With a community that has been around for decades, it’s inevitable for a scandal or two to occur, but the quiet nature of Brunswick County doesn’t typically generate the image of a large-scale drug operation. However, that’s exactly what took place in the small town of Varnamtown, North Carolina, in the 1980s.
“It has always been rumored that drugs were moving up and down the coast,” said secretary Chellie McDowell. “I knew that my parents didn’t want me around the beaches, and now I know why.”
The news of this operation was nothing new, but the story has resurfaced since the recent release of the “Varnamtown” podcast, hosted by actor Kyle MacLachlan and investigative journalist Joshua Davis. The outside take on this situation has caused locals to share their opinions, some feeling as if the history shared in these episodes isn’t the history that the people of Brunswick County know as their own…