In the fall of 1996, a sixteen-year-old boy in Murray, Kentucky, was telling people he was a vampire. Not someone who enjoyed vampire movies or dressed like Dracula for Halloween. …
SBP Podcast Episode 25: The Vampire Clan Murders – Rod Ferrell aka Vesago Read More
Florida is already a place where the strange can feel completely believable. Alligators disappear beneath black water. Panthers move through forests without most people ever seeing them. Wild monkeys live …
SBP Podcast Episode 24: The Skunk Ape – Bigfoot in the Swamp Read More
Few people in Southern history have become as inseparable from a city as Marie Laveau is from New Orleans. She was real—a free woman of color born in New Orleans …
SBP Podcast Episode 23: Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen Read More
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee is one of the South’s most familiar family vacation towns. Cabins, pancake houses, souvenir shops, roadside attractions, Dollywood, and the Smoky Mountains have made it a place …
SBP Podcast Episode 22: The Pigeon Forge Murder: The Death of Ann Robertson Jones Read More
In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare went from working-class Floridian to multimillionaire overnight after winning a $30 million Florida lottery jackpot. For most people, that kind of money sounds like freedom. For …
SBP Podcast Episode 20: Abraham Shakespeare: Lottery, Lies, and Murder Read More
In January of 1991, a bizarre story out of Channelview, Texas, became a national obsession. Wanda Holloway, a mother from a blue-collar town east of Houston, was accused of trying …
SBP Podcast Episode 19: Pom Pom Mom Read More
Anne Bonny is one of the most famous pirates in history — and perhaps one of the most mysterious. She sailed during the final violent years of the Golden Age …
SBP Podcast Episode 18: Anne Bonny: Pirate Queen, Pirate Legend Read More
On September 14, 1987, Circuit Court Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife, Biloxi city councilwoman Margaret Sherry, were found murdered inside their home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. There was …
SBP Podcast Episode 17: The Dixie Mafia and the Vincent & Margaret Sherry Murders Read More
In November of 1999, a late-night shooting on a quiet road in Charlotte set off one of the most disturbing criminal cases tied to professional sports. At the center of …
SBP Podcast Episode 16: Rae Carruth: A Murder Plot, a 911 Call, and a Trunk in Tennessee Read More
In October 2006, a crime unfolded in the French Quarter that would become one of the most disturbing cases in New Orleans history. It was not a crime committed in …
SBP Podcast Episode 15: The Zack Bowen & Addie Hall Case: Murder in the French Quarter Read More