Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South
Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend.
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Episodes
14 episodes
Bodies Behind Bars | Three Southern Serial Killers Who Were Locked Away But Kept On Killing
The Monster of Mayport, who turned a long simmering family feud into a vengeful bloodbath. A future serial killer who got his first taste of death at age 17. And a brutal psychopath with more than a dozen kills to his credit, who took out an...
A Death So Unhinged | Three Bizarre True Crime Scenes That Left Even Professional Investigators Baffled
An elderly St. Petersburg woman disappears in an unexplainable ball of fire. A corpse in a rural Alabama creek is found without its head, hands, heart, or its spleen. A young volunteer vanishes in the Carolina mountains, only to turn up hogt...
Death In The Shade | Three Great Oaks From The Darkest Corners Of Southern Gothic Lore
A Southern oak with a history of bizarre deaths. A 400 year old Savannah hanging tree. The Devil’s Tree that bears the scars of one serial killer’s twisted game of torture and murder.Three true tales from the Gothic South with a s...
The Murder Of Blair Adams | A Bizarre Cold Case Death From Knoxville, Tennessee
A 31-year-old construction worker told friends and family that someone was trying to kill him. They thought he was imagining things. Until he turned up dead, 3,000 miles away, naked and surrounded by gold and cash in a Knoxville parking lot....
Still On The Hunt | Three Southern Serial Killers Who Were Never Brought To Justice
A prolific serial killer preying the Florida canals. A killer who they thought was behind bars, then eight more bodies surfaced. A vicious, mentally unbalanced monster preying on the elderly in their own homes.Three true tales fro...
The Killer Next Door | The Crimes & Execution Of William Seymour Keener In Rabun County, Georgia
A young farmer lay in ambush of his three young cousins. A short time later, two were dead, both shot at close range. What followed was a sensational murder trial, a failed lunacy plea, a jailhouse confession, and an execution that legend sa...
Infamous in Death | Five Women Who Died & Became Southern Gothic Legends In The Afterlife
A lonely girl in red haunts the place of her death. The grave of a Charleston socialite draws favors for help from a witch. A young West Virginia woman’s ghost testifies at her own murder trial.Five tales from the Gothic South, so...
No Such Thing As Coincidence | The Bizarre Connections Linking Different Cold Cases Across The Gothic South
Two women with the same name are murdered in the same spot, just days apart. A machete murder in Saint Augustine leads to another suspicious death and a book that someone desperately didn’t want written. Two young Atlanta women at the same b...
Blood Fell Like Rain | The Terrifying True History Of Blood Falls In The Gothic South
A thundershower of gore rains down on a Tennessee tobacco field. Biblical stories tell of frogs, eels, blood and more falling from the skies. Raw meat and gristle blanket a South Carolina cotton farm and foretell the end of days.A...
Deadly Dames II | Six Southern Women Who Wouldn’t Stop At Murder To Get What They Want
A popular granny who poisoned her family for the money and the laughs. An angel of death nurse who kept a list of the souls she saved. A teen babysitter who smothered her young charges for no reason at all.Six true tales from the...
Deadly Dames I | Six Southern Women Who Said “Til Death Do Us Part” & Meant It
A devious Atlanta bride whose careful planning couldn’t ensure her new husband’s death. The sensational murder trial of a South Florida socialite ends with a question mark. An Alabama serial killer who disappeared only to return as her own t...
The Deadliest Town In Georgia | One Southern Town That Draws Death Like Flies To Honey
A deadly tornado that claims the lives of dozens of child workers. A second storm that brings fire, heartache, and many more deaths. An invisible killer that snuffs out the living before they even know there’s an alarm.Four tragi...
Rest In Pieces | The True Stories Of What Happens When You Bury A Body With No Head
A doomed railroad man still swinging his phantom lantern. A Confederate soldier haunting a Greensboro cemetery with half a skull and an empty canteen. A bizarre true story of Lincoln assassination conspirator whose head went missing for more...
Lovers Slain | The Gruesome True History of Serial Killers & Lover’s Lanes
A young lothario who was flayed alive for his illicit intentions. Two predators that stalked Lover’s Lanes in the early 20th century. A vicious serial killer who hunted the South’s lonely highways for more than a decade.A collecti...
