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Hosted by Shannon Ballard, Southern Mysteries explores the rich and often untold history of the American South through a mix of folklore, legends, unexplained mysteries & true crime.Sometimes the mystery is: why haven’t you heard the story?

21/12/2025

She lived in a run-down shack with nearly 30 stray cats. Neighbors knew her as "The Cat Lady", a kind and compassionate woman.

But Winona Spriggs had a past full of secrets: prison escapes, false names, and a string of murders.

🎙️ Hear her story in the new episode of Southern Mysteries, available Monday 12/22 wherever you get your podcasts

08/12/2025

One of our oldest fears is waking in the dark with no way out.
In 1968, a young woman lived that reality. The search to find her pushed investigators into the Georgia woods, hoping they weren’t already too late.

New Southern Mysteries episode is out now. Listen to Episode 180 "The Kidnapping of Barbara Mackle" wherever you get your podcasts.

24/11/2025

New episode 🕯️Diamond rings caught the morning light when she stepped off the train in Jefferson, Texas. She traveled under a false name with a man who claimed to be her husband. Days later, her body was found in the woods and the man vanished.

What followed became one of the most sensational murder trials in Texas history and the story of the mysterious "Diamond Bessie" became legend.

🎧 The Mystery of Diamond Bessie is available today. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

10/11/2025

In 1905, eight-year-old Kenneth Beasley, the son of North Carolina State Senator Samuel Beasley, walked out of his one-room schoolhouse in Currituck County—and vanished. What followed was one of the most haunting and controversial cases in North Carolina history. A bitter feud between two respected families, a trial built on circumstantial evidence, and a man’s death that left more questions than answers. Hear the new episode of Southern Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts.

📷 Credit, Image 2: Kenneth Beasley, Beasley family photo. Public Domain.

27/10/2025

Across the South, when something terrible happened and no one could explain why, people looked for someone to blame. A healer. A midwife. A neighbor who lived outside the lines of what a community understood.

Those stories became warnings told after dark. Whispers about witches who cursed the land or called down storms. Tales of conjure men and cunning women whose names were spoken with caution.

This week on Southern Mysteries, we uncover the chilling history behind witch legends across the South and why fear turned real people into supernatural threats.

The new episode is available today wherever you listen to podcasts.

20/10/2025

The Surrency mystery sits at a crossroads of faith, folklore, and fear.

In 1872, a South Georgia family became the center of a haunting that gripped the nation. For months, reporters wrote of objects flying through the air, fires breaking out without cause, and voices no one could explain.

The story eventually faded from the headlines, but the haunting plagued the family for years.

🎧The Mystery of the Surrency Poltergeist, the newest episode in the Southern Mysteries: History & Horrors series, is available now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

19/10/2025

"The whole house is cloaked in darkness and bears the spirit of the supernatural.” – Savannah Morning News 🕯️

In 1872, a South Georgia family became the center of a strange mystery. The disturbances in their home were so relentless that both the family and newspaper reporters began documenting every strange occurrence.

With more than seventy-five witnesses over several months, the Surrency case became one of the most thoroughly reported poltergeists in American folklore.

It’s a story that tests our beliefs and reminds us how thin the line can be between what we know and what we fear.

The Mystery of the Surrency Poltergeist, the third installment in the Southern Mysteries History & Horror series, is available Monday 10/20 wherever you listen to podcasts.

13/10/2025

The Battle of Shiloh was named for a church meaning “place of peace" but it's remembered for two days of horror.

“I would give a thousand worlds, if I could forget what happened at Shiloh.” - Henry Morton Stanley, Confederate soldier

Shiloh turned quiet Tennessee farmland into one of the bloodiest fields of the Civil War - a place where over 23,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing.

More than 150 years later, visitors still speak of strange sounds, shadows, and an eerie silence that feels heavy with memory.

🎧 Haunted Battlefields and Forts of the South, the newest episode in the Southern Mysteries: History & Horrors series, is available now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

12/10/2025

“We buried the boys under the trees, and at midnight, I thought I heard their voices still singing the hymn they died with.” ~ Chaplain Thomas H. Stockton

From the blood-soaked fields of Shiloh to the haunted walls of Fort Morgan, the South’s battlefields and forts hold more than history.

Haunted Battlefields and Forts of the South — the next episode in the Southern Mysteries: History & Horrors series — arrives Monday, October 13.

🕯️Follow Southern Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts.

06/10/2025

💥 “Meteors are always a surprise” — so began The Meteor, the short-lived paper published entirely by patients of the Alabama Insane Hospital (later renamed Bryce Hospital).

Today on Southern Mysteries, I dive into the haunted halls and forgotten stories of Southern asylums. While researching this episode it struck me: The Meteor was an act of agency, a voice from patients inside walls built to hide them.

Instead of being mere inhabitants of asylums, they became authors—sharing poems, social commentary, glimpses of life under confinement.

Their words remind us that even in the darkest corners of these institutions, there were people - reaching for light.

Episode 174 "Southern Asylums and the Spirits Within" is available today wherever you get your podcasts.

📷 Source: The Crimson White

05/10/2025

The walls of an asylum are not built of stone and iron alone. They are built of the silence of society, the neglect of families, and the fear of the unknown. ~Dorthea Dix

They were meant to be places of healing, but the walls of the South’s old asylums tell a different story. Step inside the haunting history of Broughton, Bryce, Cherry and Central State Hospitals and those left behind. "Southern Asylums and the Spirits Within" is available Monday 10/6 wherever you get your podcasts.

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