Southern Mysteries Podcast

In December 1968, Barbara Jane Mackle was kidnapped from a motel room outside Atlanta, Geo... more

In 1877, a young woman arrived in Jefferson, Texas, wearing diamonds and traveling with a ... more

In 1905, eight-year-old Kenneth Beasley, the son of North Carolina State Senator Samuel Be... more

Across the South, the word witch has been used to explain what people fear and cannot cont... more

In 1872, the quiet Georgia town of Surrency became the center of one of America’s stranges... more

Across the South, battlefields and forts still bear the weight of the wars fought upon the... more

Across the South, asylums were built with the promise of healing — but inside their walls,... more

In 1891, fear and anger in New Orleans boiled over after the murder of Police Chief David ... more

In June 1955, Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie vanished from their Manalap... more

In February 1922, a road crew in rural Copiah County, Mississippi, stumbled upon a horrify... more

In 1957, Arkansas attorney Maud Crawford vanished from her home in Camden without a trace.... more

In the spring of 1955, the quiet community of Warren County, Tennessee was shattered by th... more

In spring 1894, a courtroom became the stage for a scandal that gripped the nation. Kentuc... more

In 1948, Robert Mallard, a Black World War II veteran, was murdered by a white mob in Toom... more

In the 1920s, a Virginia horse named Lady Wonder stunned the public with her supposed psyc... more

In the winter of 1926, the quiet town of Farwell, Texas was shaken by the discovery of nin... more

In the final episode of Mystery on Montford Avenue, we explore the fallout from the case a... more

In the summer of 1927, Anna Montague stood trial for the death of Mary Cooper. As testimon... more

Hours after Mary Cooper was buried in Riverside Cemetery, her case took a shocking turn. A... more

In May 1927, the quiet Asheville, North Carolina neighborhood of Montford was rocked by a ... more

A woman’s death. A city's fear. A mystery that refused to be forgotten. This May, join me ... more

The American circus promised wonder and spectacle—but behind the big top was a hidden worl... more

In 1942, the state of Louisiana executed a woman in the electric chair for the first and o... more

A cool September afternoon on a trail in Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Three friends... more

The Carver Murder Trial of 1930 drew national attention for its brutality and mystery. Rut... more

Explore the surprising family ties that connected Abraham Lincoln to the Confederacy. Whil... more

On a sunny May morning in 1947, a doctor from San Antonio ambushed Willard York and his fa... more

One of the strangest cases in all their years of police work. Those were the words of seas... more

Over 80 years ago, a coal mining town in Tennessee was rocked by the murders of two wealth... more

On Christmas Day in 1929, the community of Germanton, North Carolina, was forever changed ... more