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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

409 // Beyond The Ghosts of the South w/ Professor Tiya Miles

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Crawlspace. In this episode Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are taken on a journey into the Haunted South with new friend, Professor Tiya Miles. Professor Miles is the author of a number of amazing books - The Cherokee Rose, All That She Carried, Tales From The Haunted South and Ties That Bind to name a few. The conversation here explores the impact dark tourism in the South had on Professor Miles and how she decided to shine a light on the realities of these tales. To find out more about Tiya Miles and to order her books go to: https://tiyamiles.com/ https://tiyamiles.com/books/ Follow Professor Miles: https://www.instagram.com/TiyaMiles https://twitter.com/TiyaMilesTAM https://www.facebook.com/TiyaMiles Lace 'em up and run for a good cause! Go to: PIFTM.org/RUN for more information on Private Investigations for the Missing's first annual 5K Run for the Missing and to register!! https://runsignup.com/Race/MA/Reading/RunForTheMissing We love our Air Doctors! And if you want your air to be easier to breathe, head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code CRAWLSPACE and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! We love our AquaTru water purifiers! Receive 20% off any AquaTru water purifier when you go to AquaTru.com and use code "CRAWLSPACE" Check out our Subscription Service where we have a bundled our bonus material from Missing, Crawlspace and Dark Valley shows! Ad-free episodes and more at https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Use promo code, "Missing" for your first month FREE! Follow us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/crawlspacepodcast/ TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast YT: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrawlspacePod FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/58cll3enTW2SNmbJUuLsrt The music for Crawlspace was produced by David Flajnik. Listen to his music here: https://www.pond5.com/artist/bigdsound Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

0:30.0

Welcome to Crawl Space. I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how's it going today?

0:40.0

It is going fantastic today, Tim. I hope everyone listening. I hope they're doing as fantastic as I'm assuming you are doing and myself.

0:48.0

The guest we have on today truly took us by surprise, at least speaking for myself, expecting to talk about one thing.

0:54.0

We end up talking about that when we go so much deeper into this topic. It was truly kind of eye-opening.

0:59.0

And before we get to that, Tim, open my eyes. Am I accurate in assuming you're doing fantastic?

1:05.0

I know. I never say anything different. I am doing great.

1:09.0

I'm really excited to introduce our conversation with Harvard Professor Taya Miles.

1:16.0

And she is very impressive. And we're impressive, too, for the record.

1:20.0

Because now this is like the second Harvard Professor. This summer that we've had on Crawl Space, so take that other true crime shows.

1:26.0

But she's also a writer and a really good one.

1:30.0

And the topics of those books are historical. She has nonfiction, she has fiction, but even her fiction stories.

1:35.0

She blends in historical moments in order to create like a teachable text to understand why these ghost stories have the origins that they have.

1:45.0

And I think that's where it got really unexpected for me is that you go on these dark tourism ghost tours or you read these stories.

1:52.0

And it takes someone like Professor Miles to introduce the common reader or the common fan of ghost stories to the history behind it.

2:01.0

And what's fair and what's not and what's true and what's not what's exploited and what's not really fascinating stuff.

2:08.0

Yeah, it really is. And you can learn more about her writing at TayaMiles.com. All of her books are there.

2:15.0

And they're really interesting. I'm really glad that she joined us for this episode.

2:18.0

And Tim, for those people out there who really want to hear this episode without the commercial breaks.

2:24.0

And for that matter, every episode that we have for Crawl Space and our other shows missing in Dark Valley, there must be a place where people can access those with ease.

2:33.0

There is folks can now access Crawl Space premium on Apple podcasts.

2:38.0

And if you're not an Apple user, you can go to crawlspace.supportingcast.fm and sign up for the same product there.

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