Episode 182 Buried Alive on Edisto Island: The Legend of Julia Legare
Was Julia Legare buried alive? Explore the Edisto Island, South Carolina legend of the Legare mausoleum and what the historical record shows in this episode.
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Episode 181 The Crimes of Winona Spriggs
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.
Episode 180 The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle
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.
Episode 179 The Mystery of Diamond Bessie
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.
Episode 178 Little Boy Lost – The Disappearance of Kenneth Beasley
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.
Episode 177 Witch Legends of the South
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.