RHINE RIVER - The Sirens Song

Deep in the East Tennessee mountains, Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was built from the Coal Creek War and the end of convict leasing. For 113 years, men were sent to the end of the line to dig coal inside a mountain that kept most of its secrets. Today the prison is a histor ...  Show more

Desperation, Nevada – a dying copper town on the loneliest road in America, where the tables are still set, the coffee is still hot, and nobody has been home in years. Stephen King's fictional mining town is the destination this week, and the silence there is listening. https://w ...  Show more

While humans have depended on them for fresh water and transportation over the millennia, the rivers in our community have also become home to terrifying folklore. 

Written and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with research by GennaRose Nethercott and music by Chad Lawson.

Before there was Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, there was Richard Wagner’s The Ring of Nibelung. Infused with ancient Norse and Germanic myths, the composer’s epic opera cycle deals in power, corruption, and uncontrollable destruction. At its center is a ring forged from the en ...  Show more

Despite the oceans and centuries that separate various cultures, it is often the folklore that acts like a glue, uniting humanity in a shared world of terrifying legends.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by < ...