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Captain Pitcher's Curse | Campfire Tales Apr 28, 2026

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Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where the waters of the Mississippi Sound meet old beach towns and storm-worn shorelines, there’s a stretch of land between Pass Christian and Long Beach long known as Pitcher Point. Locals have claimed for generations that nothing built there seems to last. Fires, storms, failed developments, and sudden ruin have all added to the point’s strange reputation, leaving many to wonder if the land itself carries some older misfortune.

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The Mill Creek Bridge Haunting | Campfire Tales Apr 27, 2026

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Just outside Smithfield, where the backroads of Johnston County wind through pine woods and farmland, there’s an old crossing over Mill Creek that has carried a dark reputation for generations. By daylight, it’s easy enough to overlook—a quiet stretch of water beneath the trees—but locals long warned that once the sun goes down, the bridge becomes something else entirely. Travelers once claimed their lantern flames would die the moment they stepped onto the boards, while strange groaning sounds drifted up from the darkness below.

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Daisy Bank's Glass Coffin | Campfire Tales Apr 26, 2026

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Along the rivers and marshlands surrounding Georgetown, where the remnants of once-thriving rice plantations have long since faded back into the landscape, there are stories that have managed to outlast the places they came from. One of those legends centers on a vanished estate known as Daisy Bank—a plantation that no longer exists, but is still remembered for a tale that’s as tragic as it is unsettling.

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Elk River's Lost Cave of Gold | Campfire Tales Apr 25, 2026

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Tucked deep within the rugged landscape of Grundy County, where the sandstone ridges and dense forests of the Cumberland Plateau give way to winding rivers and hidden hollows, there’s a stretch of water along the Elk River that has drawn curious explorers for well over a century. It’s not the fishing or the scenery that brings them out there though—it’s something far older. A story passed down through generations about a hidden cave, carved into the limestone hills, said to be filled with gold that was never meant to be found.

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The Romantic Tale of Petit Jean | Campfire Tales Apr 24, 2026

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High above the Arkansas River Valley, atop Petit Jean Mountain, there’s a lonely gravesite perched along the edge of Stout’s Point—a simple plot surrounded by a small iron fence, overlooking miles of wilderness. According to legend, this is the final resting place of a young woman known as “Petit Jean,” whose story has echoed through the mountains for generations. Visitors to Petit Jean State Park still make the climb today, drawn not just by the sweeping views and rugged beauty of the landscape, but by whispers of a ghostly figure said to appear along the bluff, watching silently over the valley below.

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Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum | Interview | Encore Episode Apr 23, 2026

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Kathryn Tucker Windham was an American storyteller, author, photographer, folklorist, and journalist born and raised in Alabama. Of course if you've been listening to Southern Gothic you've probably heard us mention her before, after all, she's one of the most prolific Southern ghost story collectors we know of! Join us on this week's special episode as we talk to Kelly Gates Elmore, the curator of the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum at the Coastal Alabama Community College.

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The Boyington Oak Tree | Encore Episode Apr 20, 2026

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In Mobile, Alabama, just outside the historic Church Street Graveyard, a sprawling live oak known as the Boyington Oak has stood for nearly two centuries—its massive limbs stretching wide, its roots twisting deep beneath the soil. According to local legend, the tree marks the burial place of Charles Boyington, a young printer executed in 1835 for the murder of his friend Nathaniel Frost. On the day of his hanging, Boyington made one final claim before the crowd, declaring his innocence and swearing that proof would rise from his grave in the form of an oak tree with a hundred roots.

Over time, the story has become one of Mobile’s most enduring pieces of Southern folklore, blending true crime history, wrongful execution, and ghost story into a single, haunting tale. Visitors to the Boyington Oak have long claimed to hear whispers carried on the wind—some say the voice of a man still pleading his innocence—while others point to the tree itself as silent evidence that something about the story was never quite settled. Nearly two hundred years later, the question remains rooted in that corner of the cemetery: was Charles Boyington guilty… or did the truth grow up from the ground beneath him?

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Mystery of the Atlanta Blood House | Encore Episode Apr 16, 2026

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On Tuesday, September 8, 1987, 77-year-old Minnie Clyde Winston stepped out of her bathtub onto the tile floor and felt something sticky under her foot. Holding a towel, she looked down and discovered she was standing in a small puddle of red liquid—a substance that would later be identified as human blood. But if that wasn't alarming enough, Minnie and her husband Willie soon found instances of blood spatter like this in almost every room of their house. As disturbing as this must have been, what made it worse is that the cause of this strange occurrence has never been proven, leading some to believe it might have been a manifestation of the supernatural.

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José Gaspar & Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla Apr 13, 2026

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For more than a century, the legend of José Gaspar—better known as Gasparilla—has loomed large over the waters of Tampa Bay and Florida’s Gulf Coast. Said to be a ruthless pirate and the so-called “Last Buccaneer,” Gasparilla’s name has become inseparable from tales of buried treasure, vanished ships, and violent encounters on the open Gulf. Today, that legend lives on in one of the largest annual celebrations in the country, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival, where the Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla stages a full-scale pirate invasion of Tampa, complete with a towering ship, cannon fire, and a symbolic takeover of the city.

But beneath the spectacle and celebration lies a far more complicated story—one shaped as much by folklore, tourism, and storytelling as it is by history. From whispered accounts of a feared pirate captain to the origins of a festival designed to capture the imagination of a growing city, the story of José Gaspar blurs the line between fact and fiction. And along the Gulf waters where his legend was born, the question still lingers: was Gasparilla ever real at all—or is the most famous pirate of Tampa Bay nothing more than a story that refused to stay buried?

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Haunted Love Motels with Supernatural Japan Apr 09, 2026

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In this episode of Supernatural Japan, we explore the eerie world of Japan’s haunted love motels. Learn the surprising history of Japanese love hotels, their rise during the economic Bubble era, and how some later became abandoned haikyo ruins. From the infamous Seline Love Motel in Nagano to the mysterious “haunted room” legend of the Akasaka Love Hotel, we uncover chilling urban legends, real crimes, and ghost stories connected to these secretive spaces. Why do abandoned love hotels attract paranormal tales and urban explorers? Step inside Japan’s most unusual haunted locations — if you dare.

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