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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 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 marriages…
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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 bizarre…
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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 listen for…
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The Phantom Railroad Lantern: Moonville Tunnel (Ohio)
Hidden deep within the forests of southeastern Ohio lies the abandoned railroad town of Moonville, a place where more than two dozen people lost their lives…
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The Stolen Finger Mystery: The Yeti (Himalayas)
For centuries, the towering peaks of the Himalayas have hidden stories of a mysterious wildman said to roam the snow. Western explorers called it the…
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The Monsters Beneath the Water: Devils Lake Legends (America)
What do a bottomless lake in Wisconsin, a flooded inland sea in North Dakota, and a coastal lagoon in Oregon have in common? According to local legends, all…
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The Empty Grave Mystery: Barbara Cotton (North Dakota)
On April 11, 1981, fifteen-year-old Barbara Cotton walked out of her home in Williston, North Dakota, and vanished without a trace. For decades, police…
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The Stairway to Hell Legend: The Ghost town of Tagus (North Dakota)
For decades, people have whispered that the abandoned ghost town of Tagus, North Dakota, hides a gateway to Hell beneath the ruins of a burned church. Stories…
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The Haunted Asylum on the Mountain: San Haven Sanatorium (North Dakota)
Hidden in the Turtle Mountains near the Canadian border sits the crumbling remains of San Haven, a place that began as a hopeful tuberculosis sanatorium and…
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The Screaming Woman of the Badlands: The Badlands Banshee (North Dakota)
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The Haunting of the Liberty Memorial Building: The Stack Monster (North Dakota)
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The Witch of the Underground Railroad: The Wake County Mill (North Carolina)
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The Ancient Appalachian Mystery: The Moon-Eyed People (North Carolina)
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The Blood-Draining Swamp Monster: The Beast of Bladenboro (North Carolina)
In the winter of 1954, the quiet town of Bladenboro, North Carolina, found itself under siege. Dogs, livestock, and family pets were discovered with crushed…
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The Bizarre Apparition & Legend of Craven Street Bridge (North Carolina)
On a humid summer night in Asheville, drivers crossing the Craven Street Bridge sometimes report an impossible sight... a naked boy sprinting beside their cars…
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The Ghost Ship Mystery of the Abandoned Carroll A. Deering (North Carolina)
On a freezing January morning in 1921, a massive five-masted schooner ran aground off the coast of North Carolina. Her sails were set. Her galley was warm…
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The Unexplained Ghost Lights & Mysteries of Brown Mountain (North Carolina)
For more than a century, mysterious glowing orbs have danced across the slopes of North Carolina's Brown Mountain. Scientists blamed trains, car headlights…
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The Murder Behind the Ballad: The Grim True Story of Tom Dooley (North Carolina)
Everyone knows the song. "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley" became one of the biggest folk hits in American history. But the real story behind the music is far…
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The Massive Silent Mass Sightings of the Hudson Valley UFO Wave
For nearly a decade, thousands of people across New York's Hudson Valley claimed they witnessed something impossible: enormous, silent, V-shaped craft drifting…
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The Sunken Ghost Mysteries & The Girl Beneath the Lake
In the summer of 1906, a young factory worker named Grace Brown disappeared during a romantic getaway to the Adirondacks with her secret lover, Chester…
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The Heartbreaking Search & Unsolved Case of Sara Anne Wood (New York True Crime)
On an ordinary summer afternoon in 1993, twelve-year-old Sara Anne Wood rode her turquoise bicycle home from Vacation Bible School and vanished without a…
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The Spirits & Haunted History of Beardslee Castle (New York)
Rising from the forests of upstate New York, Beardslee Castle looks like something torn from medieval Ireland. But behind its stone walls lies a history of…
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Champ: The Monster Beneath Lake Champlain (New York)
Beneath the calm waters of Lake Champlain lurks one of America's oldest and most enduring cryptids. For centuries, Indigenous tribes warned of a great serpent…
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The Legends & Ghosts of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (New York)
By day, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is one of America's most beautiful burial grounds. By night, it becomes something else entirely. Phantom horsemen, Revolutionary…
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The Forgotten Dead & Paranormal Echoes of Rolling Hills Asylum (New York)
For nearly 200 years, a lonely brick building in western New York has served as a poorhouse, asylum, infirmary, nursing home, and final resting place for…
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The Owlman of Cornwall: England’s Mothman Cryptid
In the spring of 1976, two young sisters exploring a churchyard in Cornwall claimed they encountered a towering feathered creature with glowing red eyes…
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The Unsolved Terror of the West Mesa Bone Collector (New Mexico True Crime)
On a cold February morning in 2009, a dog named Ruca uncovered a human bone in the New Mexico desert. What began as an ordinary walk would expose one of the…
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The Mining Disasters & Apparitions of Dawson Ghost Town (New Mexico)
A forgotten coal town buried in the mountains of New Mexico. Two of the deadliest mining disasters in American history. Hundreds of white iron crosses standing…
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The Wild West Ghosts of the Deadly St. James Hotel (New Mexico)
The St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico has hosted outlaws, gunfighters, gamblers, and legends of the Old West for nearly 150 years. With more than 20…
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The Haunted History of Madrid (New Mexico)
Madrid, New Mexico looks like a colorful artist town today, but beneath the galleries and cafes lies the haunted skeleton of an abandoned coal-mining…
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The Haunted Actor's Curse of the KiMo Theatre (New Mexico)
A child’s laugh echoes through an empty theater. Donuts are left as offerings backstage. Actors refuse to go on stage without paying tribute to a six-year-old…
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The History of the Cape May Concrete Ship (New Jersey)
A hundred and fifty feet off the shore of Cape May sits one of the strangest shipwrecks in America... a massive ocean-going vessel built not from steel, but…
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The Crime of the Century: The True Story of the Lindbergh Kidnapping (New Jersey)
On a freezing March night in 1932, someone climbed a homemade ladder into the nursery of America’s most famous family and stole Charles Lindbergh’s infant son…
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The Hunterdon County Poltergeist Murder: Cold Case True Crime (New Jersey)
Hunterdon County, New Jersey, looks like the kind of place where nothing bad could ever happen. Rolling farmland. Covered bridges. Quiet roads disappearing…
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The Black Flash of Cape May: New Jersey’s Stolen Cryptid
In the autumn of 1939, the isolated fishing town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, became gripped by terror. Children and adults alike reported encounters with a…
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The Revolutionary War Ghosts of The Proprietary House (New Jersey)
Behind the doors of New Jersey’s last surviving royal governor’s mansion, the past may still be alive. From the ghostly silhouette of Elizabeth Franklin…
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The Ghostly Hitchhiker & Urban Legends of Annie’s Road (New Jersey)
On a dark stretch of road beside the Passaic River in New Jersey, drivers have spent decades searching for the ghost of a girl named Annie. Some say she was…
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The Haunted Revolutionary War Spy House of Port Monmouth (New Jersey)
For decades, an old colonial house on the New Jersey shoreline was feared as one of the most haunted homes in America. Visitors claimed to see ghostly sea…
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The Violent History of the Smuttynose Island Murders (New Hampshire)
In March of 1873, a man rowed ten miles through the freezing Atlantic to a tiny island off the coast of New Hampshire with one goal: murder. In tonight’s…
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The Missing Route 112 Mystery: The Disappearance of Maura Murray (New Hampshire)
On a freezing February night in 2004, a young nursing student crashed her car on a dark New Hampshire backroad… and vanished before police arrived. In…
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The Landslide That Erased the Willey Family: White Mountains (New Hampshire)
In 1826, the Willey family fled their New Hampshire home during a catastrophic landslide in Crawford Notch, only for the mountain to spare the house completely…
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The Blue Lady Ghost & Paranormal Legends of Vale End Cemetery (New Hampshire)
Deep in the woods of Wilton, New Hampshire sits Vale End Cemetery, a graveyard tied to one of New England’s strangest paranormal legends. From the glowing…
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The Fatal Slopes & Cursed History of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington
High above the White Mountains of New Hampshire sits Mount Washington... a place where the weather kills, entire towns vanished into the forest, and something…
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The Revolutionary War Ghosts of the Staten Island Conference House (New York)
Discover the eerie history of Staten Island's Conference House, where the past meets the paranormal. Learn why this site is a must-visit for history buffs and…
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The Las Vegas Cold Case Solved: The Murder of Kim Bryant (Nevada True Crime)
For more than forty years, the murders of Kim Bryant and Diana Hanson haunted Las Vegas investigators. The killer vanished into ordinary life while the…
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The Cursed Las Vegas Strip: Ghosts of The Luxor Hotel and Casino (Nevada)
The Luxor Hotel and Casino was built to symbolize wonder... a massive black pyramid rising from the Las Vegas Strip with a beam of light so powerful it can be…
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Area 51 Secrets & UFO Lore: The Black Mailbox of Tikaboo Valley (Nevada)
Deep in the Nevada desert along the Extraterrestrial Highway sits one of the strangest landmarks in UFO history: the Black Mailbox. What began as an ordinary…
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The Haunted Rooms & Demonic Entity of the Goldfield Hotel (Nevada)
Rising from the Nevada desert like a monument to a forgotten world, the Goldfield Hotel has stood abandoned for decades… but many believe it was never truly…
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The Clown Motel & Ghost Stories of the Tonopah Cemetery (Nevada Wild West)
In the middle of the Nevada desert sits a motel unlike any other in America. The Clown Motel in Tonopah is packed wall-to-wall with thousands of clowns… and…
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The Haunted Saloons & Silver Boom Ghosts of Virginia City (Nevada)
Beneath the boardwalks of Virginia City lies a maze of abandoned mine tunnels where thousands chased silver...and many never came back out. From phantom miners…
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The Killing Spree of Charlie Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate (Nebraska)
In 1958, a quiet Nebraska neighborhood hid a horrifying secret behind a simple note: “Everyone is sick with the flu.” What police uncovered would shatter the…
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The Spirits of the Historic Argo Hotel (Nebraska)
The Argo Hotel was built to welcome travelers, but over time, some guests never left. From sealed-off floors to bones hidden in the walls, this historic…
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The Cursed Cries & Tragic Folklore of Blackbird Hill (Nebraska)
Blackbird Hill rises quietly above the Missouri River, but beneath that calm view lies a history of poisoned power, violent betrayal, and a scream that some…
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The Albinos, Cults, and Urban Legends of Omaha’s Hummel Park (Nebraska)
On the edge of Omaha sits a park known for its beauty… and everything people say waits there after dark. Stories of shifting staircases. Figures in the trees…
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Inside America's Most Haunted Museum: The Museum of Shadows (Nebraska)
Hidden inside an unassuming building in the Midwest is a collection of objects people were too afraid to keep in their own homes. Dolls that move. Voices that…
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The Deep Water Monster Cryptid: The Alkali Lake Monster (Nebraska)
In 1923, something massive rose from a shallow lake in the Nebraska Sandhills, forty feet long, horned, and impossible to explain. What followed turned a quiet…
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The Cursed Hanging Trees & Urban Legends of Seven Sisters Road (Nebraska)
Just outside Nebraska City, there’s a stretch of gravel known as Seven Sisters Road—a place where cars stall, headlights dim, and something in the dark doesn’t…
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Jack the Ripper: The Unsolved London Serial Killer Mystery
In 1888, the streets of Whitechapel became the hunting ground for the most infamous killer in history. Five women were murdered, a city descended into panic…
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The Missoula Mauler: The True Crime Story of the Wayne Nance Murders (Montana)
In 1986, a man pulled onto his boss’s lawn in Missoula, Montana—slumped over the wheel, claiming he had just fought off an intruder. He wasn’t a victim. He was…
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The Flying Cryptid: The McCone County Creature (Montana)
In the wide, exposed emptiness of Montana, the danger isn’t always what you can see. For centuries, tribes across the plains told stories about something that…