Torture, Scalping, Pickled Skulls, and the Headless “Toms” of Four Hole Swamp

Seton, Matt, and Michael travel back in time to when North American rivers ran red with blood to bring you a “potluck” of Native American tales of murder, massacre and betrayal that helped shaped our history here in the Southeast. Here is what you’ll hear: King Hagler of the Catawba Nation is assassinated, and his grave plundered by robbers, but justice is served in the form of torture, target practice and scalping. Facing an impossible debt of more than 100,000 deer skins, the Yamasee go on a bloody rampage from Savannah to Charleston and almost destroy the entire colony of South Carolina. After several Native Americans in a drunken stupor are “mangled” in a “barbarous” manner, the Royal Governor of South Carolina receives a surprise gift at his doorstep: a bag of severed heads.

Check out The Wicked South Podcast on Facebook Michael DeWitt writes for the USDA Today network of newspapers. Michael is the author of two books The Wicked Hampton County and The Fall of The House of Murdaugh. Seton Tucker and Matt Harris also host the podcast Impact of Influence

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