American Hauntings Podcast
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American Hauntings Podcast
History, hauntings, legends, lore, true crime, and the dark side of American History. Hosted by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor, Season 8, "HOME" is now live. Previous seasons cover Alton, IL, St. Louis, New Orleans, Hollywood, Heartland Horrors and Homicides, missing persons and the Villisca Axe...
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Episode 5: "Fire and Brimstone"
The Devil didn’t confine his shenanigans to Salem Village or even the Massachusetts Bay colony in the 1600s. A penchant for hanging and persecuting th...
Episode 4: "Where the Devil Hides"
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 leave a l...
Frailty
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 finally an...
Episode 3: "The Devil in Salem Village...And Beyond."
The fires of the witchcraft allegations burned through the towns and villages of New England during the 1600s, leading to accusations, trials, and eve...
American Dread: The Murder of Amy Schulz
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 — brutally...
Episode 2" "Spirits of the Invisible World"
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 the Invisib...
The Hitcher
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 either died on...
Episode 1: "Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself"
American Nightmares begins with the horror at the root of the stories that kept the early settlers huddled around the fire late into the night – the D...
Trailer - American Nightmares
Our nightmare begins, as all bad dreams do, in the dark.
The new show coming to the American Hauntings Podcast Network is AMERICAN NIGHTMARES, h...
The Changeling
“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 told him,...
Our Favorite Guilty Pleasure Horror Movies (Halloween 2025)
This Halloween, we discuss our favorite guilty pleasure Horror movies! And we try our best to not judge ourselves and others about the scary movies we...
American Dread: Twenty-Five Minutes: The Vanishing of TJ Davison
In October 1985, four-year-old Timothy “TJ” Davison vanished from a grocery store parking lot in Decatur, Illinois — in broad daylight, while his aunt...
The Possession
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 other man...
American Dread: The Dardeen Family Homicides
In 1987, the Dardeen family’s quiet life in rural Illinois ended in unimaginable horror.
A crime so savage, it left investigators speechless — a...
The Believers and Borderland (and a big announcement!)
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, and a honk...
The Lighthouse
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 called “The Lig...
Veronica
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, who found...
Bonus- American Dread: Horror in Decatur — The Penny Timmons Story
Check out the brand new podcast, American Dread, from Adam White.
On Halloween 1992, 20-year-old Penny Timmons vanished in Decatur, Illinois, le...
Sneak Preview of New Season Coming to Patreon!
NEW PREVIEW OF OUR NEW SHOW ON PATREON!
CANYON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE STARVED ROCK MURDERS
Available ONLY by becoming a Patreon supporter...
Bonus- American Dread: Cold Barrels, Cold Blood
Check out the brand new podcast, American Dread, from Adam White.
Two winters. Two murders. Eighteen years apart.
In Decatur, Illinois, th...
An American Crime
On October 26, 1965, a 16-year-old girl named Sylvia Likens died in Indianapolis from shock, malnutrition, and a brain hemorrhage. She had been tortur...
Bonus- American Dread: The Freeman Murders
Check out the brand new podcast, American Dread, from Adam White.
On a quiet May night in 1976, the city of Decatur, Illinois, was shattered by...
The Entity
The true story of THE ENTITY doesn’t begin with Carla Moran coming home from work one night, it actually started with researchers Barry Taff and Kerry...
The Bell Witch Cave (Bonus episode)
Enjoy this bonus episode about the history and hauntings of The Bell Witch Cave, including Troy's own firsthand tales of his times in the cave!
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Jeepers Creepers
It was Easter Sunday, April 15, 1990, and Ray and Marie Thornton were driving along Snow Prairie Road, a rural highway about 12 miles outside of Coldw...
Jaws
There’s no denying that there are so many similarities between JAWS and the 1916 shark attacks on the Jersey Shore as well as the disaster of the USS...
LIVE From The Haunted America Conference 2025
This year we have some of THE BEST ghost stories from the Haunted America Conference attendees. Check 'em out!
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An American Haunting
The legend of the Bell Witch is one of the greatest ghost stories in American history. It has all the elements of what we have come to think of as a H...
Poltergeist
There isn’t a lot that I can say about this film that you don’t already know – it’s a classic, there’s no two ways about that. It’s not only one of th...
The Haunting in Connecticut
In 1986, the town of Southington, Connecticut, was in an uproar. Normally, a place known for its perfect small-town charm, it had been thrown into a f...
The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It
In 1981, a young man in Connecticut took the idea of the insanity plea to the next level. He claimed that he was innocent of the murder he’d committed...
The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
“It was chaos, things started flying around, people were screaming.”
In 1977, hot on the heels of the publicity they received after the Amityvi...
The Conjuring: Bathsheba, The Warrens, and the Truth
This is, of course, based on a true story. But how true is this story? Well, as you’re just about to hear, NOT VERY. Truth, as they say, is often much...
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Maybe what gets called a DEMON isn’t what the variations of Christian churches thinks it is. Their narrow definition leaves out an awful lot of other...
Badlands
Charles Raymond Starkweather was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on November 24, 1938. He was the third of seven children born to Guy and Helen Starkweathe...
Candyman
On October 16, 1992, one of the greatest horror films of the 1990s -- CANDYMAN -- opened across the country. But it’s the reality that the film is ins...
The Dead Man Walking
On May 2, 1962, a Haitian man named Clairvius Narcisse died of a mysterious illness – or so it seemed at the time.
Then, a little over 18 years...
Live From Dead Of Winter 2025
LIVE from Dead of Winter 2025!
We ended up having to rely on our third audio backup, so, it sounds like a live show. Would you expect anything d...
Conjuring Up Phillip
"The Phillip Experiment" has become known as one of the most famous paranormal studies of all time, so it’s not really that surprising that someone de...
Introducing Season 9: "Based On A True Story"
In this season, we’ll be bringing you real-life horror stories -- of ghosts, demons, hauntings, crime, murder, and the supernatural – and introduce yo...