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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
  • Blood on the Marble & the Ghost of William Taulbee

    Blood on the Marble & the Ghost of William Taulbee
    Jun 26 2026
    On this episode of Southern Ghost Stories we are talking about what happened on a freezing February afternoon in 1890, when the halls of American power became a slaughterhouse. William Preston Taulbee—the charismatic Kentucky politician known as "The Mountain Orator"—stepped onto the marble stairs of the U.S. Capitol, only to find himself staring down the barrel of a revolver. The man holding the trigger wasn't a political rival, but a volatile, five-foot-tall newspaper reporter named Charles Kincaid. Discover the brutal history behind the true crime that shocked Washington D.C. and the restless phantom said to still wander the corridors of the United States Capitol.

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    17 mins
  • Mr. X & the Ghosts of Castle Warden

    Mr. X & the Ghosts of Castle Warden
    Jun 24 2026
    Before it was Ripley’s Believe It or Not, St. Augustine's Castle Warden was a luxury hotel that became the scene of a deadly 1944 tragedy. Officially, the third-floor fire that killed two women was an accident, but for over eighty years, rumors have persisted about a contentious divorce, a cover-up, and a mysterious figure known only as "Mr. X." Tonight, we investigate the chilling timeline of the fire, the true crime theories left in its wake, and the aggressive real ghost encounters that make this historic landmark one of the most haunted places in Florida.

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    21 mins
  • Tennessee Tales Tuesday: Buried Alive — The Curse of Sadie Baker

    Tennessee Tales Tuesday: Buried Alive — The Curse of Sadie Baker
    Jun 23 2026
    Today we’re diving into Coffee County, ennessee’s most chilling, century-old legend: the tragic curse of Sadie Baker. In the mid-1800s, a beautiful, mute stranger wandered into town, stole the heart of a wealthy local suitor, and paid the ultimate price when jealous townspeople branded her a witch. Forced into an open grave at Concord Cemetery and buried alive, she broke her lifelong silence with four terrifying final words that drove her accuser mad. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer brave enough to whisper her name three times at her headstone, this episode uncovers why Sadie's spirit still refuses to stay buried in Middle Tennessee.

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    15 mins
  • From The Vault: Suicide, Spirits, and Secrets at the Schamberger Building

    From The Vault: Suicide, Spirits, and Secrets at the Schamberger Building
    Jun 22 2026
    In this classic epsidoe from the vault, we’re exploring the dark history, missing history, and paranormal history of the Schamberger Building in Gallatin, Tennessee. Built in 1905 to house the Sumner County Bank and Trust Company, this landmark witnessed decades of financial prosperity—and a tragic, abrupt ending for a bank president in 1940. Today, the building holds two massive secrets: a 100-year-old time capsule that completely vanished from the cornerstone, and a haunting presence that choked up a psychic who knew nothing of the building's past. From self-flushing toilets to mysterious underground tunnels right next door, we dig into why the Gallatin square remains one of the most active, unexplained spots in Tennessee.

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    11 mins
  • The Tanyard Horror & the Ghost of Herman Schilling

    The Tanyard Horror & the Ghost of Herman Schilling
    Jun 19 2026
    In the autumn of 1874, a forbidden romance in Cincinnati triggered a wave of vengeance that culminated in one of the most gruesome crimes in American history: the Tanyard Horror. After a secret relationship with a saloon keeper's daughter ended in tragedy, young immigrant Herman Schilling was brutally ambushed by a grieving father and an angry cowrker, stabbed with a pitchfork, and shoved into a roaring tannery furnace. Long after the killers escaped the gallows, the ashes of Gamble Alley refused to cool, giving rise to terrifying folklore of a scorched, walking skeleton seeking eternal rest and an apparition that drove a desperate woman to madness. We're taking a deep dive into one of Cincinnati's forgotten ghost stories.

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    25 mins