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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 10, "Murder City" is now live.

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Gangs of Chicago

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2026/03/31

John Torrio was finally exactly where he wanted to be. With his uncle, Big Jim Colosimo out of the way, his business expanding across the South Side of the city and into the suburbs, and his trustworthy young right-hand man, Al Capone, at his side, he was ready to start dividing up the Chicago into territories. With all the various gangs that already existed in the city eager to jump into the liquor business, Torrio knew that it would be impossible to keep the peace without a plan...Check out our

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American Dread: Three Minutes Underwater, the Lisa...

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2026/03/25

A mother. A bathtub. A death ruled suspicious.In 2012, Lisa Cutler was found drowned in her Mount Zion, Illinois home while her children slept upstairs.At first, it looked like an accident.But more than 20 bruises… a failing marriage… and over a million dollars in life insurance told a different story.Was it a tragic fall— or something far more deliberate?Check out our new American Hauntings Podcast Network for even more spooky shows.Have a question or comment? Text us on the Haunt Line @

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American Nightmares Episode 16: "The Devil Goes to...

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2026/03/20

American pop culture in the 1920s and 1930s was on the verge of a new sort of entertainment. Cultural shifts and breakthroughs in technology had led to a steady stream of new kinds of books, comics, music, and magazines, but it would be film that transformed popular culture forever. The ghostly images watched with strangers in the dark proved powerful enough to incite as well as to entertain. Soon after films gained popularity, Americans began to use them to frame their history and their identity,

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Eulogy For Big Jim Colosimo

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2026/03/17

John Torrio was ready when the new Prohibition law went into effect, but he seemed to be the only one. He was waiting impatiently for everyone else to catch up. He’d been predicting Prohibition to his friends and business associates for months and knew it would be how organized crime could amass untold amounts of wealth. To take something that had always been legal, and make it illegal, especially a vice like alcohol, and then expect Americans to adhere to the letter of the law was incredibly naïve

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Episode 15: "The King of America"

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2026/03/13

The strange and sometimes sinister world of America’s homegrown religions, faith movements, and cults is filled with bizarre characters. There are many that most listeners have undoubtedly heard of, but what about the cult leader who actually became a king?In 1847, the only man ever crowned king within the continental United States began his rule from a secluded island in Lake Michigan. James Jesse Strang was a religious leader, politician, attorney, teacher, writer, and newspaper editor, who

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American Dread: The Girl Who Never Reached the Door

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2026/03/11

She was only a few feet from safety.On a freezing December night in 1975, Carol Ann Rofstad never made it inside her sorority house. Instead, she was found beaten and dying beside the building the next morning.Her murder shocked the Illinois State University campus — and may have been connected to a series of disturbing attacks on college women.Nearly half a century later, the case remains unsolved.This is The Girl Who Never Reached the Door.Check out our new American Hauntings Podcast Network for

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Episode 14: "The Holy Rollers' Sex Cult"

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2026/03/06

The date when a shaft of divine light came down from the heavens and transformed Franz Edmund Creffield from an obscure, backwater evangelist into Prophet Joshua the Second remains a mystery. We also don’t know the exact spot where the spiritual ordination occurred but – we do know that it occurred in 1903 in Corvallis, Oregon.History has shown us that trouble tends to follow in the wake of modern-day prophets and if the prophet come with an Old Testament beard and a desperate need to chase after

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79:34

Torrio

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2026/03/03

John Torrio was 31 years old when he first came to Chicago to free his uncle by marriage – Big Jim Colosimo – from threats by Black Hand gangsters. But Torrio’s service went beyond that. He was soon reorganizing and expanding Big Jim’s vice rackets and while they continued to thrive for a short time, trouble was on the way.On the other side of the city's powerful people, William Thompson ran for mayor with the wide-openness of a champion athlete on the side of truth, justice, and the American

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Episode 13: "The Demon in the Belfry"

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2026/02/27

On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1895, parishioners at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco were shocked when a closet was opened that contained the mutilated body of a young woman. Police detectives who were summoned to the church expected the corpse to belong to a 20-year-old woman named Blanche Lamont, a member of the church’s congregation who had gone missing 10 days earlier. But it wasn’t her. Instead, the dead woman was 21-year-old Minnie Williams, who was also a member of the church. And

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American Dread: The Hatchet House

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2026/02/25

How well do you really know your neighbor?In Decatur, Illinois, 1964, evil didn’t break in—it lived inside the house. On a cold February night, a family argument ended with a hatchet, a triple killing, and a manhunt that stretched from Illinois to Florida.This is The Hatchet House—a story of blood, silence, and a terrifying truth: sometimes the monster isn’t out there……it’s already home.Check out our new American Hauntings Podcast Network for even more spooky shows.Have a question or comment? Text

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James "Big Jim" Colosimo

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2026/02/17

James “Big Jim” Colosimo ruled the Chicago underworld longer than any man in the city's history. The money he raked in from the many enterprises that he controlled was conservatively estimated at $50,000 a month for about eight years. Colosimo was a strange character and a man who helped usher in Chicago's organized crime era – although he’d never actually live to see it. Check out our new American Hauntings Podcast Network for even more spooky shows.Have a question or comment? Text us on

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Episode 12: "Signs, Wonders, and the Satanic Century"

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2026/02/13

In 1908, a Pentecostal minister announced to his followers that the Devil was alive and well and interfered with every aspect of human life. And he wasn’t alone in this belief. Others described demons as swarming around the human soul and living off them “like ticks on cattle.” The Pentecostal belief about the Devil interfering with our everyday lives was just one example of how the twentieth century became the “Satanic Century” for both American religion and popular culture. More than at any other

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No Safe Hour: Between Daylight and Darkness

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2026/02/11

In the early 1980s, Springfield, Illinois learned there was no safe hour.On this episode of American Dread, we examine two unconnected crimes that unfolded just one year apart — one in broad daylight, the other in the dead of night — and how both shattered a city’s sense of safety.In 1981, an axe attack inside Lauterbach Cottage Hardware left one man dead and a killer who vanished without a trace.In 1982, a brutal double murder inside a family home was solved — but its consequences would resurface

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Live from Dead of Winter 2026

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2026/02/10

Check out our new American Hauntings Podcast Network for even more spooky shows.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 @AmerHauntsPod, @TroyTaylor13,

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Episode 11: "The Demon From the Bottomless Pit"

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2026/02/06

Nineteenth century America was awash with diabolical imagery. It was everywhere. It was used to link the Devil to everything from immigrants to abortion, the Catholic Church, Native Americans, and even outspoken women, so it can’t be a surprise to learn that it was also used to describe some of the most bloodthirsty killers of the day. For anyone who might think that deviant sex murderers and serial killers are monsters of modern times, then let me introduce you to the Joseph Lapage, one of the most

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Capone

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2026/02/03

Young Brooklyn thug Al Capone took a cab to Coney Island. As he traveled down Ocean Parkway, he wasn’t surprised to see people practically living on the sidewalks, trying to get a breath of fresh air. He sat in the back seat, enjoying the light breeze from the open windows, on his way to the Harvard Inn, a club that belonged to Capone’s employer, gangster Frankie Yale. It wasn’t much of a job – just a glorified bouncer – but he saw it as a way to work himself up to someday making dough for himself

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Episode 10: "The Devil Will Pay"

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2026/01/30

When the headless body of a pregnant young woman was found across the Ohio River from Cincinnati in 1896, the shock of the discovery was felt far beyond the region. As the story of the young woman was revealed, it became a crime that was tailor-made for the popular culture of the era. The horror of the crime, its characters, and its cause created a melodrama that could only be found in pulp novels -– a villain deflowers a pretty young girl and then murders her to cover up her unplanned pregnancy so

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Season Ten Trailer and Topic Reveal

American Hauntings Podcast ·

2026/01/20

Season 10- Murder City, is here.In this season, we'll be taking a trip back in time, to the years of prohibition and telling the story of a city where the streets ran red with blood, accompanied by the clink of liquor bottles, jazz music and rattling machine guns. And we will take you behind the scenes of the world of some of the most notorious gangsters to ever hit the mean streets of the Windy City. These episodes will be filled with crime and corruption, deadly shootings, one-way rides,

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Episode 9: "The Devil Baby"

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2026/01/16

The nineteenth century marked a great change in American history – it was the age of the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and a time when science and reason were supposed to erase the myths and fears of the past. And yet, the Devil still managed to rear his ugly head, continuing to serve as a symbol of all the things that Americans hated and feared the most. Social reformers used the Devil to discourage the evils of alcohol and Protestants and Nativists used the Devil as a warning about the

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Episode 8: "Down at the Crossroads"

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2026/01/09

America’s first settlers were afraid of a lot of things and when they were afraid of something they reflexively connected it to the Devil – whether it was places like forests and woods or people, like the Native Americans who had predated their arrival on these shores by hundreds of years. In other words, whatever they didn’t understand, they feared, and whatever they feared, it must be the work of the Devil. But it wasn’t just the indigenous people they feared and disliked – it was also the

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