At King’s Tavern in Natchez, Mississippi, the legend of a murdered woman named Madeline has endured for generations. In the finale of The Devil’s Road, Southern Mysteries explores the tavern’s documented history, its reported hauntings, and the folklore surrounding one of the Natchez Trace’s most mysterious landmarks.
Once a thriving community along the Natchez Trace, Rocky Springs, Mississippi, slowly disappeared. Explore its Civil War history, devastating yellow fever epidemic, the lynching of Amos Hicks, and legends of buried treasure and ghostly encounters surrounding this forgotten town.
Travelers carrying money north from Natchez made tempting targets on the isolated roads of the early 1800s. Part Two of The Devil’s Road follows Samuel Mason and Joseph Thompson Hare, two notorious land pirates whose crimes became part of the darker history of the Natchez Trace.
Ancient burial mounds line the Natchez Trace, preserving the history of people who lived there nearly two thousand years ago. At one of those sites, Pharr Mounds, a brutal 1992 murder added a much more recent story to this ancient landscape.
At the bottom of West Virginia’s New River Gorge, the nearly abandoned railroad town of Thurmond hides a history of coal wealth, rival businessmen, gambling, violence and suspicious deaths. This episode traces the rise of Thurmond and the infamous Dun Glen Hotel, the crimes that earned the area a lawless reputation, and the town’s transformation from a booming C&O railroad center into a preserved part of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
Across the South, asylums were built with the promise of healing — but inside their walls, countless lives were marked by fear, neglect, and cruelty. In this episode of Southern Mysteries, explore the haunting history of institutions like Broughton Hospital, Cherry Hospital, Central State, and Bryce.
