Southern Oddities

Ordis Studios

Jared Ordis, the creator & host of Even the Podcast is Afraid, brings you short tales of the bizarre & the unnatural, of the interesting people, the unexplained places, & the mysterious artifacts that helped shape the exaggerated mysteries & history of the Southern United States. Grab your sweet tea, gather around, and lets spin a yarn, welcome, to Southern Oddities! New Episode released every Tuesday. read less
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The World of Coca-Cola - Atlanta, Georgia
Mar 22 2022
The World of Coca-Cola - Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several railroads, spurring its rapid growth. In the modern era, Atlanta has stayed true to its reputation as a major center of transportation, with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport becoming the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic in 1998. Its economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors in industries including transportation, aerospace, news and media operations, film and television production, information technology, finance, and public policy. Plus it is the home to many major companies and brands...including everyone's favorite soda, The Coca-Cola Company, and its World of Coca-Cola Attraction.[FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]LINKS to EVERYTHING: solo.to/southernoddpodHOST JARED ORDIS: solo.to/jaredordis[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information:Roadside America [Story 2072] - World of Coca-Cola [Main Website] - Wikipedia [World of Coca-Cola] - Visit the USA [Taste and Explore World of Coca-Cola Atlanta Georgia] - 365 Atlanta Traveler [World of Coke] - Wikipedia [Atlanta, Georgia]"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network Copyright © 2022 by Ordis Studiossolo.to/ordisstudios
Goofy Golf - Panama City Beach, Florida
Mar 15 2022
Goofy Golf - Panama City Beach, Florida
Panama City Beach is a resort town in Bay County, Florida, located on the Gulf of Mexico. The city is often referred to as just "Panama City", along with their slogan "The World's Most Beautiful Beaches" ..which is due to the unique, sugar-white sandy beaches of northwest Florida. Panama City Beach is a popular vacation destination, among families and spring breakers. Especially among people in the Southern United States. Among the many things to see and do in Panama City, is one of the most beloved fixture attractions for over 60 years, featuring old-fashioned family fun with a putter, the time honored Goofy Golf.[FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]LINKS to EVERYTHING: solo.to/southernoddpodHOST JARED ORDIS: solo.to/jaredordis[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information:Roadside America [Story 6161] - Wikipedia [Panama City Beach, Florida] - Visit Florida [Northwest Panama City Beach] - Panama City beach [Main Website] - Goofy Golf PC [Main Website] - Florida Panhandle [Things to Do Goofy Golf] - Florida Historic Golf Trail [Goofy Golf Panama City Beach] - Unusual Places [Goofy Golf Florida]"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network Copyright © 2022 by Ordis Studiossolo.to/ordisstudios
Atom Bomb Testing - Baxterville, Mississippi
Mar 8 2022
Atom Bomb Testing - Baxterville, Mississippi
Baxterville is an unincorporated community in Lamar County, Mississippi. Located in the southwestern portion along Mississippi Highway 13, southwest of Hattiesburg. At 10:00 a.m. on October 22, 1964, the United States government detonated an underground nuclear device in Lamar County, in south Mississippi. Residents there felt three separate shocks, and watched as the soil rose and behaved like ocean waves. Hunting dogs howled in terror, and two miles from the test site the blast shook pecans off the pecan trees. This nuclear test, and the one that followed two years later at the same Mississippi site, were the only nuclear explosions on U.S. soil east of the Rocky Mountain states.[FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]LINKS to EVERYTHING: solo.to/southernoddpodHOST JARED ORDIS: solo.to/jaredordis[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information:Roadside America [Tip 50843] - Atomic Heritage [Nuclear Testing Mississippi] - Wikipedia [Salmon Site] - MS History Now [Nuclear Blasts in Mississippi] - AL.com [The Time We Nuked Mississippi] - Atlas Obscura [Mississippi Nuclear Testing Salmon Sterling] - Atlas Obscura [Salmon Sterling Nuclear Tests Marker] - Wikipedia [Baxterville, Mississippi]"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network Copyright © 2022 by Ordis Studiossolo.to/ordisstudios
Georgia Guidestones - Elberton, Georgia
Jan 11 2022
Georgia Guidestones - Elberton, Georgia
Elberton is a city in Georgia, with a population of just over 4000 people, and is the county seat of Elbert County. Elberton is known as the "Granite Capital of the World, And top producer of granite, as Each year they produce 2,000,000 cubic feet of granite across all 50 states, and this is what makes this story even more interesting, as this story involves an intriguing granite monument that was erected in Elbert County, near the South Carolina border. known to some as the American Stonehenge because of their striking resemblance to Englands famous monument.... the Georgia Guidestones.[FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]TWITTER: www.twitter.com/SouthernOddPodINSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/SouthernOddPodJARED'S TWITTER: www.twitter.com/jared_ordisJARED'S INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/jared.ordis[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Wikipedia [Georgia Guidestones] - Georgia Encyclopedia [Georgia Guidestones] - 365 Atlanta Traveler [Georgia Guidestones] - Atlas Obscura [Georgia Guidestones] - Smithsonian Magazine [Doomsday Stonehenge in Georgia] - Wikipedia [Elberton, Georgia]"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network Copyright © 2022 by Ordis Studiossolo.to/ordisstudios
Home of Tabasco - Avery Island, Louisiana
Jan 4 2022
Home of Tabasco - Avery Island, Louisiana
Avery Island, is not actually an island, but a salt dome, located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. It is three miles inland from Vermilion Bay, which in turn, opens onto the Gulf of Mexico. A small human population lives on the island, and the island is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Avery Island, has its bird sanctuary, exotic plants, and Jungle Gardens, but its best known today as the source of Tabasco sauce. As this salt dome houses the Tabasco factory & museum.[FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]TWITTER: www.twitter.com/SouthernOddPodINSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/SouthernOddPodJARED'S TWITTER: www.twitter.com/jared_ordisJARED'S INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/jared.ordis[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Roadside America [Tip 2696] - Travelling with Nikki [Visiting the Tabasco Factory Avery Island Louisiana] - This Is My South [Visiting the Tabasco Factory Tour] - Inside the Travel Lab [Tabasco Factory Tour] - Atlas Obscura [Avery Island Tabasco Museum Factory] - Sisterhood of the Traveling Brush [Tabasco Factory Tour Avery Island LA] - Tabasco [Main Website] - Louisiana Travel [Cities, Avery Island] - Wikipedia [Avery Island Louisiana] - Wikipedia [Tabasco Sauce]Created, Hosted, & Produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. 'Southern Oddities' is an Ordis Studios Original ProductionCopyright © 2022 by Ordis Studiossolo.to/southernoddpod
Ave Maria Grotto - Cullman, Alabama
Dec 14 2021
Ave Maria Grotto - Cullman, Alabama
Cullman is the largest city and county seat of Cullman County, Alabama..located just 50 miles north of Birmingham. Five German families moved to the area in March 1873; and by 1874, the town was incorporated and named after Colonel Cullmann. Over the next 20 years, Cullmann encouraged around 100,000 Germans to immigrate to the United States, with many settling in the Cullman area. In the 1840s monks from Metten Abbey in Germany, a monastery founded in 700 A.D., came to America, to minister to the growing German-speaking immigrant population. St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, became the first foundation of the German monks, and in the 1870s monks from St. Vincent were sent to Alabama to serve the needs of German Catholics. In 1891 those monks gathered to establish St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama. One of those monks, was Bavarian born Joseph Zoettl, the creator of Ave Maria Grotto.[FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]TWITTER: www.twitter.com/SouthernOddPodINSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/SouthernOddPodJARED'S TWITTER: www.twitter.com/jared_ordisJARED'S INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/jared.ordis[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Roadside America [Story 2015] Ave Maria Grotto [Main Website] Wikipedia [Ave Maria Grotto] Wikipedia [Cullman, Alabama] Encyclopedia of Alabama [Ave Maria Grotto] Atlas Obscura [Ave Maria Grotto] The Bama Buzz [The Hidden History of Cullams Ave Maria Grotto] St Bernard Abbey [Main Website]"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network Copyright © 2021 by Ordis Studioswww.ordisstudios.com
Texas Chainsaw House - Kingsland, Texas
Nov 16 2021
Texas Chainsaw House - Kingsland, Texas
Kingsland, is a small community in Texas - with many notable places, like the 1901 Victorian-style Antlers Hotel, which was a railroad resort that fell into disrepair in the early 1900s, but was purchased and restored in the 1990s and reopened as the Antlers Hotel. This hotel houses the Grand Central Cafe, that just happens to be located in one of the most iconic homes in all of horror cinema, the home from the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Plus, not far from the home is the Gas Station that was used in the movie, that is serving up Slaughter House BBQ.[FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA & MORE]TWITTER: www.twitter.com/SouthernOddPodINSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/SouthernOddPodJARED'S TWITTER: www.twitter.com/jared_ordisJARED'S INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/jared.ordis[ADDITONAL INFORMATION]Questions or Business Inquiry, Email Us @ ordisstudios@gmail.comResearched was used for this episode of Southern Oddities, and we couldn't have made it possible without the journalism and dedication from these awesome sources of information: Wikipedia [Texas Chainsaw House] Roadside America [Tip 33393] Kvue.com [Texas Chainsaw Massacre Home] Roadside America [Tip 15058] Inman [The Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre House is Taking in Visitors] Screen Geek [Texas Chainsaw Massacre Farmhouse History] Wikipedia [Kingsland, Texas] Kingsland Grand Central Cafe [Main Website] Wikipedia [The Texas Chainsaw Massacre] Kvue.com [You Can Eat and Sleep at the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre Gas Station]"Southern Oddities" is created & produced by Jared Ordis, an Ordis Studios production. This show is part of the Ordis Studios Network Copyright © 2021 by Ordis Studioswww.ordisstudios.com