Hold My Sweet Tea
Where True Crime collides with chilling ghost stories and Southern folklore. Join us, sip sweet tea, and uncover shocking tales of murder, mystery, and the supernatural, all with a healthy dose of Southern charm and a touch of sass!
Episodes
A stretch of River Road in Ponchatoula doesn’t look like the setting for a homicide investigation, but that’s where the disappearance of James “Jimmy” Wood leads. One moment he’s on camera near Highway 22 and Lee’s Landing. Then he’s gone, with his keys and belongings still at home and no clear trail to follow.
We talk through what’s been released publicly and why we’re careful about what we don’t share whi...
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Sweet Tea After Dark — we might feature it in a future episode.
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New Orleans has no shortage of loud legends, but Carlos Marcello is the kind of true crime story that gets under your skin because it’s built on silence. He avoids interviews, dodges ...
Something about a quiet house outside a small town in southern Louisiana feels like it should be peaceful, but the woods have their own soundtrack and it does not stop at the tree line. We’re reading an anonymous listener submission from “Stella,” who moves into a cheap rental surrounded by pines, cypress, and Spanish moss, only to discover that the landlord’s vague warning about “hearing things” is not about squirr...
A principal running hypnosis sessions for kids sounds like a quirky school story until the timeline turns grim. We’re Pearl and Holly, and we’re unpacking the George Kenney case out of Northport High School in Florida, where hypnosis meant for test anxiety, confidence, and athletic performance collides with tragedy and unanswered questions.
We walk through what’s known about Kenney’s “helpful” approach, how stud...
A ballroom fantasy meets a concrete cell. We open with our love of escapism—the lush string covers, the dance cards, the guilty-pleasure joy—and then pull a hard turn into the stark reality of ADX Florence, the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” where isolation isn’t a punishment inside a prison. It is the prison. We walk you into a seven-by-twelve-foot cell, a narrow sky-slit for light, a concrete bed, and the ritual of 23...
Four bored teenage boys in Gramercy, Louisiana make a decision that seemed harmless at the time — steal a bottle of cheap whiskey and head out to a sugarcane field to drink where nobody could see them.
What starts as a dumb teenage plan quickly turns into something none of them can explain.
Something running beside them in the rows.
Something that moved through the cane without slowing down.
In the c...
Don’t open the fridge. That’s the warning that frames our deep dive into Houston’s most haunting mid-century mystery: the Icebox Murders of 1965. We follow the police welfare check that turned into a nightmare discovery, then map the strange, precise details that still unsettle anyone who studies the case—meticulous cleanup, a hammer and saws, and a chillingly organized aftermath.
We walk through the life-s...
A crowded college district. A buzzing post-concert high. A young artist who asks a bouncer about her friends, leaves her purse—along with her asthma inhaler—and steps into the night. We pull the camera back on the 1992 disappearance of Dail Dinwiddie in Columbia’s Five Points, starting not with the mystery but with the person: a thoughtful, observant 23-year-old studying art history, rooted in family, and known for ...
Lanterns, beads, and a sugar-free resolve set the stage before we step into a shadowed Southern church that refuses to be silent. We start light—Mardi Gras memories, Lunar New Year at Disney, and the tug-of-war between king cake cravings and a health plan—then open an anonymous listener submission that pulls the floor out from under our feet.
The story unfolds with cinematic detail: a fully abandoned church...
We’re looking for listener submissions — true crime encounters, paranormal experiences, urban legends, or moments you just can't explain.
📜 When you submit, please include:
•Your name or an alias
•The type of story you’re sharing
•Your story in your own words
•Where and roughly when it happened (if you’re comfortable sharing)
•Whether you’d like identifying details changed
•Con...
We’re looking for listener submissions — true crime encounters, paranormal experiences, urban legends, or moments you just can't explain.
📜 When you submit, please include:
•Your name or an alias
•The type of story you’re sharing
•Your story in your own words
•Where and roughly when it happened (if you’re comfortable sharing)
•Whether you’d like identifying details changed
•Con...
Sweet Tea After Dark:
When Holly was six, that summers minor inconvenience turned into a full-blown paranormal standoff. One long hallway, one forbidden parents bathroom, and one horned silhouette whispering her name in the dark.
This episode walks through a 70s mobile home time capsule — mustard-yellow appliances, shag carpet, brown paneling, and the kind of layout that plays tricks on a kid’s brain. We ta...
A mile-long shortcut at dusk. A familiar routine. And then silence. We unpack the disappearance of 32-year-old Rebecca Reid from Lumberton, Mississippi—a case that begins with a simple walk to meet her father and expands into a thousand-acre search with no trace. We walk through the timeline, the last confirmed sighting on Lee Town Road, and the reported stop of a white SUV that sparked early theories but never deli...
Sweet Tea After Dark:
Have a story you’ve never told out loud?
For Sweet Tea After Dark, we’re looking for listener submissions — true crime encounters, paranormal experiences, urban legends, or moments you just can't explain.
When you submit, please include:
•Your name or an alias
•The type of story you’re sharing
•Your story in your own words
•Where and roughly when it happened (if yo...
Big changes are brewing, and we’re pouring carefully. We’re launching Sweet Tea After Dark, a companion series built for the stories that land after midnight—paranormal encounters, urban legends, and heavier true accounts that deserve a softer light and a slower pace. To make room, we’re moving to one regular Hold My Sweet Tea episode every Monday, with After Dark arriving every other Thursday. Same hosts, same hear...
A lonely hearts ad, a quiet farm, and a stack of trunks no one could explain—Belle Gunness turned hope into bait and profit into a habit. We follow her path from Norwegian winters to LaPorte, where insurance money, vanished suitors, and a farmhouse fire fused into one of true crime’s most unsettling legends. The nickname “Lady Bluebeard” wasn’t just headline flair; it captured a methodical pattern of luring men with...
A foggy bridge, a missing suitcase, and a town that points every road toward the water—our trip to Jefferson, Texas dives into the places where history refuses to stay quiet. We start with Jefferson’s unusual street plan and river-first identity, then trace how the rise of the railroads drained a booming port and left behind preserved buildings, empty rooms, and a perfect stage for ghost stories. The Jay Gould “curs...
Link of Samuel Littles FBI Confessions:
https://youtu.be/LxDWPik6IZ0?si=C9r6Jo7H6YyrB_vy
A low roll of thunder, a quiet cup of tea, and a chilling truth: the most prolific serial killer recognized by the FBI isn’t a household name. We dig into the life and crimes of Samuel Little, tracing how four decades of disappearances went unconnected while a predator learned to move, adapt, and hide in plain sight. It’s a s...
A knock at the door, a name that isn’t yours, and a past that refuses to stay buried. We follow a true-crime story that starts with a packed move in 1983 Louisville and ends—at least for now—with a 2025 tip in Florida, a DNA match, and a father-daughter embrace four decades in the making. Along the way, we sift through flyers and missing-person databases, a dismissed case that wouldn’t stay closed, and the quiet per...
A glittering reservoir with 700 miles of shoreline, a summer magnet for millions, and a drowned town beneath the surface—Lake Lanier refuses to be simple. We wade past the “cursed” label to explore the hard truths shaping its reputation: a long record of drownings and collisions, the submerged history of Oscarville, and the way policy choices still echo through today’s recreation culture.
We start with the ...
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