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.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 87
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Man in the Sea Museum - Panama City Beach, Florida
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 Flor…
00:07:34 |
Tue 29 Mar 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, Atl…
00:10:36 |
Tue 22 Mar 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 Beac…
00:07:12 |
Tue 15 Mar 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,…
00:14:34 |
Tue 08 Mar 2022
Tank Town USA - Morganton, Georgia
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 curi…
00:07:51 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Colonel Sanders & the Birthplace of KFC - Corbin, Kentucky
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…
00:09:47 |
Tue 22 Feb 2022
Devil's Crossroads - Clarksdale, Mississippi
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…
00:09:44 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
Flashy Tombs & Monuments - New Orleans, Louisiana
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 C…
00:09:53 |
Tue 08 Feb 2022
Ram Headed Storyteller - Birmingham, Alabama
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 r…
00:09:39 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Toilet Seat Art Museum - The Colony, Texas
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 ac…
00:11:34 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Memphis Pyramid - Memphis, Tennessee
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 neighbori…
00:10:59 |
Tue 18 Jan 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…
00:12:56 |
Tue 11 Jan 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 huma…
00:14:42 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
Robert the Doll - Key West, Florida
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 it…
00:10:35 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
Center for Kentucky History & Daniel Boone - Frankfort, Kentucky
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…
00:11:37 |
Tue 21 Dec 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 inco…
00:12:06 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Burial Grounds of the Hatfields - Sarah Ann, West Virginia
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. …
00:09:46 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
Birthplace of Walmart - Bentonville, Arkansas
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 burne…
00:08:55 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
Vidalia Sweet Onion - Vidalia, Georgia
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, …
00:09:04 |
Tue 23 Nov 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 purc…
00:08:41 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
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