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
134 episodes
Ep. 124-Pamela Colman Smith And The Art That Defined Modern Tarot
You probably know the images even if you’ve never learned the name. The Rider-Waite tarot deck is the visual backbone of modern tarot, and it didn’t become iconic because people memorized esoteric theory. It became iconic because the art tells ...
STAD Ep. 8-Bad Bitch History: Marie Laveau Without The Hollywood Nonsense
New Orleans loves a legend, but we’re not interested in the souvenir version. We’re talking about Marie Laveau as a real woman in 1800s Louisiana: a free woman of color navigating slavery, racism, class power, and public fear while building inf...
EP. 123-Inside Ohio’s Strangest Crime Scene: The Leaf Killer
A house stuffed with leaves sounds like a joke until SWAT opens the door and realizes the piles aren’t just weird, they’re dangerous. We travel to Mount Vernon, Ohio to unpack the Matthew Hoffman “Leaf Killer” case, a true crime story where a m...
Ep 122-A Horror Movie Come to Life: The Jonathan Gerlach Case
🚨 WARNING: This episode contains discussion of grave desecration, human remains, and disturbing crime scene details. Listener discretion is advised.When volunteers at Pennsylvania's historic Mount Moriah Cemetery began discovering broken ma...
STAD Ep. 7- Cryp-TOE Through The Honey Island Swamp With Us: Honey Island Swamp Monster
Something about Honey Island Swamp makes a good story feel dangerously believable. Maybe it’s the miles of protected Louisiana marshland north of Lake Pontchartrain, maybe it’s the Pearl River cutting through cypress and shadow, or maybe it’s t...
Ep. 121-The Tragedy and Legacy of Moriah Wilson
A champion athlete with a clear sense of purpose shouldn’t become a headline, but Moriah “Mo” Wilson did and the details are as heartbreaking as they are infuriating. We start where Mo wanted the story to start: with the legacy. Her journal cap...
Ep 120- Woman In The Trunk: The Unsolved Murder Of Betty Thomas
A car doesn’t just “sit there” for two days without someone noticing, especially not a white Jaguar in a busy Austin hotel parking lot. When police finally open the trunk, they find 45-year-old Betty Thomas bound with duct tape, blindfolded, ga...
STAD Ep 6-A Quiet Drive To Snake River Canyon Turns Chilling
He doesn’t come off charming. He doesn’t look like trouble. He just seems normal, and that’s exactly why this story hits so hard.We’re Holly and Pearl, and we’re sharing an anonymous listener submission that takes us to Idaho, where Kar...
Ep. 119-Two Young Lives Lost In Unsolved Alabama Murders: Christian Boyle and Kandace Faulk
Two young people in Alabama are gone, and the silence around their cases is the part we can’t accept. We’re sharing two separate cold cases that don’t have a lot of public detail, which is exactly why they can slip out of the spotlight. Christi...
Ep. 118-The Priest, The Parishioner, and the Killer: The Antonio Tyson Case
Two beloved members of a small Louisiana community are gone, and the path from a quiet neighborhood to a brutal double homicide is almost impossible to wrap your head around. We’re talking about Covington, Louisiana, where Ruth Pratt and Revere...
STAD Ep.7- The "LIGHT" Man
A little kid looks past her mom’s shoulder, smiles at the dim hallway, and says, “There’s a light man.” That’s how Eleanor’s listener submission starts, and it’s the kind of paranormal story that can go two ways fast. Pearl and Holly brace for ...
Ep. 117- The Laken Riley Murder : Women Shouldn't Have to Run Scared
A normal morning jog should not come with a survival plan, but that’s exactly where our minds go when we talk through the murder of Laken Riley. We start with the heartbreaking basics: Laken is a 22-year-old nursing student who texts her mom be...
Ep. 116-Mackenzie Shirilla Case: How Do You Prove Intent Before Impact?
A quiet back road at night doesn’t look like danger, but sometimes it’s the most frightening setting of all. We’re Holly and Pearl, and we’re unpacking the Mackenzie Shirilla case out of Strongsville, Ohio, where a late-night drive ends with a ...
STAD: Ep6-What the Fouke? A Hairy Three Toed Giant Turns A Small Town Into A Legend
A small town in Arkansas builds a big legend, and the details are too strange to forget: dark hair head to toe, red eyes catching headlights, and three toed footprints stamped into swamp mud. We’re Holly and Pearl, and we’re taking Sweet Tea Af...
Ep. 115-When A Healer Becomes A Predator: Nathan Chasing Horse
Las Vegas hits different when the headline isn’t a party, it’s a predator hiding behind “healing.” We’re Pearl and Holly, and we’re breaking down the Nathan Chasing Horse case: a man prosecutors say used a Lakota medicine man persona, public ap...
Ep. 114-Chris Benoit: When the Machine Broke the Man
A final early morning text about the dogs and an open back door becomes the last breadcrumb before pro wrestling’s most haunting headline. We walk through the Chris Benoit case with care for the victims and clarity about what the public record ...
Ep. 113-Surgical Castration For Child Sex Offenders In Louisiana
Louisiana is taking a hard-line approach to crimes against children, and the details are more complicated than the headlines. We read through the core language of the state’s surgical castration law for certain sex offenses involving victims un...
Ep. 112-Easter-Ween? How A Devilish Witch Panic Turned Into Easter Trick Or Treating
Witches at Easter sounds like a joke until you hear the Swedish folklore behind it. We’re taking you to Sweden’s Holy Week, where people once believed witches flew through the night to Blåkulla, a mythical hill tied to the devil, feasts, and an...
STAD Ep.5-That One Time I Accidentally Joined a Cult (0/10, Do Not Recommend)!
A cozy women’s circle in the Oregon woods sounds like the cure for loneliness until the “healing” starts to feel like control. Sarah writes in with a story that begins with tea, candles, journaling, and a leader who takes her hand and says, “I ...
Ep. 111-The Unsolved Murder of James "Jimmy" Wood
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...
EP. 110-Carlos Marcello: The Quiet New Orleans Mob Boss Who Built A Gulf South Empire
📣 Connect With UsGot a story? 👀Send it to: holdmysweetteapodcast@gmail.comSweet Tea After Dark — we might feature it in a future episode.Follow along for more Southern true crime, folklore, and late-night storytelling.<...
STAD Ep. 4-Can I Get My Deposit Back?
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 “Stell...
Ep. 109- Impressionable Minds and Hypnosis
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 ...
Ep. 108-Inside ADX: Silence as a Sentence | The Psychology of America’s Supermax Prison
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 ...
STAD Ep. 3- Cheap Whiskey, Dark Sugarcane Fields and Teen Angst in Gramercy, LA!
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 quic...
