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American Shadows

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

American Shadows is a bi-weekly podcast from iHeartRadio and Aaron Mahnke’s Grim & Mild. The show focuses on the darker stories from American history: the people, places, and things that are...

American Shadows Podcast Guide

Listen to American Shadows, a Society & Culture podcast by iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild. Stream 80 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

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Lavender Haze

In the 1950s the United States launched a witch hunt, and it's not at all what you think.

29:12Jul 27, 2023

Hungry For Justice

What would you do when faced with a life-or-death situation? Alferd Packer had to answer this question for himself, and do something that is...

30:28Jul 13, 2023

Like The Wind

When the bicycle was invented it did more than simply change people's lives, leisure and mobility. It ignited a controversy over traditional...

25:57Jun 15, 2023

Louder Than A Riot

The fight for equal rights was long and slow until one day a fight broke out with police, culminating in a riot. What happened next is histo...

28:07Jun 1, 2023

A Deadly Isle

Prussian immigrant Louis Wagner came to America hoping to make a better life for himself. Working as a fisherman in the Isle of Shoals it se...

29:59May 18, 2023

Boneheads

The Gilded Age was a time of opulence and opportunism, an age that turned businessmen into household names. But it also created some of the...

28:05May 4, 2023

Bad Medicine

Thomas Neill Cream wanted nothing more than to leave the family shipping business to become a medical doctor. Having graduated with honors,...

31:09Apr 20, 2023

Anchors Away

Spirits were high that summer’s day as everyone boarded the General Slocum. The passengers were looking forward to their annual picnic just...

26:27Apr 6, 2023

The American Plan

In 1918, the US Government created a plan to track, detain, and imprison women for the STIs brought home from soldiers.

27:19Mar 23, 2023

Cold Case

In the mid 1930s an unidentified killer stalked Kingsbury Run, Ohio. It's a mystery that even Elliott Ness couldn't solve.

27:48Mar 9, 2023

Glorified

When we think of American outlaws, we often think of cowboys and dusty trails in the Wild West. Meet the Ashley Gang who operated out of the...

26:33Feb 23, 2023

Stranger Than Fiction

Every once in a while, there are news stories that are stranger than fiction. In this episode, we meet Ruth and Judd, possibly the worst mur...

26:52Feb 9, 2023

Aloha

Hawaii didn't become a state until 1959. Before then, it was a Republic, but not by choice. A coup by an American fruit corporation staged a...

29:15Jan 26, 2023

Protest

The story of Andrew Kehoe and his opposition to taxes, namely school taxes and the disaster that followed.

27:06Jan 12, 2023

The Mercy Run

Only one thing stood between a town's survival: 674 miles of unforgiving terrain in the worst arctic weather conditions in 20 years. Boats,...

28:19Dec 29, 2022

Lucky

Timothy Dexter was many things — at least to himself. But mostly, he was lucky in the strangest of ways.

26:01Dec 15, 2022

Family Blood

William Beadle had everything he'd dreamed of: a pretty and good-hearted wife, beautiful children, social status, and plenty of wealth. But...

28:24Dec 1, 2022

Works of Art

Edmonia Lewis always loved art. In the 1800s, there weren't many women sculptors. Edmonia wasn't interested in what she couldn't do. She was...

26:31Nov 17, 2022

Roses of War

When men went off to fight in WW II, women did their own part. They worked in factories, played in a women's baseball league, and raised fam...

27:13Nov 3, 2022

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American Shadows is listed as a Society & Culture show by iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild.

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