Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink whatever is on hand and talk ship-stealing heroics and OMG Bigfoot Porn!
Episode 78: Alabama Snake // The Ghost of Alice Flagg
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 77: Welcome to the Mirrorverse // Memphis Corpse Girl
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink Strawberry Jack Smash and talk about science they don't understand and one of the most famous ghost stories of Memphis TN: Pink Lizzie.
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 75: Christmas Creeps // ER After Dark
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink Mary Cherry Manhattans and tell scary ghost stories of Christmases not so long ago, akshully, and also of haunted call buttons and hospital basements!
Episode 74: The Ugliest Guidestones in Georgia // Hail Marija
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink Holiday Leftovers Sangria and talk sh*tty monument design, secret identities, apparitions, and Mary cherries.
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 71: Spearfinger // River Mama
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink very strong Chartinis and talk about a Cherokee ogress and a Jamaican mermaid goddess.
Listener Lore 6: The Time My Girlfriend Was Possessed
A special Listener Lore from our Live 2019 Halloween Show at The Goat House Biergarten! Enjoy!
Episode 70: Aunt Julia Knows // Clementine Barnabet
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink Dr. Claudia Martinis and talk Louisiana, clairvoyance, conjure, and cults.
Episode 69: Sexy, Sexy Night Demons // VD in Nashville
Patrice and Marleah drink brunch drinks and talk sexy succubi, the Hat Man, deflated soldiers, and a boat full of sex workers.
Episode 68: Temporary Shitshow
Patrice and Marleah drink Bartender Courtney’s Basil Peach Brandy Fizz and talk ruckus juice, happy sally, phone-throwing poltergeists, and exoneration.
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 66: Arkansas Cave People // Ham and Eggs
Patrice and Marleah drink Bartender Courtney's Sticky Sticky Basil Mojitos and talk vibrating welding guns, underground cities, white people peaches, and blues.
Episode 65: The Water Walkers // Remember the Alamos
Patrice and Marleah drink Bartender Courtey's Honey Jalapeno Margaritas and talk radical resistance, cult mentality, and supercons.
Episode 64: Little Fires Everyone // Pufnstuf Takes Atlanta
Patrice and Marleah drink Bartender Courtey's Oregano Infused Palomas and talk quicksand, the wick effect, trippy dragon people, and creepy ass singing carrots.
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 62: The Little Red House // Too Many Dolls
Patrice, Marleah, and Bartender Courtney drink kind of fancy cocktails, akshully, and talk EVPs, invisible dimensions, haunted item sales, and tiny porcelain hands in the night.
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 60: Don’t Eat Lead
Patrice and Marleah drink more quarantine cocktails and talk bags of boobs, genderbending authors, wolf peaches, and droolworthy Southern cuisine.
Episode 59: TIGERS!
Patrice and Marleah drink too much and talk Carol Baskin, tigers for sex, and killer romance.
Episode 58: Bluer’n Hell // Lizard Man
Patrice and Marleah drink whatever liquor they can find and talk hematology, seventh grade genetics, and high-jumping swamp things.
Episode 57: She Turned Me Into a Horse // Vegetable Man Wants Blood
Patrice and Marleah try quarantine recording via Skype with BYO Quarantinis. On this episode: prison toilets, witch hunts, lots of vodka, and a cryptid with a stupid name.
Episode 56: Babies for Sale // The Lost Town of Gibbon, KY
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 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 54: Balls of the South // Pandemic!
Patrice and Marleah drink Recovery Coffee and talk testicles turning into cryptids, why to tip your drivers, bloody viral death and government coverups.
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 52: Twain, Faulkner, and Ladies in White // The Cahill House Haunting
Patrice and Marleah drink Winter Smashes and talk about why men never throw themselves off of tall things in legends and how ghosts (or an arson) burnt down a house to set themselves free.
Episode 51: I Am Sadie Baker // D*cks in a Box
We're back! Patrice and Marleah drink Winter Palomas and talk "good" Samaritans, witch murders, Anatomical Venus, God Meat, and a boxful of penises. Â
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. Â
Episode 49: Hell Is Hot Hot Hot // I Know Moonrise
Patrice and Marleah drink hot toddies (again) and try not to infect you through your listening devices while they talk sex pits, folk art, marsh paths, and murderous little aunties.
Episode 48: Lake Lanier Wants You Dead // The Book Women of Kentucky
Patrice and Marleah destroy some festive Cranberry St. Germain cocktails and talk mysterious car crashes, ghostly underwater hands, lopsided horses, and literacy! Hooray!
Episode 47: Boojum in Love & Ghost Dogs
Patrice and Marleah kickoff the upcoming holidays in style with Bartender Courtney’s Cranberry Margaritas and talk about all the hootin’ and a-hollerin’ over the Balsam Mountains Boojum and the BEST ghost encounters to have!
Episode 46: Deadly Plastic Surgery, Night Doctors, and the Father of Gynecology // Mootilations!
Patrice and Marleah drink FIRE and talk the the scariest doctors ever, the speculum, alien cattle experiments, and government coverups.
Episode 45: Welcome to Demon Camp // F-ckery Up Your Flue
Patrice and Marleah drink Hot Toddies and talk PTSD, possession, talking dogs, and “stuck” people.
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 43: Season of the Witch / Goatman Ate My Brat!
Happy Halloween 2019! LIVE from the Goat Haus Biergarten in Montgomery, AL!
Listener Lore 05: Jenn & Freddy – Theater Tales
Shadowy figures, phantom duets, wailing ghost babies and women in white!
Episode 42: The Haunted St Augustine Lighthouse // Tastes Like Rabbit
Patrice and Marleah drink Lemon and Rosemary Bourbon Sours and talk Rodents of Unusual Size, clean eating, feminist lighthouse takeovers, and ghostly laughter.
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 39: Billy Ray and Lucky Shoot Goblins // Rawhead, Bloody Bones
Patrice and Marleah drink "mock" Alabama Fizzes and talk little glowing men, all the things you can shoot in Kentucky, nursery rhyme terror, and why you never touch a witch’s pig.
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 37: Sea Serpents of the South // Cattywampus
Patrice and Marleah drink Faux Fall Coffee Cocktails and talk about the horrors of the deep, floating islands of giant snakes, bipedal cat gorillas, and how white people ruin everything.
Episode 36: Florida’s Psychic Central // The Devil’s Triangle
Patrice and Marleah drink Brambles and talk palmetto bugs, psychic gang fights, poor navigators, and Christopher Columbus’ alien sightings?!?!
Episode 35: The Yazoo Witch // The Polk County Pot Plane
Patrice and Marleah drink good old classic mimosas and talk vengeful witch rants, quicksand, grave chains, pot, car chases, and Doosh.
Episode 34: The Devil’s Horses // Louise Wooster Is Better Than You
Patrice and Marleah drink Negroni Twists and talk grasshoppers, snake doctors, John Wilkes Booth, poop, and the power of a Southern woman.
Episode 33: Tally-ho Tailypo! / The Fouke Monster
Patrice and Marleah drink Pimm’s Cups and talk beaver nuggets, tail-eating mountain men, swamp apes, and the joy of scaring the shit out of kids.
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 30: The Legend of the Fifolet / All Hail St. Germain!
Patrice and Marleah drink Dirty 30 Martinis and talk bidets, trickster blacksmiths, swamp farts, killer ticks, and Louisiana vampires. Â
Listener Lore: 04
We have a special Listener Lore from Scott at our Wetumpka Theater show, a UFO sighting by Lorrie in Mississippi, and Box-Fan Chad makes us get dust in our eyes.
Episode 29: Shampe at Midnight / The Ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald
Our LIVE show from Wetumpka Depot Theater! Patrice and Marleah drink Tropical Storms and talk terrifying cryptid sightings, signs you’re not a Southerner, mental hospital hauntings, and the size of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s dick.
Episode 28: The Tennessee Torture House / The Mysteries of Bear Creek Swamp
Patrice and Marleah drink jalapeno honey margaritas and talk extreme haunted houses, torture porn, inappropriate ghost touching, and Bigfoot’s side hustle.
Episode 27: Thomas Jefferson & the Louisiana UFO / That Poltergeist Stole Your Biscuits
Patrice and Marleah drink Chilton County peach bourbon lemonade and talk flying, flaming, and vanishing pigs, portals, and kitchen-hating poltergeists.
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 24: Mad, Mad Prince Mongo // Susannah Evans VS. IGNORAMUSES
Marleah and Patrice drink vodka cranberry and talk 80s ape TV, crackpot businessmen, underage drinking in castles, fucking extremist Puritans, and how a stomach bug can turn into witch mania.
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.
Listener Lore: 03 – Rebecca K.
This Listener Lore is from New Yorker by way of Texas & Mississippi gal, Rebecca Kelly. Rebecca not only has a TON of ghostly experiences—while maintaining skepticism—but she also shares a recording of a Mississippi ghost that lived with her and her family! It's good stuff!
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.
Episode 17: The Trial of Jack Coe / Normie the Lake Monster
It’s Easter! Liquor and con men and cryptids oh my! Patrice and Marleah drink tequila sunrise (because Easter) and talk faith healing evangelists, divine comeuppance, lake monsters, and nuclear powered mythology.
Episode 16: The Dribble Project / Let’s Learn About Leprosy!
Patrice & Marleah nerd out on history this week, with the least appropriately named government nuke project ever, the national quarantine you never knew about, and fuckin' armadillos, man. Also we welcome back Bartender Courtney and her Cuban mojitos!
Episode 15: Satanic Panic / Kick Yo Ass Cassius
Patrice and Marleah find new heroes from 1800s Kentucky and return to their clutch drink, the Purple Haze. Patrice expounds on Alexa, Marleah divulges too much about her goody goody history, Satanic Panic in the South, the biggest hoax in history, and the badass history of Cassius Clay. PS. We are sorry for the last... Continue Reading →
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 13: F-ing Aliens / Mad in Mississippi
Patrice & Marleah drink too much Georgia Gin and talk about alien sex slaves, how we define the sacred in sci-fi terms, Dorothea Dix, hysteria, & social f-ing injustice y'all.
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 9: The Worst Way to Die in Savannah / Ambassadors from Mars
This week, Patrice & Marleah talk about not thinking through hashtags, how all things are haunted in Savannah and the many different attacks one can die from while there. Then Patrice adds a new destination for the Summer while talking about the kidnapping of one of the greatest Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's sideshow... 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.
Episode 3: I’m Sorry Robert / Don’t Cry in Front of a Bigfoot
Patrice & Marleah talk A LOT. Marleah creeps Patrice f*#k out and Patrice goes over how to survive a Bigfoot encounter.
Episode 2: A Rose for Beu-laaahhh / The Haunting of Sloss Furnace
Patrice and Marleah talk beermosas, sleepwalking, and justified hauntings.
Episode 1: The Vanishment of Orion Williamson / Three-legged Lady
Patrice and Marleah swap unusual, bizarre, creepy, and uniquely Southern stories, personal and historical, from three-legged ghosts to female serial killers and Appalachian UFOs. And the occasional chipmunk runs amok.