The Savannah Sideways Podcast
Savannah Sideways, Season 1: The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary is a ten-episode journey into one of the South’s strangest true stories — the saga of ancient Roman statues hidden in plain sight. When marble relics resurfaced in a Savannah, Georgia City Council meeting nearly a century after being unearthed in a cemetery, writer Jessica Leigh Lebos got obsessed and started digging. What she found spans continents and centuries: Gilded Age tycoons, Revolutionary War heroes, vanished mansions, Georgia’s longleaf pine forests, barrier-island battles, Gullah Geechee heritage — even a cameo from James Brown. History, mystery, and Southern Gothic collide in this unforgettable deep dive into Savannah’s secrets.
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SEASON 1: The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary
Savannah whispers history from every moss-draped corner — but behind the ghost tours and gravestones lies a mystery older than the city itself. When ancient Roman statues resurfaced nearly a century after being unearthed in a Savannah cemetery, writer Jessica Leigh Lebos began chasing their incredible story. Savannah Sideways is a 10-episode journey through lost mansi...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast - Season One - The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary.
EPISODE 1 - STUFF FOR SALE: In this debut episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos begins unraveling the strange tale of Savannah’s ancient Roman statuary—a story that stretches from the ruins of Rome to the marshes of coastal Georgia.
On April 9, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Savannah’s City Council quietly consi...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast - Season One - The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary.
EPISODE 2 - If the Land Could Talk: In this second episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos recounts the enigmatic history of Greenwich Cemetery, once the site of an opulent estate filled with 2000-year-old Roman statues.
From General Oglethorpe's founding of Savannah to the tragic fate of the Yamacraw people, we explore the mul...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast - Season One - The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary.
EPISODE 3 – In Turpentine We Trust: In this third episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos traces Savannah’s rise from post–Civil War hardship to Gilded Age opulence through an unlikely source—turpentine. As the longleaf pine forests fueled a booming naval stores industry, fortunes were made, ecosystems were destroyed, and entir...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast - Season One - The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary.
EPISODE 4 – Ossabaw Coincidences & Connections: In this fourth episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos follows the Torrey family’s journey from the ashes of their Greenwich mansion to the wild beauty of Ossabaw Island, uncovering how loss, legacy, and a touch of magic intertwined to shape one of Georgia’s most fascinating c...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast - Season One - The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary.
EPISODE 5 – Meet the Statues
In this fifth episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos traces the fate of the Greenwich statues after the devastating fire that destroyed the Shotter mansion. What followed was a haunting chapter in Savannah’s history — an era when the city, still reeling from the Great Depression, struggled between ...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast - Season One - The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary.
EPISODE 6 – Breaking Down the Myths
In this sixth episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos digs deeper into the fascinating world of ancient art and modern mythmaking. Joined once again by Dr. Mark Abbe, University of Georgia professor and global expert in antiquities and art restoration, Jessica unpacks how America’s Gilded Age...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast - Season One - The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary.
EPISODE 7 – The Mystery of the Missing Sphinxes
In this seventh episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos delves into one of Savannah’s most tantalizing historical enigmas: the whereabouts of the missing Greenwich Sphinxes. After tracing the 19-piece statue collection recovered from the estate, Jessica uncovers the lesser-known f...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast - Season One - The Strange Story of Savannah's Ancient Roman Statuary.
In this eighth episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos follows the unexpected trail of Savannah’s ancient statuary all the way to Georgia’s barrier islands—revealing a sweeping story of wealth, land, loss, resilience, and one of the most culturally important communities in the United States. Beginning with the Greenwich estate’...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast – Season One – The Strange Story of Savannah’s Ancient Roman Statuary. In this penultimate episode, host Jessica Leigh Lebos finally gains rare access to the Greenwich statues after years of research, persistence, and archival sleuthing. Accompanied by Luciana Spracher, the City of Savannah archivist, and Dr. Mark Abbe, she steps into a hidden storage space on the edge of the city and encou...
Welcome to the Savannah Sideways Podcast – Season One – The Strange Story of Savannah’s Ancient Roman Statuary.
In this season finale, host Jessica Leigh Lebos returns to where the entire journey began: the quiet, storied grounds of Greenwich Cemetery. Five years after first hearing whispers of long-forgotten marble relics hidden away by the City of Savannah, she reflects on how a single question about a set of statues unraveled ...
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