In 1925, cave explorer Floyd Collins discovered Sand Cave, not far from what would one day become Mammoth Cave National Park. Floyd, like many others in Kentucky cave country, had hoped to discover a cave of his own that he could profit from as a tourist attraction. Unfortunately, while attempting to uncover the secrets of his new found cave, Floyd Collins became trapped. The resulting rescue attempts fueled a media frenzy that stretched across the nation.

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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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A beautiful oak tree stands by the Church Street Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama. According to legend, the tree has been there for almost two hundred years, and it is growing from the grave of a man who was hanged for murder-- a man who claimed he was innocent and that this tree would serve as evidence.

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Just outside of Bath, North Carolina is a unique landmark that has puzzled folks for over two centuries-- a series of small depressions in the ground, known as the Hoofprints of Bath. According to legend, not only have these depressions been around for over two centuries but they are also the product of a legendary horse race with the devil.

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Recently Southern Gothic took part in a special ghost story throwdown with a handful of other paranormal podcasters! Join us in this veritable grab bag of ghostly tales featuring these wonderful podcasts:

Real Life Ghost Stories

Haunted Happenstance

They're Not Shadows

You Can See Me In the Dark

The Ghost Story Guys

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The Conspirators is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Nate Hale, an entirely fictional identity, as he likes to tell everyone. In each episode, Nate tells you the stories from history your teacher never told you. He’s done episodes on serial killers, strange disappearances, unsolved mysteries, survival stories, horrific disasters and much more. Nate brings you each story in a single-person narrative, bringing to life the colorful characters and most despicable people from history. Be sure to follow The Conspirators Podcast today!

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The Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for over 400,000 United States service members and their eligible family members, and the most well-known and highly esteemed national cemetery in the country. Yet few know of how this esteemed burial ground came to be; a result of overcrowding cemeteries during the Civil War, in a place that was seemingly chosen out of spite-- the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

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If you travel southwest on High Shoals Road from Broadway Lake, near Anderson, South Carolina, you’ll cross a modern concrete bridge over Rocky River that was built back in 1987. But as you cross its hard not to notice that just to the west of you is the rusted, century-old iron structure that it was built to replace– a now infamous landmark in Anderson county known simply as the Crybaby Bridge.

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On a lonely gravel road in Mississippi, 12 miles southwest of Meridian, is a dilapidated old truss bridge, no longer open to cars or traffic. It spans 112 feet, giving travelers access across the Chunky River, a short tributary of the Chicksasawhy River. This bridge, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, had been built to replace one erected by early settlers of the region in 1850 which give carriages and horseback travelers a Southwestern route in and out of Meridian. But legend says the bridge is also haunted by the spirit of a man named Stuckey.

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On History Daily, we do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ in history.

Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History Daily is there to tell you the true stories of the people and events that shaped our world—one day at a time.

So if you’re stuck in traffic, bored at work—wherever you are, listen to History Daily to remind yourself that something incredible happened to make that day historic.

A co-production from award-winning podcasters Airship and Noiser.

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