Cape Fear Unearthed

History Podcasts

StarNews Media Presents "Cape Fear Unearthed," a podcast digging into the history books of Southeastern North Carolina. The weekly podcast will feature stories drawn from the region's persisting legends, historical oddities and mysterious figures that...

Episodes

Christmas shopping in the downtown Wilmington of yesteryear

Film documentary 'McKinley's Guns' digs into 1898 coup

'Race, Place and Memory': Wilmington's troubled racial history

When Shell Island was an island, and a Black beach resort

Revisiting The Barn: a legendary Wilmington jazz club and dance hall

A brief history of Eagles Island and Wilmington's 'west bank'

Wilmington corner stores, gone but not forgotten

Roots of the GOAT: Michael Jordan's history in Wilmington

Train tracking: The lost Wilmington, Brunswick & Southern Railroad

Losing, and preserving, Black historic sites in Wilmington

Photographic memories: Wilmington's history in photos

Wilmington's Temple of Israel: storied past, building a future

The curious case of the Christmas flounder

Preserving history, one window and door at a time

Commemorating 1898, and the search for descendants

The bridges of New Hanover County

Ideal location: Wilmington film history and the Ideal Cement factory

Century club: Wilmington's 100-year-old businesses

Wilmington goes to the movies: bygone theaters and drive-ins

Historic Wilmington Foundation takes the past into the future