The Curse of Julia Brown, Part Two | Guest Brandon Schexnayder
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This is Part Two of our conversation.
Some stories don’t begin as ghost stories. They start with real events—but over time, something shifts. Details blur. Meanings change. And history slowly becomes something else.
That’s the focus of Brandon Schexnayder and his work on the Southern Gothic podcast, where haunted history and Southern legend intersect. Through storytelling and research, he explores how these stories evolve—and why they never fully let go.
Like the Curse of Julia Brown, a healer in the small town of Frenier who was both respected and feared. In the years before her death, she was said to sing a song, “When I die, I'll take the whole town with me.”
When a hurricane struck on the day of her funeral in 1915, devastating the entire town, the story took on a life of its own.
Coincidence… or something more? These are the stories that blur the line between what happened—and what people believe happened.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the curse of Julia Brown with |
| 0:06.6 | Brandon Sheck Snyder of the Southern Gothic podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | I guess we're going to go peel the onion now, right? |
| 0:14.5 | Yeah, because I think there would be parts of that, I would assume, the hurricane is a given. Everyone knows that happened that |
| 0:24.1 | day. Absolutely. Right? Yeah. So the questionable parts would be, did she really put a curse on them? |
| 0:33.3 | Did she cause the hurricane? Because the story that you hear now, that all kind of goes together, right? |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.8 | She brought that on. |
| 0:43.7 | And I'm going to guess a lot of people perished as well as the town. |
| 0:48.8 | Yes. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, there was a mass grave even. |
| 0:51.7 | They had to bury people in a mass grave right there in the swamp. |
| 0:55.6 | And they actually found her coffin floating about a week later. |
| 0:59.5 | And that's not even folklore. |
| 1:01.0 | That's actually documented. |
| 1:02.7 | It didn't happen like in 1700s. |
| 1:05.1 | It happened, what, 100 plus years ago? |
| 1:09.0 | Yep, 1915. |
| 1:10.3 | So just 111 years. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm doing the math. |
| 1:12.6 | So you could find, so your sister was able to find information on this. |
| 1:18.6 | This is where it all just kind of like, is like, okay, well, what's real and what isn't, right? |
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