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...
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Southern Mysteries Podcast
Exploring historical mysteries and legendary figures of the American South. Hosted by Shannon Ballard
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20 of 92 episodesEpisode 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...
Episode 179 The Mystery of Diamond Bessie
In 1877, a young woman arrived in Jefferson, Texas, wearing diamonds and traveling with a man who claimed to be her husband. Days later, her...
Episode 178 Little Boy Lost - The Disappearance of Kenneth Beasley
In 1905, eight-year-old Kenneth Beasley, the son of North Carolina State Senator Samuel Beasley, walked out of his one-room schoolhouse in P...
Episode 177 Witch Legends of the South
Across the South, the word witch has been used to explain what people fear and cannot control. For generations, healers, midwives, conjurers...
Episode 176 The Mystery of the Surrency Poltergeist
In 1872, the quiet Georgia town of Surrency became the center of one of America’s strangest mysteries. Inside the home of Allen Powell Surre...
Episode 175 Haunted Battlefields and Forts of the South
Across the South, battlefields and forts still bear the weight of the wars fought upon them. In this episode of Southern Mysteries, explore...
Episode 174 Southern Asylums and the Spirits Within
Across the South, asylums were built with the promise of healing — but inside their walls, countless lives were marked by fear, neglect, and...
Episode 173 The Forgotten Eleven of New Orleans
In 1891, fear and anger in New Orleans boiled over after the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy. Within months, eleven Italian immigrants...
Episode 172 The Chillingworth Murders
In June 1955, Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie vanished from their Manalapan, Florida, beach cottage. There were haunting cl...
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