The Murder Mansion of Cemetery Road
In June 1948, the grand estate on Cemetery Road just outside Bowling Green, Kentucky, became the site of a brutal Southern Gothic tragedy when eighty-year-old Dr. Charles B. Martin and his wife Martha...
23 Sep 18min
Shy’s Hill: Powder Burns and Plundered Graves
On December 16, 1864, twenty-six-year-old Confederate Colonel William Shy was killed during a desperate last stand at the Battle of Nashville, forever lending his name to Shy’s Hill. Sealed in a heavy...
22 Sep 24min
From the Vault: Luxor—The Cursed Casino
Towering 350 feet over the Las Vegas Strip, the Luxor’s black glass pyramid and ten-story Sphinx make it one of the desert’s most iconic landmarks—and, according to local lore, one of its most cursed....
21 Sep 15min
The Ghost of Cypress Bend
Along the dark, winding waters below New Orleans, generations of Mississippi riverboat captains warned their crews never to tie up near Cypress Bend after sunset, where a ruined, moss-draped plantatio...
18 Sep 22min
The Denver Spider Man: Horror in the Attic
In the fall of 1941, seventy-three-year-old retired railroader Philip Peters began hearing strange noises in his house and noticing food vanishing from his Denver home, leading him to wonder if the qu...
17 Sep 21min
Am I Alive? The Resurrection of William Kriel
In January 1870, ten thousand spectators packed the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, to watch the public hanging of William Kriel—a violent butcher who had murdered his ailing wife in front of her mot...
16 Sep 24min
Follow Me: The Lost Gold of the Hunt-Phelan House
At 533 Beale Street in Memphis stands the Hunt-Phelan House, an antebellum red-brick mansion that has weathered nearly two centuries of turbulent history—serving as a Confederate headquarters, Ulysses...
15 Sep 22min
From the Vault: The Ghosts of Le Pavillon
In this special From the Vault episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy takes you inside New Orleans’ opulent Le Pavillon Hotel, a historic landmark famous for its crystal chandeliers, late-nigh...
14 Sep 15min
