Haunted American History
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Haunted American History
This campfire-style podcast will take you on a journey to uncover the stories that have terrified Americans for generations. What scares you? Let's find out.
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204 episodes
Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 2 - The Thing in the Dark
Derry’s back—and somehow, so are we. In Episode 2 of IT: Welcome to Derry, the Haunted Review crew finds themselves wading through more nostalgia, mor...
Winter's Embrace
On the first Fiction Friday of season 2, we find ourselves in the brutal, isolated winter of 1924, a lone trapper discovers something that shouldn't e...
Inuit Folklore – The Child-Stealing Qalupalik
Beneath the Arctic ice, something hums — soft, low, and beckoning.
They call it the Qalupalik: a sea creature with green skin, long claws, and a...
The Haunting of Circle Hot Springs Resort
At the end of a dirt road in Alaska sits a silent resort where the steam still rises and the halls aren’t empty. Once an oasis, Circle Hot Springs now...
Scary Mary – The Ghost of the Golden North Hotel
Guests in Room 23 of the Golden North Hotel report the same terrifying experience,
waking in the dead of night, unable to move… unable to breath...
The Red Onion Saloon – Alaska’s Most Haunted Brothel
High heels on empty floors. The scent of lilac in a locked room. A saloon that never sleeps—even when it’s closed.
The Red Onion Saloon in Skagw...
Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry - Episode 1 - The Pilot
The Haunted Review rises from the depths—and Chris reunites with his old Zoning Out crew (Jon Saks & Frank Bonacci) to tackle the long-awaited IT: Wel...
The Inspiration for IT: Welcome to Derry
Some monsters are an invention. The most terrifying ones... are curated.
This episode explores the real folkloric etiology of the horror in It:...
The Alabama White Thang
The Alabama White Thang is one of the strangest creatures in American folklore.
Some say it’s a giant white beast. Others swear it’s a screaming...
The Birmingham Axe Murders
In the 1920s, Birmingham was known as “The Magic City.”
Steel, smoke, opportunity—and something much darker.
It began in a small corner st...
The Face in the Window (Pickens County, Alabama)
In Pickens County, Alabama, there’s a courthouse window that refuses to stay clean.
No matter how many times it’s replaced…
No matter how...
The Unquiet Ghost of Gaineswood (Alabama’s Haunted Mansion)
In Demopolis, Alabama stands one of the most beautiful homes in the South: Gaineswood.
A masterpiece of marble, music, and architectural perfect...
The Legend of Jeffery - Alabama's most famous ghost
Before Sloss Furnace or Dead Children’s Playground… Alabama had Jeffrey.
Not a tragic spirit. Not a vengeful phantom.
Just a mischievous g...
Presenting - SADISTIC - Beyond chapter 1
Part one of a ten-chapter story into the Beyond.
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The Occidental Hotel - Wyoming
In the small town of Buffalo, Wyoming, stands one of the West’s most legendary hotels. The Occidental Hotel has welcomed outlaws, cowboys, and even U....
The Ridgeway Ghost- Wisconsin
On the lonely roads of Ridgeway, Wisconsin, drivers have reported chilling encounters for more than 150 years. A phantom figure—sometimes a man, somet...
The Greenbrier Ghost - West Virginia
In 1897, a young woman named Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in her West Virginia home. Her death was quickly dismissed as natural, but her mother kn...
Haunting at the Hotel Sorrento - Washington
Seattle’s Hotel Sorrento has long been called one of the most haunted hotels in America. Guests whisper about phantom piano music, drinks that slide a...
Virginia - Grace Sherwood and the Ghosts of Abingdon
From a Virginia river where a woman was tried as a witch to a Southern inn where the sound of violin music still lingers in the night, legends live on...
Scarecrow
When a family moves onto scorched farmland with plans to build a Halloween attraction, they discover the land is haunted by the legend of Dapper Donal...
The Legend of Emily's Bridge - Vermont
In the picturesque town of Stowe, Vermont, there’s a covered bridge with a story as dark as its timbers. Locals call it Emily’s Bridge—a place where h...
Kay's Cross - Utah
On a frozen February night in 1992, a blast of dynamite shattered a strange stone monument hidden in the woods outside Kaysville, Utah. Kay’s Cross ha...
The Ghosts of Hastings College - Nebraska
Hastings College in Nebraska is more than a quiet campus on the prairie; it’s a place where history still lingers in the halls. From the guardian ange...
The Legend of La Chasse-Galerie
La Chasse-Galerie, the flying canoe, is one of French Canada’s most enduring pieces of folklore. It’s the story of lonely lumberjacks who make a dange...
Yorktown Memorial Hospital - Texas
In a small Texas town stands the abandoned Yorktown Memorial Hospital, once a beacon of mercy, now called one of the most haunted buildings in America...
The Sensabaugh Tunnel of Tennessee
Deep in Kingsport, Tennessee lies the Sensabaugh Tunnel, one of the state’s most infamous haunted sites. Locals whisper about eerie cries echoing thro...
The Green Children of Woolpit
In 12th-century England, two strange children appeared in the village of Woolpit, skin tinted green, speaking an unknown language, and claiming to com...
South Dakota - Walking Sam
Content Warning: This episode contains themes of suicide and despair, presented through folklore and horror storytelling. Listener discretion is advis...
South Carolina's Boo Hag & The Skin Collector
Deep in South Carolina’s low country, the legend of the Boo Hag has haunted generations. She’s said to slip into your home at night, stealing the very...
The General Stanton Inn & Echoes in the Walls
In Rhode Island’s historic General Stanton Inn, guests have long reported the sound of a woman crying through the night—grief without a face, sorrow w...
Pennsylvania - The Giwoggle
In the deep woods of Pennsylvania, we explore the legend of the Giwoggle—a bizarre creature with the body of a wolf, the claws of a bird, and the hoov...
The Bandage Man of Cannon Beach, Oregon
This week, I travel to the misty shores of Cannon Beach, Oregon, to investigate the chilling legend of the Bandage Man. A spectral figure swathed in b...
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Presenting "Disturb Me"
I'm thrilled to share an episode of my new show, Disturb Me. In this show, my wife, Meghan, and I go in blind and share the most disturbing true crime...
Oklahoma - The Purple Church & Swap
Venture with us to the outskirts of Oklahoma City, where urban legends collide with reality. In Spencer, Oklahoma, hidden among overgrown trails and w...
Ohio - Death Hole & The Blue Eddy
Tucked deep in Ohio’s Hocking Hills, there’s a pond no map dares to name. Locals call it the Death Hole. Others whisper of the Devil’s Pool. But to th...
Haunted Tales of North Dakota
Step into the shadows of North Dakota, where the past refuses to remain buried. In this episode, explore three ghostly tales: the sorrowful White Lady...
Presenting - Macabrium - The Murder Hole Room: Hauntings at Leap Castle, Part 1
Leap Castle in Ireland is home to numerous stories of real-life hauntings. In this first episode of a multi-part series, the two legends known as “The...
North Carolina: The Boojum, Blackbeard, and the Choir of Lost Souls
Deep within North Carolina's rugged mountains and misty shores, shadows whisper and legends refuse to die. Today, I explore three chilling tales: the...
New York Stories - Moonlight, Mirrors, and Murder
Nothing ruins a perfectly good evening like seeing a ghost in your bedroom, getting chased by a werewolf, or realizing your mirror is haunted.
W...