About Haunts & Hollows: True Tales of the Gothic South
Haunts & Hollows: True Tales Of The Gothic South is where true crime meets Southern folklore. Every other week, mystery author Liam Ashe digs past the haunted plantations, urban legends, and moss-draped cemeteries to uncover the real, often much darker history behind them. Lower the lights, lock the doors, and settle in. Tonight, the truth may just be stranger than the legend.
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Vanished In A Heartbeat | Three Chilling Cases Of Missing Children From The Gothic South
A young boy plays a harmless prank on his family and vanishes forever. Five siblings are engulfed in a Christmas Eve house fire that leaves no bodies and conflicting clues. And one family’s son disappears, only to turn up several months later with a different name, a different face, and different DNA. What do these three true crime tales from the Gothic South have in common? There is a single heartbreaking thread running through each: children who were there one second and then gone forever t...
15 Sept 2026
Night Fell With An Axe | Three Southern Families Who Were Each Wiped Out In A Single Night By An Axe Wielding Killer
A dead family lays in their cabin while the agitated father sits outside. A young girl wakes to the smell of smoke and the grisly sight of her parents’ mutilated corpses. All nine members of a frontier Florida family lay hacked to pieces while their rural home burns to the ground. What do these three true crime tales from the Gothic South have in common? There’s a shimmering thread running through each: entire families wiped out in a single night by an axe-wielding killer. In this episode: Th...
1 Sept 2026
Bodies Behind Bars | Three Southern Serial Killers Who Were Locked Away But Kept On Killing
The Monster of Mayport, who turned a long simmering family feud into a vengeful bloodbath. A future serial killer who got his first taste of death at age 17. And a brutal psychopath with more than a dozen kills to his credit, who took out another inmate in a way so outlandish no one could ever have predicted it. This collection of true crime tales from the Gothic South has a single thread running through each: a serial killer who was caught, locked up, and kept right on killing while behind b...
18 Aug 2026
A Death So Unhinged | Three Bizarre True Crime Scenes That Left Even Professional Investigators Baffled
An elderly St. Petersburg woman disappears in an unexplainable ball of fire. A corpse in a rural Alabama creek is found without its head, hands, heart, or its spleen. A young volunteer vanishes in the Carolina mountains, only to turn up hogtied and strangled in the backseat of an abandoned car. And a wealthy Georgia couple dies grisly deaths, his headless body dumped in their garage and her body at the bottom of a lake. This collection of true tales from the Gothic South has a single thread r...
4 Aug 2026
Roots Soaked in Blood | Ep 12 | Three Great Oaks from the Darkest Corners of Southern Gothic Lore
In the shadowed woods of the South, our ancient trees have witnessed history. Some? They seem to collect it. On this episode of Haunts & Hollows: True Tales of the Gothic South, we dig into the roots of three infamous Southern oaks and the bizarre and sometimes unsettling deaths tangled in their branches. First, the Fairchild Oak in Florida, where two plantation owners, decades apart and both fleeing crushing debt, were found dead beneath its limbs with no cause of death ever confirmed. T...
21 Jul 2026
3000 Miles To Die | Ep 11 | The Bizarre Last Days & Death of Robert Dennis Blair Adams
A construction crew shows up to a Knoxville job site expecting an ordinary Thursday morning. Instead, they find a half-naked body sprawled in the parking lot and a scene that makes no sense. Thousands in cash, gold bars, and jewelry. All untouched, scattered like they'd been flung from a moving car. This wasn’t robbery. So, what was it? The dead man is Blair Adams, a 31-year-old Canadian foreman who, in his final weeks alive, transformed from a steady, sober construction worker into someone c...
7 Jul 2026
Still On The Hunt | Ep 10 | Three Southern Serial Killers Who Were Never Brought to Justice
The South doesn't forget easily, but some secrets it keeps buried deep. In this episode we uncover three chilling cold cases where predators vanished without a trace, leaving investigators haunted decades later. First, follow the trail of the so-called Flat-Tire Killer, whose hunting ground stretched from California to the canals of South Florida, perhaps claiming more than 30 lives. Even today, DNA evidence only muddies the waters. Then head to the swamp and scrubs of Charlotte County, where...
23 Jun 2026
Rattling in His Head | Ep 9 | The Crimes & Execution of William Seymour Keener, the First Man Hung in Rabun County, Georgia
Every town has its secrets. Some of them happen to end at the end of a rope. In the summer of 1895, three young sisters took a Sunday stroll through the mountains of Rabun County, Georgia. Only one came home. The man responsible was their neighbor and cousin. He was a man who, by most accounts, had never caused a lick of trouble in his life... until something in his head began to rattle. William Seymour Keener described it himself as something that had torn loose, a strange noise at the top o...
9 Jun 2026
Infamous in Death | Ep 8 | The Southern Gothic Tales of Five Women Whose Haunting Legends Refuse To Stay Buried
What happens when your death overshadows your life? What if you lived for years in anonymity only to become infamous in the next life? From a Florida housewife whose ghost walked a lonely highway stretch for years waiting to uncover a terrible secret to a Charleston socialite whose grave at Old Stone Church still draws offerings from believers in her witchcraft, these are stories where death is only the beginning. In this episode of Haunts & Hollows: True Tales of the Gothic South, we exp...
26 May 2026
No Such Thing as Coincidence | Ep 7 | The Bizarre Connections Between Different True Crime Cold Cases in the Gothic South
What are the odds? In the world of true crime, that question can mean everything. Or perhaps nothing at all. Two women named Mary Morris are murdered four days apart on the same stretch of road. A son gives a stranger a ride home, only to find that stranger may have killed his mother. A machete murder in Saint Augustine leads to a second suspicious death, and a book that someone desperately didn’t want written. A Florida swamp legend and a vanished judge share a web of names that seem too tan...
12 May 2026
Blood Fell Like Rain | Ep 6 | The Bizarre, Unexplained History of Blood Falls in the Gothic South
What falls from the sky in the American South? Sometimes it’s rain or snakes or eels. And sometimes it’s blood. From a Kansas slaughterhouse hurled by a tornado across a hundred miles of open sky to a Tennessee tobacco field soaked in gore that drew five hundred horrified spectators, the Gothic South has a long, strange relationship with blood that falls from above. But these aren’t just folklore and tall tales. Ancient Greeks wrote about it, and medieval chroniclers tracked it. Scientists, p...
28 Apr 2026
Deadly Dames, Part 2 | Ep 5 | Six More Lethal Southern Ladies with a Mind for Murder
What if the most dangerous person in the room wasn’t the one you’d ever suspect? History has a way of overlooking women, and for decades, even the FBI refused to acknowledge they could be serial killers at all. This episode of Haunts & Hollows: True Tales of the Gothic South aims to set the record straight. In this second installment of our Deadly Dames series, we round out our list of twelve lethal women with six more cases that are equal parts fascinating and disturbing. Along the way, ...
14 Apr 2026
Deadly Dames, Part 1 | Ep 4 | Six Lethal Southern Ladies with a Mind for Murder
They baked the pies. They nursed the sick. They wept at the funerals. And, in a handful of cases, they quietly arranged for those funerals to happen in the first place. In this episode of Haunts & Hollows: True Tales of the Gothic South, we’re pulling back the black lace veil on six women history has branded Brutal Brides and Wicked Widows. From a teenage axe murderer in 1831 Burke County to a Florida poisoner who ran out of luck on death row, these women weaponized the very roles s...
31 Mar 2026
The Deadliest Town in Georgia | Ep 3 | One Southern Town That Draws Death Like Flies to Honey
Some towns get hit by disaster once and disappear. Others take a hit and keep coming back for more. From a preacher’s curse that erased an entire county seat to a 30-foot wall of water that swallowed a sleeping Bible college campus, Georgia's past is littered with tiny communities that fate and Mother Nature simply wiped from the map. No place, however, has paid a higher price than Gainesville, Georgia. It’s a city that has survived a devastating downtown fire, two catastrophic tornadoes deca...
17 Mar 2026
Rest in Pieces | Ep 2 | The True Crime Stories of Bodies Buried with Limbs or Heads
What happens when a body is buried without its head? In the South, you get a ghost. . . and a whole lot of history. From the fog-drenched lowlands of South Carolina to the blood-soaked battlefields of the Civil War, the Gothic South has always had a complicated relationship with the dead, especially the incomplete dead. In this episode, mystery author Liam Ashe traces the folklore of headless and dismembered spirits back to their real-world origins, starting with Washington Irving’s legendary...
2 Mar 2026
Lovers Slain on Lover's Lane | Ep 1 | True Crime Southern Cases That Turned into Urban Legends
That scratching sound on the roof of the car? It might not be a tree branch. From backseat whispers to bloodstained windows, Lover’s Lane has always been a place where the night can turn on you fast. In this episode, mystery author Liam Ashe digs into the dark folklore surrounding America’s most notorious parking spots and the very real killers who made those legends feel uncomfortably close to home. You’ll hear the classic tales: the Dead Boyfriend, the Hook-Handed Killer, and the unforgetta...
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