I just heard somewhat larpy stuff on X but within that potential larp laid out the fact that Asheville has large Wiccan community and tunnels so that peaked my interest...
"In mountains of North Carolina, a witch was one of the most terrifying things you could encounter."
https://www.northcarolinaghosts.com/folk-magic/appalachian-witches/
One of the most famous and globally powerful witches is Gloria Vanderbilt of the famous Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC...
A less dark take confirms their are tunnels indeed via MSN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx6TCWnUn8Q
In this link one the cities locals mentions that the tunnels run past the Biltmore building and under the Masonic temple https://youtu.be/uBqIyu0hIfk?si=9mDbjL24OlKa8Y1m
https://thebluebanner.net/14802/uncategorized/an-enlightenment-of-witchcraft-in-asheville/
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/nc/asheville/crime
https://witchesofthecraft.com/tag/asheville-north-carolina/
https://www.hauntedrooms.com/north-carolina/asheville/haunted-places
In short Asheville has a huge wiccan/witchcraft community and is less safe than 99% of US cities. There is a network of tunnels underneath the town that their city counsel won't admit to maintaining but will admit to potentially being used for prohibition reasons. The tunnels run under the masonic temple and past the castle related to of one of the world's most notorious witches, Gloria Vanderbilt (Mother of Anderson Cooper, CNN).
So frens, maybe a lithium mine in Asheville is better than the alternative. Keep your chin up and pray :)
Once you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear, you'll see weird symbols everywhere. Travelling across the country by car, I stopped into to a bathroom in a kind of gas station convenience bait shop in alabama and I saw KKK symbols and alchemy symbols being used together as a kind of code to explain where they meet to sacrifice someone...or how i read it. It formed a map. Now if I hadn't studied alchmey I would not know these things and would have thought they were scribblings. But I did, and I busted into a cold sweat and very carefully exited this place without even filling up. I think I bought something just because I used their bathroom and didn't want them to feel like I was freaking out over their bathroom but it absolutely did.
I mention this because I have hiked a bit of appalachian trail from springer to fontana in nc and in some of the shelters I see people have scribbled things like this into them. Most people have just no idea..I even asked some foklks 'what does this mean?" Knowing what it meant, I was testing them and they're like don't know, don't care, I'm cooking ramen and stop being weird
My brother hiked the trail 2 year ago. He made it safe. Started in Georgia and picked him up north of Nannahala. The woods hold a lot of secrets. Just because we have technology doesn’t mean we fully understand the shit that goes on out there.
Always be safe and prepared. Pick your stops carefully. Act with confidence and get the hell back on the road. I’ll wear a CC charge before I end up dead.
Yeah, this stuff gets real crazy. I try to be aware of it but don’t have … any desire to dive too deep.
It all reminds me of the scene in Hot Fuzz where it turns out that all these sweet people in this idyllic village had been gruesomely offing people because “they obstructed the view” or “didn’t trim his hedges properly.”
… or how Salem, MA, remembers the false accusation and trial of witches in their town by … selling witchcraft materials and reenacting seances.
“But it’s all just novelty.”