Southern Mysteries Podcast
1) 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 spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow. From W...Show More
2) 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 law in a place shaped by deep ra...Show More
3) 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 State College for Women. The l...Show More
4) 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 most persistent ghost stories. The name “Legare” is carved o...Show More
5) 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. What followed was a series of headlines that pointed to one w...Show More
6) 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 were so strange, investigators could barely make sense of th...Show More
7) 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 body was found in the woods, and her name was unknown. She ...Show More
8) 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 Poplar Branch, Currituck County—and vanished. What followed w...Show More
9) 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 and root workers carried knowledge their communities needed...Show More
10) 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 Surrency, glass shattered, clocks ran backward, and furniture mov...Show More