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American Hauntings Podcast

Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

History, hauntings, legends, lore, true crime, and the dark side of American History. Hosted by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor, Season 9, "Based on a True Story" is now live. Previous seasons cover Alton, IL, St. Louis, New Orleans, Hollywood, Heartland Horrors and Homicides, missing persons and the Villisca Axe Murders.

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76:04

The Changeling

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/11/04

“So, I’d been listening to this conversation and I finally walked over and picked up a film off the rack. I handed it to the biggest guy and told him, this is it. Take this home and watch it and if it’s not scary enough for you, I’ll give you your money back when you return it.”“The guy came back the next day, and he handed me the case with the VHS tape in it. I asked him what he thought and he just had this look in his eye.”“’Scared the shit out of all of us,’ he said. ‘Seriously man, I was so

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56:17

Our Favorite Guilty Pleasure Horror Movies (Halloween...

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2025/10/31

This Halloween, we discuss our favorite guilty pleasure Horror movies! And we try our best to not judge ourselves and others about the scary movies we all hate to love. Check it out!Have a question or comment? Text us on the Haunt Line @ 217-791-7859New Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/troytaylorodditiesCheck out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.comWant an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon pageFind

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21:33

American Dread: Twenty-Five Minutes: The Vanishing of...

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/10/29

In October 1985, four-year-old Timothy “TJ” Davison vanished from a grocery store parking lot in Decatur, Illinois — in broad daylight, while his aunt was just steps away. What followed was one of the most haunting mysteries in Central Illinois history: decades of silence, false leads, and another family disappearance that may be connected in ways no one ever proved. Nearly forty years later, American Dread revisits the case that still grips Decatur — the boy who vanished in twenty-five minutes, and

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45:35

The Possession

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/10/21

Post Malone only went into the room because he was with an expert. That’s what he said later, with a lot of regret. The room was part of the other man’s haunted museum in Las Vegas and inside it was the Dybbuk Box, considered by many as the world’s most haunted and cursed object. Even that creepy Annabelle doll wouldn’t mess with this thing, some said. It had never been opened before, though, because it was haunted by a Dybbuk...Have a question or comment? Text us on the Haunt Line @ 217-791-7859New

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26:29

American Dread: The Dardeen Family Homicides

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/10/15

In 1987, the Dardeen family’s quiet life in rural Illinois ended in unimaginable horror.A crime so savage, it left investigators speechless — and decades later, still haunted by questions that no one could answer.Cults. Serial killers. Satanic panic. Lies and legends.American Dread: The Dardeen Family Massacre — one of the most graphic and disturbing cases in Illinois history.Brought to you by American Hauntings Network. Our Sponsors:* Check out CBDfx and use my code HAUNTINGS for a great deal:

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49:33

The Believers and Borderland (and a big announcement!)

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/10/07

Mark spent the night drinking beer with his friends and trying to pick up girls, passing most of his time in a cantina called Sgt. Peppers, and a honky-tonk called the London Pub. But when his friends are ready to call it a night, they can’t find him in either bar. They assumed he’d gotten lucky and went back to the hotel without him. But Mark Kilroy was never seen alive again.Have a question or comment? Text us on the Haunt Line @ 217-791-7859New Facebook page

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59:25

The Lighthouse

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/09/23

The initial inspiration for the film was NOT based on a true story – it was based on an unfinished Edgar Allan Poe story that was also called “The Lighthouse.” Max Eggers began adapting the story but couldn’t figure out what to do with it so his brother jumped in to help, sourcing the plot from the story of a Welsh lighthouse tragedy, which for most people, would sound tame. It isn’t. And while the story of Thomas Howell, Thomas Griffith, and the Smalls Lighthouse isn’t a story of an unexplained

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60:15

Veronica

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/09/09

It’s been called the “SCARIEST FILM ON NETFLIX” by critics and viewers alike. It’s a Spanish film that’s written and directed by Paco Plaza, who found fame a few years before it came out with the REC found-footage franchise. But even though we’ve often bragged that the true stories we’ve talked about this season are scarier than the films they’re based on, the reality of that is really up to you. This time, though, the actual story behind VERONICA manages to stand out. It’s a very real story of an

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24:08

Bonus- American Dread: Horror in Decatur — The Penny...

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/09/03

Check out the brand new podcast, American Dread, from Adam White.On Halloween 1992, 20-year-old Penny Timmons vanished in Decatur, Illinois, leaving behind a chilling note in a gas station restroom: “He has a gun in his pants! HELP! This isn’t a joke!”Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/american-hauntings-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Sneak Preview of New Season Coming to Patreon!

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/08/29

NEW PREVIEW OF OUR NEW SHOW ON PATREON!CANYON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE STARVED ROCK MURDERSAvailable ONLY by becoming a Patreon supporter of American Hauntings. Go to https://patreon.com/americanhauntings and get signed up now!On the cold, snow-covered morning of March 16, 1960, when the bodies of three women from the Chicago suburbs were discovered at Starved Rock State Park in Northern Illinois. The murders shocked the entire state and led to a manhunt that snared a confessed killer who spent the

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23:46

Bonus- American Dread: Cold Barrels, Cold Blood

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/08/27

Check out the brand new podcast, American Dread, from Adam White.Two winters. Two murders. Eighteen years apart.In Decatur, Illinois, the winters of 1942 and 1960 were marked not by snow and holiday cheer, but by the sound of shotguns shattering the night.In this episode of American Dread, we revisit two chilling cases: the Short Street double shooting of 1942, and the shotgun murder of Virginia Eades in 1960. Different killers, different motives—but each crime left the same lasting scar on the

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92:01

An American Crime

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/08/26

On October 26, 1965, a 16-year-old girl named Sylvia Likens died in Indianapolis from shock, malnutrition, and a brain hemorrhage. She had been tortured for three months and by the time she died, she could barely move or speak. She had been tortured, neglected, sexually humiliated, starved, beaten, and cut by her tormentors. Her autopsy later revealed 150 wounds on her body, including cigarette burns, skin brandings, and knife wounds.What had Sylvia done to deserve such torture? Nothing.Have a

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Bonus- American Dread: The Freeman Murders

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/08/20

Check out the brand new podcast, American Dread, from Adam White.On a quiet May night in 1976, the city of Decatur, Illinois, was shattered by a brutal double murder that still echoes nearly fifty years later. Two young cousins, June and Marcella Freeman, were savagely stabbed to death and left discarded like trash on the side of West Center Street. Their killer, Michael Timothy Gibson, would soon be caught — but justice didn’t end the nightmare.In this debut episode of American Dread, host Adam

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75:17

The Entity

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/08/12

The true story of THE ENTITY doesn’t begin with Carla Moran coming home from work one night, it actually started with researchers Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor from the Department of Parapsychology at UCLA visiting the home on August 22, 1974. A short time earlier, the two men had been discussing the paranormal in a local bookstore when they were approached by a woman name Doris Blither, who wanted to tell them about her haunted house. The pair agreed to meet Doris at her home, not realizing at the

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47:16

The Bell Witch Cave (Bonus episode)

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/08/05

Enjoy this bonus episode about the history and hauntings of The Bell Witch Cave, including Troy's own firsthand tales of his times in the cave!Have a question or comment? Text us on the Haunt Line @ 217-791-7859New Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/troytaylorodditiesCheck out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.comWant an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon pageFind out merch

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70:09

Jeepers Creepers

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/07/29

It was Easter Sunday, April 15, 1990, and Ray and Marie Thornton were driving along Snow Prairie Road, a rural highway about 12 miles outside of Coldwater, Michigan. Ray was at the wheel and Marie was next to him and the couple was playing a game they often played in the car to kill time on the road -- trying to make words and phrases out of the license plates they saw.But things were quiet along the secluded back road they were on that morning and they hadn’t seen another car in a little while

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84:48

Jaws

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/07/15

There’s no denying that there are so many similarities between JAWS and the 1916 shark attacks on the Jersey Shore as well as the disaster of the USS Indianapolis that it’s truly terrifying. If you decide to spend your summer vacation on a beach somewhere, you might want to remember what we’ve been telling you all season – “sometimes, it’s NOT just a movie.”Have a question or comment? Text us on the Haunt Line @ 217-791-7859New Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/troytaylorodditiesCheck out our

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80:26

LIVE From The Haunted America Conference 2025

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/07/01

This year we have some of THE BEST ghost stories from the Haunted America Conference attendees. Check 'em out! Have a question or comment? Text us on the Haunt Line @ 217-791-7859New Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/troytaylorodditiesCheck out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.comWant an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon pageFind out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.comFollow us on Twitter

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115:40

An American Haunting

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/06/17

The legend of the Bell Witch is one of the greatest ghost stories in American history. It has all the elements of what we have come to think of as a Hollywood-style haunting – a vengeful spirit, flying objects, sounds that can’t be unexplained, a pretty young girl, and a violent death. It’s also one of the only hauntings in history in which a spirit is responsible for the death of one of the protagonists in the case.Have a question or comment? Text us on the Haunt Line @ 217-791-7859New Facebook

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82:31

Poltergeist

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2025/06/03

There isn’t a lot that I can say about this film that you don’t already know – it’s a classic, there’s no two ways about that. It’s not only one of the greatest horror films of the 1980s but one of the great horror films of all time. But if you’re not old enough to have seen it in 1982 when it came out, you might be wondering why it was so scary to those of us who were. And for those who already know, it turns out there was another haunting that made news just before POLTERGEIST was written that’s

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