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 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.