Otis Boone
The old mountain knowing, before it's gone for good.
For two hundred years, Appalachian families kept themselves fed, warm, and doctored with nothing but what they had on hand and what their grandmothers taught them. How to read the weather off the sky. How to put up a winter's food with no power. What grew in the woods that would feed you, and what would kill you. None of it was ever written down. It lived in people's hands, and it died with them, over and over, all up and down these hills.
This channel is me trying to catch some of it before the last of it slips away. The real ways, told plain, the good and the hard both.
New videos every day.
Otis Boone
Friends, I've got something to tell you.
A lot of you leave the same kind of comment. That you like my voice, and the way I tell a story. I read those, every one, and they got me thinking.
So I've gone and started a second channel: Otis Boone Stories
The main channel here isn't going anywhere. But over on Otis Boone Stories, I'm doing the long ones. Half hour to one hour-long deep dives into the outlaws, the legends, the mysteries, and the hard mountain lives that never made the history books. One story, told all the way through, no rush and no filler. The kind of thing you can put on of an evening and settle into, or listen to while you're driving or working.
For the very first one, I picked a man close to my heart — Popcorn Sutton, the last real Appalachian moonshiner. Truth be told, more than a few of you have told me I favor the old boy myself, beard and all, so it felt only right he'd be the one to kick things off. It's the true story of how he beat the law for forty years, then got caught for the strangest reason there is.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, come on over and subscribe. I'd be much obliged to see your faces there too.
👉 youtube.com/@OtisBooneStories
Thank you for listening. Every one of you.
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Otis Boone
Every week I tell you about the ones these mountains took. The hiker who stepped off the trail for one single minute. The children who hid from the very people trying to save them. The girl whose scent led up the mountain and simply stopped.
And every week, folks ask me the same thing. How do you make sure you are not one of them.
So I finally set it all down. The Appalachian Book of the Living and the Lost - Surviving the Appalachian Mountains. Everything my people handed to me about how to walk up into this country and come back down alive. The real cases, the hard skills that decide your first cold night, and the old rules that kept people breathing long before the creeks had names.
If you have seen my new video on the feral people, you already know why these hills are not to be taken lightly. This book is the other half of that story. The part that keeps you out of it.
📖 Get it here: Otisboone.com
Stay found out there.
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Otis Boone
Hey everyone, thank you for all the support and lovely comments. I've been reading all of them and trying to answer everyone. I was wondering what videos y'all would like to see next. I was thinking of doing some deep dives into serial killers and cases here, but let me know if y'all would like that or if you would like to see something else. Thank you and God bless.
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