The Dyatlov Pass Incident (Russia)
In February 1959, nine experienced hikers vanished in the frozen wilderness of the Soviet Union. Weeks later, searchers found their tent aba...
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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 504 episodesThe Missing Child of Rainbow Kids: Brittany Renee Williams (Virginia)
Brittany Renee Williams was seven years old when she disappeared from Henrico County, Virginia, in 2000. She was living with the woman who r...
The Stranger and Veiled Woman of Gadsby's Tavern (Virginia)
In 1816, a mysterious young woman arrived at Alexandria's finest hotel deathly ill, her face hidden behind a black veil. The man claiming to...
The Vampire of Hollywood Cemetery (Virginia)
Hollywood Cemetery is the final resting place of presidents, Confederate soldiers, Richmond's elite—and, according to local legend, a vampir...
The Bones Beneath Jamestown Island (Virginia)
Jamestown is remembered as the first permanent English settlement in America. What's remembered less often is how close it came to becoming...
Twenty-Three Ghosts: The Peyton Randolph House (Virginia)
The Peyton Randolph House stands at the heart of Colonial Williamsburg, once home to the first president of the Continental Congress and gen...
The Most Evil Place in England?: Ancient Ram Inn (England)
For decades, the Ancient Ram Inn has been called one of the most haunted buildings in England—a medieval labyrinth supposedly plagued by dem...
The Fire, the Shotgun, and the Dogs in the Truck: The Dog Team Tavern (Vermont)
For generations of Vermonters, the Dog Team Tavern was the kind of restaurant people remembered for the rest of their lives: enormous prime...
The Car in the Wall: Brianna Maitland (Vermont)
On March 20, 2004, a Vermont State Police trooper found a car backed into the side of an abandoned farmhouse along Route 118. The doors were...
The UFO Encounter They Couldn't Remember: Buff Ledge (Vermont)
On an August evening in 1968, two employees at a Vermont summer camp watched a strange light descend over Lake Champlain. Sixteen-year-old “...
The Curse That Erased the Hayden Family: The Hayden House (Vermont)
In 1823, Mercie Dale lay dying in a Vermont farmhouse convinced that her son-in-law had been poisoning her. Before she died, she supposedly...
The Ghost Story That Changed With The Building : The Everett Mansion (Vermont)
High above Bennington, Vermont, sits a stone mansion that has been a millionaire's private castle, a Catholic seminary, a college, and even...
The House That Became Hill House Anyway: Jennings Hall (Vermont)
For generations of students at Bennington College, Jennings Hall has been the building you don't want to be inside after midnight. Phantom p...
The Devil's Not on Trial: The Fall River Murders (Massachusetts)
Between 1979 and 1980, three young women connected to the same troubled corner of Fall River, Massachusetts were murdered. Doreen Levesque w...
The Murder Blamed on Witches: Jeannette DePalma (New Jersey)
In September 1972, a dog emerged from the woods of Springfield, New Jersey carrying a decomposed human arm. The remains belonged to sixteen-...
The Boy Who Never Made the Bus: Macin Smith (Utah)
On September 1, 2015, seventeen-year-old Macin Smith apparently left his home in St. George, Utah, to catch the school bus. He never arrived...
The Haunted House With a Ghost on Staff: Asylum 49 (Utah)
In Tooele, Utah, there's a haunted attraction that never had to pretend it was an abandoned hospital...because it actually was one. Asylum 4...
The April Fools' Fire: Cottonwood Paper Mill (Utah)
At three in the morning on April Fools’ Day, 1893, the alarm bells at Utah’s Granite Paper Mill began ringing. The people living nearby hear...
The Ghost of the Rio Grande Depot: The Purple Lady (Utah)
For decades, employees and visitors at Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande Depot told stories about the Purple Lady—a young woman supposedly killed...
The Haunted Shore of the Great Salt Lake: Saltair (Utah)
On the shore of Utah's Great Salt Lake sits a concert venue with a strange problem: it seems to have inherited more than a century of histor...