This week on Inside Appalachia, Rae Garringer felt isolated growing up and thought she was the only queer person in a small town. But she learned otherwise. Now she’s collecting and sharing the stories of rural LGBTQ people from across the country. Also, surface mining changes the landscape in a way that makes flooding worse. And there’s no easy fix. And we meet an Appalachian village witch, who wonders: How come we don’t hear about more female cryptids? Why isn’t there a Mothwoman?