Haunted American History
Episodes
The Allagash Alien Abduction
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Deep in the Maine North Woods in 1976, four young men paddling through that same remote landscape claimed they encountered something even stranger: a ...
Colonel Buck's Tomb
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Bucksport, Maine, a dark stain on a granite monument has inspired one of New England’s strangest legends. Some call it the mark of a witch’s cu...
Seguin Island Lighthouse - Maine
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On a fog-shrouded rock off the coast of Maine stands Seguin Island, a lonely lighthouse with a haunting reputation. Sailors say that on quiet nights, ...
Project: Frontier - Chapter 3
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter 3 In the near future, reality is boring, and the "OmniNet" is everything. The Aether Dynamics corporation runs the world. But rendering photor...
Project: Frontier - Chapter 2
07 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter 2 In the near future, reality is boring, and the "OmniNet" is everything. The Aether Dynamics corporation runs the world. But rendering pho...
The Curse of Julia Brown
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1915, a tiny German-Creole rail town in the Manchac Swamp buried its beloved healer, Julia Brown, “Aunt Julie,” the woman who sang a warning li...
North Rampart Street Murder House
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After Katrina, the French Quarter kept breathing, but not everyone inside it did. At a quiet corner on North Rampart Street, a building the WPA once c...
The LaLaurie Horror House
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A house can be rebuilt. A reputation can’t. On a corner in the French Quarter, 1140 Royal Street sits like a beautiful lie—an elegant façade wrap...
The Myrtles Plantation
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In St. Francisville, Louisiana, a plantation house stands layered with story. Over two centuries, tragedy, rumor, and reinvention have turned the Myrt...
The Axeman of New Orleans
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A city on edge. A killer with a stranger’s axe. A letter that turned a massacre into a party. In the spring of 1919, the Axeman of New Orleans gave ...
Project: Frontier - Chapter 1
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is an original story that I have been working on for a while. A little out of the norm. I hope you guys enjoy it. In the near future, reality is ...
The Devil Made Me Do It
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1981, Brookfield, Connecticut, logged its first homicide in nearly two centuries—when 19-year-old Arne Johnson stabbed his landlord, then claimed...
The Logan County Witch Trial
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the late-1700s Kentucky frontier, Logan County was so lawless it earned names like “Rogues Harbor” and “Devil’s Den.” But when settlers f...
The Murder of Pearl Bryan
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the winter of 1896, a headless body was found in a Kentucky field. What solved the mystery wasn’t a confession or a face, but a pair of custom-ma...
The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In August of 1955, a farmhouse outside Hopkinsville, Kentucky, became the center of a four-hour siege. Eleven people claimed small metallic beings sur...
Sleepy Hollow Road
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A winding two-mile road in Oldham County carries more than traffic. Beneath its tight curves and suffocating canopy lie abandoned estates, moral panic...
The Pope Lick Monster - Kentucky
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A rusted railroad trestle rises above a quiet Kentucky creek. For generations, locals have warned of a monster who calls it home, a horned figure said...
The Forgotten Borough - Chapter 2
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I am sharing Chapter 2 of my debut novel, The Forgotten Borough. LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL, THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH AMAZON: https://www.amazon.c...
The Forgotten Borough - Chapter 1
21 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, buffa...
The Brown Grand Theatre
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Twelve miles north of Wichita, a small bridge over Jester Creek has become one of Kansas’s most persistent “Crybaby Bridge” legends. Locals call...
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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)
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A 19th-century engineering marvel promised perfect efficiency and airtight security—by turning an entire jail into a rotating machine. Instead, it b...
Edinburgh Manor
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A failed courthouse dream on the Iowa prairie slowly transformed into an institution built to house society’s forgotten. Over decades, it became a s...
The Origin of "Sleep Tight"
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Bell Witch of Indiana
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Indiana's Central State Hospital
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Three miles from downtown Indianapolis, a manicured “campus” hides a mass grave and a machine that once swallowed thousands of lives: Central Stat...
The Tower of London
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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.Fr...
Haunted American History YouTube - Greenwood Cemetery
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A river doesn’t cleanse...it keeps.In Southern Illinois, the Big Muddy has swallowed centuries of violence, folklore, and frontier rot… until the ...
Resurrection Mary
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 v...
Piasa Bird
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A Jesuit priest sees a masterpiece painted high on the Mississippi bluffs—an ancient guardian of the deep, watching the river like a warning.Two cen...
Iroquois Theatre Fire
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1939, Manteno State Hospital became a sealed ecosystem of heat, overcrowding, and contaminated water.Typhoid spread through the wards like a...
Presenting "How Haunted?" - Dracula in Whitby
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Idaho P...
Presenting - Disturb Me -Behind Closed Doors
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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Presenting - The Nightmare Collective - Extinct
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
**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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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...