Appalachian Murder, Mystery And Legend · Larry Bentley

The Blue Ridge Shadow

·18 min·1 clip
As a 'toad strangler' storm erupts, revenuer Hall Rose tells moonshiner Elias Miller, 'I'm fixing to show you the whole blame book.'
Host Larry Bentley narrates a supernatural Appalachian legend set in the 1920s about revenuer James 'Hall' Rose, a son of the mountains who returns—perhaps as a ghost—to dismantle the violent Miller clan moonshining operation with the help of a mystical 'granny witch.' The story blends historical detail, folk magic, and a haunting twist to explore the region's enduring memory and justice.

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A revenuer's flight through laurel turns toward Granny Althea's cabin and old-mountain legend.

The episode moves as a mountain pursuit, following revenuer James Rose Hall after Elias demands that he be found and that his badge land on a mantelpiece by sundown.

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You want a mountain chase that ends at a granny witch's porch? Press play.

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