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@storytellingtradition
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643subscribers
-25 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001708539788 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @storytellingtradition |
| Created | 1 January 2022 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/storytellingtradition |
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 49% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2026, 17:19 | 643 | -2 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 05:55 | 645 | -9 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 20:16 | 654 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 09:28 | 655 | -6 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 05:28 | 661 | -7 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:48 | 668 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:22 | 668 | first reading |
11 posts held, back to 23 May 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 11 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 February 2024. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
200 reactions across 10 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 61.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 123 | 61.5% | |
| 👍 | 28 | 14.0% | |
| 🥰 | 24 | 12.0% | |
| 🔥 | 18 | 9.00% | |
| 🤮 | 3 | 1.50% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 0.5% | |
| 😢 | 1 | 0.5% | |
| 😱 | 1 | 0.5% | |
| 🤬 | 1 | 0.5% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 10 of the 11 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 200 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 11 most recent posts we hold, published 23 May 2023 to 6 February 2024, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Snowshoe Thompson Born in 1827, John Albert Thompson was a Norwegian-American considered to be the father of California skiing. Between 1856 and 1876, he delivered mail between Placerville, California, and Genoa, Nevada. Despite his nickname, Thompson did not use snowshoes but rather the method of cross country skiing from his homeland. The delivery trips usually took around 3 days. He carried no blanket and no we…
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"Amongst the Pennsylvania Germans, Belsnickel is the character who visits homes prior to Christmas to check up on the behavior of the children. The traditional Belsnickel showed up at houses 1–2 weeks before Christmas and often created fright because he always knew exactly which of the children misbehaved. He would rap on the door or window with his stick and often the children would have to answer a question for hi…
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Alabama The Ghost of Cedarhurst "My flesh shall slumber in the ground Till the last trumpet's joyful sound Then burst the chains with sweet surprise And in my savior's image rise." These are the words inscribed on the headstone of Sally Carter. Sally died in 1837, falling ill while visiting her sister at their family mansion, known as Cedarhurst. She was buried in the family cemetery on the grounds upon which t…
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Cedarhurst Mansion
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Along the banks of the Susquehanna River there are tales told of a 3 to 5 foot tall, ape-like creature. The "Albatwitch," a name thought to be a variation of apple-snitch, are believed to have an insatiable love for apples. Since the early 1800's, people have told stories of these beings stealing apples from picnickers along the river, near Chickies Rock, where the Albatwitch are said to live. The creatures would car…
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I'll be honest, yall. Most of these stories I already had typed up on an old Instagram account during a period in my life when I had much more free time. We Recently moved to a new location, and it has been the most challenging and yet rewarding experience, as I have never moved far from home until now. I haven't had much time to sit still and collect new stories. Hoping soon to get back to it. Thank you to those of …
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The Grave of Chang and Eng Bunker can be found in Mount Airy at the White Plains Baptist Church Cemetery.
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Photo, posted without a caption
An Opening in the Forest by David Wright
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The Old Round Church Richmond, Vermont Designed in 1812-13 by New Hampshire native William Rhodes, to be the Town Meeting Hall and place of worship for members of five Protestant denominations. Notable for its rare design and well-preserved detail, it is possibly the sole surviving example of an early 19th-century 16-sided wooden meetinghouse. One of the theories as to the building's shape is to make certain tha…
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Tory's Den, Hanging Rock State Park (North Carolina) Legend has it that during the Revolution, this small cave was used as Loyalist (Tory) hide out. One night, after the Tories ransacked a local man's rockhouse, and in some versions, kidnapped his daughter, a search party found them here. The light of their campfire gave them away.
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Showing the 11 most recent of 11 posts we hold for @storytellingtradition. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 16 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“American Folklore Preservation” (@storytellingtradition), 643 subscribers as measured 16 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/storytellingtradition.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.