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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 12min
Key West's Lady in Blue
At 428 Greene Street in Key West, Captain Tony's Saloon is famous for its ties to Ernest Hemingway and Jimmy Buffett, but beneath the tropical music lies a history built on death. Originally an 1850s ...
24 Juli 19min
The Mount Auburn Axe Murder
In 1884, Irish immigrant Patrick Hartnett brutally murdered his wife with an axe inside a cramped Cincinnati tenement room while their six children watched in terror. Instead of fleeing, Hartnett drop...
22 Juli 21min
Torment & Terror: The Legend of the Bell Witch
Today on Tennessee Tales Tuesday, we're heading to Adams, Tennessee to explore one of the most famous and unsettling hauntings in American history—the legend of the Bell Witch. What began as strange n...
21 Juli 24min
From the Vault: Prohibition and Mutilation
Tucked away off Calhoun Square on Abercorn Street sits Savannah’s infamous Espy House, a home steeped in dark, conflicting Prohibition-era legends. One local tale claims the corrupt, bootlegging Judge...
20 Juli 11min
The Ghost of Harlem Road
This episode of Southern Ghost Stories chronicles the tragic 1880s murder of Allie Wentworth along Harlem Road in upstate New York. After being shot, Allie’s killer was never found, leaving the tight-...
17 Juli 21min
