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E11 The Spirit of Mammoth Cave Mar 07, 2021

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Mammoth Cave, y'all! This place should be on everyones bucket list, one of the seven wonders of the world. Listen as I recount its history of exploration, with a sprinkling of ghost stories. Be sure to follow us on FB and instagram, just search Lore of the South.
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Youtube link with interview with Jerry Bransford- https://youtu.be/pE9z3bSEmf4
Archeology at Mammoth Cave. (n.d.). Retrieved March 06, 2021.

Christiansen, K. (2014, February 28). In Kentucky, a family at the center of the Earth. Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/travel/in-kentucky-a-family-at-the-center-of-the-earth.html

Floyd Collins. (2021, January 29). Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins

History. (n.d.). Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/place/Kentucky/History

Lanzendorfer, J. (2019, February 06). Enslaved tour guide stephen bishop made mammoth cave the must-see destination it is today. Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/enslaved-tour-guide-stephen-bishop-made-mammoth-cave-must-see-destination-it-today-180971424/

Mammoth cave National PARK (U.S. National PARK SERVICE). (n.d.). Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://www.nps.gov/maca/index.htm

Mammoth cave national park. (2021, February 25). Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_Cave_National_Park

Mammoth cave national park. (n.d.). Retrieved March 07, 2021, from http://www.ohranger.com/mammoth-cave/history-mammoth-cave

Mammoth cave National Park: Untold to the Unforgettable: A KENTUCKY original series. (2020, March 25). Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://youtu.be/pE9z3bSEmf4

Stephen Bishop (cave explorer). (2021, February 06). Retrieved March 07, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bishop_(cave_explorer)

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E10 Cursed Places and things Feb 28, 2021

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Welcome to the 10th episode! A Southern Quickie, about cursed places and things. Had to make this one a quickie as our main editing computer went on the fritz and is in the shop.
If you would be so kind as to leave us a five star and written review, I'd love to read your it aloud on a future episode! Plus is you're amongst the first ten to do so and email me a screen grab of said review and your address to loreofthesouth@gmail.com I'll mail you a Lore of the South fridge magnet.
TV, N. (n.d.). National geographic - atlas of cursed places. Retrieved February 25, 2021, from https://www.natgeotv.com/za/shows/natgeo/atlas-of-cursed-places
Legends of MYRTLES PLANTATION. (2021, January 13). Retrieved February 25, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Myrtles_Plantation
Boyd, J. (2019, September 12). Southern inventions we can't live without. Retrieved February 25, 2021, from https://www.southernthing.com/southern-inventions-we-cant-live-without-2559050044.html?rebelltitem=12#rebelltitem12
Frenier, Louisiana. (2020, November 20). Retrieved February 25, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenier,_Louisiana
Roanoke colony. (2021, February 22). Retrieved February 25, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony
Robert (doll). (2021, February 22). Retrieved February 25, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_(doll)

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E9 Fort Worth Stockyards Feb 21, 2021

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Welcome to Cowtown! In this episode we're talking about the history of the Fort Worth Stockyards and some of her ghosts. Special thanks to listener and old high school buddy David Leslie, for supplying the voice of the auctioneer!
First ten listeners to leave a written 5 star review, email me a screen grab and your address to loreofthesouth@gmail.com and I'll mail you a Lore of the South magnet and read your review on a future podcast.
Trigger warning for y'all, I mention child prostitution and murder. Though I never go into any gory details.
Citations
The haunted fort worth tx stockyards! (n.d.). Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://sweetheartsofthewest.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-haunted-fort-worth-tx-stockyards.html

History. (2016, August 09). Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://www.fortworthstockyards.org/history

Stockyards hotel, Fort Worth, TX. (2020, July 02). Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://www.hauntedrooms.com/texas/dfw/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/stockyards-hotel-fort-worth

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E8 Dead President Roadshow Feb 14, 2021

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Join us for a Southern Quickie President's Day Special. Today's show will take you on a dead presidential roadshow. Hear about three southern president's ghost stories.
First ten listeners to send me a screen grab of their written 5 star review will receive a Lore of the South Magnet! Send your screen grab and address to Loreofthesouth@gmail.com. I'll also read your review out on a future episode.
Citations
45 odd facts About U.S. Presidents. (2013, March 27). Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/49694/45-odd-facts-about-us-presidents

History.com Editors. (2009, October 29). Ghosts in the White House. Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/ghosts-in-the-white-house

Mary Ann Wegmann, T. (n.d.). The old Federal courthouse: Present Day Andrew Jackson hotel - Stop 9 of 11 in the 200 years of Louisiana Supreme Court History tour. Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/622?tour=52&index=8

The strange history of paranormal activity at the White house is straight out of The X-Files. (n.d.). Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://maps.roadtrippers.com/trips/20408574

White house Ghost Stories. (n.d.). Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room-old/white-house-ghost-stories

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E7 Hero Robert Smalls Feb 07, 2021

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Join us in celebrating Black History Month, where we retell the legendary tale of Robert Smalls a true American hero of the Civil War.
Robert Smalls, from Escaped Slave to House of Representatives. (2013, November 06). Retrieved January 20, 2021, from https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/which-slave-sailed-himself-to-freedom/

Robert Smalls. (2021, January 19). Retrieved January 20, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls
Did you know that the first public library in the, did you know that the first public library in the United States was founded in 1698 in Charlestown, South Carolina? It was founded by the Dr. Reverend Bray of the Episcopal Church.
This may be a long one. My allergies are being dumb. Hey y'all. Welcome back to Laura the South with me, your host Kelly Crews . We're in month two of 2021 and it's already been a wild year. I hope all of you are safe and staying healthy for this episode. I wanted to honor Black History Month and chose to tell y'all the amazing story of Robert Smalls.
This man is a true legend and why there hasn't been a movie made about him is beyond me. So settle back, 'cause we're headed down to coastal South Carolina, where our story begins in the late Antebellum period. Just a hair's breath. Before the Civil War I,
Robert Smalls was born April 5th, 1839, in a small cabin behind the big house of Mr. Henry McKee in Beaufort, South Carolina. His mother was an enslaved woman by the name of Lydia. Polite. It had been long speculated. It has been long speculated that Smalls Smalls, it had been long speculated that Small's owner was also his father.
Robert and his mother were both house slaves. Robert was raised along the McKee children, though he was excluded from their schoolwork. During this time in the Southern US it was considered dangerous to educate one slaves. You know, education might make someone ask questions or get ideas. Robert's mother, Lydia worried that her son was living too soft of a life.
Along the mc, along with the McKee children,
Robert's mother, Lydia worried that her son gum at my throat. Robert Smother. Lydia worried that her son was living too soft of a life growing up amongst the McKee children and feared that he would become too accepting of his law in the world around the age eight or so, around the age of eight or so. At her request, young Smalls was sent out to the McKees fields so that he could experience firsthand what his fellow enslaved people toiled in.
She at one point even brought him to a whipping so that there would be no doubt in his mind that the White Planter society firmly had a boot planted on all slaves necks no matter how free he felt while running along the river Banks with the Master's children. Her list. God, sorry, babe. Her lessons were to instill a defiance in Robert that wasn't appreciated by too many of the white men that Young Smalls would come into contact with.
He, in fact, found himself in Beaufort jails on a few occasions, always to be bailed out by Henry McKee in 1851. Robert. Okay, and God dang it. In 1851, when Robert was around the age of 12, Lydia made another request of McKee for her son to be found a place in Charleston so that he might learn a trade.
Robert's learning a trade would hopefully save him from the shortened life expectancy that filled hands faced. If a filled hand didn't die from the sheer brutality of the foreman or the overseer, then surely the swarms of mosquitoes he faced would. A trade might even save a trade. Might even save Robert from the vigilance of an offended white man.
McKee McKee secured young Robert a post at a Charleston hotel. Olive Roberts wages were sent back to Beaufort for McKee. Small was only allowed to keep $1 a week from his earnings. Smalls was only allowed to keep $1 a week from his earnings. Robert being the ambitious sort, then took up the position o

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E6 Louisiana's Rougarou Jan 24, 2021

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Listener's choice this week! Y'all chose the state and I chose the topic. Enjoy the old tale of the Rougarou!
We want to hear y'alls stories! Please email the show at loreofthesouth@gmail.com If you don't feel comfortable typing out your story, feel free to record it on your phone and email me the audio file.

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E5 Fort Frederica & Christ Church Jan 10, 2021

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Brief history of Fort Frederica and the odd and haunting history Of Christ Church. If you have a story you'd like to have shared on the show please email me at loreofthesouth@gmail.com
IV, Lewis Powell. “‘There's a Light’-Christ Church, Frederica.” Southern Spirit Guide, 24 Dec. 2018, www.southernspiritguide.org/theres-a-light-christ-church-frederica/.

Cox, Dale. Christ Church and Cemetery - St. Simons Island, Georgia, www.exploresouthernhistory.com/christchurch.html.

Fort Frederica National Monument (U.S. National Park Service). www.nps.gov/fofr/index.htm.
Did you know that in 1943, Georgia became the first date to change its voting age from 21 to 18? Georgia lawmakers heard the outcry from the young soldiers old enough to fight old enough to vote and adjusted its laws. It took the rest of the country 28 years to also grant this right to those old enough to fight.
Welcome to the Law of the South of the South.
Hey y'all. Welcome back to Lord the South with me, Kelly Crews. Back for round three. Feel like we're kind of getting into the swing of things around here. Are we sounding better? Good enough to leave a five star review, subscribe, follow, or download? All those things. Help to bring the Laura the South to more listeners.
If you can't do that, maybe just give us a share on social media or tell a friend about the show. Also, eventually I'd like to do a listener story. If you have a personal paranormal story or some family lore you'd like to share, send it to me at Lore of the south@gmail.com. Once we get enough stories sent in, we'll produce a special all about y'all.
I may even share one from my own childhood. My family and I had the chance to stay on St. Simon's Island a couple of years ago for a short little vacation. And that is where today's story takes place. If you give us a follow on social media, I'll even share some of our pictures from our trip. Today's story is kind of a twofer, as I like to call them, or maybe a two for one.
If you don't speak my brand to Southern, we're gonna have a little brief history of Fort Fred Rica, and that's the area of St. Simon's Island where Christ Church and its graveyard are located. Then two tales of devotion that lasted beyond the grave. So maybe that's more like a three for, anyway, on with the show.
Fort Fred Rica and the spirits of Christchurch graveyard only three years after the settlement of Savannah Georgia, the Honorable General James Oglethorpe has ordered the creation of two new fortified garrisons on the Southern barrier Islands off of the Georgia Coast in order to better protect his majesty's colonies from the Catholic threat to the south, the first of which will be known as Fort Freda.
Located at the north end of St. Simon's Island. Fort Fred Rica wasn't just a fortified garrison, but also a town, a quite sophisticated one sometimes compared to that of Williamsburg, Virginia. The main street running through the town was known as the Broad Street. Each business at home were built on equal sized plots and each were given a bit of green space for gardening, for Rica, grew all manners of fruits and vegetables.
From peaches to pomegranates, their plantings were quite diverse. The little military community thrived with the help from supplies from the English crown. But once the Spanish were defeated, Fort Fred Rica had served its purpose and the troops were disbanded. Without the support of the Garrison troops, the town slowly withered the final death Noll ring when wet remained of the town was destroyed by fire in 1758.
The lands on the island were then divided up and became large plantations, nearly all of whom would be served by Christchurch. The first churches were held by Reverend Charles and John Wesley in 1736. Upon the founding of the old fort, these two brothers would later go on and found the Methodist church.
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E4 Southern New Year Traditions Dec 31, 2020

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Southern New Years traditions and superstitions.
Rattray, Diana. Good Luck Foods and What NOT to Eat on New Year's Day. www.thespruceeats.com/southern-new-years-day-dinner-3057537.
Burchard, Jeremy. “6 Uniquely Southern New Year's Traditions.” Wide Open Country, 23 Dec. 2019, www.wideopencountry.com/the-strange-new-years-traditions-of-the-south/.

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E3 Phantom Barber of Pascagoula Dec 27, 2020

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We learn about the odd case of the Phantom Barber of Pascagoula, Ms.
Galloway, Taraya, et al. “The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula - Fishwrap The Official Blog of Newspapers.com.” Fishwrap, 22 Mar. 2019, blog.newspapers.com/the-phantom-barber-of-pascagoula/.

“Mississippi's Phantom Barber of Pascagoula.” Mental Floss, 18 Aug. 2014, www.mentalfloss.com/article/55316/strange-states-mississippis-phantom-barber-pascagoula.

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E2 A Very Merry Southern Christmas Dec 20, 2020

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I'm calling this episode a southern quickie, blink and its over! We touch on the history of a couple southern traditions and also share a few listener traditions as well. Merry Christmas from Lore of the South!
“Here Are a Couple Southern Christmas Traditions You May Not Have Heard of.” The Porch Company, 10 Apr. 2017, porchco.com/couple-southern-christmas-traditions-may-not-heard/.

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