Southern Oddities
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.
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March 29, 2022 • 7 mins
Panama City Beach, the resort town in Bay County, that stretches along the Gulf coast. Is the city, that is often referred to as "Panama City"... with its sugar-white sandy beaches of northwest Florida. making it one the United States and most possibly the worlds Most Beautiful Beaches. Situated on US Highway 98..nestled between an Express Lube and a real estate office, is a parking lot surrounded by what looks like industrial boi...
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March 22, 2022 • 10 mins
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...
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March 15, 2022 • 7 mins
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...
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March 8, 2022 • 14 mins
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...
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March 1, 2022 • 7 mins
Morganton is a small city in Georgia. With a population of just over 300 people. In this small town of Morganton, lies a behemoth of sorts. A place that you can take out your anger or just your curiosity, known as Tank Town USA. A site with a few tanks, backhoes and other reclaimed vehicles, surrounded by mud and some really lucky people who understand that crushing cars is therapy & fun. Which is best achieved on big imposing ma...
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February 22, 2022 • 9 mins
Corbin is a home rule-class city in Whitley and Knox counties in the southeastern portion of Kentucky. Corbin actually has a well known piece of food history, in the form of fried chicken and the man who took fried chicken to the masses, Colonel Harland Sanders & his Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise.
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February 15, 2022 • 9 mins
Clarksdale is a city in Mississippi, and is located along the Sunflower River. Many African-American musicians developed the blues here, and took this original American music with them to Chicago and other northern cities during the Great Migration. With that being said, the blues brings us to one of Clarksdale's most famous stories, Robert Johnson and the Devil's Crossroads. As according to local legend, it’s the spot where Robert...
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February 8, 2022 • 9 mins
New Orleans is world-renowned for its distinctive music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. New Orleans has its own Monumental Task Committee, which tries to preserve some of the city's abundant and often eccentric public art. the Committee keeps a list of all of the monuments it knows about, all 250 of them. while we wont be able to discuss all 250 of them, here are...
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February 1, 2022 • 9 mins
Birmingham is a city in the central region of Alabama, and is the county seat of Jefferson County. Birmingham has begun to experience something of a rebirth, as New resources have been dedicated in reconstructing the downtown area into a 24-hour mixed-use district, becoming a truly diverse city. Along with diversity comes interesting art pieces, those hidden obscurities, like the ram headed storyteller fountain at five points south...
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January 25, 2022 • 11 mins
The Colony is a city in Denton County, Texas and a suburb of Dallas with a population of just over 30,000. The Colony did not exist before 1973, when home developers Fox and Jacobs purchased 3,000 acres located around State Highway 121 and Farm to Market Road 423. And while the city of the colony continues to grow, one interesting museum popped up in the early 90's that would go on to become a beloved attraction for many years, Ba...
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January 18, 2022 • 10 mins
Memphis is a city along the Mississippi River in southwestern Shelby County, Tennessee. The city is the anchor of West Tennessee and the greater Mid-South region, which includes portions of neighboring Arkansas, Mississippi, and the Missouri Bootheel. But Memphis is not all history, music, and BBQ, it also has an intriguing structure, one that looks like it stepped right out of Egypt, this odd structure is known today as the Memphi...
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January 11, 2022 • 12 mins
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...
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January 4, 2022 • 14 mins
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...
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December 28, 2021 • 10 mins
The city of Key West has a ton of history, but one place that should be visited is the Martello Gallery - Key West Art and Historical Museum, also known as the Fort Martello Museum & Gardens. With its most notable artifact, the haunted Robert the Doll, and most people can agree - he is terrifying.
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December 21, 2021 • 11 mins
Frankfort is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the seat of Franklin County. It is a home rule-class city, with a population over 25,000 people, and located along the Kentucky River. Its home to the Center for Kentucky History Museum, With so many exhibits, spread across three buildings, the Center for Kentucky History does its best to show that Kentucky history is more than racehorses, bourbon, fried chicken, and...
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December 14, 2021 • 12 mins
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 ...
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December 7, 2021 • 9 mins
Sarah Ann is unincorporated community, located in southwestern Logan County along West Virginia Route 44 in the valley of Island Creek --neighboring communities of Crystal Block and part of Stirrat. While the community of Sarah Ann might not have much, it does have the resting places of one of histories most notable families, the Hatfields.
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November 30, 2021 • 8 mins
Bentonville has a ton of history, from the thousands of Cherokee people from Georgia who passed through Benton County as part of the Trail of Tears, to having almost all of the cities buildings burned during the Civil War. but the city of Bentonville is more well known for something else. Its known as the birthplace and world headquarters location of Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers, which includes: Sam Walton's origin...
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November 23, 2021 • 9 mins
Vidalia is a city located primarily in Toombs County, Georgia..as the city also slightly extends into Montgomery count as well, and while there is some interesting tidbits about the town of Vidalia, it is more well known for a very different reason, its sweet onions. The city of Vidalia takes tremendous pride in its namesake vegetable, so much so, that it has many business & places named after the onion, including the Vidalia Onion...
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November 16, 2021 • 8 mins
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 ...
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