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North Carolina Rabbit Hole
Get lost in the strange minutiae of the best state in the country.
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I'm sorry, did you say the *what* hut
A sign in Waynesville promises the arrival of a new business! There's just one problem: That business is not allowed in Haywood County. So what's going on?
Jun 16
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How hot is it?
No, how hot IS it?
Jun 15
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Bruton Smith always got the last word
The legendary racetrack owner died this week at age 95. In an interview, his right hand man talks about what it was like to work with a larger-than-life North Carolinian who wasn't afraid of a fight.
Jun 23
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An interview with North Carolina's world-champion cheese wheel chaser
Listen now | Abby Lampe won a highly dangerous competition where people chase a wheel of cheese down an extremely steep hill in England. We asked her all about it.
Jun 9
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Mick Jagger went to a dive bar in Charlotte and literally everybody missed him
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The story behind an Outer Banks house that collapsed into the ocean
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I became obsessed with North Carolina's largest native fruit. Then I ate one.
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Clogger, TikTok Thyself
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This guy took video of Switzerland, labeled it "Gastonia," and got 5.6 million TikTok views
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The fight to save a license plate that says "FART"
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Was a member of BTS wearing a Fetzer Gym T-shirt from UNC?
A member of the world's biggest K-Pop band is often spotted wearing a shirt with the letters "FG" on it. Is that a low-key reference to, of all things…
Jeremy Markovich
Jun 2
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What happened at Mount Tabor High School after the shooting
Last September, many of us saw the news about a student who was shot and killed at a school in Winston-Salem. It may have faded away from your memory…
Rachel Crumpler
May 26
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A hurricane. A surging ocean. And a pool table.
The photographer who made one of the most memorable images in recent Outer Banks history explains how he got the shot, and what it's like to take…
Jeremy Markovich
May 19
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The story behind an Outer Banks house that collapsed into the ocean
Who owned it? Why didn't anybody move it or tear it down? Why is it there? And who has to clean it up? We've teamed up with the Island Free Press to…
Jeremy Markovich
May 12
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Clogger, TikTok Thyself
Zeb Ross works the overnight shift and didn't use social media. Then someone shot video of him clogging with his dance team at a festival. Millions of…
Jeremy Markovich
May 5
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The inside story of how a dead NASCAR track finally reopened after 26 years
North Wilkesboro Speedway is getting racing back, a quarter century after its last major race. Why did it sit empty for so long? And how did it finally…
Jeremy Markovich
Apr 28
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Why a perfectly good bridge wasn't hooked up to a road for ten years
A bridge over the Dan River in Eden looks like any old bridge. But its existence led to a farmer uprising, a fight over the legitimacy of government…
Jeremy Markovich
Apr 21
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The Newspaper With A Satin Robe
A prized find at a vintage market in Charlotte was actually, once, a prize.
Jeremy Markovich
Apr 18
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Mick Jagger went to a dive bar in Charlotte and literally everybody missed him
22
81
The story behind an Outer Banks house that collapsed into the ocean
8
25
I became obsessed with North Carolina's largest native fruit. Then I ate one.
14
48
Clogger, TikTok Thyself
18
12
This guy took video of Switzerland, labeled it "Gastonia," and got 5.6 million TikTok views
8
7
The fight to save a license plate that says "FART"
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