In the summer of 1924, a railroad worker was found dead near tracks in Little Rock. Weeks later, his wife was found dead in another state. What followed was a series of headlines that pointed to one woman—Winona Spriggs. Her name would appear again and again over the next fifty years, linked to crime, escape, and murder. This is the story of a family broken, and of the woman who never stopped running.
In December 1968, Barbara Jane Mackle was kidnapped from a motel room outside Atlanta, Georgia. The circumstances surrounding her abduction were so strange, investigators could barely make sense of them. The search for twenty year old Barbara Jane Mackle became a race against time that gripped her family and drew national attention.
The murder of Diamond Bessie became one of the most talked-about cases in Texas history. Her story lives on in Jefferson, where her memory continues to echo nearly 150 years later.
In 1905, eight-year-old Kenneth Beasley vanished after leaving his school in Poplar Branch, North Carolina. The son of a state senator, his disappearance sparked a county-wide search, a bitter feud, and a conviction built on rumor. This episode revisits one of North Carolina’s oldest unsolved mysteries.
Discover the real history behind southern witch legends. This episode of Southern Mysteries explores how fear and suspicion turned healers, midwives and conjurers in the American South into figures of folklore and myth.
In 1872, the quiet Georgia town of Surrency became the site of one of the most documented poltergeist cases in American history. Explore the true story of the Surrency family, the chaos that consumed their home, and the mystery that still haunts Georgia folklore.
