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 have helped shape its legacy and culture.

Cape Fear Unearthed is written, edited and hosted by Hunter Ingram.

Additional editing by Adam Fish.

A StarNews Media Production.

Sources:

"A History of New Hanover County and the Lower Cape Fear Region, 1723-1800" by Alfred Waddell.

"Is it true that smugglers’ tunnels run all under downtown Wilmington?" by Ben Steelman, StarNews, April 2011

"Wilmington's Hidden Tunnels" by David LaVere, Our State Magazine, April 2002

"Stories Old and New of the Cape Fear Region" by Louis T. Moore