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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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00:37:02

The Forgotten Borough - Chapter 1

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/21

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. LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL, THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQPQD68S Barnes and Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-forgotten-borough-christopher-feinstein/1148274794?ean=9798319693334 www. hauntedamericanhistory.com Ebook GOOGLE: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=S5WCEQAAQBAJ&pli=1 KOBO:

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00:21:49

Dodge City Kansas

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/20

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 hides piled up like decaying monuments, tempers flared faster than matches, and Boot Hill filled with people who never got a proper ending. And if a town is built on that much residue, the question isn’t whether it leaves a mark, it’s what still echoes when the streets go quiet.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory

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00:27:42

The Brown Grand Theatre

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/19

A violent tornado, a fading theatre, and a curtain painted with an emperor watching his empire fall. In Concordia, Kansas, the Brown Grand Theatre survived storms, neglect, and near demolition—yet many believe some of its original patrons never left their seats. This episode explores how a building meant to outlive its creators may have done exactly that.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon-

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00:26:01

Kansas State Penitentiary

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/18

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 whispered hauntings in the limestone halls, this episode explores how one institution became a magnet for stories that refuse to stay locked up.YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LINKS FOR MY DEBUT NOVEL, THE FORGOTTEN BOROUGH Barnes and

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00:28:29

The Bloody Benders

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/17

In southeastern Kansas, a small cabin along the Osage Mission Trail once promised weary travelers warmth, food, and shelter. But behind the canvas divider and the “Groceries” sign, something far darker was waiting. 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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00:25:44

Theorosa’s Bridge

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/16

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 Theorosa’s Bridge, a place where people claim cars stall, radios crackle into static, and a chilling presence answers back if you perform the ritual. This episode traces how a simple rural crossing became a container for grief, fear, and community storytelling, where history, rumor, and repetition blur into something that feels real...especially after

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00:24:31

The Rendlesham Forest Incident

Haunted American History ·

2026/02/15

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 Rendlesham Forest Incident, the event sits at the crossroads of military protocol, Cold War tension, and centuries of local superstition. This episode explores how strange lights in the trees transformed an ordinary stretch of woodland into a lasting mystery where folklore and official reports still struggle to agree on what was truly seen.YouTube -

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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

Haunted American History ·

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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