SEASON 2
EPISODE 1
The blue mist shrouding the Great Smoky Mountains hides more than just breathtaking vistas and ancient forests – it conceals centuries of mysteries that continue to elude explanation. This rugged wilderness, spanning Tennessee and North Carolina, draws millions of visitors annually to its trails and streams. Yet beneath its serene beauty lurks an unsettling statistic: the Great Smoky Mountains ranks among America’s five deadliest national parks, with 101 recorded deaths in just thirteen years.
More chilling still are those who simply vanish without a trace. Since record-keeping began, at least five people have disappeared completely in these mountains – six-year-old Dennis Martin in 1969, teenager Teresa Gibson in 1976, Polly Melton in 1981, Derek Luking in 2012, and murder suspect William Bishop Jr. Despite extensive searches across the park’s 522,000 acres, no remains have ever been found.
EPISODE 2
Beneath the mystical façade of Louisiana’s voodoo legends and Creole culture lurks a modern horror story few could imagine. For over a decade, from 1993 to 2006, the Baton Rouge area was gripped by fear as women disappeared and turned up murdered with alarming frequency. The community transformed – doors once left unlocked were bolted shut, morning jogs became dangerous endeavors, and the friendly Southern hospitality gave way to justifiable paranoia.
What makes this case extraordinary isn’t just the brutality of the crimes, but the revelation that stunned even veteran investigators: two separate serial killers operated simultaneously in the same area without knowledge of each other. This perfect storm of evil defied traditional profiling methods and created patterns so erratic that they baffled law enforcement for years.
EPISODE 3
In the small Louisiana town of Jennings, a troubling series of murders has remained unsolved for nearly two decades, revealing dark truths about how some communities value certain lives less than others. Between 2005 and 2009, eight women were found dead—Loretta Chasson, Ernestine Patterson, Kristen Gary Lopez, Whitney Dubois, Laconia “Muggy” Brown, Crystal Benoit Zeno, Brittany Gary, and Nicole Guillory—all connected through their struggles with addiction, involvement in sex work, and roles as police informants.
What makes these murders particularly disturbing isn’t just their brutality but the web of suspicious circumstances surrounding the investigation. When Loretta Chasson’s body was pulled from a canal, a deputy had mysteriously shown up at her friend’s door asking about her whereabouts before the body was even identified. The chief detective purchased a truck from a jail inmate—a vehicle that had supposedly transported one of the victims on the day she disappeared—only to have it thoroughly cleaned before quickly reselling it. Multiple victims told loved ones they feared they would be “next,” suggesting they knew their killer.
EPISODE 4
Sometimes life throws unexpected curves that temporarily interrupt even our most cherished routines. In this brief but deeply personal episode, I share news that’s difficult to deliver—a serious head-on collision has temporarily paused my storytelling.
What began as a promising evening on June 25th—my husband and I heading to a rare midweek date night of dinner and a concert—turned catastrophic in an instant. The accident left me with multiple broken bones in both legs, broken ankles, damaged kneecaps, a broken finger, and four broken ribs. After waking up in the trauma department and enduring three surgeries so far, I’m on a recovery journey that’s been challenging but filled with gratitude. My husband, who escaped with relatively minor physical injuries, has become my rock—managing our home, the accident aftermath, his job, and my care with heroic dedication.
EPISODE 5
After weeks of silence, we’re back with a deeply personal journey through trauma, healing, and the mysterious corners of the South that continue to call to us even in our darkest moments.
The devastating head-on collision that abruptly ended our previous episode left me shattered – both legs broken with compound fractures, broken ankles, shattered kneecaps, four broken ribs, and a surgically reattached left foot. July exists as little more than a foggy haze of pain medication and the natural, uncontrollable sounds of agony that came with each movement of freshly broken bones. Despite the severity of these injuries, doctors remain hopeful for a complete recovery, with physical therapy beginning in late October.
EPISODE 6
Lurking in the shadows of Appalachia’s misty mountains is a tale that defies rational explanation. When a group of gravediggers in Clendenin, West Virginia reported seeing a massive winged figure soaring overhead in November 1966, no one could have predicted how this sighting would become entwined with one of America’s greatest tragedies.
EPISODE 7
Night settles on the porch, the river hums in the distance, and we follow that sound to a Vicksburg mansion that refuses to grow quiet. McRaven House isn’t just “the most haunted home in Mississippi”—it’s a three-part time machine where an outlaw’s bedroom, a grieving mother’s lullaby, and a war-torn hospital all occupy the same breath. We walk the Great River Road, trace the Natchez Trace, and pull at the threads linking moving water, old brick, and stories that won’t lie flat.
EPISODE 8
The streets of New Orleans carry stories like river water—slow, heavy, and charged with memory. We follow those currents into the life of Marie Laveau, a free woman of color who became the city’s most enduring symbol of power, faith, and fear. Between jazz funerals and above-ground tombs, we explore how a healer and hairdresser rose to be called the Voodoo Queen, and why her shadow still stretches across the Gulf Coast.
EPISODE 9
A picturesque hill in Louisville once held America’s fiercest struggle against the white plague—and the echoes haven’t faded. We follow the unlikely path from a one-room schoolhouse to a sprawling, five-story sanatorium where doctors chased a cure with fresh air, rest, and desperate procedures that often hurt more than they healed. When loss became routine, a 500-foot tunnel meant for supplies turned into a discreet route for the dead, shielding hope while the numbers climbed.
EPISODE 10
The story begins with the comfort of small-town ritual: a packed lunch counter on Mulberry Street, a hostess who knows every name, and a city that believes it knows its own. Then the pattern breaks. A husband collapses with mysterious convulsions, a second falls to a sudden fever, a mother-in-law fades under watchful care, and a child is tormented by vivid hallucinations no medicine can explain. We follow the arc from gentle hospitality to hard suspicion, from porch whispers about black candles to the cold permanence of arsenic in the lab.
EPISODE 11
A parrot lies dead, a socialite is strangled, and a town that worships decorum can’t look away. We pull up a chair on the front porch and unpack one of Macon’s most confounding true crime stories—a case where respectability politics, race, and money twist every clue.
We trace Chester Burge from lightning-struck teenager and bootlegger to wealthy, abrasive landlord married to Mary Elizabeth Kennington Burge, a woman firmly seated in the city’s high society. When the Klan targets a property he rents to a Black family, public pressure spikes, and weeks later Mary is found dead in their Shirley Hills bedroom. No forced entry. Jewelry within reach. A dog locked in the basement. And the strangest detail of all: the silenced parrot. Police clear the staff, suspicion converges on Chester, and the courtroom becomes a stage where character stands trial alongside evidence.
EPISODE 12
Would you recognize a killer if you passed one on the street? Our latest story confronts that unsettling question through the life of Donald “Pee-Wee” Gaskins, a five-foot-three predator whose crimes spread across the Carolinas and whose methods shattered the comfort of criminal profiles. We don’t dwell on gore. Instead, we follow the soil that grew him—Depression-era poverty, a childhood of neglect and abuse, and a culture where crime often shadowed survival—and ask how a person becomes the kind of offender who can manipulate friends, terrify rivals, and even outwit a maximum-security block.