Curious Nashville: Recent Episodes
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In Curious Nashville from Nashville Public Radio, we answer your questions about the city and region. Submit yours at curious.wpln.org! Then, our listeners decide which question we should investigate and answer next.
This episode wanders into supernatural territory in the search for unmarked graves. It began innocently enough: A listener asked us about Nashville's oldest structures. But as we visited some of the city's oldest homes, we found family graveyards that date back 200 years or more — and some owners, it turns out, relied on a generations-old practice with mysterious power to find unmarked graves. Which led us to the question: What's up with "water-witching" in Nashville?
The Curious Nashville inbox has received several variations on the same question: What happened to passenger rail service in Nashville? Residents are right to be curious. Nashville is one of the largest cities in the country to have no rail connection to another city.
We spent quite a bit of time shining flashlights around dark, cobwebby places over the past few weeks — because of Curious Nashville, a project in which we answer your questions about the city.
The winning question in our very first Curious Nashville voting round led us on a circuitous path — but we are pleased to say that we found the answer.