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.
In 1955, four members of the Bratcher family were murdered on their Warren County, Tennessee farm in a case that shocked the community and revealed the killer was someone they knew.
Meet Kinnie Wagner, a lesser known outlaw of the 1920s. Folk songs were written about him and he gained legendary status by escaping jail several times and escapted the electric chair in Tennessee. FOLLOW AND LISTEN: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | RSS Feed Want more Southern Mysteries? Hear the Southern Mysteries show archive of 60+ episodes along with Patron exclusive
