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The Woolfolk Family Massacre
Episode 19
On August 6, 1887 one of Georgia’s darkest and most infamous murders occurred at a farmhouse in Bibb County. Nine members of Richard Woolfolk’s family were brutally slain with an axe. Suspicion immed…
Published on 7 years ago
Phantom Flames of Tuscaloosa
Episode 18
Dr. John R. Drish began construction of one of Tuscaloosa's first plantation homes in 1835. Unfortunately, after he and his wife Sara's deaths, the home fell to ruin; giving life to claims that the t…
Published on 7 years, 1 month ago
The Birth of a City: New Orleans, Part III - Madame Delphine LaLaurie
Episode 17
This episode of Southern Gothic is the third in the three-part series "Birth of a City: New Orleans," a story that chronicles the inception of a great American city and the legends that evolved with …
Published on 7 years, 1 month ago
The Birth of a City: New Orleans, Part II - Spirits of the St. Louis Cathedral
Episode 16
This episode of Southern Gothic is the second in the three-part series "Birth of a City: New Orleans," a story that chronicles the inception of a great American city and the legends that evolved with…
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
The Birth of a City: New Orleans, Part I - The Casket Girls
Episode 15
This episode of Southern Gothic is the first in the three-part series "Birth of a City: New Orleans," a story that chronicles the inception of a great American city and the legends that evolved with …
Published on 7 years, 2 months ago
The Madison County Grey
Episode 14
Private Nicodemus Kidd enlisted in the Confederate Army on July 10, 1861; however, the young private quickly fell victim to an horrendous disease while camped outside of the Confederate capital. A di…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
Fort Jefferson's Most Infamous
Episode 13
Construction of Fort Jefferson began in the early 19th century to address the growing need for America to protect its shores. The resulting massive coastal fortress is the largest masonry structure o…
Published on 7 years, 3 months ago
The Abandoned Amusement Park of Lake Shawnee
Episode 12
In 1926 Conley Snidow opened the Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in West Virginia, on land that many believe was once sacred to the indigenous tribes of the region. Echoes of the land's subsequent bloody…
Published on 7 years, 4 months ago
The Seer of Shelbyville
Episode 11
On March 22, 1957, Simon Warner, a self-described "crime doctor," was murdered at is home in Shelbyville, Tennessee for allegedly placing a Voodoo hex on a man who had come to him for help; and while…
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago
William Faulkner's Rowan Oak
Episode 10
William Faulkner is arguably the most influential writer in the literary genre of Southern Gothic; and nowhere is his fascination with the aesthetic more apparent, than in his Oxford, Mississippi hom…
Published on 7 years, 5 months ago