Hey y'all, spooky season is here and if you're looking for a show to wet your appetite for a little haunted history, then I'd like to invite you to

check out Southern Gothic, a chart-topping history podcast that explores some of the most

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We've covered all sorts of stuff from the Belwich of Tennessee

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Not to mention our deep dives into the local lore

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Warning.

This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and murder.

If you're squeamish or have young years around you, you may want to try another episode. In 1927, Walter H. Leymert began developing a model community of homes in South Los Angeles.

He envisioned a neighborhood full of Spanish colonial revival houses that would one day be full of young married couples looking to start new lives together.

But when the war broke out, all further development on the neighborhood ceased. And by the late 1940, several of the vacant lots to the south

were now overgrown with weeds.

Despite the lack of houses in that part of the development, sidewalks still ran alongside

each vacant lot, and it remained a popular area for mothers to take their children.

Such was the case on January 15, 1947 when Betty Burscinger loaded her three-year-old daughter

Anne into a stroller and took her for a walk in that brisk morning.

It was unusually cold. Granted it was January, but this was still Southern California we're talking about.

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