Dead Atlanta
Episodes
64 episodes
The Millionaires of Mansion Row
It's the early 1900's and you're walking along Peachtree Street visiting a friend you haven't seen in 10 years. Arriving at the address, you're shocked to see a man and woman walking arm in arm over the threshold of the most enormous home you h...
The Mayor of "The City Too Busy to Hate"
What do you get when you combine a wealthy son with political ambitions, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Civil Rights movement? Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.
Rich's Department Store
You trudge along the streets of downtown Atlanta in December 1867, your hat pulled low, hands shoved in your coat pockets as you rack your brain trying to come up with the last gift on your holiday shopping list. Nothing seems right! Suddenly, ...
The Serial Killer Next Door
You look out the window of your home in Hunter Hills, Atlanta at the Elder residence. The family doctor is walking up their driveway again. What could it be this time?
The Ladies of Ill Repute: Atlanta's Red Light District
TRIGGER WARNING: references to sexual exploitation of minors and suicide.You're lost. The darkness makes every street look like a smudged charcoal drawing, and you can't figure out which way to turn to get back to your hotel. You spot a ...
The Residents of Hollywood Cemetery
In northwest Atlanta, a cemetery lies quietly buried beneath the roots of an old-growth forest. The graves are ornate, beautiful, and crumbling, broken pieces mixing with the rocks below the leaves. But in this still and silent place, there are...
The Forgotten Lake
It's an oppressive August day in Atlanta's humidity. You're lying on the edge of Lake Abana in Grant Park, your feet submerged to your ankles in the water for minimal respite. A hat covers your face, blocking the sun above, and you've almost dr...
Hotel Row
It's 4:30 am in downtown Atlanta following a long train ride. You wake, suddenly hot and coughing with the scent of burning sugar and cigar smoke in the air, your eyes burning. What's going on?
George & Robert
TRIGGER WARNING: Descriptions of graphic violence. It's 1984, a time of big hair, acid-wash jeans, and one year before Queen's historic Live Aid performance. You pull into a rest stop off of I-20 to stretch your legs, go to the bath...
The Justice That Never Was
TRIGGER WARNING: Descriptions of graphic violence, sexual assault.Your life is FULL. You're double-majoring, doing extracurriculars, seeing friends, experiencing college life, and even holding down a job on the side. You have full faith ...
Body Snatchers
You know your time is near. As you take your final few breaths one last thought comes, "Will my body be undisturbed?" Stillness settles over you in one final sigh.
The Second Ripper
TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic violence. Get ready, there's a new ripper in town but this time, the ripper is targeting black men.
Have You Seen Julie Love?
TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual assault and graphic violence. It's 1988, and you're walking down a Buckhead street. Telephone poles all seem to have the same poster stuck to them, tattered corners lifting gently in the new autumn breeze. Ab...
The Murders of Corpsewood Manor
Welcome to Trion. Land of deer hunting, colorful gargoyles, devil worshiping, and murder. Choose your own adventure.
(BONUS) Your Questions, Answered
Dead Atlanta is doing something a little different for its "Big 5-0"...answering your questions! Grab a seltzer or a glass of Prosecco and dig into the history of the podcast itself.
The Female Illusionists
It's 1920. You sit in the audience surrounded by excited chatter rapidly shuttling from lips to ears. Heads bow in close and eyes crease into smiles in anticipation of the show. A hush engulfs the audience as Francis Renault sweeps onto the sta...
Atlanta's First Black Mayor
If you've ever driven on Atlanta's streets, you've no doubt been on John Wesley Dobbs Avenue or passed Spelman College. Who really was the man the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is named after?
Keeping Up with the Tokars
Trigger Warning: Graphic descriptions of violence.A guy on TV catches your eye—there's something about him that just draws you in. Little do you know, this moment is about to change your life and it's about to change the nation's too.&nb...
The Victims of Lover's Lane
It's 1977 and you and your sweetheart are ready to take your relationship to the next level. Unfortunately, you need some privacy—something neither of you have. Your parents are night owls and your little brother's bedroom shares a thin wall wi...
Never Checking Out Pt. 2
Checking out of your hotel room, the door clicks behind you, the wheels of your suitcase churning rhythmically on the floor behind you. You pass an open door and more than actually seeing them, your subconscious registers the shapes of three pe...
Never Checking Out
"Thank you." You grab your key card and wheel your suitcase to the elevator where two young women are whispering intensely. "...right here, in this hotel!" Says the redhead. The elevator dings and the dark-haired woman r...
In the Blue
"...if only you could know how happy I am when I fly a plane! I never feel so completely close to God as when I’m up in the blue."Editor's note: Hazel Jane Raines grew up in Macon, GA but was born in Waynesboro, GA.
"Breakfast in Hell"
You board the train in Macon, GA, feet heavy. You slide into a seat soaked through and unnerved by the rain pounding on the side of the car, but content you have some time to dry out before exiting. As the train pulls away from the station, you...