Case File 014: The Bell Witch of Adams, Tennessee | Season One Finale
Robertson County, Tennessee, 1817. A farmer fires at a strange animal in his cornfield, and that night something starts knocking on his house. The Season One finale: America's most famous haunting.
Case File 013: Granny Witches and Haint Lore
Southern Appalachia, 1920s. A snowstorm, a swollen creek, and no doctor for a day's ride. So you went and fetched Granny. The midwives, healers, charms, haints, and mountain death customs of the old Appalachian granny women.
Case File 012: Mamie Thurman | Logan County, 1932. The Woman on Trace Mountain
Logan County, West Virginia, 1932. A policeman's wife is found on Trace Mountain. A banker is jailed, a secret list of sixteen men is whispered about, and only a handyman is convicted. Who really killed Mamie Thurman?
Case File 011: Frankie Silver | Burke County, 1831. Die With It In You, Frankie.
Three days before Christmas, 1831, a fire burned for days inside a small mountain cabin. Charlie Silver had gone missing, and his young wife said he never came home. Sixty years before Lizzie Borden, the North Carolina mountains had an axe case of their own.
Case File 010: Junior Johnson | Wilkes County, 1956. Caught by a Barbed Wire Fence.
Federal revenuers chased him down mountain highways for years and never once caught him on the road. So they stopped chasing and started waiting. A lighter story from the foothills: Junior Johnson, Wilkes County moonshine, and the fence that finally did what the law couldn't.
Case File 009: Ottie Cline Powell | The Boy on Bluff Mountain
Virginia, 1891. A four-year-old boy walks into the woods to gather firewood for his schoolhouse and vanishes. Five months later, he's found at the top of a mountain seven miles away. Over a century later, nobody has explained how he got there.