you wanna hear that ad-free and a day early, go ahead and head on over to oldgodsofappalachia.com/theholler, cast your tithe in the collection plate, and get that early ad-free access, as well as unlocking hours of exclusive storylines, including the new deluxe edition of Unhallowed Grounds starring Cecil Baldwin of Welcome to Night Vale and former Durham, North Carolina, Poet Laureate DJ Rogers. But until then, allow us to fill the void with some exciting work from our friends over at Audacious Machine Creative. 


From the mind of Gabrielle Urbina, creator of Wolf 359, comes a modern fantasy podcast about the first two real magicians of the modern era and how that power changes the world forever. If you like magical rivals, political machinations, snappy dialogue, and dreaming of saving the world, the The Harbingers is a show for you


Magic is real. It’s real, and it’s coming back.


Listen to The Harbingers wherever you find your podcasts. Episodes come out biweekly on Thursdays. Learn more about The Harbingers at audaciousmachinecreative.com.

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Deep within the ancient hills and mist-shrouded hollows, a different kind of history waits. Old Gods of Appalachia, crafted by DeepNerd Media, is not merely a story but an excavation of the land's old, grim bones. This narrative podcast weaves together elements of folk horror and cosmic dread, rooted in the very soil of the mountains. It explores a world where the coal in the dark seams and the gnarled roots of the trees hold memories far older and more malevolent than any human settlement. Each episode feels like a found artifact, a tale passed down in whispers, warning of what stirs when the skin of the world is cut open. Listeners will hear interconnected stories of communities grappling with forces they cannot comprehend-forces that were here long before the first roads were carved and that will remain long after. The anthology format allows these chilling tales to unfold across different times and perspectives, all bound by the shared, haunted geography of central Appalachia. It’s a place where the price of progress is often measured in blood and darkness, and where the natural world itself holds a terrifying, sentient science. To tune into this podcast is to walk a forgotten path, to feel the weight of the mountains, and to understand that some legends are not just stories, but living, breathing warnings.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Old Gods of Appalachia
Podcast Episodes
Episode 29: A Friend of the Family [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:26
A light walks before darkness falls.CW: Gore, murder, mutilation, frank discussion of historical racism, assault, references to lynching, references to death of a spouse, hornets, description of anyphylactic shock/death,…
Episode 28: Paradise Lost [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:34
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 CollinsNarrated by St…
Episode 27: Strangers in Paradise [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:14
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 Narrated by Steve ShellSound design by Steve…
Episode 26: Welcome to Paradise [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:04
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 —…
Episode 25: The Siege of Pleasant Evenings [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:50
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 a…
Episode 24: Charcoal Suit and All [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:30
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…
Episode 23: A Bad Night for Hollow Men [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:49
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: Ref…
Episode 22: Paper, Ink and Sorrow [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:25
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: Institu…
Episode 21: A Worthy Grave [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:00
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, disfiguremen…

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