Caribbean & Diaspora Storytelling
Ground
Truth.
Every place keeps two stories. The one they sell you — and the one they buried.
We go to the ground, across the Caribbean, and dig up the names the record tried to lose. One case. One piece of earth. And the people the official story walked right past.
The method
Open on the gap. Follow the thread — registers, land records, gazettes, living memory. Land on what was recovered, and what the silence kept.
The ground
Jamaica is home base. The season travels the whole sea, and comes home.
Barbados · Haiti · St. Vincent
Trinidad · Guyana · Grenada
The point
Not myth-busting for its own sake. The lie is a curtain. Every episode asks what it was hung up to hide — and gives those people their names back.
Season One
07 cases · 01 seaSeven histories the record tried to erase, from a manufactured ghost story to a prime minister whose grave was never found. Listed like a register — because that is where the names survived.
- 01 The White Witch That Never Was A ghost story written to sell a great house — and the two hundred and eight people it was written over. Rose Hall · Jamaica
- 02 The Prime Minister With No Grave A head of government buried somewhere the state cannot point to. TBC
- 03 [ Case three — title to come ] One line on the gap this episode opens on. Place · Island
- 04 [ Case four — title to come ] One line on the gap this episode opens on. Place · Island
- 05 [ Case five — title to come ] One line on the gap this episode opens on. Place · Island
- 06 [ Case six — title to come ] One line on the gap this episode opens on. Place · Island
- 07 [ Case seven — title to come ] One line on the gap this episode opens on. Place · Island
The lie is easy to sell. The names are harder to keep.
Read the names. Say them out loud. That is where we start.
Every episode ends the same way — not with a verdict, but with the people the record almost lost. Recovered from registers, land papers, and the ground itself, and spoken back into the room.
Rose Hall · recovered · 1817–1832
- Dorinda
- midwife
- Arabella
- ran 13×
- Rose
- one leg · ran 3×
- Mercury
- d. Montego Bay gaol
- Cecelia
- African elder
- Zebra
- → Jane Gregson
- James Watson
- b. 2 Jan 1831
Seven, out of two hundred and eight.
Start with Episode One.
New cases as the season unfolds. Follow so you do not miss the ground we cover next.
See what is behind every episode.
Every episode is built from real documents. Ground Notes hand you what is behind them. Start with the guide, Before You Listen.
- Before You Listen — a short guide to how the show reads history against the record
- Ground Notes for every episode: the real documents, dates, and sources
- What is verified fact, what is later analysis, and what is only legend — kept honest
- The recovered names, listed — the people each episode brings back
Guide instantly · Ground Notes as each episode drops
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