In August 1928, a woman from a tiny town in Missouri was arrested on two counts of first-degree murder. As you might imagine, the arrest of a 56-year-old woman with a reputation as a nurse and healer in the community where she’d lived wasn’t your run-of-the-mill news story in the late 1920s. It was a shocking event to people who lived in nearby St. Louis, but those from Franklin County, where the woman lived weren’t as surprised. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at Am...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Season 8Ep. 12
It was around 4:00 AM on the morning of July 1, 1981, when several shadowy figures slipped into a multi-level home on Wonderland Avenue in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. Once inside, they surprised the five sleeping occupants and attacked them with metal pipes, beating them viciously... Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntin...
Jul 02, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com Follow us on Twitter @ AmerHauntsPod , @ TroyTaylor13 , @ CodyBeckSTL Follow us on Instagram @ AmericanHauntingsPodcast , @ TroyTaylorgram , @ CodyBeckSTL This episode was written by Troy Taylor Produced and edited by Cody Beck Support this podcast at — https://re...
Jun 25, 2024•38 min
There are stories, rumors, tall tales, and whispers that tell very different stories about the fate of Red Hamilton, John Dillinger's right-hand man for many a heist. There is speculation about where he died, when he actually died, and whether his ghost – or at least the ghost of the man buried in that grave – still haunts a house where someone breathed his last. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other aw...
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 8Ep. 10
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patr...
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 8Ep. 9
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com Follow us on Twitter @ AmerHauntsPod , @ TroyTaylor13 , @ CodyBeckSTL Follow us on I...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Season 8Ep. 8
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and d...
May 07, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Season 8Ep. 7
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...? Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHaunt...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Season 8Ep. 6
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. Check out our updated webs...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 44 min•Season 8Ep. 5
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week,...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 8Ep. 4
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 re...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 39 min•Season 8Ep. 3
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 unbelievabl...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 8Ep. 2
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 – ...
Feb 20, 2024•39 min
LIVE from Dead of Winter 2024! Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com Follow us on Twitter @ AmerHauntsPod , @ TroyTaylor13 , @ CodyBeckSTL Follow us on Instagram @ AmericanHauntingsPodcast , @ TroyTaylorgram , @ CodyBeckSTL This episode was written by Troy Taylor Produced and edited by Cody Beck Suppo...
Feb 13, 2024•39 min
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 visit...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 8Ep. 1
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, murde...
Jan 26, 2024•31 min
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 gru...
Jan 23, 2024•15 min
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! Chec...
Jan 08, 2024•26 min
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...
Dec 24, 2023•12 min
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! Check out our website at americanhauntingspodcast.com Want a new episode of American Hauntings every week, plus awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page! Find books by Troy Taylor at americanhauntingsbooks.com Podcast merchandise at ame...
Dec 21, 2023•50 min
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? Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 30 min
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... Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsCl...
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 23
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com Follow us on Twitter @ AmerHauntsPod , @ TroyTaylor1...
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 7Ep. 22
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! Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and dis...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 36 min
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 graduati...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 21
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com Follow us on Twitter @ AmerHauntsPod , @ TroyTaylor13 , @ CodyBeckSTL Follow us on Instagra...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 7Ep. 20
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus ot...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 7Ep. 19
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.co...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 18
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. 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, base...
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 30 min
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. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com Follow us on Twitter @ AmerHauntsPo...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 7Ep. 17
