Who - Or What - Were the “Moon Eyed People” of Appalachia?

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The highlands of Eastern Tennessee are an eerie place. Sparsely inhabited and densely forested, the mist filled valleys of the Great Smoky Mountains are home to stories of wild men, unsolved disappearances, and even paranormal encounters. Most of those stories are little more than folktales and modern myths propagated online, but within many of them are kernels of truth, and one of the more enigmatic tales predates white settlement in the region entirely. Long before the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh settled in America’s oldest mountains, they were within the domain of the large and powerful Cherokee Tribe; but even they hold memories of when they first came to the region, and of the people who were there before them. According to Cherokee legend, those ancient hills were once the domain of a strange tribe they called the “Moon-Eyed People,” and who exactly they were is one of the great mysteries of American pre-history. Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...

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00:00 - Cold Open
00:21 - Introduction
03:39 - The Moon Eyed People
12:54 - Moonbeam, Ice Cream
24:35 - The Legend of Prince Madoc
43:45 - What Would it Take?