Pleasing Terrors

Pleasing Terrors

Join acclaimed ghost storyteller Mike Brown for a bi-weekly tour through the shadows of history. The Pleasing Terrors Podcast features stories about haunted places, creepy history, and forgotten folklore.

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February 23, 2026 46 mins

A wax figurine forgotten in museum storage. A book of poems that prophesied a ghost. A woman on a beach who found something she wasn't looking for. In the final episode of the Charleston Gothic series, the investigation returns to where it began — the Dock Street Theatre — and follows the last of three trails through Charleston's tangled relationship with Edgar Allan Poe. Along the way, a century-old literary vision resurfaces, a f...

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Episode 51: The Unfortunate Pirate

For over a century, "Annabel Lee" has been read as Edgar Allan Poe's final love poem—a haunting elegy to his child bride Virginia, written months before his death. But what if we've been wrong about the poem's true subject all along?

In this episode, Mike follows a trail of evidence from a forgotten 1827 tale about a murderous pirate to the windswept shores of Sullivan's Island, where Poe was stat...

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January 11, 2026 61 mins

CHARLESTON GO...

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December 28, 2025 55 mins

Find the grav...

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December 14, 2025 54 mins

In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern gh...

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The Descent has led us to Charleston, and to a haunted historic theatre ...

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November 4, 2025 49 mins

In this episode we visit the most haunted house of Edgar Allan Poe and then retrace his path to the threshold of a secret world.

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October 20, 2025 70 mins

In this episode we continue our search fo...

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October 6, 2025 45 mins

In this episode we embark on a search for the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, guided by Henry David Thoreau and the mystery of the Hollow Earth. Our quest begins with a visit to a haunted saloon and an apartment building that is hiding a dark past.

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December 21, 2022 47 mins

The conclusion of the three part series which combines history, ghosts, true crime and fairytales.

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December 10, 2022 52 mins

The second episode in a three part series about one of Charleston's lost stories. It is a true story that combines history, true crime, ghosts and fairy tales. 

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November 30, 2022 52 mins

This is the first in a three part series about one of Charleston, South Carolina's lost stories. It combines history, ghosts, true crime,  amd fairytales.

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March 29, 2021 47 mins

This episode features the untold story of the origin of King Kong.

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October 30, 2020 60 mins

This episode tells a story about pirates and a haunted dungeon.

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July 24, 2020 47 mins

This episode tells the story of the Charleston mermaid.

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October 23, 2019 46 mins

This is a story about a German fairytale and a brutal murder in northwestern Georgia. 

 

Suggested reading:

The Corpsewood Manor Murders In North Georgia by Amy Petulla

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September 17, 2019 34 mins

This a story about the Titanic, Victorian sex trafficking and a mummy's curse.

 

 

 

 

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Haunted houses, midnight witchcraft and famous murder in historic Savannah, Georgia.

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February 21, 2019 33 mins

In this episode I visit some of Savanah's most haunted locations. 

 

Suggested Reading:

Haunted Savanah: America's Most Spectral City by James Caskey

Haunted Savannah by Georgia R. Byrd

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August 24, 2018 31 mins

Harry Houdini and the Halloween Séance. 

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