- 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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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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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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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.
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LIVE from Dead of Winter 2024!
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The Myrtles Plantation, located in the small town of Saint Francisville, Louisiana holds the rather dubious record of hosting more ghostly phenomena than just about any other house in the country. But what could be more dubious than the honor itself?
Well, that would be the questionable history that's long been presented to explain why the house is so haunted in the first place.
Known for decades as one of the most haunted houses in America, the Myrtles attracts an almost endless stream of visitors each year, many of whom come searching for ghosts -- and there seems to be little doubt that the house is haunted. It's the reason for the haunting that's been called into question. For several generations, tales have been told that are blatantly false. However, the Myrtles, according to hundreds of people who've encountered the resident spirits, is indeed haunted, just not for the reasons we've been told.
A simple check of historical records reveals the true story, which you're just about to hear. As is often the case, the true story is not as sensational as the story everyone, including myself, grew up with. But it's still strange and macabre. The history of the plantation is filled with death, tragedy, and despair, which leads us to wonder why the fanciful history was created in the first place.
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In this special bonus episode, Troy Taylor introduces his upcoming book, UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, with the chilling tale of "The Wife Who Lost Her Head. After a headless body is found alongside a California highway, the police start search looking through missing person's reports in hopes of learning her identity -- only to find the only woman missing who matched the description of the corpse was the wife of one of their own!
UNTIL DEATH DO US PART is Troy Taylor's American history of love, murder, and insanity with stories of murderous couples, violent ends, “lonely hearts killers,” monsters, ghosts, “black widows,” “bluebeards,” obsessed stalkers, meat cleaver waving madwomen, and a lot more!
The new book is out on February 10 at our annual Dead of Winter food drive at the Mineral Springs in Alton, Illinois, or you can order autographed copies online starting February 12!
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy31m | Jan 26, 2024 - INTRODUCING SEASON 8: "HOME"
Introducing Season 8 of the American Hauntings Podcast, which goes in search of America's Murder Houses, where the spirits of the past still linger behind. In this season, we’ll be taking you behind the locked doors of both famous and little-known places, where murder, violence, and brutal events occurred and have left a mark on the house as a haunting.
We'll have at least 23 murder houses on our list – each with its own unique story of homicide, horror, and a haunting. This will be the most gruesome and ghost-filled season of the podcast so far and we’re excited to take you on a coast-to-coast journey in search of the true stories that crime has left behind.
You are not going to want to miss a single episode because there’s never going to be any way for you to know just what door we’ll be unlocking next.
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy14m | Jan 23, 2024 - (BONUS) Return to Villisca and the Newton Murders of 1898
Hey, it's bonus episode that takes listeners back a couple of years to our season on the Villisca Ax Murders and explores the serial killer that Troy believes committed the murders in Iowa, as well as five other towns across the Midwest. But this episode is a little different since we'll also take a look at the grim anniversary of the Newton Murders in Massachusetts, that other authors believe may be linked to Villisca. What do you think? Listen to his bonus show and delve into the stories!
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy26m | Jan 8, 2024 - EPILOGUE: THE FINAL DISAPPEARANCE OF SEASON 7
Throughout the past year, we’ve introduced you to a very strange collection of stories about people who have gone missing – disappeared without a trace, never to return. But as an end of the year "thank you" for all the great feedback, story ideas, texts, emails, and support that we’ve gotten from you this season, we wanted to offer you one last story.
We’ll warn you though – this isn’t your typical missing person story. This one has a bit of a twist, which is why I wanted to save it to the very end.
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy12m | Dec 24, 2023 - End-of-the-Year Scary Movie Countdown Show
Join Troy for a countdown of the best horror films of 2023 - a recording of a Facebook Live event on December 20. Find out what scared us the most in 2023 and what movies you need to look out for -- and avoid -- during the spooky winter days ahead!
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy50m | Dec 21, 2023 - The Christmas Mystery (The Mystery of the Sodder Family)
Of all the stories that we have featured during this season of the podcast, this one may be one of the strangest. It’s a story of holiday heartbreak and tragedy and of five children who went missing from their West Virginia home on a cold December night.
Or is it?
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy1h 29m | Dec 19, 2023 - The Missing Reporter (The Mysterious Disappearance Of Jodi Huisentruit)
Someone who was watching the KIMT-TV news on the morning of June 27, 1995, might have noticed that the popular anchor Jodi Huisentruit wasn’t behind the news desk that day but they might not have thought much about it. They had no idea that anything strange was happening...
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This will not be the last episode to feature a missing child – or missing children, in this case, teenagers – this season, but these stories are two of the most heartbreaking, so get ready for another tough one.
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy1h 31m | Nov 14, 2023 - Our Favorite Road Trip Horror Movies (Halloween 2023)
This Halloween Season, we are discussing our favorite Road Trip Horror Movies, including:
- Joy Ride (2001)
- Duel (1971)
- Vacancy (2007)
- The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
- Wrong Turn (2003)
- House of Wax (2005)
- The Houses October Built (2014)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- Race With The Devil (1975)
- Jeepers Creepers (2001)
- The Hitcher (1968)
- & more!
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy1h 36m | Oct 31, 2023 - The Vanishing of the Springfield Three
It was on June 6 of that year when two Missouri teenagers and one of their mothers vanished without a trace after a graduation ceremony and have never been seen again. There was no valid reason for the three of them to disappear. They weren’t running from anything or looking for a new life. They’d just celebrated the event of a lifetime and had everything to live for.
So, where did the three of them go? And why have they never been found? We don’t know. The shocking and tragic events of graduation night have created a haunting mystery that remains unsolved to this day.
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy1h 24m | Oct 24, 2023 - Changeling: The Disappearance Of Walter Collins
On March 10, 1928, Los Angeles mother Christine Collins was faced with every parent’s worst fear – the disappearance of her child. Her son, Walter, vanished that afternoon.
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Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy1h 20m | Oct 17, 2023 - The Disappearance Of Amy Lynn Bradley
On March 24, 1998, a young woman named Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship while it was on its way to Curacao. Cruises seem to be an escape from reality, but crime happens on board, too. Most reported crimes are, unfortunately, sexual assaults but other things can happen, just like anywhere when you put that many people into one confined space.
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When the Jamison family of Eufala, Oklahoma, vanished in October 2009, it got the attention of the entire country. They seemingly disappeared without a trace one night, which was strange enough, but the story that led up to their disappearance was outright bizarre.
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Much has changed at the Mineral Springs since it opened more than a century ago, but if you stand in the lobby – when the lighting is just right – you almost expect to see guests in old-fashioned clothing as they hurry past on their way to a mineral cure or to have a cocktail in the hotel bar.
And if the stories are true – they still do.
Join us in this special 10-episode "on the side" season as we revisit new and updated stories from our very first season of the podcast on Alton, Illinois, based on the new edition of HAUNTED ALTON by Troy Taylor, available below.
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