Haunted American History
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Haunted American History
A daily campfire-style podcast blending American history, folklore, and original ghost stories. What scares you? Let’s find out.
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294 episodis
The Forgotten Borough - Chapter 1
Today, I am sharing Chapter 1 of my debut novel, The Forgotten Borough. I hope you all enjoy listening to it as I enjoyed writing and recording it.
Dodge City Kansas
Dodge City didn’t just earn its reputation with gunfights... it earned it with rot, whiskey, and the routine logistics of death. In the 1870s, buffalo...
The Brown Grand Theatre
A violent tornado, a fading theatre, and a curtain painted with an emperor watching his empire fall. In Concordia, Kansas, the Brown Grand Theatre sur...
Kansas State Penitentiary
A sunny prison ballgame in 1933 turned into a brazen escape and left a permanent mark on the Kansas State Penitentiary. From outlaw legends to whisper...
The Bloody Benders
In southeastern Kansas, a small cabin along the Osage Mission Trail once promised weary travelers warmth, food, and shelter. But behind the canvas div...
Theorosa’s Bridge
Twelve miles north of Wichita, a small bridge over Jester Creek has become one of Kansas’s most persistent “Crybaby Bridge” legends. Locals call it Th...
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
In the winter of 1980, the forests of Suffolk became the center of one of the most documented and debated encounters in modern folklore. Known as the...
The Bell Island Hag (Newfoundland)
On a windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland, history and folklore blur until the land itself seems to breathe. Bell Island is a place shaped b...
Stony Hollow Road
A quiet stretch of road outside Burlington, Iowa carries a legend older than the pavement itself. What began as a tragic frontier tale shaped by dista...
The Mathias Ham House
On the banks of the Mississippi near Dubuque, an ambitious river man named Mathias Ham built a fortune, a reputation, and eventually a limestone mansi...
The Farrar Schoolhouse
A towering brick school in the middle of rural Iowa was built as a promise of progress... bigger classrooms, brighter lights, a future measured in squ...
The Squirrel Cage Prison
A 19th-century engineering marvel promised perfect efficiency and airtight security—by turning an entire jail into a rotating machine. Instead, it bec...
Edinburgh Manor
A failed courthouse dream on the Iowa prairie slowly transformed into an institution built to house society’s forgotten. Over decades, it became a sym...
The Origin of "Sleep Tight"
A simple bedtime phrase hides a surprisingly dark past. What sounds like a comforting wish for rest leads back through shifting language, forgotten fe...
Spring-Heeled Jack
In late-1700s London, panic spreads as a shadowy attacker becomes known as the London Monster... a very real threat that turns public fear into fashio...
The Beast of Busco
In the quiet farmland of Churubusco, Indiana, a small kettle lake became the center of national attention when locals claimed a giant prehistoric turt...
Whispers Estate
A quiet Victorian house in Mitchell, Indiana, carries a reputation far darker than its ornate woodwork suggests. Known as Whispers Estate, the home is...
Belle Gunness
A lonely Indiana farm becomes a legend factory: a “widow” with an ad in the paper, men who arrive with cash and vanish without a trace, and a fire tha...
The Bell Witch of Indiana
In Southern Indiana, a borrowed name takes on a life of its own. A “Bell Witch” isn’t a single entity here—it’s a label stapled to whatever refuses to...
Indiana's Central State Hospital
Three miles from downtown Indianapolis, a manicured “campus” hides a mass grave and a machine that once swallowed thousands of lives: Central State Ho...
The Tower of London
Behind the souvenir swords and ceremonial guards, the Tower of London is still what it has always been: a memory machine built from stone and blood.
Haunted American History YouTube - Greenwood Cemetery
The audio that I am sharing here comes from a location I visited and shot a video on for the Haunted American History YouTube Channel. I hope you all...
The Big Muddy Monster
A river doesn’t cleanse...it keeps.
In Southern Illinois, the Big Muddy has swallowed centuries of violence, folklore, and frontier rot… until t...
Resurrection Mary
After a night of dancing, a pale girl in a white dress asks for a ride home, then demands to be let out at the gates of Resurrection Cemetery… and van...
Piasa Bird
A Jesuit priest sees a masterpiece painted high on the Mississippi bluffs—an ancient guardian of the deep, watching the river like a warning.
Tw...
Iroquois Theatre Fire
Chicago built the Iroquois Theatre to prove the city could never burn again—“Absolutely Fireproof,” they promised.
On December 30, 1903, a spark...
Manteno Madness
In August 1939, Manteno State Hospital became a sealed ecosystem of heat, overcrowding, and contaminated water.
Typhoid spread through the wards...
Presenting "How Haunted?" - Dracula in Whitby
How Haunted? is a fortnightly paranormal podcast hosted by Rob Kirkup from the north east of England, who is a published author and ghost hunter, as w...
The Old Idaho Penitentiary
At the base of Table Rock in Boise stands a prison built from the very stone its inmates were forced to carve.
For more than a century, the Old...
Presenting - Disturb Me -Behind Closed Doors
In this episode of Disturb Me, Chris and Meg trade two stories that prove reality can be far more terrifying than fiction.
Chris dives into the...
Sharlie of Payette Lake
High in the mountains of Idaho, Payette Lake plunges nearly 400 feet into black, frozen water.
For centuries, locals and Indigenous tribes have...
The Massacre at Kealakekua Bay
In 1779, Captain James Cook arrived in Hawaiʻi during Makahiki—welcomed with a reverence that blurred the line between man and god. But when Cook retu...
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The Curse of Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th didn’t become a global fear by accident. It was built, myth by myth, headline by headline, until one perfectly timed disaster made it...
Altie: The Altamaha River Monster
Along Georgia’s Altamaha River, nicknamed the “Little Amazon”, locals have spent centuries whispering about a creature they call Altie.
From Ind...
Leo Frank & The Ghost of Mary Phagan
In 1913 Atlanta, a young factory girl is found dead in a basement... and two strange notes turn a murder into a legend.This episode traces the “Night...
Andersonville Prison
Andersonville was meant to be a prison camp. Instead, it became one of the deadliest places in American history.
In this episode, we uncover the...
The Sorrel-Weed House
The Sorrel-Weed House is one of the most haunted locations in Savannah, but the real story isn’t the one told on ghost tours. Beneath the legends of s...
Lake Lanier
Lake Lanier in Georgia isn’t just dangerous...it’s layered. A modern playground built over erased towns, buried roads, and missing graves. This episod...