Southern Fried Frights

S:3 E:5 Over Thirty years ago, on a back road cutting through the edge of a Wayne National Forest, in Perry County Ohio a driver heading home from the night shift watched two deer burst out of the brush. What stepped out next from the tree line in the path of his truck terrified him to the core. Follow on: Instagram: @southernfriedfrights Facebook: @ Southern Fried Frights

S3: E4 Work can weigh on any of us. When the days get heavy, when the things we see and carry start to stack up, it’s hard not to bring that weight home — in our minds, and sometimes in ways we can’t explain. Some folks leave their jobs at the door. Others … don’t get that choice. This is part two of Cameron’s story. We’re turning our attention to her mom, Karen — and to the question that’s been h...

S3:E3 The darkness is a strange thing for a child. Most nights, a little night‑light is enough to keep the shadows where they belong. But what do you do when the light isn’t enough—when the shadows keep coming back, slipping across the wall like they’ve got a mind of their own? This is the story of Cameron; a listener submission that’ll make you think twice about those nights when your child wakes...

S3 E2: There are places on this continent where the world still feels untouched. Places where the water lies flat as glass, and the trees crowd in so close they swallow your sense of direction. The Boundary Waters is one of those places — a maze of lakes and portages stretching between Minnesota and Canada. During a ten‑day canoe trip in the summer of 1970, deep in the Boundary Waters wilderness,...

S3: E1 In 1978, a 23‑year‑old college student named Steven Kubacki sets out on a solo cross‑country skiing trip near Lake Michigan. Two days later, search teams find his gear neatly placed at the edge of the ice, arranged like he stepped out of it on purpose. Footprints lead away from the gear and out onto the frozen lake… and then they just stop. No return tracks. No signs of a fall. No break in...

S2 E:8 Drakes, Ohio, isn't the kind of town that makes headlines. It's quiet - the kind of place where everyone knows your name and the biggest excitement is Friday night football. But for one listener, it became the setting for something ...unexplainable. Thanks Scared Cat 62 for your story!

S2:E7 They say the dead don’t linger without reason. And if you believe the whispers that echo through the halls of the White House, then Abraham Lincoln never truly left office. Is it grief that binds him? Duty? Or something darker? When the country trembles, does Lincoln rise? Sources:12 People Who Have Supposedly Seen or Felt Lincoln's Ghost | Mental Floss https://gotsc.org/AbrahamLincolnso...

S2: E5 On March 11, 1876, the New York Times published a tongue-in-cheek article about an unusual weather event that had taken place on March 3rd at a farm in Bath County, Kentucky. A Mrs. Crouch while stirring her soap kettle in the yard experienced something so strange that it was almost beyond belief. The clear afternoon sky, unremarkable just moments before, began to rain down fragments of raw...

S2: E4 In Portland, Oregon, antique dealer Kevin Mannis picked up an old wine box at the estate sale of a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor. He's warned by the dead woman's granddaughter not to open the "Dybbuk Box”. But Kevin just had to open the box. Kevin's actions have terrible consequences; he unleashes a malevolent spirit. Sources https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Di...

S2: E4: Many cultures and religions share the common belief that, upon death, a person's spirit departs from their physical form to embark on a journey into an ethereal, transcendent realm of existence that lies beyond the physical world. Conventional wisdom about what happens to spirits after death leads many to wonder if some spirits might remain on Earth, possibly bound to a specific place, rai...

S2: E3 Newfoundland, New Jersey, settled in 1664, is shrouded in a veil of mystery and legend, its history whispering stories of the past. This episode, shared by Laura, a listener, will make you reconsider the quiet spaces you thought were safe. This is a chilling tale about restless spirits, forever trapped in a cycle of repeating their earthly experiences, unable to move on. Thank you, Laura fo...

Southern Fried Frights is a paranormal podcast delving into hauntings, mysterious occurrences, bizarre anomalies, and all phenomena that remain unexplained. Opal, a skeptical believer investigates logical possibilities and irrational WTF's!

S2 E2: From the moment she moved into a century bungalow in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, young mother Jackie Hernandez felt an eerie presence.   She couldn't rid herself of the feeling that she was being watched.  It wasn't long before the benign feelings turned into a full-blown nightmare. Objects began to move on their own, strange noises echoed from the attic, and a sinister spiri...

S2: Ep 1 When a team of paranormal researchers agree to investigate strange poltergeist activity taking place in a turn of the century bungalow located in the San Pedro, California members of the team will experience the power of the dead when a sinister spirit inflicts harm and attempts murder. One member of the team will have a near death experience, and another will be terrorized when the malev...

When Margaret Shilling went missing from the Athens Lunatic Asylum in Athens Ohio it was thought that she was an escaped patient. Weeks later her naked body was found in the Asylum on an abandoned ward. Was she a victim of brutal circumstance, foul play or did she die by suicide? Sources: (October 18, 2018)  Athens Asylum Sesquicentennial Speaker Series with George Eberts, Ohio University College...

Join us for a spine tingling tale of a true haunting here in Lexington Kentucky. Walton Avenue is lined with historic homes and southern charm, but this story isn't charming its chilling. A good friend joins us to give you all the details of her creepy exchange she had with her own entity. Was it a ghost? Was it a poltergeist? Is it still hanging around her all these years later? Southern Frie...

"It is not an aircraft!" were the last words heard over the airways from the Australian pilot Frederick Valentich. It has been nearly 46 years since Frederick vanished without a trace. Did he plan his own disappearance? Did he crash into Bass Strait? Was he abducted? We may never know what happened to Frederick Valentich. The amateur pilot's disappearance still remains a mystery. Sou...

Imagine the terror of a winged beast as tall as a grown man and can fly as fast as you can drive! This episode we follow the map to the Mothman. Join us in puttin a pin in the places of West Virginia where the Mothman made his debut. He may have been from Point Pleasant, but this story will send a chill down your spine! Send your WTF to southernfriedfrights@outlook.com Follow, like, rate, and shar...

Hello Southern Fried Frights Fans The host of Southern Fried Frights, Opal and Pearl, a couple of sassy porch swinging storytellers, will be back in 2024 with more tales of the paranormal, ghostly encounters, aliens, true crime, bigfoot, and all other things unexplained. Do you have a WTF a "What the Fright" that you would like to share? Please send to southernfriedfrights@outlook.com. J...

Join us for something a little different as we discuss Christmas Crimes. Package nabbing is at a peak but that's not the only thing being taken, two Big Boys have gone missing, no leads or ransoms yet! Don't worry we have some funny ways to keep sticky fingers off your holiday packages, Porch Pirates ye be warned!

Listen to a true story of a Native American massacre whose screams will haunt your dreams. Second is a story about a wronged soul being set free. Lastly hit the jackpot with history on how the American Indians and casinos came together.

Join us on a terrifying train ride through three frightful tunnels in Ohio, Virginia, and Tennessee. I hope we don't get to derailed by the haunts within them.

This episode we bring you creepy curses, no, not the kind you get you mouth washed out with soap for! We have a finger lickin good curse from Kentucky to Japan, the curse of the winners circle, and a cackling good time!

Join us for some bewitching stories and magical witchery history! Don’t worry we won’t put a spell or hex on you!

Ever wondered about the devil and his demons? Here are a few first-hand accounts of up close and personal encounters. Keep your crosses near by and say your prayers because were bringing demonic nightmares to your dreams.