Send us a text In this week's edition we are joined by Joel Thomas and Sean Chris from the podcast Kill The Mockingbirds. Joel and Sean always have their fingers on the pulse of what's going on in the events, headlines, and society of America. With the recent weird events (train derailments, "UFOs" shot down, and toxic chemicals spilling all over) going on all over America, we couldn't think of a better time to talk to these guys. We discuss those things and much more, including the modern state...
Feb 20, 2023•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 60
Send us a text Mark Steeves, the host of the My Family Thinks I'm Crazy and Esoteric America Podcasts, joins us for this edition to talk about the research he's come across in his hometown of New Haven, CT, and the greater New England area. This discussion goes a lot of places including giants in native folklore, secret societies, saturnian and egyptian based architecture, ancient America, hidden history, dinosaurs, and so much more. A lot of weirdness covered in this one. Check out Mark Steeves...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 59
Send us a text The AI guys sit down in this one and have a free ranging conversation about Appalachian weirdness. Lance reads a listener submission from hillfolk member ElizaBeth. A tale about Bigfoot back in the old days. The guys go on to discuss Bigfoot, women in white with birds feet, and people witnessing these two entities together. Then, Justin shares details of a conversation he had with a well known Granny Witch in the area. Unfortunately, this lady did not want to make an appearance on...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 58
Send us a text We welcome Erick, the host of uNcomfortable Podcast in this week's edition of AI. Erick talks about several different paranormal encounters he's had throughout his life, including, being protected by presumed guardian angels during accidents, and being visited by his dad after his dad had passed on. We get into a lot of different things throughout this conversation though. We talk about religion, spirituality, consciousness, Bigfoot, old gods of ancient civilizations, and weird Ap...
Jan 30, 2023•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 57
Send us a text Join the AI Guys as we dive into a really weird conversation about vanishing places. We cover accounts of people finding themselves in a certain place, and then never being able to rediscover that place, or it vanishing almost immediately. These accounts bring about the question, "Where do these places go?" Is it a figment of the experiencer's imagination? Did these people slip into a parallel dimension or a different timeliness? Are there places in this world that show up at the ...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 56
Send us a text We welcome Harrison and Lowell Blauch from Silver Pilled Podcast on for this one. Silver Pilled is an up and coming Podcast that's taking the weirdo world by storm. This was a great conversation covering a bunch of strange topics, including, 20 and Backs, sleep paralysis, abductions, the power of consciousness, staircases in the woods, not well known cryptids, and much more. This is a Holler Back episode meaning there is bonus conversation over on our Patreon patreon.com/appalachi...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 55
Send us a text We sit down with a proud member of Hillfolk Nation, Joel Pharr, in this one. Joel has some extremely interesting sleep paralysis encounters that lead to him being recruited by extraterrestrial or possibly ultraterrestrial entities that were trying to teach him certain things. We close out the conversation talking about strange places around Appalachia. Y'all are going to love this one! Please rate and review this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Reach out to us with your o...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 54
Send us a text Happy New Year Hillfolk! In this edition we bring you the second part of Ryan's deep dive into Roswell. Ryan wraps up a lot of loose ends in this one. We talk witnesses seeing bodies, more cover ups, and a government program that could back up the weather Ballon story. The guys wrap up with a UFO and extraterrestrial discussion. Please rate and review this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Reach out to us with your own stories at appalachianintelligence@gmail.com Follow us ...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 53
Send us a text In this not so Christmasy edition of AI, we sit down with Declassified Dave and Slick Fronk Sanders from the Hush Hush Society Conspiracy Hour to talk, well, everything. This was a great conversation where we discussed dreams, reality, UFOs, off world technology, congressional hearings, Roswell, the JFK assassination, Project Blue Beam, and somehow a whole lot more. We closed the night by hearing some of the Hush Hush guys personal paranormal experiences. *Hush Hush Society inform...
Dec 26, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 52
Send us a text Just the AI guys in this one. We're usually a more conversation based podcast, but in this one, Ryan is way deep into a Roswell rabbit hole. So, we HAVE to give him the floor and allow him to lay out all the information he's acquired. Crashed flying disks, government cover ups, forced PR statements, transferred military, and end of life confessions. This has got it all. And its just the first part. We all know that was just a weather balloon that crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947, ri...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 51
Send us a text Justin and Jay from the Cryptids of the Corn Podcast join the AI guys in this one to talk about organic UFOs. Justin is a biologist and has theorized that approximately 5% of the UFOs that are observed may possibly be organic, living, organisms that operate in the upper atmosphere similarly to organisms that operate in the deep oceans. This is an absolutely awesome science filled discussion that we hope you find as intriguing as we did! Check out Cryptids of the Corn Podcast Find ...
Dec 12, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 50
Send us a text In this week's newest edition of AI, we sit down with Daniel and Ryan from Coon Hunting Confidentials of Hounds Tooth Podcasting Network. It was a great conversation and we hit on topics such as bigfoot, dark woods, bible, and a whole lot of Coon hunting creepiness. These guys have a very unique show and have carved out their own niche in the weird world of podcasts. Check out Coon Hunting Confidentials wherever you listen to podcasts. Go leave these boys a 5 star rating and revie...
Dec 05, 2022•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 49
Send us a text The AI Guys sit down in this one and talk an old urban legend, The witch of Dunlora Plantation. It's a weird story that involves murdered boy scouts, a charged scout leader, and a strange growth of trees. Could a witch, or the spirit of one, actually have been accountable for those deaths. It also opened up great conversation about witchcraft, the occult, and magic. Don't miss this great conversation. Please rate and review this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Reach out t...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 48
Send us a text In this installment the AI guys sit down with Josh and Ritchie from the Sword and Staff Podcast. Josh and Ritchie are at the center of an awesome docuseries coming in Fall of 2023, Shadow Appalachia. That's not all we talked about though. We covered everything from Sons of God to the nature of reality. This was a fun one that y'all will not want to miss. Check out these guys on all the socials. Just search Sword and Staff. Follow Shadow Appalachia on YouTube and Instagram. Or chec...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 47
Send us a text The AI Guys sit down to discuss an extremely weird phenomenon, something that has been dubbed, The Glimmer Man. There's been accounts of people seeing these weird, translucent, forms, moving through their environments. What are they? Are they something from the other side of the veil? Are they some form of cloaking cryptid? Is it government technology? Or is this nothing more than entities that exist naturally in our environment that we don't have the biological capabilities to ob...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 46
Send us a text Berton Moran from the YouTube channel Local Legends joins us to discuss the weird and his own personal paranormal experiences. Berton has had his fair share of accounts and experiences, including witnessing a giant owl standing at a crossroads watching him as he drove by. We dig into a lot of fortean talk in this one and encounter a weird synchronicity. Check it! **There is slight background static throughout the episode due to a loose connection on Justin's microphone. We sincere...
Nov 07, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 45
Send us a text Happy Hollerween Hillfolk! This episode is our Hollerween finale talking about the legend of Stanley Stiers. Was Stanley and the events that transpired throughout his life the inspiration behind Michael Myers character in John Carpenter's Halloween? This topic leads the AI guys into a deep discussion about serial killers in general. What drives them to commit the atrocities they do? Is it nature or nurture? Could they be possessed or appeasing some dark entities, or is it just the...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 44
Send us a text Welcome to the second installment of Super Scary Creepy Story Time, Hollerween Edition. The AI guys each share an interesting, creepy story or two that they've come across on the interwebs. Some of the stories include a terrifying account of hearing some knocking sounds and realizing they're coming from the morgue, a first hand encounter with a couple black eyed kids, and an aggressively haunted house in nearby Big Stone Gap, VA. Please rate and review this episode wherever you li...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 43
Send us a text Welcome to Super Scary Creepy Story Time, Hollerween Edition. One of our favorite things to do during scary season is share creepy campfire stories. So thats exactly what we do. In this episode, each of the AI Guys share a creepy story or two. Stories about dream visitations, murder from beyond the grave, a demonic dogman, and a weird personal story from Lance. Please rate and review this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Reach out to us with your own stories at appalachian...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 42
Send us a text The AI Guys welcome Bean to sit down and talk about a lifetime of paranormal and cryptid encounters. Bean has had a ton of weird experiences. Everything from witnessing giant thunderbird, to seeing a horde of shadow people in his room, to experiences with a Bigfoot close to his home and work. Y'all got to check this one out. Please rate and review this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Reach out to us with your own stories at appalachianintelligence@gmail.com Follow us on T...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 41
Send us a text What a way to kick off spooky season. We sit down with Nick Hinton to talk AI, fortean phenomena, biblical history and prophecy, dark spiritual forces, and his personal paranormal experiences. Have fallen angels manipulated reality and set up a long game of controlling mankind and getting back at God? Oh yeah, and his new book he's wrapping up. Y'all do not want to miss out on this one. DM Nick to purchase a copy of his books, The Saturn Time Cube Simulation and The Aquarian Singu...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 40
Send us a text The AI Guys sit down in this one to talk about a little known UFO event that happened right next door. In 2002 a CSX train hauling coal near Paintsville, KY reported that they had witnessed three silver, disk shaped UFOs. The engines and power to the train cut out, and they collided with one of the UFOs, meanwhile, the other two just vanished. What happens next may be even weirder. Was there a huge government cover up after this event? Please rate and review this episode wherever ...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 39
Send us a text It's just the AI guys in this one, sitting down for a great, sometimes intense conversation. We talk about the last two years of chaos and confusion as the result of requirements, restrictions, divide, and lock downs from the virus. We also get into the Large Hadron Collider at CERN firing back up and some of weird things that have happened around the world since then. Do we keep shifting timelines?? Please rate and review this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Reach out to...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 38
Send us a text Our good friend Maverick Matthews joins the guys for the third time in this one. We talk about some major divisive topics in today's society and possible solutions for those. We talk about who we think the "they" are that are pulling the strings behind the puppets that are intentionally sending society into chaos. Maverick also talks about some recent research and experience with OBEs that are rather terrifying. So join in for a great conversation and know that the things we say c...
Sep 12, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 37
Send us a text The Scribe of the Supernatural himself, Arthur Unk, Head Writer of one of our favorite podcasts, The Grey Rooms, (yes we're talking about The Grey Rooms again) joins the guys to chat it up. We talked about the world of The Grey Rooms and what to look forward to in Season 5 (dropping around Halloween), angels, biblical ghost stories, Nikola Tesla, The Seven Sisters Road, and binaural tones. This was a really fun conversation, and I know we say this all the time, but it really felt ...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 36
Send us a text This is the one y'all Hillfolk have been waiting for. JW Salyers joins us this week to share the history and knowledge behind all of the information he has about the Swift Silver Mine. I've heard a lot of people tell their stories, theories, and research into the Silver Mine but I've never heard someone with as much conviction and evidence. JW is a captivating storyteller and with him at the helm WE WILL FIND THIS SILVER! Please rate and review this episode wherever you listen to ...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 35
Send us a text Great friend of the show, Tessa, joins the guys to give her accounts of all the weird, supernatural things that she's experienced. Tessa started having paranormal experiences at the young age of 8, when unidentifiable entities would visit her at night, abduct her, and take her away to have experimental operations performed. Tessa always thought they were just night terrors. The list of skin crawling experiences go on with her being attacked by a Night Hag, having conversations wit...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 34
Send us a text We welcome Chris Colin to the show to talk about the history and paranormality of a literal Ghost Town in West Virginia. A little known old railroad town, located in the New River Gorge, called Thurmond. Chris talks about what made Thurmond so popular in the old days and also how some negative energy could have been left over. Chris has led several paranormal investigations into Thurmond, one in particular attended by our very own Justin. Tune in and experience an engaging mix of ...
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 33
Send us a text Whew, where to begin in this one? In this episode we talk about our adventure to find the cliff rock carving that overlooks our town! This carving is really intricate and appears to represent or be some form of map....possibly, but we have no idea who constructed this massive undertaking or when they would have done it. After finding the rock, we started digging. We came across an article possibly linking this rock to the local legend of the John Swift Silver Mine. Then, Lance dro...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 32
Send us a text The guys sit down with Steve and Kyle from the Holosky Podcast in this one and chat it up about all things weird. Topics range from CERN to alternate timeliness, from aliens to entities, and of course a little splash of Egress Industries. These dudes were a blast to sit down with and are a wealth of knowledge in the world of the weird. I highly recommend checking this episode out and when you're done with that jump on over to Holosky and show these boys some love. Check out Holosk...
Aug 01, 2022•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 31