Margaret Eby wrote this fantastic piece on southern gothic folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham a while back for the Paris Review, we thought our readers would enjoy it: To grow up [ … ]
Category: Mythology & Lore
Liver Eating Johnson – Jeremiah Johnson
On January 21, 1900 Liver Eating Johnson, one of the Old West’s most intriguing and gruesome men, died in a veterans’ hospital in California. This was a strange ending for [ … ]
Killer Deacon Miller – Assassin of Southern Gothic Lore
Deacon Miller was a little man who was quiet, and never cussed. He dressed like a traveling minister, and was an avid churchgoer. At the same time, this Jekyll-Hyde character [ … ]
Train Robber Marion Hedgepeth & Serial Killer H. H. Holmes
Marion Hedgepeth was born and raised in Missouri. As a young man, he went out west to Montana, Wyoming and Colorado where he learned the art of rustling, robbery and killing. Afterward, [ … ]
The Woman in Black in Sing Sing Prison
SHE FREQUENTLY VISITS SING SING PRISON. A Mysterious Woman Whose Repeated Visits to the Famous Penal Institution Have Excited Interest as to Her Identity. February 9, 1894, Chief, Red Cloud, Nebraska [ … ]