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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The Alkali Lake Monster
In 1923, something massive rose from a shallow lake in the Nebraska Sandhills, forty feet long, horned, and impossible to explain.
What followed...
Seven Sisters Road
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 dar...
Jack the Ripper
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...
The Wayne Nance Murders
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...
McCone County Creature
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...
Western Heritage Center - Billings, Montana
In Billings, Montana, a historic library built as a monument to a dead son still holds onto something it was never meant to keep.
Footprints app...
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art
In Great Falls, Montana, a former high school turned art museum carries more than just history within its sandstone walls. Late at night, music echoes...
The Kempton Hotel
In the quiet town of Terry, Montana, the Kempton Hotel has welcomed guests for over a century, but some of them never checked out. From a nurse who st...
Butte Montana
In 1917, a single flame ignited one of the deadliest mining disasters in American history deep beneath Butte, Montana. But long after the fire burned...
The WOW! Signal
In 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio picked up a signal that shouldn’t have existed...perfectly structured, incredibly powerful, and lasting just long e...
Bissell Mansion
Perched above the Mississippi River in North St. Louis, the Bissell Mansion has stood for over two centuries...but it has never been empty. Contractor...
The Town That Got Away with Murder
In 1981, the town of Skidmore, Missouri did something almost unthinkable. In broad daylight, with dozens of witnesses standing just feet away, a man w...
Missouri Scream Phenomenon
In the summer of 1972, a quiet Missouri river town became the center of something no one could explain. It started with a single sighting but it didn’...
Landers Theatre Ghost Stories
Behind the curtain of the Landers Theatre, the performance may never truly end. Staff and actors describe figures in the balcony, footsteps on empty s...
Missouri State Penitentiary
Once called the “bloodiest 47 acres in America,” the Missouri State Penitentiary held more than inmates... it held riots, executions, and generations...
Elms Hotel Hauntings
A luxury resort built on healing waters, burned to the ground—twice—without claiming a single life. Rebuilt to stand forever, the Elms Hotel now carri...
Mr. Cruel
In late-1980s Melbourne, a man moved through suburban homes with calculated precision, controlling entire families, vanishing without a trace, and lea...
The Coleman Murders
In 1978, a quiet night inside a Jackson, Mississippi home turned into something far more calculated than a moment of violence. As one family’s tragedy...
The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula
In the blackout darkness of 1942 Mississippi, someone was slipping into homes without a sound, leaving no sign of forced entry, no stolen valuables… j...
Longwood Mansion
In Natchez, Mississippi, a mansion built to defy tradition was never finished. Frozen in time by the outbreak of the Civil War, Longwood still holds t...
Mississippi Delta Icebox Murders
In the heat of the 1930s Mississippi Delta, an everyday object meant to preserve life became something far more unsettling. From brutal crimes to unex...
Pascagoula River Encounter
On a quiet October night in 1973, two shipyard workers fishing along the Pascagoula River encountered something that shouldn’t have been there...stran...
McRaven House -Vicksburg, Mississippi
At McRaven House in Vicksburg, Mississippi, history wasn’t built all at once—it was layered.
A highwayman’s hideout. A childbirth that ended in...
The Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle has been called many things...a graveyard, a vortex, a place where ships and planes simply vanish.
But what if the mystery...
The Weepy-Voiced Killer
In the early 1980s, a man in Minneapolis began calling the police after his own attacks, his voice shaking, almost pleading, as he described what he h...
Calvary Cemetery
When St. Cloud State University began building a new library, they expected to find dirt and stone.
Instead, they found graves.
Not one or...
The Minnesota Iceman
In 1968, a sideshow attraction promised something impossible—a frozen “missing link” displayed in a block of ice.
Most people assumed it was a h...
The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson
On a quiet Minnesota back road, a college student gets stuck in a ditch.
It’s not a crisis. He calls his parents. He’s calm. He’s talking. He ca...
The Wabasha Street Caves
Beneath the streets of Saint Paul, the city doesn’t just go quiet...It changes.
The temperature never shifts. The air never moves. And down ther...
Palmer House Hotel
A locked hotel. An empty room.
And a man who orders a drink… even though he was never checked in.
At the Palmer House in Sauk Centre, Minn...
Last Meals -Lawrence Russell Brewer
A man orders one of the most excessive last meals in modern history.
Steak. Barbecue. Pizza. Ice cream. Enough food to feed a table, not a perso...
The Michigan Dogman
In the forests of Michigan, there’s a legend that doesn’t behave like other stories.
It follows a pattern.
Sightings that repeat every ten...
Hell's Bridge
Tucked deep in the woods of Michigan, there’s a bridge that shouldn’t be anything more than a quiet crossing over water.
But people don’t go the...
Eloise Asylum
Once a self-contained city with over 10,000 residents, Eloise was built to house the poor, the sick, and the forgotten.
Over more than a century...
Henderson Castle Haunting
Henderson Castle was built as a symbol of wealth and permanence...something meant to outlast the man who created it.
More than a century later,...
The Ypsilanti Ripper
In the late 1960s, a serial killer hunted college towns in Michigan, targeting young women who trusted the people around them.
For two years, fe...
The Edmund Fitzgerald & Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes
At the bottom of the Great Lakes, the dead don’t disappear.
They stay exactly where they were left.
Perfectly preserved. Suspended in the...
Freetown Forest
In the woods of southeastern Massachusetts, history doesn’t sit quietly. It lingers, in stories of vanished artifacts, small figures in the trees, une...
What happened to Karina Holmer?
On the longest day of the year, a Swedish au pair disappeared from a crowded Boston nightclub. Thirty-two hours later, only part of her was found—clea...
S.K. Pierce Mansion
A mansion built at the height of industrial success becomes something else entirely over time, shaped by loss, decay, and decades of people passing th...