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In 1796 John Brown, the founding father of the state of Kentucky, built a beautiful home where he and his family would entertain many of the new American political and social elite, but legend says that several of the famed Liberty Hall's guests still remain there today.
This episode of Southern Gothic is the second in the three-part series "Birth of a City: New Orleans," a story that chronicles the inception of a great American city and the legends that evolved with it.
This episode of Southern Gothic is the first in the three-part series "Birth of a City: New Orleans," a story that chronicles the inception of a great American city and the legends that evolved with it.
In 1915 a vicious hurricane cut through Southeastern Louisiana causing massive destruction in its ravenous wake. The storm surge topped 12 feet and the hurricane’s devastating winds swept through at 145 mph, leaving almost 300 dead. Yet nowhere was the storm’s wrath more apparent than the small settlement of Frenier.
Legend says General David Bradford had a price put on his head by President George Washington for his role in the Whiskey Rebellion, that’s why he fled down south and built a plantation for himself in the Spanish part of Louisiana. Bradford went on to live out his days as a wealthy planter, but the legacy of the home he built has evolved into what is today known as the Myrtles Plantation — America’s most haunted home.
William Faulkner is arguable the most influential figure in the literary genre of Southern Gothic, and nowhere embodies his fascination with the aesthetic more than his very own home in Oxford, Mississippi-- Rowan Oak.
On a lonely gravel road, just southwest of Meridian Mississippi, is a rusty old truss bridge no longer open to cars or traffic. The bridge was built in 1901, but many believe it is haunted by a treacherous man who is said to walk across it's predecessor at night luring in victims with the light of his lantern.
In 1901, a young woman by the name of Nell Cropsey went missing from her home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The frantic search for her whereabouts lasted 37 days, including eerie twists and turns with questions that still remain today.
For several weeks during the 1950's, a small, rural town in North Carolina was held hostage by a vicious beast that many believed was vampiric. Its name was simply, the Beast of Bladenboro.
In the city of Cleveland,Tennessee is a legendary mausoleum haunted by the spirit of young girl killed in a tragic accident at a railroad crossing. Legend says if you circle the tomb seven times and then approach it's entrance, the metal door will swing open and invite you in. Yet this legend isn’t what made the ornate marble mausoleum the basis of one of the most infamous ghost stories in East Tennessee— it’s that the marble tomb seems to bleed.
Among the mountains of Appalachia there is said to be a creature so fierce that just a glimpse of its yellow eyes can pierce through the heart and soul of a person, leaving them teetering on the edge of insanity. Though it has many names, most know the creature as the Wampus Cat.
