Haunted American History

Presenting - Disturb Me -Behind Closed Doors

21 Jan 2026

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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 horrify...

Sharlie of Payette Lake

20 Jan 2026

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High in the mountains of Idaho, Payette Lake plunges nearly 400 feet into black, frozen water.For centuries, locals and Indigenous tribes have warned ...

The Massacre at Kealakekua Bay

19 Jan 2026

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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 r...

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12 Jan 2026

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Presenting - The Nightmare Collective - Extinct

11 Jan 2026

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Subscribe the The Nightmare Collective. New Original fiction coming in 2026.New Year. Nightmares. Wherever you get your podcastsWritten by Jon SaksEdi...

The Curse of Friday the 13th

10 Jan 2026

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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 i...

Altie: The Altamaha River Monster

09 Jan 2026

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Along Georgia’s Altamaha River, nicknamed the “Little Amazon”, locals have spent centuries whispering about a creature they call Altie.From Indi...

Leo Frank & The Ghost of Mary Phagan

08 Jan 2026

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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 “Nigh...

Andersonville Prison

07 Jan 2026

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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 horror...

The Sorrel-Weed House

06 Jan 2026

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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...

Lake Lanier

05 Jan 2026

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Lake Lanier in Georgia isn’t just dangerous...it’s layered. A modern playground built over erased towns, buried roads, and missing graves. This ep...

Knock on Wood

04 Jan 2026

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We knock on wood without thinking, but what if we’re answering something instead of protecting ourselves?This episode traces the unsettling origins ...

Step on a Crack

03 Jan 2026

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Step on a crack, break your mother’s back” sounds like a harmless playground rhyme... but it isn’t.In this episode, we dig into the unsettling f...

The Ghosts of Florida’s Theme Parks

02 Jan 2026

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When the guests go home and the music shuts off, the parks don’t feel magical—they feel industrial. In the dark catwalks of Pirates, Cast Members ...

The Florida Skunk Ape

01 Jan 2026

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In the swamps of Florida, something has been stealing food, stalking roads, and leaving behind a smell no one forgets. This episode explores the legen...

Chattahoochee Asylum

31 Dec 2025

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For nearly two centuries, a bluff overlooking the Apalachicola River has been used to hide the people society didn’t want to see. Fort, prison, asyl...

Dozier School for Boys

30 Dec 2025

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For more than a century, boys were sent to a reform school in Marianna, Florida. Many never came home. This episode explores the Florida State Reform ...

The Ghost of Bellamy Bridge

29 Dec 2025

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The Bellamy Bridge is said to be haunted by a burning bride, a woman in white searching the swamps of the Chipola River. But the real story behind Flo...

Old New Castle, Delaware

28 Dec 2025

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Old New Castle, Delaware, looks frozen in time... brick streets, colonial houses, and a charming waterfront. But behind the charm is a history full of...

The Addy Sea

27 Dec 2025

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Along the Delaware coast stands the Addy Sea, a Victorian inn built by a master plumber... and haunted, some say, by the machinery he left behind. Fro...

The Devil on the Nanticoke: Patty Cannon and the Reverse Underground Railroad

26 Dec 2025

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Patty Cannon remains one of the most notorious figures in Delaware folklore: a ruthless tavern keeper accused of kidnapping, murder, and running a “...

Krampus

25 Dec 2025

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Forget cozy Coca-Cola Santas, this is the original dark side of Christmas.In this episode, we dive into the terrifying folklore of Krampus, the horned...

The Phantom Coach: The Ghost of Christmas Eve

24 Dec 2025

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On a blinding winter night in 1860s England, a lost traveler stumbles upon a spectral mail coach, one doomed to repeat the moment of its destruction f...

The Selbyville Swamp Monster

23 Dec 2025

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On a lonely stretch of Route 54, the Great Cypress Swamp turns the Delaware–Maryland border into a wall of black water, twisted roots, and bad stori...

Fort Delaware

22 Dec 2025

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Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch Island in the middle of the Delaware River, was once one of the Civil War’s most notorious Union prison camps, and today...

The Grey Lady of Glamis Castle

21 Dec 2025

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Glamis Castle in Scotland is famous for its royal history, Shakespearean legends, and ghost stories, but none are more powerful than the tale of the G...

Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 8 - Winter Fire

20 Dec 2025

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In the finale of IT: Welcome to Derry, the guys dig into how unexpectedly emotional the ending turned out to be, from the weight of the opening scene ...

Sterling Opera House

19 Dec 2025

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The Sterling Opera House in Derby, Connecticut, is one of New England’s most haunted and historically complex buildings. Opened in 1889 as a grand c...

Dudleytown

18 Dec 2025

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Dudleytown is internet royalty in the world of haunted places. Search the name and you’ll find the “Village of the Damned,” a cursed valley wher...

The Glastonbury Glawackus

17 Dec 2025

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In the winter of 1939, something started screaming in the woods of South Glastonbury. Goats were ripped apart in their pens, dogs vanished from frozen...

The Moodus Noises

16 Dec 2025

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The people of East Haddam have lived with a problem most towns never have to think about: the ground itself screams. For centuries, residents around M...

The White Lady of Union Cemetery - Connecticut

15 Dec 2025

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The White Lady of Easton isn’t just a campfire tale. She steps into the road. She dents steel. And for some drivers on Route 59, she changes the col...

The White Lady of Borley Rectory

14 Dec 2025

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Borley Rectory in Essex has been called many things: England’s most haunted house, a Gothic tragedy come to life, a fraud, a furnace, and a mirror f...

Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 7 - The Black Spot

13 Dec 2025

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In this episode of the Haunted Review, the hosts delve into the seventh episode of IT: Welcome to Derry, titled 'The Black Spot.' The guys explore the...

The Black Forest & Lost in the Pine

12 Dec 2025

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In the early 1990s, the Lee family moved into their dream home deep in Colorado’s Black Forest, five acres of quiet, towering pines, and distance fr...

The Ghosts of Gold Camp Road

11 Dec 2025

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Gold Camp Road in Colorado Springs has a reputation that stretches far beyond its crumbling tunnels and red-dust switchbacks. Teenagers swear the ghos...

The Colorado Cannibal: The Truth of Alfred Packer

10 Dec 2025

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In the winter of 1874, six men entered the San Juan Mountains. Only one came out, well-fed, healthy, and carrying the belongings of the others. This i...

The Work of Ghouls: Denver's City of the Dead

09 Dec 2025

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Beneath the lawns of Cheesman Park and the winding paths of the Denver Botanic Gardens lies one of the darkest stories in Colorado history. In 1893, a...

The Silver Cliff Blue Lights

08 Dec 2025

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High in Colorado’s Wet Mountain Valley, a lonely cemetery glows with mysterious blue lights... dancing orbs that have baffled miners, teenagers, sci...

Remaster - Episode 1: The Runway Ghost

07 Dec 2025

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**A remaster of my very first episode, long overdue.**A newly hired air traffic controller experiences something that he has never forgotten. And neit...

Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 6 - In the name of the father

06 Dec 2025

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In this episode of Haunted Review - 'IT: Welcome to Derry', the focus is on generational trauma, particularly the struggles of fathers in the series. ...

The Fresno Nightcrawlers

05 Dec 2025

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A grainy security video. Two walking shapes. A mystery that refuses to die.This episode explores the origins, hoaxes, culture, and legacy of the Fresn...

Mount Shasta

04 Dec 2025

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A three-year-old boy vanishes at a campground beneath Mount Shasta, only to return with a story no one can explain. From indigenous creation myths to ...

The Bodie Curse

03 Dec 2025

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They say Bodie, California, isn’t just abandoned... It’s waiting.For over a century, visitors who pocketed so much as a pebble from this frozen-in...

The Dark Watchers of the Santa Lucia Mountains

02 Dec 2025

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In the rugged Santa Lucia Mountains of California, a shadow has a name. For centuries, hikers have reported being watched by tall, motionless figures ...

The Cecil Hotel

01 Dec 2025

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The Cecil Hotel has been called many things: The Suicide, a skid row flophouse, the inspiration for American Horror Story, and the site of Elisa Lam’...

Mothers of Port Arthur: The Grey Lady and the Lady in Blue

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Port Arthur was built to break men, but its most enduring ghosts are the women who watched. Today, we walk Civil Officers’ Row, peel back the polite...

Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 5 - 29 Neibolt Street

29 Nov 2025

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In this episode of Derry, the convergence of military and children's storylines reaches a pivotal moment at Neibolt Street. The episode explores chara...

Rock of Harmony

28 Nov 2025

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Fiction Friday!In the dying town of Harmony Creek, a strange stone appears overnight, one that hums, whispers, and seems to know exactly what people n...

Tales from Arkansas’ Haunted Triangle

27 Nov 2025

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In Saline County, a forgotten grave wakes to ask a single word: “Why?” At Lorance Creek and along a lonely stretch of Highway 365, Arkansas ghosts...

The Allen House & The People on Maple Court

26 Nov 2025

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Some houses hold on to their ghosts. Others hold on to their families. Today, we’re in Monticello for the tragic echoes of the Allen House, one of A...

Arkansas Cryptids

25 Nov 2025

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The water moves. The woods breathe. Arkansas remembers its monsters. hauntedamericanhistory.comBarnes and Noble -   https://www.barnesandnoble.com/...

The Crescent Hotel - Arkansas

24 Nov 2025

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In the Ozark hills, a hotel was built on healing...and fed on heartbreak. Long after the lights dimmed, the echoes remained. Some say the Crescent nev...

Baba Yaga - International Folklore

23 Nov 2025

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She flies in a mortar, sweeps away her tracks with a broom, and decides your fate with a single glance. In this international episode, we explore the ...

Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 4 - The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet's Function

22 Nov 2025

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This week, the guys talk about episode 4 of IT: Welcome to Derry, and the reception is lukewarm. The best of the episodes so far, but at what cost? C...

FEED

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They say the Superstition Mountains hold gold — but what if the real treasure was never meant to be found?In this story, a modern treasure hunter di...

The Pied Piper of Tucson

20 Nov 2025

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In 1960s Tucson, a five-foot-three man named Charles Schmid built himself out of tin cans, axle grease, and lies. He called himself “Smitty,” the ...

The Mogollon Monster

19 Nov 2025

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In the shadow of Arizona’s Mogollon Rim, the legend smells before it shows itself. A rancid stench, a woman’s scream in the dark, and a century of...

The Superstition Mountains

18 Nov 2025

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East of Phoenix, the desert rises in a wall of jagged stone—hostile, ancient, and hungry for stories. The Superstition Mountains have long been trea...

The Hotel Congress - Tucson, Arizona

17 Nov 2025

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In the heart of downtown Tucson stands the Hotel Congress, a place where history and hauntings walk the same halls. From the fire that nearly destroye...

Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3 - Now You See IT

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s Haunted Review, the gang dives into Episode 3 of Welcome to Derry… and absolutely nobody is happy about it. From baffling plot choi...

Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 2 - The Thing in the Dark

15 Nov 2025

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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,...

Winter's Embrace

14 Nov 2025

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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

13 Nov 2025

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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 tast...

The Haunting of Circle Hot Springs Resort

12 Nov 2025

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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 n...

Scary Mary – The Ghost of the Golden North Hotel

11 Nov 2025

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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 breathe…a...

The Red Onion Saloon – Alaska’s Most Haunted Brothel

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Skagway,...

Haunted Review - IT: Welcome to Derry - Episode 1 - The Pilot

09 Nov 2025

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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: W...

The Inspiration for IT: Welcome to Derry

08 Nov 2025

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Some monsters are an invention. The most terrifying ones... are curated.This episode explores the real folkloric etiology of the horror in It: Welcome...

The Alabama White Thang

07 Nov 2025

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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 ph...

The Birmingham Axe Murders

06 Nov 2025

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In the 1920s, Birmingham was known as “The Magic City.”Steel, smoke, opportunity—and something much darker.It began in a small corner store.Then...

The Face in the Window (Pickens County, Alabama)

05 Nov 2025

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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 often it...

The Unquiet Ghost of Gaineswood (Alabama’s Haunted Mansion)

04 Nov 2025

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In Demopolis, Alabama stands one of the most beautiful homes in the South: Gaineswood.A masterpiece of marble, music, and architectural perfection.But...

The Legend of Jeffery - Alabama's most famous ghost

03 Nov 2025

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Before Sloss Furnace or Dead Children’s Playground… Alabama had Jeffrey.Not a tragic spirit. Not a vengeful phantom.Just a mischievous ghost who m...

Presenting - SADISTIC - Beyond chapter 1

30 Oct 2025

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Part one of a ten-chapter story into the Beyond.Follow SADISTIC anywhere you listen to podcasts.Applehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sadistic/id...

The Occidental Hotel - Wyoming

27 Oct 2025

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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 ...

The Ridgeway Ghost- Wisconsin

23 Oct 2025

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On the lonely roads of Ridgeway, Wisconsin, drivers have reported chilling encounters for more than 150 years. A phantom figure—sometimes a man, som...

The Greenbrier Ghost - West Virginia

20 Oct 2025

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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

16 Oct 2025

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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...

Virginia - Grace Sherwood and the Ghosts of Abingdon

13 Oct 2025

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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

09 Oct 2025

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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

06 Oct 2025

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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 w...

Kay's Cross - Utah

29 Sep 2025

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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 ...

The Ghosts of Hastings College - Nebraska

22 Sep 2025

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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 an...

The Legend of La Chasse-Galerie

18 Sep 2025

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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 d...

Yorktown Memorial Hospital - Texas

15 Sep 2025

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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

01 Sep 2025

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Deep in Kingsport, Tennessee lies the Sensabaugh Tunnel, one of the state’s most infamous haunted sites. Locals whisper about eerie cries echoing th...

The Green Children of Woolpit

28 Aug 2025

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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

25 Aug 2025

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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

11 Aug 2025

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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 ...

The General Stanton Inn & Echoes in the Walls

28 Jul 2025

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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, sorr...

Pennsylvania - The Giwoggle

21 Jul 2025

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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 ho...

The Bandage Man of Cannon Beach, Oregon

14 Jul 2025

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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...

Update - 7/7/25

07 Jul 2025

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A quick update before I return to our regularly scheduled programming. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for infor...

Presenting "Disturb Me"

10 Jun 2025

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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

02 Jun 2025

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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

26 May 2025

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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. Bu...

Haunted Tales of North Dakota

20 May 2025

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Step into the shadows of North Dakota, where the past refuses to remain buried. In this episode, explore three ghostly tales: the sorrowful White Lad...

Presenting - Macabrium - The Murder Hole Room: Hauntings at Leap Castle, Part 1

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 “T...

North Carolina: The Boojum, Blackbeard, and the Choir of Lost Souls

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Deep within North Carolina's rugged mountains and misty shores, shadows whisper and legends refuse to die. Today, I explore three chilling tales: the...