Rest In Pieces
Episode 2
A doomed railroad man still swinging his phantom lantern. A Confederate soldier haunting a Greensboro cemetery with half a skull and an empty canteen. A bizarre true story of Lincoln assassination conspirator whose head went missing for more than 100 years before it was buried.
Three tragic tales from the Gothic South with a single thread running through: when you bury a body without its head, you’re going to get a ghost.
In this episode:
The legend of Joe Baldwin, a Carolina railway worker who lost his head in a tragic collision at Rattlesnake Bend
The Lonely Ghost of Greensboro Cemetery, a young private who took a cannon ball head on and never lived to tell his own tale
The true tale of Lewis Powell, a violent Civil War soldier and failed assassin whose body was returned to his family without his head
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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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