We’ve heard the buzz—now we want your vote! Quick pulse check: Yea or Nay? We’ve been asked about launching a monthly podcast that discusses the research surrounding the true crime, local legends, and lingering mysteries of Pulaski County & the region—and we’d love your input! Would you tune in? Want to be interviewed or become a sponsor? What is your favorite podcast platform? Do you have specific topics or ideas? Let's hear them! Cast your vote and let us know in the poll and discussion...

They called him the Yarb Doctor. A man of strange brews and stranger talents. Part Choctaw, part rumor, all shadow. He arrived in Pulaski County under pressure—pushed from Tennessee by court orders and quiet threats—and built something no one expected: a sanitorium. Unity Hill rose out of the hillside like a defiant breath. One hundred beds. A piano in the parlor. Typewriters tapping beneath the sound of labored coughs. And somewhere beneath it all, a tunnel—dug not for comfort, but for...

Less of a Mystery and More of a Curiosity Photos Courtesy of Rod Zimmerman, Somerset, KY In the early 20th century, just outside Somerset, Kentucky, a quiet legend took root in the town of Ferguson. His name was Pylap Medekle—Seminole herbalist, healer, and the last of a dying tradition. Long before the clinics, long before white coats and insurance forms, there was Doc Medekle, mixing wild cherry bark and golden seal in a weathered bottle, curing what others couldn’t—or wouldn’t—touch. He...