Haunted American History
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Haunted American History
A daily campfire-style podcast blending American history, folklore, and true crime. What scares you? Let’s find out.
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The Faces in the Water: The Ghost Pirates of Charleston (South Carolina)
For more than 300 years, Charleston has whispered the same warning: don't look into the rainwater on Water Street after dark. They say the flooded gut...
The Headless Soldier in Room 8: 20 South Battery (South Carolina)
Charleston's Battery is one of the most photographed streets in America, lined with elegant mansions overlooking the harbor. But hidden behind one of...
The Gardens That Remember Everything: Magnolia Plantation (South Carolina)
Magnolia Plantation is often celebrated as one of the most beautiful gardens in America. Couples marry beneath its moss-draped oaks, tourists wander i...
The Serial Killer Who Never Was: Lavinia Fisher (South Carolina)
Charleston's Old City Jail is one of the most haunted buildings in America—or so the ghost tours claim. Nearly every story begins with Lavinia Fisher,...
The Ghost Ship That Never Was: The Mary Celeste (Atlantic Ocean)
The most famous ghost ship in history never had steaming cups of tea, half-eaten meals, or a ticking clock left behind. Those details were invented by...
The Hearts They Burned: The New England Vampire Panic (New England)
In 1990, archaeologists uncovered a colonial grave in Connecticut unlike anything they had ever seen. The skeleton had been carefully rearranged—its s...
The Execution That Ended the Gallows: The Murder of Amasa Sprague (Rhode Island)
On New Year's Eve 1843, Rhode Island's most powerful industrialist was found brutally beaten to death along the Pocasset River. His pockets were still...
The School That Became a Prison: Ladd School (Rhode Island)
Hidden deep in the forests of Rhode Island stood one of America's largest institutions for people with developmental disabilities. For decades, the La...
The Ghost the Government Recorded: Ramtail Mill (Rhode Island)
Deep in the forests of western Rhode Island lies the forgotten site of the Ramtail Mill, where locals once claimed a dead night watchman refused to le...
The Ship That Never Stopped Burning: The Palatine Light (Rhode Island)
For nearly three centuries, sailors have reported a mysterious flame rising from the waters off Block Island... a ghostly ship said to burn without ev...
The Story That Haunted America: The Conjuring House (Rhode Island)
The Conjuring made this Rhode Island farmhouse one of the most famous haunted houses in the world. Millions know the story of the Perron family, the W...
The Lighthouse That Waits for Justice: Gibraltar Point Lighthouse (Ontario)
On Toronto's quiet islands stands Canada's oldest lighthouse... and one of its most haunted. For more than two centuries, visitors have reported a gho...
The Mountain That Collected Misery: Hexenkopf Rock (Pennsylvania)
For centuries, the people of eastern Pennsylvania believed there was a hill where you could leave your sickness behind. Not cure it... leave it. Powwo...
The Dark Truth About Pennhurst: Pennhurst State School (Pennsylvania)
For decades, the abandoned buildings of Pennhurst State School and Hospital have been called one of America's most haunted places. Visitors report sha...
The Child They Couldn't Erase: The Boy in the Box (Pennsylvania)
For sixty-five years, America knew him by only one name: The Boy in the Box. A brutally abused little boy, abandoned in a cardboard bassinet box in a...
The Battlefield That Won't Let Go: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
Gettysburg is remembered as the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil. More than 51,000 men became casualties in just three days. But when the...
The Apple Thief in the Trees: The Albatwitch (Pennsylvania)
Deep in the forests overlooking Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River, hikers still whisper about a small, hairy creature that watches from the treetops, s...
The Theater Built on a Massacre: The Fulton Theatre (Pennsylvania)
Long before the curtain rose on one of America's oldest continuously operating theaters, the land beneath the Fulton Theatre ran red with blood. It wa...
The Theater Built on a Massacre: The Fulton Theatre (Pennsylvania)
Long before the curtain rose on one of America's oldest continuously operating theaters, the land beneath the Fulton Theatre ran red with blood. It wa...
The Medieval Dance of Death: The Dancing Plague of 1518 (France)
In the summer of 1518, the people of Strasbourg watched in horror as a woman stepped into the street and began to dance. She didn't stop for days. The...
The Nightmare That Inspired Freddy Krueger: The Hmong Sleep Deaths (United States)
In the early 1980s, healthy young Hmong refugees across the United States began dying in their sleep. They went to bed exhausted and never woke up. Me...
The Forest That Eats People: The Molalla River Corridor (Oregon)
The city of Molalla, Oregon, proudly hides Bigfoot in its official logo. At first glance, it seems like a fun nod to Pacific Northwest folklore. But b...
The Cemetery That Buried Portland's Secrets: Lone Fir Cemetery (Oregon)
Tucked beneath the trees of southeast Portland lies a cemetery that holds nearly every chapter of the city's history. Here rest Oregon Trail pioneers,...
The Coffin Filled with Whiskey: The Aurora Colony (Oregon)
In the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley sits the quiet town of Aurora, a place founded by a man who once predicted the end of the world... and, whe...
The Basement Full of Forgotten Souls: Oregon State Hospital (Oregon)
For more than a century, the Oregon State Hospital has stood at the center of Oregon's mental health system. It was built with revolutionary ideas abo...
The House No One Can Save: The Bybee-Howell House (Oregon)
On the edge of Sauvie Island, just outside Portland, stands a beautiful Victorian farmhouse that no one has lived in for nearly twenty years. It can't...
The Monster That Made Millions: The Loch Ness Monster (Scotland)
For nearly 1,500 years, people have claimed that something enormous lurks beneath the dark waters of Scotland's most famous loch. It has been called a...
The Haunted Inn of Guthrie: Stone Lion Inn (Oklahoma)
In Guthrie, Oklahoma, one Victorian mansion has lived more lives than most towns. It began as the lavish home of a wealthy cotton baron, became a fune...
The Box in the Closet: The Freeman-Bible Case (Oklahoma)
On December 30, 1999, firefighters responding to a house fire in the tiny town of Welch, Oklahoma, uncovered the beginning of one of America's most he...
The Town That Poisoned Itself: Picher (Oklahoma)
Picher, Oklahoma, was once one of the richest mining towns in America. It supplied the lead and zinc that helped win two world wars and made fortunes...
The Nurse Who Killed for Curiosity: St. Vincent's Home (Oklahoma)
On the outskirts of Oklahoma City stood a quiet Catholic care home built to offer mercy to the sick and forgotten. Instead, it became the hunting grou...
The Crybaby Bridge of Oklahoma: Dead Women Crossing (Oklahoma)
On a lonely bridge outside Weatherford, Oklahoma, locals say you can still hear the sound of a horse-drawn buggy crossing in the dead of night. They s...
The Haunted Palace of Oklahoma City: The Skirvin Hotel (Oklahoma)
For more than a century, the Skirvin Hilton Hotel has been the crown jewel of Oklahoma City. It has hosted presidents, oil barons, celebrities, and NB...
The Mirror That Creates Monsters: Bloody Mary (Worldwide)
Say the name "Bloody Mary," and almost everyone knows the rules. Stand in front of a mirror, turn out the lights, and call her name three times. But w...
The Ghosts That Built America: Revolutionary War Hauntings (United States)
The American Revolution gave us heroes, traitors, and a nation. But according to local legend, it also left behind ghosts that never marched home. Fro...
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A daily campfire-style podcast blending American history, folklore, and true crime.
What scares you?
Let’s find out.
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The Serial Killer Eliot Ness Couldn't Catch: The Cleveland Torso Murders (Ohio)
During the Great Depression, someone stalked the shantytowns and rail yards of Cleveland, leaving behind dismembered bodies with surgical precision. T...
The Town Terrorized by an Anonymous Stalker: The Circleville Letters (Ohio)
For nearly twenty years, someone terrorized the quiet town of Circleville, Ohio, with thousands of anonymous letters exposing secrets, destroying marr...
The River Monster with a Magic Wand: The Loveland Frogman (Ohio)
On a lonely stretch of the Little Miami River outside Cincinnati, frightened witnesses have spent nearly seventy years reporting encounters with a biz...
The Night the Ruins Burned: The Myth and Reality of Gore Orphanage (Ohio)
For generations, people have traveled a lonely road outside Vermilion, Ohio, searching for the burned remains of the infamous Gore Orphanage. They lis...