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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.
Episodes
- Haunted American History
The Monster the Internet Invented: The Grootslang (South Africa)
For centuries, people living along South Africa's Orange River warned of something enormous beneath the water: a serpent capable of taking livestock…
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The Plane That Flew Into the Dark: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 departed Kuala Lumpur carrying 239 people and disappeared. But the aircraft didn't simply vanish. Military radar…
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The Abduction That Changed America: Amber Hagerman (Texas)
On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was riding her pink bicycle through an abandoned grocery-store parking lot in Arlington, Texas, when a black…
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The Alien Buried in a Texas Cemetery: The Aurora UFO Crash (Texas)
In 1897, a mysterious silver airship allegedly limped across the sky above Aurora, Texas, smashed into a judge's windmill, and exploded. Townspeople searching…
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The Rope That Held: St. Mary's Orphan Asylum (Texas)
In September 1900, ten nuns and ninety-three children were trapped inside an orphanage on the exposed western edge of Galveston Island as a Category 4…
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The Woman They Turned Into a Monster: The Donkey Lady (Texas)
For generations, San Antonio teenagers have driven to an old bridge after dark, killed their headlights, and honked into the trees. According to legend…
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The Hotel Where Everybody Stays: The Menger Hotel (Texas)
Two hundred feet from the Alamo stands a hotel that has never closed its doors. Presidents slept there. Theodore Roosevelt recruited the Rough Riders from its…
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The Pirate Signal That Took Over Chicago: The Max Headroom Incident (Illinois)
On November 22, 1987, Chicago sportscaster Dan Roan was recapping a Bears game when WGN suddenly went black. Fifteen seconds later, millions of viewers were…
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The Castle With Bodies Beneath the Floor: Leap Castle (Ireland)
In the 1920s, workers clearing a hidden dungeon beneath an Irish castle discovered so many human bones they needed horse carts to remove them. An estimated 150…
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The Disappearance of Tabitha Tuders — 2003, East Nashville (Tennessee)
On the morning of April 29, 2003, thirteen-year-old Tabitha Tuders left her East Nashville home carrying a report card filled with straight A's. Her bus stop…
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The Cemetery Where Nobody Stays Buried: Nashville City Cemetery (Tennessee)
Nashville City Cemetery holds roughly 22,000 people—and apparently Nashville has never been particularly good at leaving them where they were buried. Civil War…
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The Ghost Who Runs Her Mansion: Belmont Mansion (Tennessee)
In 1846, the body of one of America's wealthiest slave traders traveled 800 miles up the Mississippi inside a barrel of whiskey. Waiting for him in Tennessee…
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Two-Hundred Yards From Home: The Carter House (Tennessee)
In Franklin, Tennessee, a small piece of lead sits behind glass. A surgeon removed it from the skull of Tod Carter, a Confederate soldier who survived…
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The Footsteps Behind You: Pitty Pat Hollow (Tennessee)
For more than a century, people in a dark Tennessee hollow have told stories about something that follows travelers after sunset. You hear soft footsteps…
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The Monster Beneath the Pacific: The Bloop (Pacific Ocean)
In 1997, underwater microphones operated by the U.S. government detected something extraordinary in the South Pacific: a sound powerful enough to register on…
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The Sound That Nobody Can Find: The Bristol Hum (England)
For fifty years, people across Bristol, England have reported the same impossible sound: a low, relentless drone like a diesel engine idling somewhere in the…
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The Girl Who Vanished: Serenity Dennard (South Dakota)
On a freezing Sunday morning in 2019, nine-year-old Serenity Dennard ran out of a children's treatment facility in South Dakota's Black Hills. A witness…
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The Haunted Fortress: South Dakota State Penitentiary (South Dakota)
For more than 140 years, a pink quartzite fortress known simply as The Hill has loomed over Sioux Falls. Its walls have witnessed riots, murders, executions…
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The Canyon That Swallows Everything: Spearfish Canyon (South Dakota)
Spearfish Canyon has a habit of swallowing things. In 1887, a farmer discovered a stone supposedly containing the final words of a prospector who vanished into…
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The Most Haunted Town in the Wild West: Deadwood (South Dakota)
Deadwood, South Dakota, was never supposed to exist. Built illegally on land guaranteed to the Lakota, the gold-rush town exploded into a lawless maze of…
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The Hotel That Kept a Record of Its Ghosts: Hotel Alex Johnson (South Dakota)
For nearly a century, the Hotel Alex Johnson has towered over downtown Rapid City, hosting presidents, Hollywood stars, and generations of travelers. But some…
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The Millennium Falcon Beneath the Sea: The Baltic Sea Anomaly (Baltic Sea)
In 2011, a pair of Swedish treasure hunters scanned the floor of the Baltic Sea with a $1,900 sonar system—and accidentally ignited one of the biggest…
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The Desert That Never Forgets: The Nazca Lines (Peru)
Stretching across the Peruvian desert are thousands of enormous lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures so vast they can only truly be appreciated from the…
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The Devil in Petticoats: Becky Cotton (South Carolina)
In 1807, a woman stood laughing on the courthouse steps in Edgefield, South Carolina. Moments later, her own brother walked across the square, picked up a…
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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 gutters…
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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 those…
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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 its famous…
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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…
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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 a young…
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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 skull…
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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 full of…
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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 Ladd School…
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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 leave his…
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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 ever being…
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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 Warrens…
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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 ghostly…
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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. Powwowers cast…
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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 shadow…
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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 vacant…
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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 armies…
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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, steals…
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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 was here…
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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. Then dozens…
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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. Medical…
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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 beyond the…
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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…
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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, when it…
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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 about…
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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 be…
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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 saint's…
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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 funeral home…
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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…
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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 almost…
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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 ground of a…
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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 speak of a…
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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 NBA…
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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 why?…
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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. From the…
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Haunted American History Trailer
A daily campfire-style podcast blending American history, folklore, and true crime. What scares you? Let’s find out. YouTube -…
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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. The…