Southern Mysteries Podcast

Episode 200 The Devil's Road: Murder and Haunting at King's Tavern

A young woman murdered inside a tavern and a body hidden within its walls. A ghost is said to haunt the building, more than two centuries later. King’s Tavern has stood i

Episode 199 The Devil's Road: The Ghost Town of Rocky Springs

Once a thriving community along the Natchez Trace, Rocky Springs, Mississippi, has nearly vanished into the woods. An old brick church, a cemetery, and a handful of remna

Episode 198 The Devil's Road: Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace

In the early 1800s, travelers carrying money north from Natchez became targets for highway robbers along the isolated Natchez Trace.In Part Two of The Devil’s Road, South

Episode 197 The Devil’s Road: Mounds and Murder on the Natchez Trace

Today, the Natchez Trace Parkway is a peaceful road through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. But the old Trace was once known as the Devil’s Backbone, a dangerous rout

Episode 196 The Durham Family Murders

In February 1972, Bryce, Virginia and Bobby Durham were found murdered in their Boone, North Carolina, home during a heavy snowstorm. Within months, four men were charged

Southern Mysteries Classics Arkansas Ghost Trial - The Murder of Connie Franklin

In this updated and remastered Southern Mysteries Classic, we revisit the strange disappearance of Connie Franklin and the mystery of the man who returned from the dead.

Episode 195 The Murder of William Lewis Moore

In April 1963, civil rights activist William Lewis Moore set out alone on a 320-mile walk from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, carrying a letter for segr

Episode 194 Thurmond - The Dodge City of the East

At the bottom of West Virginia’s New River Gorge, the nearly abandoned railroad town of Thurmond hides a history of coal wealth, rival businessmen, gambling, violence and

Episode 193 Atlanta's Black Week - The Force Family Murders

In February 1893, Atlanta endured a week of financial scandal, suicide and shocking violence that newspapers would later remember as Black Week. The darkest chapter unfol

Episode 192 The Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp

For more than two centuries, a hidden society existed in one of the most unforgiving landscapes in the American South. In this episode of Southern Mysteries, explore the

Southern Mysteries Classics The Cult of the Unknown Tongues

This Southern Mysteries Classic revisits a chilling historical true crime case from the Kentucky mountains. In February 1933, a church service ended with the death of 72-

Episode 191 The Rowan County War

In the 1880s, Rowan County, Kentucky, became known as “Bloody Rowan” after politics, old grudges and personal revenge led to one of the state’s deadliest feuds. This epis

Episode 190 The Murder of Ella Barham

In 1912, 18-year-old Ella Barham left her family’s farm near Pleasant Ridge, Arkansas, on an ordinary errand and never came home. Her brutal murder shocked Boone County a

Episode 189 The Burning of Darien

One of the Civil War’s most controversial events unfolded on June 11, 1863, when Union forces entered Darien, Georgia, an undefended town of little strategic importance,

Episode 188 The Murder of Louise Beattie

In July 1911, Louise Beattie was found mortally wounded after a late-night drive outside Richmond, Virginia, and her husband insisted a stranger had stepped from the dark

Episode 187 The Pascagoula Incident

On a quiet night in October 1973, two men fishing along the Pascagoula River in Mississippi walked into the sheriff’s office with a story that would follow them for the r

Episode 186 The Marcia Trimble Murder

In February 1975, nine-year-old Marcia Trimble vanished while delivering Girl Scout cookies in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood, shattering the sense of safety surrou

Episode 185 Spies of the Civil War - Rose Greenhow

A storm‑tossed blockade‑runner, a satchel of Confederate gold, and a woman whose secrets shaped the early days of the Civil War—this episode uncovers the life of famed sp

Episode 184 Sheriff Without A Gun The Legacy of Thomas Gilmore

In 1970, Thomas Gilmore became the first Black sheriff in rural Greene County, Alabama. He refused to carry a gun. How did a man of peace earn the trust to enforce the la

Episode 183 The Vanishing of Virginia Carpenter

In June 1948, 21-year-old Mary Virginia Carpenter left Texarkana for college in Denton, Texas. She was last seen after a taxi dropped her near Brackenridge Hall at Texas