About this episode
The episode explores the haunting history of Hannah Creek Swamp, intertwining ghost stories with tales of war crimes and mistaken identity.
People who visit Hannah Creek Swamp report cold spots, feelings of dread, and the sound of a hanging. Johnston County has a lot of history, but this particular stretch of swamp has a story soaked into it — a Confederate lieutenant, a band of rogue soldiers who crossed every line, a gold crucifix found around the wrong neck, and a revenge killing so far outside the rules of war that nobody's quite known what to do with it for 160 years. It's a ghost story. It's a war crime story. It's also, it turns out, a case of mistaken identity stretching across two centuries — because the monster at the center of it was already dead before the Civil War started. The swamp, apparently, does not care about the timeline.
Topics covered
- ghost stories
- war crimes
- history
- mistaken identity
Keywords
- Hannah Creek Swamp
- Confederate lieutenant
- rogue soldiers
- revenge killing
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Hannah Creek Swamp, Johnston County
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