American Hauntings Podcast
Kanaal Besonderhede
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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American Nightmares 24: "The Devil's Music Special Episode: Bobby Fuller"
The Day the Music Died happened February 3, 1959, when a plane crash in Iowa claimed the lives of rock-n-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J...
American Dread - Blood on Route 66: The Service Station Murder
On a cold December morning in 1969, a motorist pulled into an all-night Shell station near Glenarm, Illinois, along old Route 66. Inside, the counter...
American Nightmares 23: "The Devil Goes to the Movies - Part 4"
In the 1960s, Satanic Cinema took on a life of its own. Mostly left behind were the humorous portrayals and worn old tales that had already been told...
Murder in a Flower Shop
“To hell with them Sicilians!”
It was just an off-hand comment – a remark that was usually delivered with a smirk. Dean O’Banion and his North S...
American Dread: The Murder of Kimberly McClaskey
In July of 1983, 17-year-old Kimberly McClaskey vanished while hitchhiking along Route 116 near London Mills, Illinois. The next day, her clothing and...
Episode 22: "The Devil's Music - Part Three"
Based on the episodes that you’ve heard in this series, then you’re likely aware there are many stories of curses, superstitions, and creepy coinciden...
Blood on a Bar Room Floor
Once the smoke cleared from the Cicero elections, Eddie Vogel – the underworld mover and shaker of the town, who gave orders to the mayor and other lo...
Episode 21: "The Devil Goes to the Movies - Part Three"
Filmmakers in the 1950s didn’t completely abandon the dry and dusty lore of the Devil even if it did seem audiences were now much more inclined to see...
American Dread: No Consolation: The Westlawn Slayings
The call came in as a fire. What firefighters found inside was far worse. In March of 1994, three people were discovered dead inside a Westlawn Avenue...
Episode 20: "The Devil's Music - Part Two"
Before rock-n-roll started taking America by storm in the 1950s, you wouldn’t find a minister or holy roller anywhere in the country who didn’t refer...
The Battle For Cicero
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Episode 19: "The Devil Goes to the Movies - Part Two"
After keeping a low profile in the previous decade, the Devil made a comeback in the 1940s, when soon-to-be-war-weary audiences were both diverted and...
American Dread: Vanished in Auburn: The Brenda Bottoms Case
On a summer night in 1987, 22-year-old Brenda Sue Bottoms left her home in Auburn, Illinois for a short walk to a nearby tavern. Hours later, she was...
Trailer for Season 7 Patreon Only Show: "Holy Terror"
The story of the murderous priest, Hans Schmidt, is one that has been seldom told, even though he may have been one of the most depraved criminals in...
Episode 18: "The Devil's Music - Part One"
There has always been something strange about music. It has captured the imaginations of people in ways that nothing else has ever been able to do. Th...
Riddled With Bullets
As John Torrio was dividing up Chicago into territories so that the gangs could fairly supply the city with bootleg liquor, Al Capone was coming into...
Episode 17: "The Wickedest Man in the World"
There were few faces as recognizable to anyone with an interest in the occult as his was in the twentieth century. His clean-shaven head and piercing...
American Dread: The Pizza in Their Stomachs: The Hendricks Family Murders
A family is slaughtered in their beds. No forced entry. No warning. The only timeline comes from what three children ate for dinner.
David Hendr...
Episode 16: "The Devil Goes to the Movies"
American pop culture in the 1920s and 1930s was on the verge of a new sort of entertainment. Cultural shifts and breakthroughs in technology had led t...
American Nightmares 16: "The Devil Goes to the Movies"
American pop culture in the 1920s and 1930s was on the verge of a new sort of entertainment. Cultural shifts and breakthroughs in technology had led t...
Gangs of Chicago
John Torrio was finally exactly where he wanted to be.
With his uncle, Big Jim Colosimo out of the way, his business expanding across the South...
American Dread: Three Minutes Underwater, the Lisa Cutler Story
A mother. A bathtub. A death ruled suspicious.
In 2012, Lisa Cutler was found drowned in her Mount Zion, Illinois home while her children slept...
American Nightmares Episode 16: "The Devil Goes to the Movies, Part One
American pop culture in the 1920s and 1930s was on the verge of a new sort of entertainment. Cultural shifts and breakthroughs in technology had led t...
Eulogy For Big Jim Colosimo
John Torrio was ready when the new Prohibition law went into effect, but he seemed to be the only one. He was waiting impatiently for everyone else to...
Episode 15: "The King of America"
The strange and sometimes sinister world of America’s homegrown religions, faith movements, and cults is filled with bizarre characters. There are man...
American Dread: The Girl Who Never Reached the Door
She was only a few feet from safety.
On a freezing December night in 1975, Carol Ann Rofstad never made it inside her sorority house. Instead, s...
Episode 14: "The Holy Rollers' Sex Cult"
The date when a shaft of divine light came down from the heavens and transformed Franz Edmund Creffield from an obscure, backwater evangelist into Pro...
Torrio
John Torrio was 31 years old when he first came to Chicago to free his uncle by marriage – Big Jim Colosimo – from threats by Black Hand gangsters. Bu...
Episode 13: "The Demon in the Belfry"
On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1895, parishioners at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco were shocked when a closet was opened that contained th...
American Dread: The Hatchet House
How well do you really know your neighbor?
In Decatur, Illinois, 1964, evil didn’t break in—it lived inside the house. On a cold February night,...
James "Big Jim" Colosimo
James “Big Jim” Colosimo ruled the Chicago underworld longer than any man in the city's history. The money he raked in from the many enterprises that...
Episode 12: "Signs, Wonders, and the Satanic Century"
In 1908, a Pentecostal minister announced to his followers that the Devil was alive and well and interfered with every aspect of human life. And he wa...
No Safe Hour: Between Daylight and Darkness
In the early 1980s, Springfield, Illinois learned there was no safe hour.
On this episode of American Dread, we examine two unconnected crimes t...
Live from Dead of Winter 2026
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Episode 11: "The Demon From the Bottomless Pit"
Nineteenth century America was awash with diabolical imagery. It was everywhere. It was used to link the Devil to everything from immigrants to aborti...
Capone
Young Brooklyn thug Al Capone took a cab to Coney Island. As he traveled down Ocean Parkway, he wasn’t surprised to see people practically living on t...
Episode 10: "The Devil Will Pay"
When the headless body of a pregnant young woman was found across the Ohio River from Cincinnati in 1896, the shock of the discovery was felt far beyo...
Season Ten Trailer and Topic Reveal
Season 10- Murder City, is here.
In this season, we'll be taking a trip back in time, to the years of prohibition and telling the story of a cit...
Episode 9: "The Devil Baby"
The nineteenth century marked a great change in American history – it was the age of the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and a time when science...
Episode 8: "Down at the Crossroads"
America’s first settlers were afraid of a lot of things and when they were afraid of something they reflexively connected it to the Devil – whether it...