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Southern Ghost Stories

Southern Ghost Stories

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American Hauntstorian Allen Sircy explores America’s haunted past — unearthing true ghost stories, graveyard legends, and forgotten folklore. Join him as he gives voice to haunted history and chilling tales that blur the line between fact and myth from every corner of the country.Copyright Allen Sircy Social Sciences True Crime World
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  • Jacksonville's Old City Cemtery & The Lady in White

    Jacksonville's Old City Cemtery & The Lady in White
    Jul 1 2026
    On this episode of Southern Ghost Stories we venture into the heart of Jacksonville, Florida, to explore the Old City Cemetery, a mid-nineteenth-century resting place where history and local folklore bleed together. From the mass graves of the catastrophic 1888 yellow fever epidemic to the resting place of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure star Alice Nunn, this cemetery holds generations of the city's collective grief and memory. But its most enduring legend surrounds Marie Louise Gato, a 19-year-old high-society Cuban woman shot down in 1897. Though she named her wealthy, volatile partner as her killer from her deathbed, a captivated public and a controversial acquittal left her family without justice—and sparked a century of ghost stories about a woman in white still wandering beneath the moss-covered oaks.

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    17 mins
  • Tennessee Tales Tuesday: The Execution of Big Mary the Elephant

    Tennessee Tales Tuesday: The Execution of Big Mary the Elephant
    Jun 30 2026
    In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, host Allen Sircy takes listeners back to September 1916 for one of the strangest and most tragic chapters in Tennessee history: the public execution of Big Mary. As the five-ton star attraction of the Sparks World Famous Shows circus, Mary was beloved by audiences until a fatal encounter with an inexperienced handler during a parade in Kingsport sparked widespread public outrage. Driven by pressure from local towns and the media, circus officials and community leaders made the unprecedented decision to sentence the elephant to death. The resulting execution—carried out via a massive railroad crane in the town of Erwin—became an infamous moment in American history that continues to raise haunting questions about justice, spectacle, and revenge.

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    25 mins
  • From the Vault: The Ghost of the Human Fly

    From the Vault: The Ghost of the Human Fly
    Jun 29 2026
    The Rutherford County Courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, stands as a living piece of American history—and perhaps something more. In this long lost episode from the vault, we explore the incredible legacy of one of Tennessee’s few remaining antebellum courthouses, tracking its journey through Union occupation, daring Confederate raids, and bizarre World War II military drills. We’ll dive into the tragic 1923 spectacle of James "The Human Fly" Dearing, whose fatal daredevil stunt atop the courthouse tower left a mark on the town that lingers to this day. Join us as we uncover the history, the triumphs, and the ghostly activity that suggest some of Murfreesboro's past residents never truly left.

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    13 mins
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