Haunted Hospitality
167 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsSouthern Stories told by Spooky Gingers. Co-hosts Robin and Zoey talk about a story a week that falls in the general spooky category, including ghosts, unexplained events, true crime, and local cryptids.
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Ep 156 – Stay Spooky
April 02, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBWe wanted to call this episode "Stay Sh!tty" but we were worried about the censorship of the word. This week we talk about the past bathroom stories we've covered in previous haunted locations. It's also...the end. Thank you so much for joining Haunted Hospitality, Robin, and Zoey as they traveled on this three year journey, but the sun has set on this podcast. Feel free to follow our social media because we will remain semi-active on those. Goodbye, everyone, and don't forget to Stay ...
Ep 155 – From the Patreon: Annabelle
March 26, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes - 31 MBThis episode, we’re venturing outside of the South to discuss Annabelle, possibly the world’s most famous haunted doll story. In the Conjuring movies, Annabelle is a tall, porcelain-esque doll with an angry, vengeful expression. She is possessed by a demon and, to say the least, exhibits some violent tendencies. And while the actual Annabelle is a much sweeter-looking Raggedy Ann doll, she is allegedly just as violent as her onscreen counterpart. The story goes that Annabelle was given to D...
Ep 154 - A Very Haunted St Patrick's Day in New Orleans
March 19, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBWe hope you aren't done drinking from the St. Patrick's Day weekend (if you're 21 or over) because we have a new way to celebrate, and this includes two types of spirits! Zoey takes us to Pat O'Briens, mostly in New Orleans but partially in The Alamo. The bar is the Irish pub that many go to, to celebrate Mardis Gras, St. Patrick's Day, and Halloween! We have some mysterious footsteps, self-playing pianos, and ghostly activity in the women's bathroom (because why isn't it the men's?). The ...
Ep 153 – The Girl Dinner of Ghost Stories
March 12, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBThe USS Lexington, AKA the Blue Ghost, is an aircraft carrier that first entered into service in 1943 during World War II. She, and the approximately 3,000 people who lived and worked on her during the war, were primarily in the Pacific. There, the ship was attacked but never sank — despite claims to the contrary. Now, she's stationed in the bay off of Corpus Christi, Texas. Much like her sister ship the USS Yorktown (episode 83), the Blue Ghost is now a museum where many people tour, work,...
Ep 152 - The Not-Cursed Poinsett Bridge and the Not-Haunted Gosnell Cabin
March 05, 2024 09:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThe Poinsett Bridge is the oldest bridge in South Carolina and debatably the oldest bridge in the entire South Eastern United States. It was built in 1820 as a part of the state road from Charleston and Columbia to the North Carolinian mountains. It was named after the president of the Board of Public Works, Joel Poinsett, and may have been designed by Robert Mills, a very famous architect. This bridge is also a very haunted bridge. There are many reasons, from the burial of workers in the ...
Ep 151 – Tales of the Altamaha-ha
February 27, 2024 09:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBWhile traveling on family vacations to the Golden Isles while she was growing up, co-host Robin would peer out of the car window into the gray waters of Georgia’s Altamaha River — searching for the Altamaha-ha. A long, scaly, aquatic cryptid with an alligator-like head that parascopes above the water’s surface, the Altamaha-ha is rumored to swim so powerfully that boats rock in its wake. But are the tales of this much-beloved creature (nicknamed Altie by locals) true? Some believe it's inst...
Ep 150 - Flight 19 and the Bermuda Triangle
February 20, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBThis episode is not for those planning to fly out for spring break, because we're off the coast of Florida, in the Florida Keys, and we're going to talk about the mystery of Flight 19. This mystery claimed the lives of 27 men and made 6 planes go missing. The flight of trainee navy pilots took off from Ft. Lauderdale on Dec 5, 1945 to do a routine navigation and bombing flight exercise. However, the 5 planes of 13 men that is now known as Flight 19 never made it back to shore, despite the ...
Ep 149 – A Puzzling Sculpture
February 13, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBThis episode’s subject is not paranormal. It’s not true crime. And it’s not folklore. But it is a mystery — and a puzzling one at that. Installed at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Kryptos is a sculpture designed by artist Jim Sanborn with four encrypted messages. In the approximately 33 years since the sculpture’s unveiling, only three of the messages have been decoded. And since no one has yet figured out the fourth message, we don’t yet know Kryptos’ riddle or its ultimate ans...
Ep 148 - A Tour of Haunted Kentucky Cemeteries
February 06, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBThis week Zoey has a new genre of Haunted Hospitality episodes: a Hunted Cemetery Tour. This first episode focuses on Kentucky! Our first cemetery is the witch filled Wynns Cemetery, which Zoey did a bit of a deep dive on. The second one is Pikeville Cemetery, where a woman was allegedly buried alive. The third is the large and beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery, with a woman who cares for the graves of children and floating orbs. The last one is the Baker Hollow Road Cemetery, and Zoey treats us...
Ep 147 – The Dock Street Theatre (We Love Nettie)
January 30, 2024 09:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBFounded in 1736, the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina, was the first building on the continent solely for theatrical performances before it likely burnt down in the Great Fire of 1740. The Calder House Hotel — later named the Planter's Hotel — was built at or near the theatre's original location in 1809. Many passed through the hotel, including: Robert Smalls, who worked at the hotel before escaping slavery and joining the Union navy during the Civil War, and Junius Brutus B...
Ep 146 - The Gruesome Sloss Furnaces
January 23, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBThis week's episode isn't for the faint of heart. Zoey brings us the bloody history of The Sloss Furnaces, a national historic landmark in Birmingham, Alabama that once produced iron. The town of Birmingham was built almost overnight when Colonel James Withers Sloss, a merchant and railroad man, convinced he L&N Railroad company to merge the North and South lines through Jones Valley. Jones Valley was selected as the home for Birmingham because it had all the raw ingredients needed to make ...
Ep 145 – The Queen of the Gulf
January 16, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBThe Grand Galvez (also known as the Queen of the Gulf) has stood by the Galveston, Texas shore for over one hundred years, hosting weddings, swimsuit contests, and tourists visiting the Gulf of Mexico. During that time, ghost stories have collected around the building, with some calling it the most haunted hotel in the state. In this episode, we dive into the ghost stories surrounding the Queen of the Gulf — from Audra, the "Love-lorn Lady" who believed her fiancé died at sea, to Sister Kat...
Ep 144 - Did Grandpa Make the Bigfoot?
January 09, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBZoey decided to go big for their first episode of the new year, and they're covering The Bigfoot! It's about damn time, as Robin says. Bigfoot, or Sasquatch is a big, hairy, stinky man who has a foot that spans 24 inches. To put that into prospective, since Zoey did the math, Bigfoot would wear a men's size 50 to 56 shoe. In this episode, Zoey dives deep into what the Bigfoot is, how he came to be, and what are some sciencey reasons for Bigfoot to exist. To quote Robin, "We're trying to sci...
Ep 143 – The Witching Hour
January 02, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBYou may know it as the Witching Hour, the Devil's Hour, or simply 3 a.m. No matter which you call it, the hour between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning is known for being a time when things go bump in the night. There's a wide range of theories for this phenomenon: from this being when the veil is thinnest, to the idea that demonic forces are at play, to a straightforward case of natural hallucinations from our sleep cycles. In this episode, we explore these theories and talk about creepy, po...
Ep 142 - An Introduction to the Men in Black
December 26, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 53 MBRobin and Zoey are celebrating the end of the year with booze, presents, and a deep dive into the conspiracy theory of the Men In Black! You may know them from the movie, Men in Black, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith that came out in 1997, the same year as your hosts. These are men who wear all black, and usually sunglasses, whose raison d'être is to prevent the common person from knowing about aliens. Zoey dives into the reason the Men in Black theory came to be, including the firs...
Ep 141: The Life and Death of Simon Warner
December 19, 2023 09:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBPeople would ask Simon Warner just about anything: where they might find their lost guitar, whether or not they should divorce their husbands, if their parents might reunite. They would stare at the crystal ball in his bungalow in Shelbyville, Tennessee, give him honest answers to his questions. And, in turn, he would give his advice: determined by some combination of astrology, self-professed psychic abilities, and his own vast knowledge of how people work. He also had a special interest ...
Ep 140 - Haunted Boozy Places Part 4: Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop
December 12, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBIt's time to go to Zoey's favorite city: New Orleans, Louisiana! We're visiting Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop in the French Quarter. While the shop did originate as a Blacksmith Shop and keeps the name, the shop is better known for the drinks that they can make you. That's right, here's another Haunted Boozy Place! The Blacksmith Shop wasn't just any store in it's heyday, however. It was owned by Jean Lafitte, famous pirate and privateer. He was known to smuggle his stolen goods and sell them...
Ep 139: Frights in the Wild 4: The Stranger on the Stairs
December 05, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBWe're back with another episode of our Frights in the Wild series, where we discuss first-person accounts of paranormal or otherwise spooky wilderness experiences from the web! Today's stories involve: 1) a young girl trying to find her way home in the woods, when she hears footsteps following her; 2) a man about to go to sleep beside his girlfriend in her childhood home, when he suddenly hears her voice speaking outside the house; 3) an annual father-and-son trip that leads to an eerily aba...
Thanksgiving Break
November 28, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBHello everyone! It's been a HOT minute since Robin and Zoey have had a break from researching, recording, editing, and posting a Haunted Hospitality episode. I'm sure we'll tell you all about it in our next how's life section, but life got busy there for a while around the Thanksgiving Holiday. So we're taking a break this week, and we're sharing a sneak peek into our Patreon episodes. This episode came out in January 2023, and it was a Friday when it was released, so the entire episode i...
Ep 138 - The Psychic Capital of the World
November 21, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBCassadaga, Florida is an unincorporated community in Volusia County, which is on the east coast of Florida. Cassadaga was founded by well known "Seer of Spiritualism" George P Colby. George was a trance medium, meaning he would conduct seances with the dead by going into a trance and allowing a spirit to speak through his body. He formed relationships and bonds of trust with a few special spirits, who became his spirit guides and would communicate through him to the human realm on behalf of ...
Ep 137 – Bonnie & Clyde
November 14, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBYou've likely heard of the outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, but can you name one thing about them? When Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker met in 1930, they were two young adults from families struggling with poverty in Depression-era Texas. Already committing crimes, Clyde was soon incarcerated for vehicle theft. The two wrote to each other often while he was in prison, with Bonnie even aiding his short-lived escape. When Clyde officially got out of prison in February 1932, the two traveled the coun...
Ep 136 - Samuel Mason, Founder of the Mason Gang
November 07, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBIn this week's episode, Zoey finally fulfills a promise they made in May of 2021, Episode 8. In that episode, they covered the first serial killers in the United States, the Harpe Brothers. The brothers occasionally worked closely with the Mason Gang and it's leader, Samuel Mason. Zoey promised back then that she'd cover Samuel Mason one day, and that one day has come. Samuel Mason was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and the self-proclaimed bravest fighter in the war. After his ...
Ep 135 – The Apparitions in the Tavern
October 31, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBIn this installment of our Haunted Boozy Places series, we're covering a Tudor-style tavern on Florida's Atlantic coast. Known today as Ashley's Restaurant and Bar, the establishment first opened as Jack's Tavern shortly after the Prohibition era. Folks have long reported paranormal experiences in the building. Lights will turn on and off. People will feel pushed on the stairs. And some have even reported seeing the apparitions of a young woman and a small girl. Many believe the ghost of E...
Ep 134 - He Stole my Catalytic Converter - Origin of the Moth Man
October 24, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBYou know him, you love him, you want to date him: Moth Man. This week Zoey talks about the Origin of Moth Man who we're technically including in the South since he was seen in the Appalachian Mountains. First seen in 1966, the cryptid was six or seven feet tall, light gray, had a wing span of 10 feet, and red eyes glowing in the headlights about two inches in diameter and spaced six inches apart. But what you might not know is his legacy of being a harbinger of death. He is known to show up...
Ep 133 – The Place d'Armes Hotel
October 17, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBThe Place d'Armes Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, is regularly listed among the most haunted hotels in the city. A quick internet search will tell you that a school burned down on the property over 200 years ago and the ghosts of the children who died in the fire now roam its halls. Luckily for the kids, it looks like the school didn't burn down at all! But there are definitely accounts of child-like ghosts in the hotel, as well as an old man and a 12-year-old girl. In this episode, we exp...
Ep 132 - The Goat Man's Neighbor: Donkey Lady Bridge
October 10, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBZoey brings us back to San Antonio, Texas for another haunted story. You've heard of The Goat Man Bridge in Denton, now get ready for the Donkey Lady Bridge! This bridge has a very similar set up: a bridge, a farm animal themed ghost, and a tragic backstory. This ghost is a woman who had a donkey in life and looked like a donkey in death. Depending on the source, she either survived a fire that disfigured her to look like she had a donkey hands and feet or she was killed at the same time a...
Ep 131 – Frights in the Backcountry 2: Laughter, Voices, and Dirt Roads
October 03, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBFor the second installment of our Frights in the Backcountry series, we're exploring four stories of paranormal experiences in rural areas. The macabre sighting of a ghost family covered in blood, a mad dash to get away from disembodied laughter, a cup of coffee that ages way too quickly, and a voice that shouldn't be possible on the other end of the line. All of these stories are about families. Some of them were passed down from parent to child before making their way onto the internet. O...
Ep 130 - The Deaths of Glenn Turner and Randy Thompson
September 26, 2023 08:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBToday's episode is a true crime story of Glenn Turner, Randy Thompson, and the woman who connects them, Lynn Turner. Lynn and Glenn were married less than a year after meeting. Glenn worshiped the ground Lynn walked on, doted on her hand and foot, and loved her with all his heart. Lynn cheated on Glenn, was abusive and controlling, and spent all their money. Glenn's family did not know why Glenn was with Lynn, and they were never able to see him free of her, because he passed after sufferin...
Ep 129 – The Handprints in the Holloway
September 19, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBWe talk a lot about old buildings on this podcast, but what about old roads? Stagecoach Road in Marshall, Texas has been around since 1850, when it was first used as a pathway for — you guessed it — stagecoaches. Never paved, and surrounded by trees and steep banks, Stagecoach Road feels set apart from much of the world today: wilder, or a window into the past. Allegedly home to many supernatural beings, folks claim any number of them lurk on Stagecoach Road, including but certainly not lim...
Ep 128 - To plea or Not to Plea: the Origin and History of the Alford Plea
September 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBThis week's episode is eerily like last week's, and we didn't plan it at all. Today Zoey is going to hold your hand, whisper assuring words, and give you the treat of a bad joke every now and then as we navigate a complex legal decision together. Don't be afraid, Zoey's here to guide you. They won't let you get lost. Okay, maybe we're exaggerating. But the Alford Plea is a concept where a defendant pleads guilty to a lesser crime while maintaining their innocence in effort to get a lighte...
Ep 127 – The Freedom Summer Murders
September 05, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBJames Chaney and Michael Schwerner spent the first six months of 1964 working together to increase voter registration among Black residents in Mississippi. This was a major goal of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) — which they both worked for — and the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. That year, they organized a voter registration hub at the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Mississippi, but the KKK burnt the church down in response. On June 21, 1964, James, Michael, a...
Ep 126 – Haunted College Tour Palooza Part 14: University of Montevallo
August 29, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBFinishing up the third season of our Haunted College Tour Palooza, Zoey brings us an extra-long episode to talk about the many haunted buildings of the University of Montevallo. Along with the typical southern history of the civil war and enslavement, this school has a history of violence and death paired with a rural, historic college that brings out the ghosts in full force. This episode has a old man ghost looking for his buried treasure, a former Confederate soldier protecting the build...
Ep 125 – Haunted College Tour Palooza Part 13: The University of Georgia
August 22, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBOn this stop of Haunted Hospitality's annual haunted college tour, we're going to the University of Georgia! Founded in Athens, Georgia in 1795, UGA is a public university with a very famous bulldog, over 30,000 students, and some spooky stories. Expect sightings of a historically inaccurate bride who brings with her either a blessing or a curse, and the ghost of a former Confederate general who can be found either pacing or haunting nightmares while giving off a misogynistic vibe. In this ...
Ep 124 - Haunted College Tour Palooza Part 12 - Hollins University
August 15, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBContinuing on the Haunted College Train, Zoey brings us Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. This school may be small with a student body of about 800, but it has plenty of ghosts to go around. We have the helpful Eliza(Beth) in the theater workshop who helps you find lost items, a friendly nurse ghost in Swannanoa Hall who will check your temperature in the middle of the night, the Runner in Tinker Hall, and Presser Hall. Presser hall has many ghosts, including the ghost of Theodore...
Ep 123 – Haunted College Tour Palooza part 11: East Tennessee State University
August 08, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBFor the second episode in this year's installment of our Haunted! College! Tour! Palooza!, we're taking you on a ghost tour of East Tennessee State University. Founded in 1911, ETSU has no shortage of campus lore. Expect stories of an invisible young boy playing with marbles, a stained glass ghost that now haunts the university's radio station, an eerie presence in the dorm showers, and more. Somehow this is our first time covering a Tennessee college or university in our Haunted! College!...
Ep 122 - Haunted College Tour Palooza Part 10: Clemson University
August 01, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBThat's right!! It's here!!!! For newcomers, every August, Zoey and Robin do what they call the "Haunted! College! Tour! Palooza!" where they cover a college or two in every episode. Their goal? To scare incoming freshmen! This year, Zoey kicks it off with Clemson University in Clemson, SC, the rival to USC - where Robin and Zoey both went to college. Zoey tells of a curse, two graveyard ghosts, and a nearby haunted mill. TW: Suicide. But first, Robin's Something Spooky Southern is a l...
Ep 121 – We Want to Go to the Marshall House
July 25, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBSome stories of hauntings are isolated — old houses, barns, that kind of thing — and some are public: hotels, theme parks, tourists attractions, etc. If someone were to tell you about their own isolated haunting, which perhaps only their family experienced, you would have to base your assessment on how much you trusted that one person. Do you trust them to tell you the truth? And if they are telling you the truth, is that truth objective? Or was something else going on that they mistook for ...
Ep 120 - Frights in the City
July 18, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBIt's Robin's Birthday week! So Zoey went to Reddit and found four Frights in the City stories to share with everyone this week. The first story is about a woman who went to New Orleans on their Baby-moon and they had two spooky experience. The second story is a group of friends who saw a street that didn't normally exist and a woman with backwards feet. The third is a series of experiences with La Llarona in El Paso. The last is about the Goatman Bridge in Denton. But first, Robin shares ...
Ep 119 – The Lost and Found Children of the Tennessee Children's Home Society
July 11, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBFor years, the Tennessee Children's Home Society had a sparkling reputation — a private adoption organization that went largely unregulated with the backing of wealthy and grateful adoptive parents, as well as Georgia Tann's relationships with high-ranking members of Memphis' political and societal landscape. But over time, people grew suspicious and began to pull back the curtains masking the Society's inner workings. The Society, once thought to be an upright adoption non-profit, was reve...
Ep 118 - Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You
July 04, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this week's episode, Zoey brings us a story you probably haven't heard before. Zoey knows about it through a personal connection, and she'd like to share the story of Walt Davis, a man who was giving to a fault. Walt was driving home one day when he saw a young homeless man named Daniel walking on the side of the road. Walt pulled over and learned Daniel's story, then invited him to stay with him while he tried to get back on his feet. However, Daniel was only there for two weeks befor...
Ep 117 – Blood, Eels, and Rain
June 27, 2023 08:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBMost of the time, the Earth works as it should. Water can be counted upon to rise, mist, and fall again when heavy. We get variations of this, of course: fog, snow, and hail, for example. But for the most part, the cycle is quite normal — except when it really, really isn't. In this episode, we explore two specific cases of odd precipitation: North Carolina's blood rain in 1884 and Alabama's eel rain in 1892. One thing to note: instances of "blood rain" that have been investigated don't tu...
Ep 116 - Completing the Alamo Plaza with the Menger Hotel
June 20, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBWe've covered the Emily Morgan Hotel, the Alamo, and now, the Menger Hotel. This hotel is estimated by experts to be home to 32 to 45 ghosts including, but not limited to, Teddy Roosevelt, Sallie the Chambermaid, Captain Richard King the Cow Baron, a lady in white, and a few kids running around. It's to be expected, with a long history of renovations, civil war efforts, and deaths to go around, that a place would be haunted. But large places are haunted big time and the Menger Hotel is no ...
Ep 115 – Frights in the Backcountry
June 13, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBWelcome to the first installment of a new ongoing series: Frights in the Backcountry. We hunt the interwebs for personal accounts of spooky encounters and eerie events in rural areas of the American South. Think: backroads, small towns, and abandoned buildings. In this episode, we dive into four stories of encounters with the paranormal, including: 1) the slow realization that a house is haunted; 2) a road that doesn't exist in the daytime; 3) what happens when you hit a ghost with your car...
Ep 114 - The Holly Bobo Case and a Mistrial of Justice
June 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBEvery so often, we get a case where you just look at it and say, "That can't be true." Not because the murder is so gruesome, or the killer is so stupid, but because the police haven't seemed to do their job properly. This is one of those cases. Holly Bobo, a sweet but shy young woman, was seen arguing with a man and then walking into the woods with him, and then her body wasn't found for 3 years. Even when she was found, her remains were skeletal with not much evidence on what happened oth...
Ep 113 – The Vampire Episode
May 30, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBVampires — they can't live with us, and they can't live without us. Because they're undead! Throughout history, different cultures have developed their own conceptions of vampires: how they originate and their potential to inflict pain upon the living. Whether sparkly, lurking down darkened alleyways, or menacingly chewing underground, vampires tend to take up a lot of our imagination. In this episode, we take a broad look at vampire lore as a whole. Then, we dive into two stories of southe...
Ep 112 - The Crawler at the Old Jail
May 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBHave you ever been to one of those "haunted" houses with the actors that jump out at you? How about one where they were allowed to touch you? Ever want to experience it for real? Then head over to the Old Jail in St. Augustine, Florida. A project funded by none other then Henry Flagler to make the prison less scary looking to tourists, the Old Jail was built in 1891 and saw a lot of horrors. The men and women imprisoned here were forced to do heavy labor and/or sex work, while the payment ...
Ep 111 – The McRaven House in Vicksburg, Mississippi
May 16, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBWe're going full haunted house in this episode! The McRaven House in Vicksburg, Mississippi is old — very, very old. Its first two rooms were built over 200 years ago in 1797, with the rest of the house to follow in the years 1836 and 1849. Today, you can find it just off the end of a residential road, surrounded by trees and foliage that once loomed so close to the property that vines broke into two upstairs windows. Domineering former owners and playful ghost boys are said to roam the hal...
Ep 110 - The case that was Solved by TV
May 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBIn this week's episode, Zoey shares the case of Pamela Shelley, a woman from Ashdown, Arkansas. Pamela was found, shot, in her boyfriend's Texas home in 2001 after getting in an argument with her boyfriend, Ronnie. Pam and her two kids were set to move back to Arkansas with her first husband and the father of her children that same day due to friction in the household between Ronnie and Pam's daughter. While Pam survived the ride to the hospital, she died the next day. Ronnie's family told...
Ep 109 – The Poisoning On Independence Day
May 02, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBBy all accounts, July 4, 1965 was a fairly normal night for Madison and Marrs Cawein. They went out with their friends for Independence Day, and after some drinking and revelry, Marrs decided to turn in while Madison decided to stay out longer. She got back home around midnight, greeted the babysitter, and had a nightcap with the friend who drove her back before going to bed. No one — aside from her killer — saw her alive again. Because sometime between 2 and 6 in the morning, Marrs Cawein ...
Ep 108 - The Best Hoax in UFO History
April 25, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBOn Tuesday, August 19, 1952 around 11 pm Scoutmaster Sonny DesVergers was taking three Boy Scouts home after an event. They were driving on a road near West Palm Beach, Florida when they saw a bright light flash on a road called Military Trail. Being the proper Scoutmaster he was, Sonny decided to pull over and head towards the light, thinking that it could have been a downed plane or a car accident despite the boys’ protests. He brought a machete and a flashlight with him, telling the boy...