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  • Episode 93: A Halloween Horror Story--The Vampire Within

    Episode 93: A Halloween Horror Story--The Vampire Within
    Oct 29 2025
    Missouri's Old Lead Belt vampire--Orlin Eaton (maybe)--was accused of leaving his grave and poisoning children. While the historical record concerning Orlin was sketchy, the historical context is not: World War I was raging in Europe, child mortality was on the rise in the mining camps, Hungarian immigrants in the Lead Belt were held in suspicion, and the miners needed someone to blame. Out of the subsequent riots emerged a folktale with roots in the blood libel of the Middle Ages, and the Chronicles digs deep to show the continuing relevance of such stories to our own time. History, folklore, and ethnology converge in this episode with disturbing implications for us all.

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    1 h et 5 min
  • Episode 92: The music of Nick and Captain Sibley

    Episode 92: The music of Nick and Captain Sibley
    Oct 22 2025
    Nick Sibley is a highly regarded jingle writer--think O, O, O, O'Reilly . . . auto parts!--and musician who currently is playing back up with Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Captain Sibley, Nick's son, spent his eighteenth year touring with Tony Orlando--Captain plays bass--and now with Lee Greenwood. The Chronicles unites father and son in this special episode featuring the original music of Nick and Captain Sibley. Ozarks music is alive and well, and these gentlemen are the proof! This is a special episode we know you'll enjoy!

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    1 h et 6 min
  • Episode 91: From Russian tyranny to the Ozarks hills, Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides recalls the tragic story of a nearly forgotten Jewish community

    Episode 91: From Russian tyranny to the Ozarks hills, Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides recalls the tragic story of a nearly forgotten Jewish community
    Oct 15 2025
    In her book Yellow Jack and Turpentine, Mara Cohen traces the travels and travails of a group of Jewish refugees from Odessa, Russia, to the port city of Hamburg, Germany, to New York City and eventually to the banks of the White River near Newport, Arkansas. The group set out with the intention of becoming a farming community only to find an inhospitable land of poor soil, a flooding river, and disease bearing mosquitoes that would eventually defeat their experiment. "Yellow jack" was the idiom for yellow fever, and turpentine was the ostensible cure, but perseverance characterized their settlement in the Ozarks. Mara's story is one you're sure to enjoy!

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    1 h et 9 min
  • Episode 90: Killer Carl and Mayhem in Taney County: Tammy Morton and Angel Wolf Return to the Chronicles!

    Episode 90: Killer Carl and Mayhem in Taney County: Tammy Morton and Angel Wolf Return to the Chronicles!
    Oct 8 2025
    In this episode, our own Madams of Murder, Tammy Morton and Angel Wolf, return to tell the outrageous story of Carl Wood. Carl once bragged that he had killed eleven men in the course of his life, and Tammy and Angel convey two of his most public and spectacular killings, one of which took place in a church in Protem, Missouri. Charming, vicious, and elusive, Carl never served time for murder, and he ended his life dying of natural causes in his home in Springfield. Nevertheless, he left a wake of bodies behind him and people who still mourn some eighty years later because justice, they believe, was never served. Another thoroughly documented and carefully told story from Tammy and Angel. You don't want to miss it!

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    53 min
  • Episode 89: Waiting for the End of the World: The Incoming Kingdom Missionary Unit

    Episode 89: Waiting for the End of the World: The Incoming Kingdom Missionary Unit
    Oct 1 2025
    The fourth episode in our series, Movements on the Margins, examines the establishment of a cult on the banks of the Buffalo in the early 1920s. John Battenfield, a charismatic preacher and scholar of Hebrew and Greek, moved with a group of his followers to Gilbert, Arkansas, to prepare for a worldwide war between Catholics and Protestants. In short order, they built a community with stores, forges, a church, and perhaps most important, a printing press. When the war failed to materialize, Battenfield tried to a raise a girl from the dead. When that failed to materialize, he had a nervous breakdown, and in 1925 he left for a sanatorium in New York. But the story doesn't end there. In a downward spiral of increasingly bizarre behavior, the group sputtered along until it finally disbanded in 1930. Join the Chronicles for another quirky story about a Movement on the Margins.

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    51 min
  • Episode 88: The First Lady of the Ozarks, Kaitlyn McConnell, is on the Chronicles!

    Episode 88: The First Lady of the Ozarks, Kaitlyn McConnell, is on the Chronicles!
    Sep 24 2025

    Kaitlyn McConnell has given her life to preserving the culture and stories of the Ozarks. Her focus is not simply on the past: She is also concerned with the activities and lives of Ozarkers today. Her passion has taken her all over the Ozarks, and in this episode, you'll learn more about Kaitlyn and her online project, Ozarks Alive! We hope you'll join us for this very special episode of the Ozarkian Folk Chronicles.


    And don't forget our new addendum: Stories about the Storytellers. This segment introduces Deacon Frank Hembree, fiddler, float fishing guide, and contributor of the title story to Vance's notorious collection of bawdy tales, Pissing in the Snow. You can read about Frank Hembree in "Mildred, Quit Hollering," the final, posthumous collection of folktales by the inimitable Vance Randolph.

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    1 h et 6 min
  • Episode 87: Ozarks Icon Phyllis Speer: Ready and Loaded for Bear!

    Episode 87: Ozarks Icon Phyllis Speer: Ready and Loaded for Bear!
    Sep 17 2025
    Join the Chronicles for a delightful conversation with Phyllis Speer as she talks about her adventures hosting the wild game cooking show, Cooking on the Wildside, with John Philpot; hunting and fishing the beautiful Arkansas Ozarks; and the pleasure (and ethics) of cooking what you kill. Spend an hour with Phyllis, and you'll see why her show ran on the Arkansas Educational Television Network for eighteen years. You'll also find out how bear and bobcat taste--and how eating crow can be more than a cliche. You don't want to miss this special episode of the Ozarkian Folk Chronicles!

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    1 h et 14 min
  • Episode 86: Arming for Armageddon: Vincent Anderson and the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord

    Episode 86: Arming for Armageddon: Vincent Anderson and the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord
    Sep 10 2025
    Vincent Anderson joins the OFC for our third in the series, Ozarks Movements on the Margins, to recall for us one of the most notorious cults ever planted in these hills, the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord. From the earliest days of Ellison and Noble to the invasion of the compound in 1985, Anderson guides us through the history and aberrant theology of a compound in northern Arkansas that was obsessed with race, eschatology, and a supposed mission to defeat the enemies of God. A scarlet thread of hatred and end times speculation runs through many of these cults, but none exemplifies that thread more clearly than the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord.

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    1 h et 24 min