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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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Project: Frontier - Chapter 5
Chapter 5
In the near future, reality is boring, and the "OmniNet" is everything. The Aether Dynamics corporation runs the world. But rendering...
Project: Frontier - Chapter 4
Chapter 4
In the near future, reality is boring, and the "OmniNet" is everything. The Aether Dynamics corporation runs the world. But rendering...
Ghosts of Fort Knox
Built to defend Maine from an invasion that never came, Fort Knox became a granite monument to fear, pride, and a war that had already passed it by. B...
Goody Cole and the Witches of York
Long before Salem, the town of Hampton had already chosen its witch. Accused, imprisoned, staked through the heart, and denied peace even in death, Eu...
The Allagash Alien Abduction
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
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 curse,...
Seguin Island Lighthouse - Maine
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
Chapter 3
In the near future, reality is boring, and the "OmniNet" is everything. The Aether Dynamics corporation runs the world. But rendering...
Project: Frontier - Chapter 2
Chapter 2
In the near future, reality is boring, and the "OmniNet" is everything. The Aether Dynamics corporation runs the world. But re...
The Curse of Julia Brown
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 like a...
North Rampart Street Murder House
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
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 wrapped a...
The Myrtles Plantation
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
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 th...
Project: Frontier - Chapter 1
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, reali...
The Devil Made Me Do It
In 1981, Brookfield, Connecticut, logged its first homicide in nearly two centuries—when 19-year-old Arne Johnson stabbed his landlord, then claimed t...
The Logan County Witch Trial
On the late-1700s Kentucky frontier, Logan County was so lawless it earned names like “Rogues Harbor” and “Devil’s Den.” But when settlers finally tri...
The Murder of Pearl Bryan
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-made...
The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
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
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
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
Today, I am sharing Chapter 2 of my debut novel, The Forgotten Borough.
LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL, THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH
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The Forgotten Borough - Chapter 1
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
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, buffalo...
The Brown Grand Theatre
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
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
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
Twelve miles north of Wichita, a small bridge over Jester Creek has become one of Kansas’s most persistent “Crybaby Bridge” legends. Locals call it Th...
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
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)
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
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
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
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
A 19th-century engineering marvel promised perfect efficiency and airtight security—by turning an entire jail into a rotating machine. Instead, it bec...
Edinburgh Manor
A failed courthouse dream on the Iowa prairie slowly transformed into an institution built to house society’s forgotten. Over decades, it became a sym...
The Origin of "Sleep Tight"
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
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
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
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
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 tha...