Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South

Liam Ashe
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Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay

  1. 1h ago

    001 Lady of Lake Lanier | The True Story of Susie Roberts, Delia Mae Young & the Ghost in Blue

    Two young mothers out for an evening of fun disappear without a trace. A ghostly woman in a blue dress haunts drivers crossing one particular bridge in rural Georgia. And nearby, a water lover's paradise hides hundreds of bodies in the decades since it was first formed. So, what is fact and what is fiction at Georgia's Lake Lanier? In this episode: The lives, disappearance, and discovery of Susie Smallwood Roberts and Delia Mae Parker YoungThe legend of the Lady of Lake Lanier, the Ghost in the Blue Dress  Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content. Dive Deeper with the Research Folio. Get a full transcript, list of sources, supplemental media, and more for each drop plus early access to new episodes. A special perk for our email subscribers. Get the Newsletter > Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.

    001 Lady of Lake Lanier | The True Story of Susie Roberts, Delia Mae Young & the Ghost in Blue

  2. Oct 27

    001 Corpsewood Manor | The True Story of Sex, Betrayal & Death in the Chattooga Woods

    An eccentric couple builds a bizarre castle in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest. Soon, suspicious neighbors begin to whisper of drug fueled orgies, demon worship, and ritual sacrifice. For the owners, an evening with new friends ends in unimaginable horror and death. So, what was fact and what was fiction at Corpsewood Manor? In this episode: The lives, deaths, and legacies of Dr. Charles Lee Scudder and Joseph "Joe" OdomThe murders on the night of December 12, 1982 at Corpsewood Manor in Georgia's Chattanooga Woods  Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content. Dive Deeper with the Research Folio. Get a full transcript, list of sources, supplemental media, and more for each drop plus early access to new episodes. A special perk for our email subscribers. Get the Newsletter > Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.

    001 Corpsewood Manor | The True Story of Sex, Betrayal & Death in the Chattooga Woods

  3. Oct 2

    Vanished In A Heartbeat | Three Chilling Cases Of Missing Children From The Gothic South

    A young boy plays a harmless prank on his family and vanishes forever. Five siblings are engulfed in a Christmas Eve house fire that leaves no bodies and conflicting clues. And one family’s son disappears, only to turn up several months later with a different name, a different face, and different DNA. What do these three true crime tales from the Gothic South have in common? There is a single heartbreaking thread running through each: children who were there one second and then gone forever the next. In this episode: The baffling 1969 disappearance of Dennis Martin who never returned while playing a joke on his father in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National ParkThe Christmas Eve house fire and vanishing of the five Sodder Family Children in rural West VirginiaThe possible kidnapping of Bobby Dunbar in Louisiana’s Saint Landry Parish and his contested return as an entirely different boy  Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content. Dive Deeper with the Research Folio. Get a full transcript, list of sources, supplemental media, and more for each drop plus early access to new episodes. A special perk for our email subscribers. Get the Newsletter > Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.

    Vanished In A Heartbeat | Three Chilling Cases Of Missing Children From The Gothic South

  4. Sep 15

    Night Fell With An Axe | Three Southern Families Who Were Each Wiped Out In A Single Night By An Axe Wielding Killer

    A dead family lays in their cabin while the agitated father sits outside. A young girl wakes to the smell of smoke and the grisly sight of her parents’ mutilated corpses. All nine members of a frontier Florida family lay hacked to pieces while their rural home burns to the ground. What do these three true crime tales from the Gothic South have in common? There’s a shimmering thread running through each: entire families wiped out in a single night by an axe-wielding killer. In this episode: The crimes and execution of Abel Clemmons who killed his entire family with an axe in their home near Clarksburg, VirginiaThe 1906 slaughter of the Lyerly Family in Rowan County, North Carolina and the brutal aftermath that stained the town foreverThe extinction of the Acreman Family in Allentown, Florida that may be the work of America's most prolific serial killer  Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content. Dive Deeper with the Research Folio. Get a full transcript, list of sources, supplemental media, and more for each drop plus early access to new episodes. A special perk for our email subscribers. Get the Newsletter > Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.

    Night Fell With An Axe | Three Southern Families Who Were Each Wiped Out In A Single Night By An Axe Wielding Killer

  5. Sep 1

    Bodies Behind Bars | Three Southern Serial Killers Who Were Locked Away But Kept On Killing

    The Monster of Mayport, who turned a long simmering family feud into a vengeful bloodbath. A future serial killer who got his first taste of death at age 17. And a brutal psychopath with more than a dozen kills to his credit, who took out another inmate in a way so outlandish no one could ever have predicted it. This collection of true crime tales from the Gothic South has a single thread running through each: a serial killer who was caught, locked up, and kept right on killing while behind bars. In this episode: The sad story of William "Billy" Wells also known as the Monster of Mayport who killed five in just a few days after a family argumentThe crimes and death of Walter Hill in Alabama, a man who killed several and led police on a multi-state carjacking chaseThe brutal crimes of Pee Wee Gaskins in Sumter, Georgia, who claimed to have more than 100 kills to his credit  Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content. Dive Deeper with the Research Folio. Get a full transcript, list of sources, supplemental media, and more for each drop plus early access to new episodes. A special perk for our email subscribers. Get the Newsletter > Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.

    Bodies Behind Bars | Three Southern Serial Killers Who Were Locked Away But Kept On Killing

  6. Aug 18

    A Death So Unhinged | Three Bizarre True Crime Scenes That Left Even Professional Investigators Baffled

    An elderly St. Petersburg woman disappears in an unexplainable ball of fire. A corpse in a rural Alabama creek is found without its head, hands, heart, or its spleen. A young volunteer vanishes in the Carolina mountains, only to turn up hogtied and strangled in the backseat of an abandoned car. And a wealthy Georgia couple dies grisly deaths, his headless body dumped in their garage and her body at the bottom of a lake. This collection of true tales from the Gothic South has a single thread running through each: bizarre death scenes that, even decades later, left investigators scratching their heads with more questions than answers. In this episode: The fiery death of Mary Reeser in 1951, one of the best documented cases of spontaneous human combustionThe bizarre death of Jefferey Douglas Kimzey in Arab, Alabama, a still-unsolved cold case that left a baffling crime scene with very few cluesThe 50-year-old murder of volunteer Nancy Morgan whose case remains unsolved despite evidence of a local coverupThe brutal execution of Russell and Shirley Dermond in their Georgia home that has left investigators with nothing but dead ends  Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content. Dive Deeper with the Research Folio. Get a full transcript, list of sources, supplemental media, and more for each drop plus early access to new episodes. A special perk for our email subscribers. Get the Newsletter > Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.

    A Death So Unhinged | Three Bizarre True Crime Scenes That Left Even Professional Investigators Baffled

  7. Aug 4

    Death In The Shade | Three Great Oaks From The Darkest Corners Of Southern Gothic Lore

    A Southern oak with a history of bizarre deaths. A 400 year old Savannah hanging tree. The Devil’s Tree that bears the scars of one serial killer’s twisted game of torture and murder. Three true tales from the Gothic South with a single thread running through: ancient trees that have witnessed the worst, most grievous evil mankind has to offer. In this episode: • The Fairchild Oak in Ormond Beach, Florida, where two plantation owners, both fleeing their own shady pasts, were found dead beneath its limbs, decades apart and with no confirmed cause of death • Savannah’s Candler Oak, a 300-year-old giant beside the city’s old hospital, whose reputation as a “hanging tree” blurs the line between documented history and ghost-tour legend • The case of Florida serial killer Gerard John Schaefer, Jr. whose twisted fantasies gave the Devil’s Tree of Port St. Lucie both its name and its reputation as a site of unspeakable depravity Some of these stories are documented fact. Some may be only folklore. All of them ask the same question: what happens when a death’s only witness is a tree? Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content. Dive Deeper with the Research Folio. Get a full transcript, list of sources, supplemental media, and more for each drop plus early access to new episodes. A special perk for our email subscribers. Get the Newsletter > Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.

    Death In The Shade | Three Great Oaks From The Darkest Corners Of Southern Gothic Lore

  8. Jul 21

    The Murder Of Blair Adams | A Bizarre Cold Case Death From Knoxville, Tennessee

    A 31-year-old construction worker told friends and family that someone was trying to kill him. They thought he was imagining things. Until he turned up dead, 3,000 miles away, naked and surrounded by gold and cash in a Knoxville parking lot. A true tale from the Gothic South that asks more questions than it answers: what would drive a man to flee his life only for it to end two days later? In this episode: • The cold case murder of Robert Dennis Blair Adams (December 28, 1964 – July 11, 1996) in Knoxville, Tennessee Listener discretion advised for graphic true crime content. Dive Deeper with the Research Folio. Get a full transcript, list of sources, supplemental media, and more for each drop plus early access to new episodes. A special perk for our email subscribers. Get the Newsletter > Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay.

    The Murder Of Blair Adams | A Bizarre Cold Case Death From Knoxville, Tennessee
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Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend. Subscribe and you’ll get an intro to every episode, including early access and an exclusive Research Folio. Music courtesy of Geoff Harvey, Pixabay

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