Southern Gothic

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In January of 1913, the steamboat James T. Staples—one of the most elegant vessels to travel the Tombigbee River—was torn apart by a sudden boiler explosion near Powe’s Landing in ...

Head southwest out of Logan, West Virginia and you’ll end up on an isolated strip of road up in the Appalachian Mountains where folks claim the spirit of a lady in white has been h...

Perched high on Sunset Mountain above Asheville, North Carolina, the historic Grove Park Inn has welcomed presidents, celebrities, and travelers seeking the cool air of the Blue Ri...

Theodosia Burr Alston was a pioneer for early American women and was celebrated for her education and intellectual achievements, but to this day many remember her for her mysteriou...

In downtown Augusta, Georgia, construction crews renovating the former Medical College of Georgia made a discovery that should’ve been impossible to miss for more than a century: d...

In 1871, Clara Robertson’s life was forever altered by an encounter with a ghost. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl witnessed a haunting vision of a transparent, emaciated young gi...

Rocky Hill Castle, once a majestic plantation house in Alabama, now stands only as a memory, shrouded in tragic history and chilling tales of the paranormal. Built between 1858 and...

In 1856, an enslaved woman named Margaret Garner fled Kentucky with her family, crossing a frozen Ohio River into Cincinnati in a desperate bid for freedom. But when slave catchers...

Andersonville Prison, officially known as Camp Sumter, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War, operating from February 1864 to April 1865 near Anderso...

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In the fall of 1880, a Tennessee farmer named David Lang was said to have vanished in broad daylight, in the middle of his own pasture, with his wife, children, and two visiting me...