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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 Murders.

American Hauntings Podcast Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

    • True Crime
    • 4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

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 Murders.

    Taken From Home (The "Lipstick Killer" And The Murder Of Suzanne Degnan)

    Taken From Home (The "Lipstick Killer" And The Murder Of Suzanne Degnan)

    January in Chicago was always brutal. The winter of 1946 was no different. Three murders with one kidnapping in the same area. Were they all the work of one killer? Or was an "innocent" man put away for life while a more brutal killer was still on the loose, living amongst us...?
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    • 1 hr 49 min
    Last Stand Of The Barker Gang

    Last Stand Of The Barker Gang

    There’s a house just outside the town of Ocklawaha, Florida, that stands as one of the most infamous locations in America’s gangland history. It was at this house where the last stand of the Barker gang took place and where Ma Barker and her son, Fred, battled it out with G-men before being shot to death. The violent and blood-soaked battle occurred many decades ago but there are many who believe it’s not quite over for the spirits that still linger behind these walls.
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    • 1 hr 44 min
    The Easter Sunday Massacre

    The Easter Sunday Massacre

    There was nothing unusual about that Easter Sunday in 1975.
    “How’s your Volkswagen, Jimmie?” Leonard asked him.
    James didn’t speak. He answered the question by shooting his brother, setting off a spiral of violence and rage that ended as the deadliest shooting spree to ever occur in a private home in America’s bloody history.
    One that left a grim and troubling haunting behind.
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    • 1 hr 23 min
    Memories Of The Old Slave House

    Memories Of The Old Slave House

    On a windy hill near the small Southern Illinois town of Equality is a decaying mansion that was known for decades as the region’s most haunted house. It was a place dubbed Hickory Hill by its builder and over the years, it’s been many things – a plantation house, farmhouse, a tourist attraction, and many believe, a chamber of horrors for men and women brought to this house in chains. Thanks to the long-standing legend of the terrible things that occurred in the house, locals eventually began referring to it as “The Old Slave House.”
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    • 1 hr 39 min
    Murder At Corpsewood Manor

    Murder At Corpsewood Manor

    Hidden away in the deep, dark woods of the Chattahoochee National Forest was once an isolated mansion that was the object of terror to most of the people who lived in the small town of Summerville, Georgia.
    A terror that lingers to this day.
    It was on the chilly night of December 12 that year that a secluded house became a place of torture and bloodshed.
    The name of the house – Corpsewood Manor – seems like something right out of a horror novel, but on that dark night, the terror was unbelievably real.
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    • 1 hr 16 min
    BONUS EPISODE: Ed Gein, Texas Chainsaw and Your Ghost Stories!

    BONUS EPISODE: Ed Gein, Texas Chainsaw and Your Ghost Stories!

    Introducing the NEW season of DEAD MEN DO TELL TALES, a special spin-off series of the American Hauntings Podcast! With each season of the series, we delve into a single story from the dark side of American history -- except this time.
    In season 4, called DEPRAVED, we’ll actually be delving into two stories at the same time. One will be the true story of the Wisconsin monster, Ed Gein, and the other will be the story behind the making of a film based on his crimes, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE – which became its own special kind of hell.
    You can get every episode of DEPRAVED by becoming a Patreon supporter of American Hauntings, so see the link below and check out the new season -- if you dare!
    Click here to get DEPRAVED and support American Hauntings!
    Also: YOUR messages from the "Haunt Line" and YOUR ghost stories from Dead of Winter 2024!


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    • 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.4K Ratings

1.4K Ratings

loguesmom82 ,

So fun!

I recently took a quick birthday trip to New Orleans to visit St Louis Cemetary when I came back I was still itching to know more about New Orleans I found this podcast that did an entire season on it! So incredibly knowledgeable and fact checking. Not to mention the countless other seasons they have about spooky haunted places. It’s a solid 10 for me. Solid 10.

Arya1862 ,

Oddly inspiring

I found this podcast several years ago when Troy was on Astonish Legends.

Not long after I started listening to the Villisca season. Then went back to the St. Louis season. As at the time I was living in St. Louis and knew nothing of the local paranormal history. Been hooked ever since.

This podcast is great. A perfect blend of historical facts and spooky paranormal. Something I appreciate as both a history nerd and paranormal nerd. The hosts have great chemistry. I try and get everyone to listen to this show and have been pretty successful! Getting my spouse, best friend, and several co-workers to listen regularly.

The show has even inspired a cross stitch design that I created! It’s one of my favorites that I have designed or stitched, based of the “Morbid Curious”.

Can’t say enough good things about the show, and please keep up the good work!

whocaresjim ,

It’s great!

Only complaint is the new habit of adding all the sound effects, those need to stop

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