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History, hauntings, legends, lore, true crime, and the paranormal activities of small-town America. Hosted by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor, Season 6, "Woods & Fields, Dark & Wicked" is now live...
The call came in as a fire. What firefighters found inside was far worse. In March of 1994, three people were discovered dead inside a Westl...
Before rock-n-roll started taking America by storm in the 1950s, you wouldn’t find a minister or holy roller anywhere in the country who did...
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...
After keeping a low profile in the previous decade, the Devil made a comeback in the 1940s, when soon-to-be-war-weary audiences were both di...
On a summer night in 1987, 22-year-old Brenda Sue Bottoms left her home in Auburn, Illinois for a short walk to a nearby tavern. Hours later...
The story of the murderous priest, Hans Schmidt, is one that has been seldom told, even though he may have been one of the most depraved cri...
There has always been something strange about music. It has captured the imaginations of people in ways that nothing else has ever been able...
As John Torrio was dividing up Chicago into territories so that the gangs could fairly supply the city with bootleg liquor, Al Capone was co...
There were few faces as recognizable to anyone with an interest in the occult as his was in the twentieth century. His clean-shaven head and...
A family is slaughtered in their beds. No forced entry. No warning. The only timeline comes from what three children ate for dinner. David H...
American pop culture in the 1920s and 1930s was on the verge of a new sort of entertainment. Cultural shifts and breakthroughs in technology...
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 So...
A mother. A bathtub. A death ruled suspicious. In 2012, Lisa Cutler was found drowned in her Mount Zion, Illinois home while her children sl...
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 everyo...
The strange and sometimes sinister world of America’s homegrown religions, faith movements, and cults is filled with bizarre characters. The...
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. Instea...
The date when a shaft of divine light came down from the heavens and transformed Franz Edmund Creffield from an obscure, backwater evangelis...
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 gan...
On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1895, parishioners at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco were shocked when a closet was opened that co...
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 ni...
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 enterpr...
In 1908, a Pentecostal minister announced to his followers that the Devil was alive and well and interfered with every aspect of human life....
In the early 1980s, Springfield, Illinois learned there was no safe hour. On this episode of American Dread , we examine two unconnected cri...
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...
Nineteenth century America was awash with diabolical imagery. It was everywhere. It was used to link the Devil to everything from immigrants...
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 l...
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 fel...
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...
The nineteenth century marked a great change in American history – it was the age of the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and a time wh...
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 –...
The Puritans and the early colonists found more monsters in America than just witches. The Devil had birthed a variety of what were often ca...
A special “Very Scary Christmas” Episode! Traditional Christmas celebrations in colonial American were much different than they are today. I...
It's that time of year again! Join us as we attempt to avoid going off on wil tangents while we discuss our favorite Horror films of the yea...
The Devil didn’t confine his shenanigans to Salem Village or even the Massachusetts Bay colony in the 1600s. A penchant for hanging and pers...
The terrible incident at Salem was not the last American witch hunt. It was also not the end of Puritan oppression in the region. They would...
In the past on this podcast, we have often asked the question of whether a monster is born or are they made? This might be the episode that...
The fires of the witchcraft allegations burned through the towns and villages of New England during the 1600s, leading to accusations, trial...
In 1987, ten-year-old Amy Rachel Schulz vanished from the quiet town of Kell, Illinois. By morning, her body was found in a rural oilfield —...
A war raged in the Puritan New England of the 1600s with both the indigenous people who first settled the land and against the “Spirits of t...
Riders on the Storm” turned out to be the last song Jim Morrison ever recorded. When the album was finished, he left L.A. for Paris and eith...
American Nightmares begins with the horror at the root of the stories that kept the early settlers huddled around the fire late into the nig...
Our nightmare begins, as all bad dreams do, in the dark. The new show coming to the American Hauntings Podcast Network is AMERICAN NIGHTMARE...
“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...
This Halloween, we discuss our favorite guilty pleasure Horror movies! And we try our best to not judge ourselves and others about the scary...
In October 1985, four-year-old Timothy “TJ” Davison vanished from a grocery store parking lot in Decatur, Illinois — in broad daylight, whil...
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...
In 1987, the Dardeen family’s quiet life in rural Illinois ended in unimaginable horror. A crime so savage, it left investigators speechless...
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,...
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 calle...
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,...