Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink Deb Martinis and talk about an asp-whipping murder preacher and a teen ghost who just wants her shit back.
Episode 78: Alabama Snake // The Ghost of Alice Flagg
Episode 76: The Gypsy Queen // The Facebook Murders
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink Happy New Year cocktails and talk about a badass gypsy mama buried in Meridian and the ridiculous murder of two Tennessee trolls.
Episode 73: The Hole That Won’t Stay Filled // It’s Raining Lizards! Hallelujah?
Patrice, Bartender Marleah, and Courtney drink Bourbon-Cranberry Cocktails and talk about substitution, the rich man's war, unconscious iguanas, and mystery pork.
Episode 72: The Hoaxist Road in Alabama and 10 Legged Nightmares*
Drink what you got! Marleah, Patrice, and Bartender Courtney toast to being socially distanced this Thanksgiving while talking about an Alabama dirt road and M!*#^!*! F*&!#$% SPIDERS! (Thanks Marleah.)
Episode 70: Aunt Julia Knows // Clementine Barnabet
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink Dr. Claudia Martinis and talk Louisiana, clairvoyance, conjure, and cults.
Episode 67: The Hodges Meteorite // She’s a Brick … Top
Patrice and Marleah drink Bartender Courtney's Blueberry Smash and talk space junk turf wars, men with maces for arms, and custom shivs for redheads.
Episode 63: The Vampire Cult Murders // Flower Pickin’ & Gas Gettin’
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink Ginger Mint Limeade and talk sociopaths, Ron Swanson, privilege, and how we all need to get off our asses and do something. #blacklivesmatter
Episode 61: Ghosts of The Myrtles // Abracadabra: The Mosquito!
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink and drink. We think we talked about pandemic malaise, the hauntingest house in the South, and swarms. of. mosquitos.
Episode 59: TIGERS!
Patrice and Marleah drink too much and talk Carol Baskin, tigers for sex, and killer romance.
Episode 55: The Curse of Ursuline Avenue // The Goat Gland Doctor
Patrice and Marleah drink vieux carre cocktails and talk sausage, butchery, and the link between goat testicles and country music. Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Episode 53: Goatsucker // The Hanging of “Murderous” Mary
Patrice and Marleah drink liquor with grapefruit juice and talk mange, Species, PETA, and pachyderm lynching.
Episode 50: The Murder of Gene Tate // There’s Something Odd About James
The Podversary Episode! Patrice and Marleah celebrate with friends and White Christmas Margaritas and talk stalkers, small-town conspiracies, night terrors, and children who know too much.
Episode 44: The New Orleans Casket Girls // The Giggling Granny
Patrice and Marleah drink Apple Cider Old Fashioneds and talk vampire rumors, torture convents, arsenic and True Romance.
Episode 41: Murder on the AT // The Jeff Davis 8
Patrice and Marleah drink Brambles and talk solo hiking, survivors, bad cops, and corruption.
Episode 40: The Phantom Barber // Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dula
It’s the scapegoat episode! Patrice and Marleah drink absolutely *perfect* Manhattans and talk hair fetishes, mass hysteria, love quadrangles, murder ballads, and syphilis.
Episode 38: They All Hate Florie // Hi, Welcome to Murder Kroger!
Patrice and Marleah drink Bloody Marys and talk the Victorian magic of arsenic, double standards, parking lot condom trails, and gentrification.
Episode 32: Realtor of Horror / Sad Sack Killer
Patrice and Marleah drink Madame Marleah Cocktails and talk about asshole serial killers: Todd Kohlhepp (the Amazon Review Killer) and the The Texarkana Moonlight Murders.
Episode 31: Dead Under the Bed / One Park, Three Curses
Patrice and Marleah drink blackberry mojitos and talk mermaid dicks, the dead people in your hotel rooms, and the multi-level curse on a West Virginia amusement park.
Episode 26: The Mystery of the Sodder Children / The Butcher of Blind Creek
In this all-true-crime episode, Patrice and Marleah drink Seelbach cocktails and talk Minecraft as cross stitching, mazel tov cocktails, arson, the lofty goals of very bad people, parenting fails, and tree fetishism.
Episode 25: The Big Flush of Lake Peigneur / The Murder of Billy Jack Gaither
Patrice and Marleah drink Alabama Slammers and talk hidden salt mines, barge-eating sinkholes, quarter-mile-wide swirlies, Central Alabama Pride, the homosexual panic defense, and the sad state of Southern hate crime legislation.
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.
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.
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. Marleah gives us the recipe for resurrection: beeswax, beef broth, and sweet lovin.
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.
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.
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, and a bonus conversation about how we create our monsters.
Listener Lore: 02
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.
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!
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.
Listener Lore: 01
It's our first Listener Lore! Patrice talks about the Wild Man from Okefenokee & Marleah gives a local's account of a UFO sighting.
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.
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, sadistic, serial killer Delphine LaLaurie while Marleah tells the story of the Upstairs Lounge arson, one of... Continue Reading →
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, have a drink and listen to The Strange South!
Episode 7: Mr. Spaghetti Arms / Karma’s a Bitch
Patrice & Marleah bring back their favorite southern cocktail, the Purple Haze, and reiterate the problem with people who rent large beautiful old homes and then who don't learn their lessons from Poltergeist. Then Patrice tells how the townsfolk of Florence, AL have gotten their 150 years and counting act of vengeance on one loose Booger.
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.
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!
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.
