Confederate ghosts

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The spirits of soldiers who fought in the American Civil War, said to haunt battlefields and towns in the South, reflecting the lingering impact of the war on Southern culture and history.

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Author and researcher Sherry Parada joins Cliff Dunning to explore her book Supernatural South, a collection of Gothic tales of ghosts, cryptids, and unexplained phenomena from the American South. The conversation ranges from Gullah boo hags and Louisiana rougarous to the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, the Fouke Monster, the Moon-Eyed People, and the 1897 Aurora, Texas UFO crash. Host Cliff Dunning also opens with his theory that early Maya pyramids built over water channeled telluric energy for healing and environmental change.

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