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 Devi...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsSociety & Culture
Southern Mysteries Podcast
Exploring historical mysteries and legendary figures of the American South. Hosted by Shannon Ballard
Episodes
20 of 100 episodesEpisode 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...
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 ma...
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, Mississip...
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 busin...
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 W...
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 So...
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 servi...
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 stat...
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...
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...
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 stra...
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 th...
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, shatter...
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...
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 ea...
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 ne...
Episode 182 Buried Alive on Edisto Island The Legend of Julia Legare
Off the coast of South Carolina, on Edisto Island, a mausoleum at the back of an old churchyard has become the center of one of the state’s...
Episode 181 The Crimes of Winona Spriggs
In the summer of 1924, a railroad worker was found dead near tracks in Little Rock. Weeks later, his wife was found dead in another state. W...
Episode 180 The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle
In December 1968, Barbara Jane Mackle was kidnapped from a motel room outside Atlanta, Georgia. The circumstances surrounding her abduction...