All Known Rabbit Holes, In Descending Order

Browse all of the newsletters, stories, podcasts, and otherwise that we’ve published here, from newest to oldest.

May 12, 2022

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 answer questions big and small about a viral video.

Jeremy Markovich

May 5, 2022

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 views later, he's just trying to keep it real.

Jeremy Markovich

Apr 28, 2022

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 reopen?

Jeremy Markovich

Why a perfectly good bridge wasn't hooked up to a road for ten years

Politics

Apr 21, 2022

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, and a case that's still taught in law school.

Jeremy Markovich

Apr 18, 2022

The Newspaper With A Satin Robe

A prized find at a vintage market in Charlotte was actually, once, a prize.

Jeremy Markovich

Apr 14, 2022

The Riddle of the 50-foot-long Sphinx for sale in Morganton

Somebody noticed a large replica of an Egyptian landmark on Facebook Marketplace. Here's the backstory.

Jeremy Markovich

Apr 12, 2022

Here's what happened inside the DMV after they found out about a FART license plate

More than 100 emails and documents lay out what state workers did behind the scenes when they discovered they'd issued a stinker of a specialty plate.

Jeremy Markovich