From the rhythmic hum of a Welsh hymn that accidentally named a city to the oxblood leather "Death Couch" where a Vice President still lingers, Bangor, Maine, is a place where history refuses to stay buried. Join us as we explore the uncanny intersections of the "Queen City's" past, uncovering the chilling 100-year bureaucratic odyssey of Sarah Ware’s remains and the spectral statesmen who haunt its library rotunda. We’ll peel back the polite Victorian veneer to find the echoes of accidental towns, brutal mysteries, and the restless spirits left in their wake—plus, Allen weighs in on the big question: has he ever actually seen a ghost?

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In this episode, we’re heading into the backwoods of the Upper Cumberland to talk about an infamous Confederate guerilla fighter, Champ Ferguson. While high-profile rebel calvarymen like Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Hunt Morgan were out leading grand cavalry charges, Champ was fighting a much dirtier, much more personal kind of war in the mountains. He wasn't a general in a plumed hat; he was a farmer with a Bowie knife and a long list of people he wanted dead. We’re breaking down his journey from a quiet Kentucky local to the "Butcher of the Mountains," the gruesome trial that captivated the nation, and the persistent rumors that the man who swung from the Nashville gallows wasn't actually Champ at all. Whether he was a cold-blooded killer or just a man pushed to the edge, his ghost still haunts the Tennessee treeline.

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Today we are diving into the darkness of New York City to prove that real-life monsters are far scarier than anything you’ll see on a movie screen. We’re revisiting the summer of 1981, when New Yorkers realized that while they were lining up for Friday the 13th, a very real "Lower Manhattan Slasher" was stalking the subways and parks with a razor. From there, we cross the water to Staten Island to peel back the layers of the "Cropsey" legend—the campfire ghost story that turned out to be a horrific reality living in the shadows of the decaying Willowbrook State School. It’s a reminder that the boogeyman doesn't need a mask when he’s hiding in plain sight.

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From the gruesome shoes of "Big Nose" George Parrott to the arsenic-laced hospitality of Polly Bartlett and the tragic, rising tides of the submerged town of Kane, Wyoming’s history is written in blood and bone. This isn't the postcard-perfect West; it’s a journey into the "truth over what you want to hear," where outlaws are made into footwear, serial killers become folk legends, and the ghosts of the Bighorn Basin refuse to stay buried beneath the reservoir. Join us as we peel back the layers of frontier justice and isolation to explore the macabre reality of the High Plains—a place where the wind doesn't just howl; it remembers every crime.

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In this episode, we explore some of the darkest corners of Salt Lake City’s history, beginning with the spectacular downfall of Territorial Governor John W. Dawson, whose flight from a scandalous assault led to the exposure of Jean Baptiste, Utah’s most prolific and macabre grave robber. We follow the trail of the "shroud thief" to his medieval branding and exile on a lonely desert island, before fast-forwarding to the modern-day mystery of the "Victim of the Beast 666" headstone. Breaking through the urban legends of Satanic cults, we reveal the poignant and bitter truth behind Lilly Gray’s infamous grave—a story not of demonic possession, but of one man’s lifelong, stone-carved vendetta against the government.

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Beyond the salty air and the shifting sands of the Carolina coast lies a history written in blood, silence, and unexplained phenomena. This episode deconstructs three of the region’s most enduring enigmas through the lens of objective fact and forensic evidence. We begin in 1901 at the Cropsey home, where a young lady vanished from her porch, only to reappear five weeks later in the Pasquotank River—not as a drowning victim, but as a murder case that ended in a suicide and a secret taken to the grave. We then track the 110-year history of the Maco Light, a phenomenon so consistent it drew the attention of President Grover Cleveland and the U.S. Coast Guard, only to vanish forever when the rails were torn from the earth in 1977. Finally, we board the Carroll A. Deering, a five-masted schooner found abandoned on Diamond Shoals with a meal on the stove and a missing crew. From the "blackjack" club of a Sheriff’s son to the verified logs of military investigators, we separate the folklore from the cold, hard reality of the "Graveyard of the Atlantic."

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In this episode, we venture deep into the jagged peaks and shadowed hollows of North Carolina to uncover the state’s most enduring supernatural mysteries, from the scientifically defiant Brown Mountain Lights to the sterile, cursed soil of the Devil’s Tramping Ground. We pivot from geological anomalies to the chilling world of Appalachian folklore, tracing the dark legacies of mountain "queens" like the Witch of Roan Mountain, whose reign of terror was allegedly ended by a silver bullet and a pioneer's camera, and Mother Nance of Macon County, a woman said to possess the power to warp human flesh and tame charging beasts with a single glare. Blending historical record with oral tradition, this journey explores the thin, misty line where ancient superstition meets modern reality in the heart of the Blue Ridge.

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In this episode we are exploring the chilling intersection of history and folklore across the humid hollows of Tennessee and Alabama. From the "White Thang"—a screaming, pale anomaly that mimics the cries of a baby—to the suffocating nighttime embrace of Abbeville’s "Huggin' Molly," the podcast investigates the regional boogeymen that haunt the Southern landscape. Whether it’s a man-eating serpent in the Coosa River or a cursed witch stalking Hinds Road, these tales go beyond simple campfire stories to examine the consistent, unsettling accounts that have terrified generations.

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