S3 E2: There are places on this continent where the world still feels untouched. Places where the water lies flat as glass, and the trees crowd in so close they swallow your sense of direction. The Boundary Waters is one of those places — a maze of lakes and portages stretching between Minnesota and Canada.

During a ten‑day canoe trip in the summer of 1970, deep in the Boundary Waters wilderness, John — a Southern Fried Frights listener — came face‑to‑face with something he still struggles to explain. Out there among the black‑water lakes and endless pines, he encountered a creature we know today as Bigfoot.

S3: E1 In 1978, a 23‑year‑old college student named Steven Kubacki sets out on a solo cross‑country skiing trip near Lake Michigan. Two days later, search teams find his gear neatly placed at the edge of the ice, arranged like he stepped out of it on purpose. Footprints lead away from the gear and out onto the frozen lake… and then they just stop. No return tracks. No signs of a fall. No break in the ice. Just a clean line of prints that end in the middle of nowhere. Authorities say Steven must have fallen through the ice and drowned. But underneath that tidy explanation, there were details that didn’t sit right. There were undertones that hinted at something much bigger connected to Steven’s disappearance.

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Sources:

Steven Kubacki's First Interview In Almost 45 Years w/ Author Dylan Quarles - YouTube

Did Steven Kubacki Time Travel Through a Portal? | Missing 411 (youtube.com)

People Who Disappeared and Reappeared In Strange And Mysterious Ways (youtube.com)

MYSTERIOUS REAPPEARANCES! (youtube.com)

Kubacki, Steven, and Dylan James Quarles. The Disappearance: Conspiracy, Revolution, Revelation… The Extraordinary Disappearance of Steven Kubacki. Mango Media, 2025

S2 E:8 Drakes, Ohio, isn't the kind of town that makes headlines. It's quiet - the kind of place where everyone knows your name and the biggest excitement is Friday night football. But for one listener, it became the setting for something ...unexplainable.

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S2:E7 They say the dead don’t linger without reason. And if you believe the whispers that echo through the halls of the White House, then Abraham Lincoln never truly left office.

Is it grief that binds him? Duty? Or something darker?

When the country trembles, does Lincoln rise?

Sources:12 People Who Have Supposedly Seen or Felt Lincoln's Ghost | Mental Floss

https://gotsc.org/AbrahamLincolnsoughtadvicefromSpiirtthroughMediumsatSeances.htm

https://www.history.com/news/did-abraham-lincoln-predict-his-own-death

https://www.aboutabrahamlincoln.com/anecdotes/anecdotes_saw_himself.html

https://www.americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/what-connects-abraham-lincoln-and-vampires-bram-stoker-course

S2: E5 On March 11, 1876, the New York Times published a tongue-in-cheek article about an unusual weather event that had taken place on March 3rd at a farm in Bath County, Kentucky. A Mrs. Crouch while stirring her soap kettle in the yard experienced something so strange that it was almost beyond belief. The clear afternoon sky, unremarkable just moments before, began to rain down fragments of raw meat. It was as though nature had momentarily lost its senses.

The Kentucky Meat Shower remains one of the strangest unexplained events in Kentucky history! Tonight's story was inspired by the publication "The Carnal Rain" March 16, 1876, edition of the New York Daily Herald—writer unknown.

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S2: E4 In Portland, Oregon, antique dealer Kevin Mannis picked up an old wine box at the estate sale of a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor. He's warned by the dead woman's granddaughter not to open the "Dybbuk Box”. But Kevin just had to open the box. Kevin's actions have terrible consequences; he unleashes a malevolent spirit.

Sources

https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Dibbuk-Box-Where-is-it-Now

The Possession (2012)

Dybbuk Box: The Story of Chris Chambers (2019)

Kevin Mannis (September 2, 2009). "The Dybbuk Box, A.K.A. The Haunted Jewish Wine Cabinet". Yahoo. Archived from the original on August 25, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.

https://www.inverse.com/input/features/dybbuk-box-dibbuk-kevin-mannis-zak-bagans-haunted-hoax-revealed

“The Dybbuk Box “, Paranormal Witness, SYFY Channel – aired August 29, 2012

S2: E4: Many cultures and religions share the common belief that, upon death, a person's spirit departs from their physical form to embark on a journey into an ethereal, transcendent realm of existence that lies beyond the physical world. Conventional wisdom about what happens to spirits after death leads many to wonder if some spirits might remain on Earth, possibly bound to a specific place, raising a compelling and thought-provoking question. It is quite possible, and perhaps even probable, that Fire Station No. 4, situated in the city of Lexington within the state of Kentucky, truly and completely embodies the very spirit we are looking for.

Sources:

December 26, 1945 – The Lexington Leader - “Veteran City Fireman Dies at Fire Station” page 7 Unknown

October 31, 1995 – Lexington Herald-Leader – “The Phantom of the Firehouse” - page 1 Chris Poore

October 31, 2003 – Lexington Herald-Leader – “Haunting at Station No. 4” – page 17 Laura Yeun

October 18, 2004 – Lexington Herald-Leader–“ Easy Spirits” page 1 Barbara Issacs

S2: E3 Newfoundland, New Jersey, settled in 1664, is shrouded in a veil of mystery and legend, its history whispering stories of the past. This episode, shared by Laura, a listener, will make you reconsider the quiet spaces you thought were safe. This is a chilling tale about restless spirits, forever trapped in a cycle of repeating their earthly experiences, unable to move on.

Thank you, Laura for your story!

Southern Fried Frights is a paranormal podcast delving into hauntings, mysterious occurrences, bizarre anomalies, and all phenomena that remain unexplained. Opal, a skeptical believer investigates logical possibilities and irrational WTF's!

S2 E2: From the moment she moved into a century bungalow in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, young mother Jackie Hernandez felt an eerie presence.   She couldn't rid herself of the feeling that she was being watched.  It wasn't long before the benign feelings turned into a full-blown nightmare. Objects began to move on their own, strange noises echoed from the attic, and a sinister spirit seemed to target certain individuals. The poltergeist activity intensified to the extent of displaying intentions to commit murder.

Sources:

Produced and directed by Barry Conrad

⁠Conrad, B. (2009). An Unknown Encounter: A True Account of the San Pedro Haunting. United States: Dorrance Publishing Company, Incorporated.⁠

⁠SAN PEDRO HAUNTING FEATURED ON NATIONAL TV MEDIA (1993-94)