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We are headed up Appalachia this week to take a look at an event of great historical significance. During this time of extreme division in the US, and across the global, we are taking a look at a time when people came together to fight the powers in charge.

The coal industry was the backbone of Appalachia for a long time. Generations went deep underground to mine out the mineral that was running the world at the time.

These families worked and lived in towns built and owned by the company they worked for, and if they should ever consider joining a union, they could lose their jobs, as well as their homes.

Tired of being used and abused thousands of miners rallied together to march to free their imprisoned friends. But along the way they came across Blair Mountain, where an anti union sheriff had set up shop to stop their march.

What came next was the largest armed fight on US soil since the civil war. One in which citizens on both sides fought for what they thought was right, or for whoever was paying them.

ROH EP 59 Source Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

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We are going way back in time today to look at a man many of us have wrongly credited with being the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula; Vlad The Impaler.

Born in the time of the great Ottoman Empire, Vlad the 3rd had a rough go at life. At a young age he and his brother were taken hostage by the Sultan for years, while their father stood again him and his reign.

After his father was killed Vlad had to fight long and hard before he was actually able to take the throne of Wallachia for himself. Keeping it would be another long hard struggle, with many of those years spent imprisoned.

Long after his death Vlad leaves a lasting legacy that will debated till the end of time. While it is true he used cruel and barbaric tactics, he is somewhat hailed as a hero for his fight to keep the region autonomous.

ROH EP 58 Source Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_II_Dracul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyars_of_Moldavia_and_Wallachia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A2rgovi%C8%99te

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire

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In this day and age we have the benefit of science but in the 18th and 19th century there wasn't much of that. You know, you have ghost in your blood, do cocaine about it.

So when one member of the family died, then others around them also begin to get sick, suspicion often fell on the recently deceased.

For around 100 years New England was in the grip of a panic; panic that dead people were coming back to consume the life force of their relatives. Long before the word vampire became pop culture, these people feared these relatives had turned into these creatures and were tormenting their living relatives.

So what do you do when the dead are coming back to hurt the living? Dig them up and desecrate their body of course.

ROH EP 57 Source Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Brown_vampire_incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewett_City_vampires

https://www.damnedct.com/the-jewett-city-vampires-griswold/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/