Episode 7: Phenix City, AL - The Wicked City

Episode 10: The Wampus Cat and Other Southern Cryptids

The Wampus Cat, Big Foot, Alabama White Thang ... Mark and Lisa discuss whether or not they truly exist ... and why the world is cryptid crazy.

Episode 9: The Deadly History of Lake Lanier

Georgia's Lake Lanier is one of the deadliest in the U.S., and while some claim the high death rate is due to the large number of visitors each year, Mark and Lisa ponder if Lanier's shady history could be the cause of so many deaths. Contact us at: ghostsandcornbread@gmail.com Sources: Underwater Ghost Towns of North Georgia by Lisa M Russell  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G1D1TG4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G1D1TG4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0] Welcome to Lake Lanier, Georgia! https://lakelanier.com/welcome/ [https://lakelanier.com/welcome/] CNN: Lake Lanier: A Lake's Dark and Deadly History Has Some People Seeing Ghosts  https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/us/lake-lanier-urban-legends-trnd/index.html [https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/us/lake-lanier-urban-legends-trnd/index.html] Southern Gothic: The Curse of Lake Lanier https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/lake-lanier [https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/lake-lanier] Travel Noir: Is Lake Lanier Haunted? The Eerie History of The Georgia Lake Built Over an Entire Town  https://travelnoire.com/georgia-lake-lanier-haunted-twitter-chimes-in [https://travelnoire.com/georgia-lake-lanier-haunted-twitter-chimes-in] Oxford American: The Haunting of Lake Lanier by Anjai Enjeti  https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/the-haunting-of-lake-lanier#:~:text=Legend%20has%20it%20Lake%20Lanier,bodies%20were%20never%20successfully%20recovered. [https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/the-haunting-of-lake-lanier#:~:text=Legend%20has%20it%20Lake%20Lanier,bodies%20were%20never%20successfully%20recovered.] Georgia Exhibits: Race and Reckoning in Forsyth County https://georgia-exhibits.galileo.usg.edu/spotlight/forsyth-race-relations/feature/the-lynchings [https://georgia-exhibits.galileo.usg.edu/spotlight/forsyth-race-relations/feature/the-lynchings] 11 Alive: Whitewashed: The Racial Cleansing of Forsyth County https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/the-reveal/forsyth-county-lynching-memorial-to-go-up/85-e9e16326-36d5-4c3b-abfd-e76f9b0a793a [https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/the-reveal/forsyth-county-lynching-memorial-to-go-up/85-e9e16326-36d5-4c3b-abfd-e76f9b0a793a]

Episode 8: The Bell Witch

The Bell Witch is arguably one of the most famous ghost story in the south, Mark and Lisa discuss the two-hundred-year-old legend, and speculate on whether the stories are folklore or fakelore. Sources: The Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch by Martin Ingram https://www.amazon.com/Authenticated-History-Famous-Bell-Witch-ebook/dp/B00BNWH61A/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+authentic+famous+bell+witch&qid=1653960218&sr=8-1 [https://www.amazon.com/Authenticated-History-Famous-Bell-Witch-ebook/dp/B00BNWH61A/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+authentic+famous+bell+witch&qid=1653960218&sr=8-1] Bell Witch: The Truth Exposed by Camille Moffitt https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Witch-Exposed-Camille-Moffitt-ebook/dp/B0121MFGIA/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2JRUOBT6G06K5&keywords=the+bell+witch&qid=1653960357&sprefix=t%2Caps%2C1203&sr=8-4 [https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Witch-Exposed-Camille-Moffitt-ebook/dp/B0121MFGIA/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2JRUOBT6G06K5&keywords=the+bell+witch&qid=1653960357&sprefix=t%2Caps%2C1203&sr=8-4] The Mark of The Bell Witch https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Witch-Lauren-Ashley-Carter/dp/B08N87YR76/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=the+bell+witch&qid=1653960459&sr=8-8 [https://www.amazon.com/Mark-Witch-Lauren-Ashley-Carter/dp/B08N87YR76/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=the+bell+witch&qid=1653960459&sr=8-8] The "Bell Witch" Poltergeist by Joe Nickell Skeptical Inquirer From: Volume 38 Issue 1 https://skepticalinquirer.org/2014/01/the-bell-witch-poltergeist/ [https://skepticalinquirer.org/2014/01/the-bell-witch-poltergeist/] Astonishing Legends Podcast with Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess (Seriously, they're great!) The Tennessean Need to contact us? Our email: ghostsandcornbread@gmail.com Thank you!

Episode 7: Phenix City, AL - The Wicked City

Mark and Lisa discuss the wild past of Phenix City, AL. Dubbed the Wickedest City in America, Phenix City was once home to gamblers, gangsters, and crooked politicians. In 1954, the shooting death of Albert Patterson, the Attorney General nominee, would rock the state and force the Governor to issue Martial Rule on the violent city. Sources: The Tragedy and The Triumph of Phenix City Alabama by Margaret Anne Barnes Phenix City by Edwin Strickland and Gene Wortsman Up From the Ashes: The Rebirth of Phenix City   https://youtu.be/8paw63WpyRw [https://youtu.be/8paw63WpyRw] Contact us at -  ghostsandcornbread@gmail.com

Episode 6: The Outrageous Tallulah Bankhead

Mark and Lisa discuss the life of Huntsville, AL native - the irreverent Tallulah Bankhead. Star of stage and screen, Tallulah Bankhead was a gifted actress that was just as infamous for her antics offstage as she was for her performances onstage. Sources for this episode: Tallulah!: The Life and Times of a Leading Lady by Joel Lobenthal Tallulah Bankhead A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History DAH-LING The Strange Case of Tallulah Bankhead by Robert Gottlieb from The New Yorker Cruella de Vil is Wicked - But Tallulah Bankhead Was Even Wickeder by Rosemary Counter from Vanity Fair Contact us at ghostsandcornbread@gmail.com