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
123 episodes
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...
Ep. 107-Houston’s Icebox Murders Unpacked
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, p...
Ep. 106-Before She Vanished: The Story of Dail Dinwiddie
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 Din...
STAD EP. 2-We Skipped The King Cake And Got Grabbed By A Ghost Instead
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 ...
Ep. 105-Eye Drops and Murder
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
Ep. 104-A Vanishing In New Orleans: The Unanswered Death Of Jessica Easterly Durning
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 sh...
STAD Ep. 1- The Devil Lived In My Parents Bathroom
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 d...
Ep. 103-Vanished without a Trace: Rebecca Reid
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 se...
Ep. 102-Mystery In Room 1046:The Unsolved Death Of Artemus Ogletree
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.&nb...
Ep. 101-Ghosts of Jackson Barracks and Sweet Tea After Dark Announcement
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 ...
Ep. 100-Belle Gunness: The Farm, The Fire, And The Disappearing Suitors
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 farmh...
Ep. 99-Haunted Jefferson, Texas
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 identit...
