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Away Message

A podcast that goes the distance to reveal hard-to-find stories across North Carolina. Join journalist Jeremy Markovich as he travels across the state to uncover remote places, lost artifacts, overloo... Read more

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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S4 E2: The Warriors on the Trail

S4 E2: The Warriors on the Trail

On the first day of her trip across North Carolina on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, veteran Erin Brennan is making sense o... Read more

1 May 2020

32mins

Ranked #2

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S4 E1: 1,175 Miles

S4 E1: 1,175 Miles

The new season of our award-winning podcast begins with some fairly basic questions. What is the Mountains-to-Sea Trail?... Read more

14 Apr 2020

36mins

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Ranked #3

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S1 E1: The Most Remote

S1 E1: The Most Remote

Host Jeremy Markovich sets his sights on Western North Carolina in search of the state's most remote spot.

13 Jul 2017

25mins

Ranked #4

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S2 E8: 32 Miles Off The Coast

S2 E8: 32 Miles Off The Coast

In the finale of Season 2, host Jeremy Markovich takes a trip to a remote place he's been trying to visit for years: Fry... Read more

31 Aug 2018

37mins

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Ranked #5

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S3 E8: The Rookie

S3 E8: The Rookie

Jeff Postell was a 21-year-old police officer when he made an arrest in the middle of the night in a small North Carolin... Read more

21 Nov 2019

55mins

Ranked #6

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S1 E2: Wave If You Can See Me

S1 E2: Wave If You Can See Me

We travel to a remote place, only a quarter-mile off of the North Carolina coast, that kept a Civil War shipwreck hidden... Read more

20 Jul 2017

21mins

Ranked #7

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S2 E5: The Nuke They Left Behind

S2 E5: The Nuke They Left Behind

In 1961, a U.S. Air Force bomber crashed near Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the two thermonuclear bombs on board fell t... Read more

3 Jul 2018

29mins

Ranked #8

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S1 E3.5: Out On The Outer Banks

S1 E3.5: Out On The Outer Banks

The weather's perfect, but a power outage has driven all of the visitors and vacationers off of the southern Outer Banks... Read more

2 Aug 2017

14mins

Ranked #9

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S3 E7: An Island Of Your Own

S3 E7: An Island Of Your Own

Davis Island wasn’t always an island. In the early 1900s, a hurricane cut a path through a peninsula that stuck out into... Read more

1 Oct 2019

36mins

Ranked #10

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S2 E3: The Riches Underneath Charlotte

S2 E3: The Riches Underneath Charlotte

In this supersized episode, host Jeremy Markovich goes looking for Charlotte's original gold mines, and then gets inside... Read more

10 May 2018

34mins

Ranked #11

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S1 E4: Dismally Yours

S1 E4: Dismally Yours

A trip into the Great Dismal Swamp reveals a lot of biting bugs, black water you can drink, and secrets about the runawa... Read more

10 Aug 2017

25mins

Ranked #12

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S2 E2: The Unsinkable Floating Houses of Fontana

S2 E2: The Unsinkable Floating Houses of Fontana

On Fontana Lake, in far western North Carolina, sit hundreds of floating cabins, meant for fishing and weekend getaways.... Read more

24 Apr 2018

22mins

Ranked #13

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S3 E3: Stop Making Cents

S3 E3: Stop Making Cents

A woman from Mooresville, North Carolina became Mecklenburg County’s first black nurse. Then she became a prolific and w... Read more

24 May 2019

30mins

Ranked #14

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S1 E3: As High As You Can Get

S1 E3: As High As You Can Get

We go way up above the ground on a television broadcast tower, the tallest structure in North Carolina, to meet the surp... Read more

27 Jul 2017

23mins

Ranked #15

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S3 E2: A Rescue In The Linville Gorge

S3 E2: A Rescue In The Linville Gorge

On May 7, 2016, a man fell hundreds of feet down a mountainside, and ended up in a treacherous spot in North Carolina’s ... Read more

7 May 2019

32mins

Ranked #16

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S2 E4: How To Get Away With Murder (In 1892)

S2 E4: How To Get Away With Murder (In 1892)

What would happen if you stood in one state, then shot and killed someone in another? That scenario actually took place ... Read more

25 May 2018

33mins

Ranked #17

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S3 E1: Symbolism

S3 E1: Symbolism

In 2001, some state lawmakers were engaged in a less-than-sweet debate: Which berry should be named the official berry o... Read more

15 Apr 2019

32mins

Ranked #18

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S2 E1: The Dream Returns

S2 E1: The Dream Returns

Dr. Martin Luther King once gave a speech in Rocky Mount, North Carolina that energized the city and changed the lives o... Read more

3 Apr 2018

32mins

Ranked #19

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S1 E6: Remote or Knott

S1 E6: Remote or Knott

Host Jeremy Markovich travels to Knotts Island, North Carolina -- a unique place with colorful characters -- where nobod... Read more

24 Aug 2017

25mins

Ranked #20

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S1 E7: Blurred Lines

S1 E7: Blurred Lines

In this episode, host Jeremy Markovich visits the small brass disc at the western edge of the state that's become a stra... Read more

31 Aug 2017

27mins

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