Margaret Garner and the Impossible Choice
In 1856, an enslaved woman named Margaret Garner fled Kentucky with her family, crossing a frozen Ohio River into Cincinnati in a desperate bid for freedom. But when slave catchers and federal deputie...
9 Feb 52min
The Horrors of Andersonville Prison | Encore Episode
Andersonville Prison, officially known as Camp Sumter, was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War, operating from February 1864 to April 1865 near Andersonville, Georgia. Not...
2 Feb 32min
Introducing: Haunted American History
Haunted American History is a daily campfire-style podcast blending American history, folklore, and original ghost stories. What scares you? Let’s find out! Listen now on your favorite podcasting...
29 Jan 52min
The Mysterious Disappearance of David Lang
In the fall of 1880, a Tennessee farmer named David Lang was said to have vanished in broad daylight, in the middle of his own pasture, with his wife, children, and two visiting men watching from only...
26 Jan 37min
Shadows of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum | Encore Episode
Rising above the hills of Weston, West Virginia, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum stands as one of the most infamous psychiatric hospitals in American history. Originally opened in the mid-19th cent...
19 Jan 32min
Gaines Tavern's History of Horror
Just north of downtown Walton, Kentucky, along an old turnpike that once carried stagecoaches between Lexington and Cincinnati, stands a two-hundred-year-old brick building with a reputation that has ...
12 Jan 33min
The Longfellow House of Pascagoula
The Longfellow House in Pascagoula, Mississippi is an elegant antebellum mansion overlooking the Gulf of Mexico—symmetrical, refined, and seemingly untouched by time. But beneath its pristine façade l...
5 Jan 41min
Introducing: Weird in the Wade
Do you like your spooky stories with some historical context? Do you like your history with a pinch of the paranormal? Then Weird in the Wade is the podcast for you. Weird in the Wade is about all tha...
29 Dec 20251h 3min
