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The Red Shoe on the Anvil: She's Still Waiting

The Red Shoe on the Anvil: She's Still Waiting

The Cutter River returned a child's red canvas shoe after being submerged for more than eighteen hours, and tucked inside was a bone-dry note with six words: "She is still waiting at home." Why did a river that was recorded as nearly three feet below normal return this impossible message - and who was it meant for?

In this episode, we follow how a folklorist's detour into Dellard, Tennessee untangles a nearly seven-decade silence: a drowning ruled accidental in 1928, a five-year-old who spoke no word about what she saw, and a family ritual of a…

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