The Man They Couldn't Hang
Today we are going back to Devon, England, in 1885 for one of the most astonishing moments in criminal history: the execution of John "Babbacombe" Lee. Convicted on thin circumstantial evidence for th...
5 Aug 21min
The Legend of the Westmoreland White Thing
Today on Tennessee Tales Tuesday, we are going down the winding backroads of Sumner County, to explore one of the region’s most chilling cryptid legends: the Westmoreland White Thing. Traced back to a...
4 Aug 22min
From The Vault: Cragfont — The Most Haunted Place in Tennessee
In this "From the Vault" episode, we unearth the chilling history and lingering spirits of Cragfont, a massive 1802 estate built by Revolutionary War hero Brigadier General James Winchester that many ...
3 Aug 20min
Lizzie Borden Took An Axe
We’ve all heard the childhood playground rhyme about Lizzie Borden giving her parents forty whacks with an axe, but almost every single word of it is historically wrong. In this episode of Southern Gh...
31 Jul 22min
CreepyCon Update
CreepyCon is this weekend! We had some tickets to give away and we have some big news about the show! Allen will be there in the Southern Ghost Stories booth all weekend signing books. Come out this w...
30 Jul 7min
Summoning the Dead in the White House
Southern Ghost Stories takes you inside a chaotic 1926 congressional hearing where an undercover investigator for Harry Houdini dropped a political bombshell: secret, table-tipping séances were allege...
29 Jul 34min
Sam Moody & the Black Gallows
For Tennessee Tales Tuesday, Allen Sircy takes you back to Christmas Day in 1867, when a brutal Memphis saloon brawl set off a chain of events that ended on a black-painted scaffold. We dig into the b...
28 Jul 22min
From the Vault: Marie Laveau — The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans
As New Orleans' oldest burial ground, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 holds centuries of history, but its most infamous resident is undoubtedly Marie Laveau, the undisputed Queen of Voodoo. Born in 1794, Lav...
27 Jul 12min
