Podcast Episodes

The Spirits of Sloss Furnaces (Revisited)

Episode 67

Built in 1881, Sloss Furnaces was the first of many blast furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama to manufacture pig iron.

The furnaces aided in catalyzing an Industrial Revolution in the postwar south. It wa…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

The Ghost Town of Rodney, Mississippi

Episode 66

LOST TO TIME AND THE SHIFTING CURRENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER…

It was in 1828 that the town of Rodney, Mississippi was formally incorporated. Located near the Mississippi River, the town would grow …

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

The Premature Burial of Octavia Hatcher

Episode 65

In 1891 Octavia Hatcher was twenty years-old. She was married to the most successful businessmen in the state of Kentucky and was awaiting the birth of her first child. There should have been nothing…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

The Surrency Family Poltergeist

Episode 64

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In October 1872, a small Georgia community was bursting with visitors and curiosity seekers in an attempt t…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Hilton Head Island's Haunted Lighthouse

Episode 63

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Hilton Head Island’s Leamington Lighthouse was erected in 1880 to help guide ships away from the island and…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

John Henry: Steel Driving Man

Episode 62

When the Civil War drew to a close, the United States’ railway networks, particularly those in the Southern states, were in shambles. During the Reconstruction era, the rehabilitation of the southern…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

Refuge in the Great Dismal Swamp

Episode 61

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Along the coastal plain region of Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina lies the ominously named Great Dismal Swamp. Wh…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

Episode 60

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On May 14, 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on what would become a two year expedition …

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Madame Félicité Chretien

Episode 59

Just north of Lafayette, Louisiana– in the small town of Sunset– is Chretien Point, a beautiful Creole style two-story mansion that once served as the centerpiece to a vast cotton plantation known as…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Legend of Peter Dromgoole

Episode 58

For almost two centuries the legend of the disappearance of Peter Dromgoole has been told by the students of the University of North Carolina.

In 1833 Peter Dromgoole arrived to study at the Universit…

Published on 5 years ago