Old Gods of Appalachia: Episode 1: Old Number Seven: Barlo, Kentucky 1917: Part One

Darkness comes to the tiny town of Barlo in the form of the worst mining disaster in Kentucky history. Young Sarah Avery runs.

CW: Frank discussion of historical racism, explicit gore including facial and eye mutilation, death by industrial disaster, desecration of dead bodies, reanimated dead, discovery of a body dead by hanging, endangerment of a child by monsters.

Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

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

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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Notes

Barlow KY 1917
The town has been gone for over 100 years
The mines were the only reason anyone was there
"You do not take from the Mother without Her taking back"
The school, that's where it started
- 15 little babies as Annie called them
#7 Mine exploded, killing 62 men. mostly scabs
Ed and Pinky Avery tried to save miners, but died in the atttempt
- Sarah Avery was the daughter of Pinky
Goshem Creek is where the Avery family lived--isolated
- Holbrooks also lived there. Isaac and Norma
- Pinky, Carol Ann, Sarah, and Uncle Ed were the Averys
Carol Ann hanged herself and was found by the pastor and Annie
Sarahs "father" finds her on the road and offers to take her to her mother...