The Desert That Never Forgets: The Nazca Lines (Peru)
Stretching across the Peruvian desert are thousands of enormous lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures so vast they can only truly be a...
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Haunted American History
Frightening stories that folklore inspires. Join host Christopher Feinstein on a journey to discover the history behind American Folklore and the campfire stories they inspire. Sometimes gor...
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20 of 462 episodesThe Devil in Petticoats: Becky Cotton (South Carolina)
In 1807, a woman stood laughing on the courthouse steps in Edgefield, South Carolina. Moments later, her own brother walked across the squar...
The Faces in the Water: The Ghost Pirates of Charleston (South Carolina)
For more than 300 years, Charleston has whispered the same warning: don't look into the rainwater on Water Street after dark. They say the f...
The Headless Soldier in Room 8: 20 South Battery (South Carolina)
Charleston's Battery is one of the most photographed streets in America, lined with elegant mansions overlooking the harbor. But hidden behi...
The Gardens That Remember Everything: Magnolia Plantation (South Carolina)
Magnolia Plantation is often celebrated as one of the most beautiful gardens in America. Couples marry beneath its moss-draped oaks, tourist...
The Serial Killer Who Never Was: Lavinia Fisher (South Carolina)
Charleston's Old City Jail is one of the most haunted buildings in America—or so the ghost tours claim. Nearly every story begins with Lavin...
The Ghost Ship That Never Was: The Mary Celeste (Atlantic Ocean)
The most famous ghost ship in history never had steaming cups of tea, half-eaten meals, or a ticking clock left behind. Those details were i...
The Hearts They Burned: The New England Vampire Panic (New England)
In 1990, archaeologists uncovered a colonial grave in Connecticut unlike anything they had ever seen. The skeleton had been carefully rearra...
The Execution That Ended the Gallows: The Murder of Amasa Sprague (Rhode Island)
On New Year's Eve 1843, Rhode Island's most powerful industrialist was found brutally beaten to death along the Pocasset River. His pockets...
The School That Became a Prison: Ladd School (Rhode Island)
Hidden deep in the forests of Rhode Island stood one of America's largest institutions for people with developmental disabilities. For decad...
The Ghost the Government Recorded: Ramtail Mill (Rhode Island)
Deep in the forests of western Rhode Island lies the forgotten site of the Ramtail Mill, where locals once claimed a dead night watchman ref...
The Ship That Never Stopped Burning: The Palatine Light (Rhode Island)
For nearly three centuries, sailors have reported a mysterious flame rising from the waters off Block Island... a ghostly ship said to burn...
The Story That Haunted America: The Conjuring House (Rhode Island)
The Conjuring made this Rhode Island farmhouse one of the most famous haunted houses in the world. Millions know the story of the Perron fam...
The Lighthouse That Waits for Justice: Gibraltar Point Lighthouse (Ontario)
On Toronto's quiet islands stands Canada's oldest lighthouse... and one of its most haunted. For more than two centuries, visitors have repo...
The Mountain That Collected Misery: Hexenkopf Rock (Pennsylvania)
For centuries, the people of eastern Pennsylvania believed there was a hill where you could leave your sickness behind. Not cure it... leave...
The Dark Truth About Pennhurst: Pennhurst State School (Pennsylvania)
For decades, the abandoned buildings of Pennhurst State School and Hospital have been called one of America's most haunted places. Visitors...
The Child They Couldn't Erase: The Boy in the Box (Pennsylvania)
For sixty-five years, America knew him by only one name: The Boy in the Box. A brutally abused little boy, abandoned in a cardboard bassinet...
The Battlefield That Won't Let Go: Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
Gettysburg is remembered as the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil. More than 51,000 men became casualties in just three days. Bu...
The Apple Thief in the Trees: The Albatwitch (Pennsylvania)
Deep in the forests overlooking Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River, hikers still whisper about a small, hairy creature that watches from the t...
The Theater Built on a Massacre: The Fulton Theatre (Pennsylvania)
Long before the curtain rose on one of America's oldest continuously operating theaters, the land beneath the Fulton Theatre ran red with bl...