Southern Gothic

If you travel southwest on High Shoals Road from Broadway Lake, near Anderson, South Carolina, you’ll cross a modern concrete bridge over Rocky River that was built back in 1987. But as you cross its ...

14 Jun 20239min

On a lonely gravel road in Mississippi, 12 miles southwest of Meridian, is a dilapidated old truss bridge, no longer open to cars or traffic. It spans 112 feet, giving travelers access across the Chun...

7 Jun 202324min

On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ ...

29 Mai 202342min

St. Catherine's Island sits off the coast of Georgia, just fifty miles south of Savannah. This beautiful barrier island has served as a wildlife refuge for several decades, but its history is far dark...

24 Mai 202329min

It was a chilly February morning in 1896 when Johnny Hewling, a young farm worker, made a grisly discovery on the land of his employer, John Locke, near Ft. Thomas, Kentucky. Hewling had stumbled upon...

17 Mai 202334min

In October 2022, Brandon took to the stage of the haunted Palace Theatre for a night of ghost stories. Join us this week as we preview several of the stories from that night in anticipation of his app...

9 Mai 202317min

According to Gullah folklore, the swamps of the Lowcountry are home to a mythical creature who is said to sneak into the homes of its victims while they sleep and then suck the life force from their b...

24 Apr 202329min

In 1932, a police officer encountered a woman frantically running down Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. She told him that she had just escaped from the home of a pair of brothers, wh...

17 Apr 202310min