Southern Gothic

The Old Beauregard Parish Jail doesn’t look like it belongs in the middle of a small Louisiana town. Rising beside the parish courthouse in downtown DeRidder, the towering structure—with its steep roo...

25 Touko 33min

At 1:20 pm on Saturday, July 19, 1970, a fire broke out in an abandoned home in Hadsboro, Mississippi, that was well known throughout the community as haunted. But what made the incident so unbelievab...

18 Touko 29min

Tucked back on old state highway outside or Marion, Alabama stands Kenworthy Hall, one of the most unusual antebellum mansions in the American South. Rising above the Alabama Black Belt with its loomi...

11 Touko 33min

The Banner Mine explosion of April 8, 1911, in Alabama claimed the lives of 128 men, predominantly African American prisoners leased to the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company by the state. This devastati...

4 Touko 31min

On an old stretch of Mobile, there once stood a house on State Street where locals claimed no one truly lived alone. Long after one former owner had died, neighbors said heavy footsteps still thundere...

30 Huhti 15min

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, an old story tells of a lonely mountain spring that once ran clear and cold—until one summer it was said to turn the color of blood. Locals claimed the change came ...

29 Huhti 17min

Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where the waters of the Mississippi Sound meet old beach towns and storm-worn shorelines, there’s a stretch of land between Pass Christian and Long Beach long known a...

28 Huhti 14min

Just outside Smithfield, where the backroads of Johnston County wind through pine woods and farmland, there’s an old crossing over Mill Creek that has carried a dark reputation for generations. By day...

27 Huhti 15min