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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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00:23:06

The Bell Island Hag (Newfoundland)

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/14

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 by iron mines, wartime scars, and generations of superstition... where ghost stories are less about haunted houses and more about haunted ground. This episode explores the legend of the Bell Island Hag and the uneasy feeling that some places don’t just hold memories… they hold onto them.YouTube -

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00:22:22

Stony Hollow Road

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/13

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 distance, weather, and miscommunication has grown into one of the Midwest’s enduring ghost stories... a hollow where echoes feel alive and the past never seems entirely finished.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL,

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00:25:53

The Mathias Ham House

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/12

On the banks of the Mississippi near Dubuque, an ambitious river man named Mathias Ham built a fortune, a reputation, and eventually a limestone mansion meant to announce permanence to every boat that passed. But the river has never cared about ownership... and neither do the stories that gathered inside Ham’s house. This episode follows the rise of a frontier empire, a notorious legend of river pirates and revenge, and the strange reports that still cling to the mansion’s upper floors: footsteps,

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00:25:40

The Farrar Schoolhouse

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/11

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 square footage. Decades later, the town around it faded, but the building remained, holding generations of memories that never quite graduated. This episode explores the Farrar Schoolhouse, where ambition, abandonment, and the echoes of childhood seem to linger long after the final bell rang.YouTube -

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00:21:36

The Squirrel Cage Prison

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/10

A 19th-century engineering marvel promised perfect efficiency and airtight security—by turning an entire jail into a rotating machine. Instead, it became a symbol of mechanical hubris, human confinement, and the strange way technology can outlive its purpose. This episode explores the Squirrel Cage Jail, where innovation, tragedy, and folklore began to spin together… and never quite stopped.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon-

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00:28:33

Edinburgh Manor

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/09

A failed courthouse dream on the Iowa prairie slowly transformed into an institution built to house society’s forgotten. Over decades, it became a symbol of shifting attitudes toward poverty, mental illness, and care, until its sudden abandonment left behind more than empty rooms. This episode explores how memory, folklore, and architecture merged into a place where history doesn’t just linger… it watches.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon-

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00:18:22

The Origin of "Sleep Tight"

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/08

A simple bedtime phrase hides a surprisingly dark past. What sounds like a comforting wish for rest leads back through shifting language, forgotten fears about the night air, and the very real creatures that once haunted every mattress. This episode explores how an innocent good-night ritual became tangled with history, anxiety, and the strange things we’ve always tried to keep outside the covers.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon-

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00:24:12

Spring-Heeled Jack

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/07

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 fashion, vigilantes, and headlines. But that fear doesn’t die with an arrest. Decades later, the city’s anxiety mutates into something more theatrical and impossible: a leaping, flame-spitting figure haunting the outskirts of London and beyond. Spring-Heeled Jack becomes the perfect Victorian nightmare born from a world where industry is changing everything,

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00:22:10

The Beast of Busco

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/06

In the quiet farmland of Churubusco, Indiana, a small kettle lake became the center of national attention when locals claimed a giant prehistoric turtle was living beneath its murky surface. What began as a fisherman’s sighting spiraled into media frenzy, failed hunts, drained waters, and a town forever branded by a creature no one could quite prove — or fully disprove. The legend of “Oscar” endures as a reminder that some mysteries don’t disappear… they just sink back into the mud.YouTube -

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00:21:55

Whispers Estate

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/05

A quiet Victorian house in Mitchell, Indiana, carries a reputation far darker than its ornate woodwork suggests. Known as Whispers Estate, the home is tied to tales of a doctor’s in-house practice, grieving children, shadow figures, and voices that seem to answer back. Whether it’s lingering tragedy or something more aware, locals insist the house doesn’t just remember the past — it reacts to those who enter.YouTube -

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00:23:49

Belle Gunness

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2026/02/04

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 that leaves behind a headless corpse—and a question no one can bury.This is the folklore of Belle Gunness: hospitality as a trap, the land as an accomplice, and a villain who may have slipped away into American myth.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon-

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00:20:39

The Bell Witch of Indiana

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/03

In Southern Indiana, a borrowed name takes on a life of its own. A “Bell Witch” isn’t a single entity here—it’s a label stapled to whatever refuses to die: a deer that shrugs off lead, a tunnel that remembers the dead, and a murdered watchman whose lantern still patrols the dark.This episode follows folklore as it migrates, mutates, and embeds itself into limestone, red brick, and railroad trauma—until all that’s left is a green light in the distance… and your body’s ancient decision to run.YouTube

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00:22:55

Indiana's Central State Hospital

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/02

Three miles from downtown Indianapolis, a manicured “campus” hides a mass grave and a machine that once swallowed thousands of lives: Central State Hospital, the Asylum of the Seven Steeples.In this episode, we trace the utopian Kirkbride dream as it curdles into overcrowding, malariotherapy, brain jars, tunnels, abuse scandals, and redevelopment built on top of the dead—until the soil itself spits bones back into the daylight.Some places don’t get haunted. They keep receipts.YouTube -

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00:24:40

The Tower of London

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/01

Behind the souvenir swords and ceremonial guards, the Tower of London is still what it has always been: a memory machine built from stone and blood.From a “cylinder of light” that attacked the Keeper of the Crown Jewels in 1817, to phantom bears, headless queens, vanished princes, and a force at the Sally Port that even dogs refuse to cross—this fortress doesn’t just hold history. It replays it.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon-

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00:21:35

Haunted American History YouTube - Greenwood Cemetery

Haunted American History ·

2026/01/31

The audio that I am sharing here comes from a location I visited and shot a video on for the Haunted American History YouTube Channel. I hope you all enjoy it and come spend time with me there. The link is below.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL, THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH Barnes and Noble -

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00:25:01

The Big Muddy Monster

Haunted American History ·

2026/01/30

A river doesn’t cleanse...it keeps.In Southern Illinois, the Big Muddy has swallowed centuries of violence, folklore, and frontier rot… until the summer of 1973, when something pale and massive stepped out of the river bottoms and into a quiet suburb.This is the story of the Big Muddy Monster, footprints in clay, black slime on leaves, and the question that never stayed buried: what does the river refuse to forget?YouTube -

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00:21:22

Resurrection Mary

Haunted American History ·

2026/01/29

After a night of dancing, a pale girl in a white dress asks for a ride home, then demands to be let out at the gates of Resurrection Cemetery… and vanishes into untouched snow.They call her Resurrection Mary, Chicago’s most famous hitchhiking ghost. But there is more to it than a simple ghost story.Cold hands, missing time, and a legend that once left scorch marks on iron.Because some stories don’t end when the music stops.YouTube -

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00:22:09

Piasa Bird

Haunted American History ·

2026/01/28

A Jesuit priest sees a masterpiece painted high on the Mississippi bluffs—an ancient guardian of the deep, watching the river like a warning.Two centuries later, a preacher adds wings, teeth, and a hero… and the lie becomes the legend.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL, THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH Barnes and Noble -

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00:25:06

Manteno Madness

Haunted American History ·

2026/01/27

In August 1939, Manteno State Hospital became a sealed ecosystem of heat, overcrowding, and contaminated water.Typhoid spread through the wards like a silent fire, leaving dozens dead—and a reputation the prairie never shook.Some places don’t heal. They just get repurposed. hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL, THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH Barnes and Noble -

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00:22:14

Iroquois Theatre Fire

Haunted American History ·

2026/01/27

Chicago built the Iroquois Theatre to prove the city could never burn again—“Absolutely Fireproof,” they promised.On December 30, 1903, a spark found the lie, and over 600 people died behind locked gates and false exits.A century later, they still say the alley behind the theater remembers. hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL, THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH Barnes and Noble -

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