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It was June 6, 1980, in the normally quiet suburb of Libertyville, Illinois. Located in the heart of Lake County, it was one of the most affluent communities surrounding Chicago. The residents of Libertyville weren’t accustomed to violent crime – those kinds of things don’t happen here, they’d often say. Until they do.

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A nightly ritual that was decades old on a night in August 1932 would come to a sudden and shocking end, while the legend of the "Wild Man and the Goat Woman" were just beginning.

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The smell was overwhelming on that July day in 1968 as Monnie Bliss approached the cabin that his father Chauncey had built years earlier near the community of Good Hart, on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan’s Northwest Coast. And the murders that ended up being discovered in the strange cabin in the woods would be a mystery that has yet to solved.

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January in Chicago was always brutal. The winter of 1946 was no different. Three murders with one kidnapping in the same area. Were they all the work of one killer? Or was an "innocent" man put away for life while a more brutal killer was still on the loose, living amongst us...?

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There’s a house just outside the town of Ocklawaha, Florida, that stands as one of the most infamous locations in America’s gangland history. It was at this house where the last stand of the Barker gang took place and where Ma Barker and her son, Fred, battled it out with G-men before being shot to death. The violent and blood-soaked battle occurred many decades ago but there are many who believe it’s not quite over for the spirits that still linger behind these walls.

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There was nothing unusual about that Easter Sunday in 1975.

“How’s your Volkswagen, Jimmie?” Leonard asked him.

James didn’t speak. He answered the question by shooting his brother, setting off a spiral of violence and rage that ended as the deadliest shooting spree to ever occur in a private home in America’s bloody history.

One that left a grim and troubling haunting behind.

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On a windy hill near the small Southern Illinois town of Equality is a decaying mansion that was known for decades as the region’s most haunted house. It was a place dubbed Hickory Hill by its builder and over the years, it’s been many things – a plantation house, farmhouse, a tourist attraction, and many believe, a chamber of horrors for men and women brought to this house in chains. Thanks to the long-standing legend of the terrible things that occurred in the house, locals eventually began referring to it as “The Old Slave House.”

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Hidden away in the deep, dark woods of the Chattahoochee National Forest was once an isolated mansion that was the object of terror to most of the people who lived in the small town of Summerville, Georgia.

A terror that lingers to this day.

It was on the chilly night of December 12 that year that a secluded house became a place of torture and bloodshed.

The name of the house – Corpsewood Manor – seems like something right out of a horror novel, but on that dark night, the terror was unbelievably real.

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Introducing the NEW season of DEAD MEN DO TELL TALES, a special spin-off series of the American Hauntings Podcast! With each season of the series, we delve into a single story from the dark side of American history -- except this time.

In season 4, called DEPRAVED, we’ll actually be delving into two stories at the same time. One will be the true story of the Wisconsin monster, Ed Gein, and the other will be the story behind the making of a film based on his crimes, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE – which became its own special kind of hell.

You can get every episode of DEPRAVED by becoming a Patreon supporter of American Hauntings, so see the link below and check out the new season -- if you dare!

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Also: YOUR messages from the "Haunt Line" and YOUR ghost stories from Dead of Winter 2024!

LIVE from Dead of Winter 2024!

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The Myrtles Plantation, located in the small town of Saint Francisville, Louisiana holds the rather dubious record of hosting more ghostly phenomena than just about any other house in the country. But what could be more dubious than the honor itself?

Well, that would be the questionable history that's long been presented to explain why the house is so haunted in the first place. 

Known for decades as one of the most haunted houses in America, the Myrtles attracts an almost endless stream of visitors each year, many of whom come searching for ghosts -- and there seems to be little doubt that the house is haunted. It's the reason for the haunting that's been called into question. For several generations, tales have been told that are blatantly false. However, the Myrtles, according to hundreds of people who've encountered the resident spirits, is indeed haunted, just not for the reasons we've been told.

A simple check of historical records reveals the true story, which you're just about to hear. As is often the case, the true story is not as sensational as the story everyone, including myself, grew up with. But it's still strange and macabre. The history of the plantation is filled with death, tragedy, and despair, which leads us to wonder why the fanciful history was created in the first place.

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In this special bonus episode, Troy Taylor introduces his upcoming book, UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, with the chilling tale of "The Wife Who Lost Her Head. After a headless body is found alongside a California highway, the police start search looking through missing person's reports in hopes of learning her identity -- only to find the only woman missing who matched the description of the corpse was the wife of one of their own!

UNTIL DEATH DO US PART is Troy Taylor's American history of love, murder, and insanity with stories of murderous couples, violent ends, “lonely hearts killers,” monsters, ghosts, “black widows,” “bluebeards,” obsessed stalkers, meat cleaver waving madwomen, and a lot more!

The new book is out on February 10 at our annual Dead of Winter food drive at the Mineral Springs in Alton, Illinois, or you can order autographed copies online starting February 12!

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Introducing Season 8 of the American Hauntings Podcast, which goes in search of America's Murder Houses, where the spirits of the past still linger behind. In this season, we’ll be taking you behind the locked doors of both famous and little-known places, where murder, violence, and brutal events occurred and have left a mark on the house as a haunting.

We'll have at least 23 murder houses on our list – each with its own unique story of homicide, horror, and a haunting. This will be the most gruesome and ghost-filled season of the podcast so far and we’re excited to take you on a coast-to-coast journey in search of the true stories that crime has left behind. 

You are not going to want to miss a single episode because there’s never going to be any way for you to know just what door we’ll be unlocking next. 

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Hey, it's bonus episode that takes listeners back a couple of years to our season on the Villisca Ax Murders and explores the serial killer that Troy believes committed the murders in Iowa, as well as five other towns across the Midwest. But this episode is a little different since we'll also take a look at the grim anniversary of the Newton Murders in Massachusetts, that other authors believe may be linked to Villisca. What do you think? Listen to his bonus show and delve into the stories!

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Throughout the past year, we’ve introduced you to a very strange collection of stories about people who have gone missing – disappeared without a trace, never to return. But as an end of the year "thank you" for all the great feedback, story ideas, texts, emails, and support that we’ve gotten from you this season, we wanted to offer you one last story.

We’ll warn you though – this isn’t your typical missing person story. This one has a bit of a twist, which is why I wanted to save it to the very end.

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Join Troy for a countdown of the best horror films of 2023 - a recording of a Facebook Live event on December 20. Find out what scared us the most in 2023 and what movies you need to look out for -- and avoid -- during the spooky winter days ahead!

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Of all the stories that we have featured during this season of the podcast, this one may be one of the strangest. It’s a story of holiday heartbreak and tragedy and of five children who went missing from their West Virginia home on a cold December night.

Or is it?

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Someone who was watching the KIMT-TV news on the morning of June 27, 1995, might have noticed that the popular anchor Jodi Huisentruit wasn’t behind the news desk that day but they might not have thought much about it. They had no idea that anything strange was happening...

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This will not be the last episode to feature a missing child – or missing children, in this case, teenagers – this season, but these stories are two of the most heartbreaking, so get ready for another tough one.

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This Halloween Season, we are discussing our favorite Road Trip Horror Movies, including:

• Joy Ride (2001)
• Duel (1971)
• Vacancy (2007)
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
• Wrong Turn (2003)
• House of Wax (2005)
• The Houses October Built (2014)
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
• Race With The Devil (1975)
• Jeepers Creepers (2001)
• The Hitcher (1968)
• & more!

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It was on June 6 of that year when two Missouri teenagers and one of their mothers vanished without a trace after a graduation ceremony and have never been seen again. There was no valid reason for the three of them to disappear. They weren’t running from anything or looking for a new life. They’d just celebrated the event of a lifetime and had everything to live for.

So, where did the three of them go? And why have they never been found? We don’t know. The shocking and tragic events of graduation night have created a haunting mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

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On March 10, 1928, Los Angeles mother Christine Collins was faced with every parent’s worst fear – the disappearance of her child. Her son, Walter, vanished that afternoon.

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On March 24, 1998, a young woman named Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship while it was on its way to Curacao. Cruises seem to be an escape from reality, but crime happens on board, too. Most reported crimes are, unfortunately, sexual assaults but other things can happen, just like anywhere when you put that many people into one confined space.

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When the Jamison family of Eufala, Oklahoma, vanished in October 2009, it got the attention of the entire country. They seemingly disappeared without a trace one night, which was strange enough, but the story that led up to their disappearance was outright bizarre. 

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Much has changed at the Mineral Springs since it opened more than a century ago, but if you stand in the lobby – when the lighting is just right – you almost expect to see guests in old-fashioned clothing as they hurry past on their way to a mineral cure or to have a cocktail in the hotel bar.

And if the stories are true – they still do. 

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This is not an easy story to tell. It has a lot of twists, turns, and subplots and, as we mentioned last week, even a connection to several other cases in the Chicago area around this same time. Here is the story of Helen Brach.

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Every town has a story like the one you just heard. Some places, like Alton, have more than one. Most people dismiss stories like that as nothing more than folklore – a tale to be told around the campfire – but I can’t help but wonder how some of these stories got started in the first place...

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On a hot, sunny, summer Saturday, three young women in bathing suits left all their belongings on a crowded beach and climbed aboard a motorboat on Lake Michigan. They were never seen again.

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In this episode, Troy introduces three haunted houses in town. Although this hardly scratches the surface of the number of local haunts he has uncovered over more than two decades of research into Alton’s history and hauntings, these happened to be his favorites – two of which are still standing. 

Join us in this special 10-episode "on the side" season as we revisit new and updated stories from our very first season of the podcast on Alton, Illinois, based on the new edition of HAUNTED ALTON by Troy Taylor, available below.

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A young woman will always remember her wedding day. Unfortunately for newlywed Mary Shotwell Little, after having dinner with her friend at the Lenox Square Shopping Center in Atlanta, Georgia, Mary vanished without a trace.

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This is a sneak peak of our Patreon-only series "Sinister: The True Story of H. H. Holmes." If you like what you hear, subscribe for more episodes at https://www.patreon.com/americanhauntings

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In this episode, we introduce you to Alton’s OTHER ladies in black, whose reason for remaining behind may not be quite as charitable as the Olin Lady in Black, who warned factory workers of possible death in the early part of the twentieth century. 

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On the evening of March 5, 1957, William and Margaret Patterson left their home at 3000 Piedmont Drive in El Paso, Texas, and vanished without a trace, leaving everything they owned behind. But the more the police learned, the stranger the story became.

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It is safe to say there are two things that Alton loves – booze and ghosts. And in this special episode, we’ll introduce you to a couple of places that have both. Head downtown with us as we explore some stories you might know- and many that you probably don't.

Join us in this special 10-episode "on the side" season as we revisit new and updated stories from our very first season of the podcast on Alton, Illinois, based on the new edition of HAUNTED ALTON by Troy Taylor, available below.

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“The call is coming from inside the house.” 

That’s the line that always gets us – it’s a line from one of the most popular urban legends of all time. But what if I told you that’s not just an urban legend? And what if I told you that it’s based on a real story about a murdered babysitter in 1950? A murder that’s never been solved?

This is the story of Evelyn Hartley.

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, Alton was actually the largest town in the state of Illinois. The town was billed as the “most desirable place to live on the east side of the Mississippi River,” St. Louis began to be referred to – much to the dismay of its political and business leaders – as “the little town downriver from Alton.” There are three industries in the area linked to ghostly tales from Alton’s past. We’re going to explore two of them today.

Join us in this special 10-episode "on the side" season as we revisit new and updated stories from our very first season of the podcast on Alton, Illinois, based on the new edition of HAUNTED ALTON by Troy Taylor, available below.

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In the summer of 1951, Beverly Potts was just 10 years old. When the Showagon came through Cleveland, Ohio in August 1951, she was ecstatic to go there alone and her mother reluctantly agreed- as long as she was home before dark. Beverly assured her that she’d be careful. That became the last promise that she ever made to her mother.

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In 1833, construction was completed on the first penitentiary in Illinois. Located in the riverfront town of Alton, there was no other building like it in the state – and only two others anywhere in the United States. The Alton Penitentiary was – and still is – a very haunted place, and it’s one from which there is really no escape – not even in death. 

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The Conference is over and we have ghost stories! Thank you to everyone who came out to our biggest one yet.

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In 1867, Harriet Haskell arrived as the new principal of Monticello Female Seminary (present day LCCC). She would become the symbol of the college as she devoted her life to making it one of the most respected female institutions in the country. Her tenure at the college lasted for 40 years – but many believe that it’s never ended. 

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In 1923, Barbara began her most extensive project yet – a complete novel. Finally, in 1926 – after many drafts and a house fire that destroyed one of them – she finished the book. She was only 12 years old. But Barbara’s story had no ending. There was no final chapter because, to this day, no trace of her has ever been found.

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In this episode, we discuss Elijah P. Lovejoy, and how his death in Alton, Illinois, in 1837 started the country down the long, dark road toward war.

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Ruth was last seen on the night of May 4 by some of her Tri-Delta sorority sisters shortly before 11:00 PM. She had just returned to her dorm, Austin Hall, after choir practice and changed into her pajamas. She had her hair in curlers and seemed like her ordinary, happy self. The other girls would later recall that she didn’t seem to be under any kind of strain or stress...but she was never seen again.

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Weird things can happen in the skies over Alton, Illinois. Join us in this special 10-episode "on the side" season as we revisit new and updated stories from our very first season of the podcast on Alton, Illinois, based on the new edition of HAUNTED ALTON by Troy Taylor, available below.

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Everett financed his wanderings by selling prints and paintings, but he never stayed in the same place for long. He once wrote, “There is always an undercurrent of restlessness and wild longing. The wind is in my hair, there is a fire in my heels, and I shall always be a rover, I know.”

According to everything that exists, Everett continued to roam the southwest until the age of 20, when he disappeared for good... 

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In the early 1900s, Ambrose Bierce was one of the most famous writers in America. He was odd, unusual, eccentric, and often disagreeable, but critics loved his gritty stories of war and adventure. He became one of the most acclaimed writers of the period, although his literary career turned out to be tragically short. Why? Well, you see, Ambrose Bierce, like those literary characters he created, vanished one day without a trace, and his disappearance has never been solved. 

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This episode discusses a tragic story of an unsolved mystery that left only a pint bottle of whiskey, a frozen orange, and a very strange story behind.

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There’s probably nothing more American than planning a trip to one of America’s National Parks. And nothing more peaceful than disconnecting from the world while you’re there. Hiking, camping, canoeing, rock climbing, exploring nature… all part of the perfect vacation for the outdoor enthusiast. 

But what about when it all goes wrong?

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On August 23, 1912, a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar vanished while on a fishing trip to Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. When Mrs. Lessie Dunbar realized that her son was gone, she contacted the police, who began a massive search for the boy. 

Eight months passed before the family’s hopes for Bobby’s return were finally realized —– or at least that’s how it seemed. But no part of this story would turn out to be simple. The boy who returned home was NOT Bobby Dunbar.

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A newspaper in 1910 wrote about Dorothy:

"She disappeared from one of the busiest streets on earth, at the sunniest hours of a brilliant afternoon, with thousands within sight and reach, men and women who knew her on every side, and officers of the law thickly strewn in her path."

Such a young woman simply does not just disappear. And yet she did. Because no matter how perfect Dorothy seemed, not everything was as it appeared.

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In 1874, just nine years after President Lincoln was slain, the nation was again shocked by a terrible event. It was not the death of a great leader but the disappearance of a previously unknown four-year-old name Charles Brewster Ross. “Little Charlie Ross” – as Americans would soon know him – was stolen away in what became the first kidnapping for ransom in the history of the United States.

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Troy and Cody go live in Alton IL at the Mineral Springs Hotel for the annual Dead of Winter festival....and then all hell breaks loose.

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The Mary Celeste had set sail for Genoa about 10 days before Dei Gratia had left port. What was she doing out here, off course and drifting? And where was the crew? These are just some of the many questions we tackle regarding the most infamous ghost ship in history.

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It was at the Sandman where the man in the green pajamas was staying when he came to Jacksonville. Of course, that wasn’t his name. It was Bruce Campbell, and he was a stockbroker from Massachusetts. He came here to visit his son, who was then a professor at MacMurray College in town. Bruce’s first grandchild had just been born and it was meant to be a happy visit for the family.

But it turned out to be a tragic one.

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Season seven of the American Hauntings Podcast, "GONE", will include stories of mysterious and impossible disappearances that we found in the archives to be the most intriguing, compelling, and downright chilling.

If all these people vanished so easily from the face of the earth, then it means that it could happen to anyone – perhaps even you.

Because, as you’ll learn this season, a disappearance doesn’t have to be possible in order for it to occur. In fact, one of the most baffling vanishings of all time simply couldn’t have happened – and yet it did.

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Movies discussed include:

• Slapface
• The Free Fall
• X
• The Cursed
• The Black Phone
• The Barbarian
• Mr Harrigan's Phone
• The Harbinger
• Hellraiser
• Prey

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Charlie Lawson, the quiet, unassuming man had become more outgoing, especially with the children. He laughed and told jokes, which he never did. His wife might have been happy with those changes in her husband if they hadn’t been so abrupt – and if Charlie had not been spending an inordinate amount of time with their 17-year-old daughter, Marie. Something terrible was going to happen, and it would ruin Christmas in a way that only murder and tragedy can do. 

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One of the strangest murder sprees in American history occurred across Louisiana and Texas in the early 1910s. Local newspapers called the first crime "the most brutal murder in the history of this section," and there would be many more -- all linked to the same killer. The newspapers of the era, dealing with murder victims that were all African-Americans, claimed the killings were connected to a deranged Voodoo woman and a cult called the "Church of Sacrifice," which used the victims for bloody rituals. The story wasn't true – the real story may have been even stranger – and they remain unsolved.

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During the early years of the Great Depression, the crimes of Harry Powers appalled and fascinated thousands of people, but he is barely remembered today – much like the methods that he used to find his victims. He sought out women through matrimonial mail-order ads, seeking wives to live on his peaceful West Virginia farm. But those who answered the ads were never seen again.

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This Halloween Season, we are discussing our favorite Religious Horror Movies, including:

• The Exorcist
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• Midsommar
• The Wicker Man
• The Omen
• Prince of Darkness
• Stigmata
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• Frailty
• The Witch
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On March 14, 1960, the bodies of three women from the Chicago suburbs were discovered in St. Louis Canyon, one of the many natural wonders at Starved Rock State Park, near Utica, Illinois. The crime shocked northern Illinois and led to a manhunt that snared a confessed killer who spent the next 59 years behind bars. It is one of the most shocking stories to ever occur in this otherwise peaceful region – and it left lingering spirits behind.

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One of the most disturbing multiple murders in California history occurred on April 11, 1981, when three victims – a mother, her teenage son, and the son's friend – were beaten to death in a remote cabin in the woods while children slept soundly in the next room. A fourth victim – a 12-year-old daughter – vanished in the night, and her body was found a year later, miles away from the gruesome scene. The murders remain unsolved to this day, but it went on to inspire THE STRANGERS, one of the most terrifying films ever made.

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Enter the dark, twisted underworld of vampires in the official podcast about AMC’s Interview with the Vampire. Each week, writer/comedian/vampire-enthusiast Naomi Ekperigin will be joined by the actors and writers behind this adaptation of Anne Rice's classic novel – unpacking the twists and turns of every episode. You'll hear exclusive behind the scenes stories from the set and writers' room, plus deep dives into the history of the vampire genre.

Horror experts will share how the vampire lore has changed and morphed over time – and what has compelled us to follow these terrifying, seductive creatures across centuries. New podcast episodes are available each week following new episodes of Interview with the Vampire on AMC and AMC+.

The AMC+ Interview with the Vampire Podcast is produced by AMC in conjunction with Pineapple Street Studios.

On November 12, 1917, the body of an unknown woman was discovered on some wooded property outside of the village of Linden, New York. Her identity was unknown – and so was that of her killer. It became the first in a series of horrific murders that remain unsolved to this day.

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On January 23, 1897, the body of a young woman named Zona Heaster Shue was discovered in her home in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It seemed to be a rather ordinary case of perhaps domestic discord gone wrong, but in the end, the case turned out to be anything but ordinary. In fact, it went on to become the only case in which the word of a ghost helped to solve a crime and convict a murderer!

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On March 19, 1874, horror came to the small town of Millstadt, Illinois. It was a place where nothing bad could ever really happen – or at least that's what the residents there in the latter part of the nineteenth century believed. However, the murders that occurred on Saxtown Road forever shattered that illusion. When a local German family was brutally slaughtered in 1874, it created a dark, unsolved mystery – and a haunting that continues today.

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:18:15

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On November 16, 1982, two Wyoming highway patrolmen discovered an abandoned car along a desolate stretch of rural highway. The engine was running, the driver's door was standing open, but the driver was gone. The car belonged to successful ad executive Don Kemp, and the story of his disappearance is one of the strangest in modern history, filled with twists, turns, and many unanswered questions.

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:19:50

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One of the most shameful events to ever occur in American history happened in the small southern Illinois town of Herrin in the summer of 1922. It would be a horrific labor union massacre that would garner national outrage and would forever stain the area with blood. It would also leave behind a fearful haunting that would linger in a place outside of town called Harrison Woods for more than three decades after the carnage occurred. The ghosts remained as a reminder of the dark deeds of man.

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:27:35

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On December 1, 1926, a young woman from Bennington College, located in the Green Mountains of Vermont, vanished without a trace. And while the search for Paula Welden may have gotten the most attention over the years, she was not the only person to disappear near Glastonbury Mountain and its scenic Long Trail. To this day, no trace of any of them has ever been found.

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:21:10

Discussion: 00:22:00 - 00:56:00

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Monsters are real- they just look like you and me. Today we're going to talk about one that you have probably never heard about. Listener discretion is advised.

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:45:20

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This episode wraps up our two parter on the tragic story of the Donner Party.

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 01:03:20

Discussion: 01:04:30 - 01:55:00

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In the spring of 1846, a wagon train of hopeful immigrants left Illinois, bound for California, but they had no idea what awaited them on the trail. Cursed by bad luck and mistakes, they took an untested route through mountains and deserts, only to be stranded in the Sierra Nevadas by heavy winter snowfalls. What followed was the horror of death, starvation, desperation, and cannibalism.

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:57:06

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In December 1907, three coal mine disasters took place, killing hundreds of men who dared to tear apart the earth in search of wealth. The deadly tragedies – and the ghosts who linger because of them – remain some of the most terrifying accidents to ever occur in American history and still haunt the Appalachian region to this day.

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What happened in the town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, between 1890 and 1910? What caused the once pleasant and thriving small town to become a place of death, horror, and strangeness? The mines and lumber industries shut down at that time, leaving people without jobs and causing the banks and many businesses to fail. Illness spread, and people turned to alcohol for comfort. Bad weather devastated the local crops, and the cold, bleak winters caused starvation and anguish. Talk of witchcraft and devil worship circulated among the residents. During this terrible period, the seemingly doomed inhabitants of Black River Falls surrendered to suicide, murder, destruction, and depravity.

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In the wilds of northwestern Connecticut are the remains of a small village called Dudleytown. The homes of this once thriving community are long gone, but the land where the town once stood is far from empty. Amidst the forest and rocks are tales of ghosts, demons, unexplained mysteries, curses, and a rich history that dates back to the very beginnings of America.

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Religious zealots have been awaiting the appearance of the Antichrist on earth for centuries. There have been those who have actively sought him out and some who would do anything to destroy him – like a woman named Rhoda Wakeman, a prophet and religious leader of the nineteenth century. In fact, on the morning of December 24, 1855, Rhoda killed a man who was possessed by the Antichrist in New Haven, Connecticut. The man was a member of her sect, and he participated in his own execution… It is a story of murder, prophecy, religious mania, and a death-crazed belief that the end of the world was coming soon.

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In the modern days of the 1920s, a pair of homicides that came to be known as the "Hex Murders" – and the subsequent hex scare that followed – marked a substantial turning point in American history, especially in the way that the public perceived the practice of folk magic – or what locals called "pow-wowing" – in the region.

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In 1900, Booger Hole (named for a kind of supernatural being) in West Virginia was the scene of the horrendous murder of a witch named Annie Boggs, dealings with the devil, lynch mobs, unsolved killings, and more.

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Live from the Dead Of Winter Festival in Alton, Illinois. We answer your ghost questions and read our most upsetting reviews.

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The story behind the most famous witch trials in American history. What brought the devil to Salem? How did the hysteria start, and what led to the deaths of those involved?

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:37:39

Discussion: 00:37:40 - 01:17:09

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Salem was far from the only "witchcraft outbreak" in American history. Witches – falsely accused and the real thing – can be found throughout the early history of America, from healers to herbalists, hex signs, and hoodoo doctors. And in some cases of accused witches, murder and death followed in the wake of public outcry. Here's what happened.

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Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:43:02

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"The 19th of May 1780, was a remarkable dark day. Candles were lighted in many houses; the birds were silent and disappeared, and the fowls retired to roost. ... A very general opinion prevailed, that the Day of Judgment was at hand," Timothy Dwight wrote. The end was coming, and God had lowered his hand over the people of New England for their wickedness. Or at least that's what a lot of religious zealots believed in the spring of 1780. It seemed that the people of America were doomed. What happened that day? No one knows.

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Today we discuss our favorite horror movies of 2021, some honorable mentions, and some major letdowns.

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Dark things lurk in what we mistakenly believe is the idyllic setting of America's heartland. The farms, fields, and rural villages are drenched in blood- and we are ready to dive in.

America's forests, farms, and fields will surrender the tales of witchcraft and hexes, cults and curses, calamities and cannibalism, massacres and mysterious disappearances, and more magic, mayhem, sinners, and spirits than we've ever offered before.

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On the surface, Marilyn seemed to live the glamorous life of a movie star and celebrity, but she was also a very private, very smart, and often very troubled woman. Part of his enduring fame comes from the fact that she was gone too soon – a victim of apparent suicide at the age of only 36.

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In today's episode, Troy and Cody discuss their favorite horror movies of the 1970's.

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Thelma Todd – the woman that Hollywood would know as the “Ice Cream Blonde,” and who made 69 films during her too-short career- died in 1935. The official cause of Thelma’s death was said to be an accidental poisoning from carbon monoxide, but the true facts in this sensational case remain unresolved to this day.

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The death of a celebrity is, without a doubt, always an object of morbid curiosity in America. When the Hollywood notable dies under strange or bloody circumstances, then the death becomes even more curious, and gets bigger headlines, for an even longer period of time. Today, we discuss the horrific murder of Colonel Hogan himself, Bob Crane.

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On August 23, 1926, the most heartbreaking Hollywood news of the silent film era reached the general public when New York City’s Polyclinic Hospital announced that Rudolph Valentino was dead. 

Valentino -- known as the “Sheik” and “Hollywood’s Greatest Lover” – had died from a burst appendix. It seemed too boring of a death for a man like Valentino and, not surprisingly, rumors followed him to the grave.

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Today we discuss the brutal murder Ramon Novarro, an MGM sex symbol who acted opposite such legends as Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer and Myrna Loy.

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Today we talk the life and death of one of America’s top pinup girls, Jayne Mansfield, who died a horrible and violent death. It’s a story with everything – a brainy beauty, publicity stunts, a mysterious death, a Satanic curse, a haunted house and well, boobs.

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Fatty was the first Hollywood star to get “CANCELED,” as it’s called today, and his career destruction followed a crime that he not only didn’t commit but was found innocent of at trial. But by then, it was too late, and no one believed him anyway. 

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On February 1, 1922, William Desmond Taylor, one of the most famous movie directors in early Hollywood, was murdered in his bungalow in the Westlake District of Los Angeles. At first, it was assumed that he died of natural causes – until someone discovered that he had been shot in the back by a .38-caliber revolver.

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This episode we hear ghost stories from patrons of the Haunted America Conference 2021 hosted at the Best Western Premiere Hotel in Alton, IL. This episode gets...weird.

Today's hauntings are connected to one of Hollywood’s true comedians but it’s also a sequel – or perhaps prequel, of sorts – to our last episode, "Charles Manson and Helter Skelter."

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Today, we discuss the infamous Charles Manson and his impact on the "Summer of love".

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Today, we discuss The Blackburn Cult, one of the most bizarre and brutal groups to ever call The City Of Angels 'home'.

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Today we dive into cults and why Hollywood was the perfect breeding ground for some of the strangest groups to make it big.

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On this episode, we explore some of the forgotten murdered would-be starlets of early Hollywood.

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Today we finish up our two part series on the death of Beth Short, better known as "The Black Dahlia."

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Today we're diving in to one of, if not the most infamous murders in the history of this heartbreaking city.

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Today we finish our story of the murder of Marion Parker and meet the man responsible. Listener discretion is advised.

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Today we begin part 1 of a terrible kidnapping and murder that led to the largest manhunt in the LA's history. Listener discretion is advised.

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On today's episode, we discuss the murders of three young girls in Hollywood. This episode is NOT for the faint of heart.

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On today's episode, we look at some of the worst murders to ever leave their bloody mark on L.A.’s twisted history. 

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Here is a live recording from our show at the 2021 Dead of Winter Festival in Alton, Illinois on Saturday, February 6th at Mineral Springs.

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Hollywood was home to movie stars in the first decades of the twentieth century – which came with their share of scandals, drug overdoses, and sexcapades – but in 1920, Prohibition arrived and created a whole new set of problems for Los Angeles.

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On April 26, 1880, the Tombstone, Arizona, newspaper, The Epitaph, printed a startling report. According to the article, two cowboys saw a giant bird outside of town, shot it, and carried its gigantic carcass into Tombstone.

How, I asked myself, could what seemed to be a prehistoric flying creature have been shot down by cowboys in the 1880s? Such a thing seemed impossible, but here was the story – and, of course, there was the photograph. That was the really exciting part! I still remember what that photograph looked like! Or do I?

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Today we discuss Horror in 2020. What we liked, what we didn't like, and how we see the movie industry changing in 2021.

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In today's bonus episode, Troy discusses The Spanish Flu and has some recommendations for this holiday season to avoid having history repeat itself.

Hollywood. As we keep telling you, it’s not really on the maps anymore. It’s not a town and hasn’t been for years. It’s just another part of Los Angeles that doesn’t look nearly as great as it does in the movies or on postcards. It’s a little run-down, more than a little seedy, and desperately trying to hang onto its former glamor like an aging actress that’s had one too many facelifts. 

But Hollywood is a place for reinvention. Such is the case with the once famous Knickerbocker Hotel – well, not the by the hour part, but you’ll soon understand what I mean – it started as one thing, became another, and then something else altogether.

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Today we talk The Cecil Hotel, Richard Ramirez, Elisa Lam, and numerous suicides. 

Hollywood is nothing but a façade these days. It’s not even a real town anymore – it’s just another part of Los Angeles that looks a little worse for wear. And the sun-bleached hotels are much like Hollywood itself. They’re aging, faded, and trying to hang onto the glamor they had in decades past, when it was movie stars and not hookers that you’d find along Hollywood Boulevard. Some of them may be seedy and a little beaten up, but they have a history – and it’s a history that keeps coming back again and again and often, it returns as stories of ghosts and other assorted strangeness...

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Many of Hollywood’s older hotels are much like Hollywood itself. They are aging and slightly faded, still trying to hang onto the shimmer of glamour that they enjoyed in the days gone by. Like other parts of Hollywood, a few of the hotels have seen face-lifts in recent years, which have stirred up memories and “spirits” of the past. Not all the ghostly stories, and wicked scandals, are products of recent times, however, many of them have been around for years.

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Song: Lonely, Hopeful, Song of Solitude

In today's episode, Troy and Cody discuss their favorite (and some of their least favorite) horror movies of the 1980's.

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In this bonus episode, Troy discusses some very unique horror movies.

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On this bonus episode, we discuss two Hollywood elites- Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.

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On this bonus episode, we discuss the bizarre tale of Walburga "Dolly” Oesterreich who kept a secret lover in the attic for years, finally ending in murder. 

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What is about a theater that seems to attract a ghost? Could it be the range of emotions expressed by the actors, from joy to sorrow to fear? Perhaps all that emotion attracts spirits who need that energy to exist. Or perhaps terrible or tragic events occur in a theater – just as they do in other kinds of buildings – and that leaves an impression behind as a haunting.

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Song: Adrift In My Own Thoughts,Counting Lots Of Sheep, Drifting Away From The World

In 1959, Harold Perelson seemed to be a man with everything going for him. He had a distinguished career as a doctor, a beautiful wife, loving children, and a wonderful home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles that was ideal for what seemed to be the perfect family.

And then on the night of December 6, neighbors were awakened by the sound of Harold Perelson’s daughter, Judye, screaming and banging on their door...When the police arrived, they entered the Perelson house and found Harold’s wife, Lillian, dead in her bed and Harold himself dead from a massive drug overdose. He had apparently committed suicide. 

A copy of Dante’s DIVINE COMEDY was open on Harold’s nightstand, highlighting a passage that read:

Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost…

It might as well have been Harold’s suicide note.

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What makes Hollywood – “Hollywood?” The movies, of course, and the movie stars. But behind the façade – where the sausage is made, so to speak, are the studios where the magic happens. And the desperate spirits who refuse to vacate long after the director has called "cut."

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Song: Break In The Clouds, Counting Lots Of Sheep, Drifting Away From The World

At just three minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, which had been designed as a reservoir for the Los Angeles water supply by William Mulholland, suddenly failed, releasing 11 billion gallons of water into a narrow valley in northeastern Los Angeles County, destroying everything in its path. Over the course of the next four hours, a roaring wall of water swept through the night, traveling 55 miles from the San Francisquito Valley, through the Santa Clara Valley, and on to the Pacific Ocean.

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On this bonus episode, Troy discusses the "Phantom of the Heights", a tall, thin figure, dressed all in black, who began sprinting across the rooftops of O’Donnell Heights. It leapt on and off buildings, broke into houses, attacked people, enticed a young girl to crawl under a car and played music in the nearby graveyard. Groups of young men patrolled the streets, while others waited by their windows at night, keeping a sleepy watch for the “Phantom Prowler” that eluded his pursuers and vanished into the cemetery before he could be caught.

Season 5, Haunted Hollywood, launches on September 1st!