Who - Or What - Were the “Moon Eyed People” of Appalachia?

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Be sure to check out The Book with out code LORELODGE10 at checkout to get 10% at this link - https://bit.ly/4dUpvxr The highlands of Eastern Tennessee are an eerie place. Sparsely inhabited and densely forested, the mist filled valleys of the Great Smoky Mountains are home to stories of wild men, unsolved disappearances, and even paranormal encounters. Most of those stories are little more than folktales and modern myths propagated online, but within many of them are kernels of truth, and one of the more enigmatic tales predates white settlement in the region entirely. Long before the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh settled in America’s oldest mountains, they were within the domain of the large and powerful Cherokee Tribe; but even they hold memories of when they first came to the region, and of the people who were there before them. According to Cherokee legend, those ancient hills were once the domain of a strange tribe they called the “Moon-Eyed People,” and who exactly they were is one of the great mysteries of American pre-history. Welcome back to The Lore Lodge... List of Visual Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gx4DrgMKWTzm3l3Av7Keh6D8HLJUf3h24UGETMq1hpQ/edit?usp=sharing Subscribe on Patreon to support The Lore Lodge for just $1 per month! https://patreon.com/thelorelodge Wear the Lodge from https://www.bunkerbranding.com/pages/the-lore-lodge Get our new signature coffee blend at https://tablowroastingco.com/products/the-lore-lodge-mt-pocono-perk Shop our online retail store, find other content, and buy our partners' products at https://linktr.ee/theaidanmattis Discord: https://bit.ly/jointhelodge Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCctfIbo24UITlmfJbednOqA/join 00:00 - Cold Open 00:21 - Introduction 03:39 - The Moon Eyed People 12:54 - Moonbeam, Ice Cream 24:35 - The Legend of Prince Madoc 43:45 - What Would it Take?