Episodes

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June 15, 2019

Episode 24: Mad, Mad Prince Mongo & Susannah Evans VS. IGNORAMUSES

Marleah and Patrice drink vodka cranberry and talk 80s ape TV, crackpot businessmen, underage drinking in castles, fucking extremist Puritans, and how a stomach bug can turn into witch mania.
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June 7, 2019

Episode 23: Live from Podx

In this show, LIVE from the PodX convention in Nashville, Patrice and Marleah learn how to podcast mostly sober and talk about rural religion, snake handling as self medication, Bigfoot telepathy, and how unattractive Ed Warren was.
May 29, 2019

Listener Lore #3: Rebecca K.

This Listener Lore is from New Yorker by way of Texas & Mississippi gal, Rebecca Kelly. Rebecca not only has a TON of ghostly experiences—while maintaining skepticism—but she also shares a recording of a Mississippi ghost that lived with her and her family.
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May 24, 2019

Episode 22: Screw you! Signed, Lavinia Fisher & Beware Evil Anorexic Werewolves with Pointy Objects

Patrice and Marleah drink sloe gin fizz and talk unmarked graves, Sweeney Todd-style dismemberment, crooked politicians, anorexic werewolves, evil thorns, and slap yo grandma.
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May 16, 2019

Episode 21: The Outlaw Mummy Hazel Farris & The Corpse Bride of Carl Tanzler von Cosel

Our first LIVE show recorded at the haunted Peerless Saloon in Anniston, the oldest bar in Alabama! Patrice tells a story of horrible people, bad decisions, travel, poison, death, life after death, karma, and freak shows.
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May 10, 2019

Episode 20: The Crossroads & Robert Johnson & The Ghost that Convicted Her Killer

Bartender Courtney creates an amazing cucumber mint martini, and Patrice & Marleah talk Robert Johnson blues, nation sacks, George Burns, crossroads, "everlasting faints," exhumations and badass mama bears.
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May 3, 2019

Episode 19: Come for the Ghosts, Stay for the Music & The Bad-Ass Witch of Battletown

It's all about you, Kentucky! Marleah and Patrice drink Mint Juleps and tell stories from the state south of Ioha. Slaughterhouse hell portals, undead dancing girls, 1800s nasty women, and the only witch burning in America.
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April 26, 2019

Episode 18: The Dover Christmas Massacre & What Pisses Off the Rougarou?

We drink vodka on vodka with a little lime and talk about trailers squished up against trailers, a murder spree with too many red flags to ignore (that got ignored), a little too much about Marleah’s personal fears,
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April 19, 2019

Episode 17: The Trial of Jack Coe & Normie the Lake Monster

It’s Easter! Liquor and con men and cryptids oh my! Patrice and Marleah drink tequila sunrise (because Easter) and talk faith healing evangelists, divine comeuppance, lake monsters, and nuclear powered mythology.
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April 14, 2019

Episode 16: The Dribble Project & Let’s Learn About Leprosy!

Patrice & Marleah nerd out on history this week, with the least appropriately named government nuke project ever, the national quarantine you never knew about, and fuckin’ armadillos, man. Also we welcome back Bartender Courtney and her Cuban mojitos!
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April 4, 2019

Episode 15: Satanic Panic & Kick Yo Ass Cassius

Patrice and Marleah find new heroes from 1800s Kentucky and return to their clutch drink, the Purple Haze. Patrice expounds on Alexa, Marleah divulges too much about her goody goody history, Satanic Panic in the South, the biggest hoax in history,
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April 2, 2019

Listener Lore #2: Fyffe UFO

We continue Listener Lore with in-house guest and bartender Courtney’s story of UFO sightings in Fyffe, AL. Our second story was sent in by listener Lauren and while not in the South it is an excellent story of Russians, intrigue, and ghosts.
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March 31, 2019

Episode 14: Corpsewood Manor Murders & Killer Babysitter of Florida

In this "after school special" episode, Patrice & Marleah drink spring break liquor & tell 80s stories of murder and mayhem, poverty and dumbassedness. Get out your pink gargoyles and hair scrunches!
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March 22, 2019

Episode 13: F-ing Aliens / Mad in Mississippi

Patrice & Marleah drink too much Georgia Gin and talk about alien sex slaves, how we define the sacred in sci-fi terms, Dorothea Dix, hysteria, & social f-ing injustice y’all. Alien Love Song by Todd Wright SHOW NOTES ————————————————– F-ING ALIENS // ...
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March 17, 2019

Episode 12: The Pascagoula Abduction & Audrey Marie Hilley

Patrice and Marleah sip Whiskey Sweet Tea and talk about empowering language, overweight aliens, the odds of seeing a UFO in your state, real life soap operas and human chameleons.
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March 16, 2019

Listener Lore #1: Wild Man & UFOs

It's our first Listener Lore! Patrice talks about the Wild Man from Okefenokee & Marleah gives a local's account of a UFO sighting.
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March 9, 2019

Episode 11: The Child Zombie of New Orleans & The Witches Dance of Natchez Trace

This week, Marleah and Patrice drink mojitos and talk Angela Bassett, child zombies, mind movie porn, George the skeptical Native American, and what makes a witch a witch.
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March 3, 2019

Episode 10: (MARDI GRAS!) Delphine LaLaurie & Up Stairs Lounge Fire

SO MUCH HAPPENS WITH THIS EPISODE Y’ALL!!! This week Patrice & Marleah celebrate Mardi Gras by telling New Orleans stories of famous horrible people and events! Patrice tries unsuccessfully to pronounce the French names that surround the infamous,
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Feb. 22, 2019

Episode 9: The Worst Way to Die in Savannah & Ambassadors from Mars

This week, Patrice & Marleah talk about not thinking through hashtags, how all things are haunted in Savannah and the many different attacks one can die from while there. Then Patrice adds a new destination for the Summer while talking about the kidnap...
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Feb. 16, 2019

Episode 8: Molly Hatchet & The Secret to Being a Youthful Witch

This week, Patrice & Marleah have a new guest listener and now official Strange South bartender, Courtney! They christen their new "podbasement" talking about Ted Bundy, more Mollies, & Gadsden's local witch lore. Sit down,
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Feb. 7, 2019

Episode 7: Mr. Spaghetti Arms & Karma’s a Bitch

Patrice & Marleah bring back their favorite southern cocktail, Purple Haze and reiterate the problem with people who rent large beautiful old homes and then who don't learn their lessons from Poltergeist. Red Flags people!
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Feb. 1, 2019

Episode 6: I Got the Haint Blues & Never Rent in Rockford

Patrice, Marleah, & guest listener, Susan drink Redneck whiskey sours while learning about Gullah root doctors and then Marleah’s story makes Patrice call her mom because it is so scary.
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Jan. 25, 2019

Episode 5: Murder then Waffles & Spirifications of John Bell’s Witch

Patrice and Marleah drink tequila & horrify each other with the tale of the Drano killer & the greatest wicked witch of the South!
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Jan. 17, 2019

Episode 4: Torsos, Torsos, Everywhere! & Tall Dark & Screaming

Patrice pops our murder cherry with the story of Alabama's Torso Killer and Marleah tries to make Abbeville's Huggin' Molly scary again.