Haunted American History

On a lonely stretch of Route 54, the Great Cypress Swamp turns the Delaware–Maryland border into a wall of black water, twisted roots, and bad stories. In the 1960s, drivers began reporting something impossible in their headlights: a towering, fur-covered creature wielding a club with a railroad spike through the end. It screamed, it charged cars… and then it vanished back into the pines.

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Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch Island in the middle of the Delaware River, was once one of the Civil War’s most notorious Union prison camps, and today, it’s one of the most haunted sites on the East Coast. Thousands of Confederate POWs died there from disease, exposure, and despair, leaving behind a legacy of suffering that locals say never really left the island.

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Glamis Castle in Scotland is famous for its royal history, Shakespearean legends, and ghost stories, but none are more powerful than the tale of the Grey Lady. Long before she became a haunting figure in the castle chapel, Janet Douglas was a noblewoman caught in a deadly political feud with King James V. Accused of witchcraft, tortured by proxy, and burned at the stake while her teenage son was forced to watch, Janet’s story is on...

In the finale of IT: Welcome to Derry, the guys dig into how unexpectedly emotional the ending turned out to be, from the weight of the opening scene to the full scope of Pennywise’s plan. They break down the build-up to the final showdown, the adults’ search for the ceremonial dagger, and how the series gradually shifted from pure horror into something more action-driven without losing its edge.

The conversation also explores Penny...

The Sterling Opera House in Derby, Connecticut, is one of New England’s most haunted and historically complex buildings. Opened in 1889 as a grand cultural landmark, it hosted performers like Harry Houdini, John Philip Sousa, and Amelia Earhart. Also, it hid a whole police station and jail directly beneath the stage. While audiences applauded upstairs, criminals sat locked in the cells below.

In this episode, we explore the opera ho...

Dudleytown is internet royalty in the world of haunted places. Search the name and you’ll find the “Village of the Damned,” a cursed valley where birds refuse to sing, colonists went mad in droves, and a Tudor-era beheading supposedly poisoned an entire bloodline. The Warrens called it demonically possessed. Ghost hunters sneak past the “Dark Entry” signs at night hoping to feel the silence press in on their ears.

But the real story...

In the winter of 1939, something started screaming in the woods of South Glastonbury. Goats were ripped apart in their pens, dogs vanished from frozen yards, and hunters swore they’d glimpsed a black, low-slung creature that moved like liquid through the hurricane-torn timber. It wasn’t a dog. It wasn’t a cat. It was something in between, and the Hartford Courant gave it a name that stuck: the Glawackus.

But the real story is strang...

The people of East Haddam have lived with a problem most towns never have to think about: the ground itself screams. For centuries, residents around Mount Tom and Moodus have reported sudden, deafening booms that shake houses, topple stone walls, and roll across the Connecticut River Valley like artillery fire from an invisible war. The Wangunk called it Machimoodus - “the place of bad noises.” The Puritans blamed God. Later genera...

The White Lady of Easton isn’t just a campfire tale. She steps into the road. She dents steel. And for some drivers on Route 59, she changes the color of the world itself.

For decades, witnesses have reported a woman in white drifting out of Union Cemetery, a colonial burial ground with a reputation that spans from Connecticut folklore to the files of the Warrens. Police officers, firefighters, commuters… all describing the same fig...

Borley Rectory in Essex has been called many things: England’s most haunted house, a Gothic tragedy come to life, a fraud, a furnace, and a mirror for whatever fears people carried inside its walls. Families saw nuns gliding along garden paths. Servant bells rang in empty rooms. Walls filled with messages begging for help. And when the house finally burned in 1939, witnesses swore a woman stood in the flames, untouched.

But the real...

In this episode of the Haunted Review, the hosts delve into the seventh episode of IT: Welcome to Derry, titled 'The Black Spot.' The guys explore the flashback to 1908 featuring Bob Gray as Pennywise, discuss the character dynamics and emotional depth, and highlight the significant improvements in special effects and storytelling.

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In the early 1990s, the Lee family moved into their dream home deep in Colorado’s Black Forest, five acres of quiet, towering pines, and distance from the world. What they found instead was a living nightmare. A home filled with orchestral music that played from empty rooms, chains dragging across empty floors, burning chemical fumes, and streaks of intelligent light moving through walls. Their security system was tripped over sixt...

Gold Camp Road in Colorado Springs has a reputation that stretches far beyond its crumbling tunnels and red-dust switchbacks. Teenagers swear the ghosts of dead schoolchildren push their cars uphill. Visitors hear screams in the dark. And the collapsed Tunnel #3 has become a shrine to a tragedy that never happened.

But the real story is stranger. And darker.

In this episode, we dig into the true history of the Gold Camp Tunnels, the ...

In the winter of 1874, six men entered the San Juan Mountains. Only one came out, well-fed, healthy, and carrying the belongings of the others. This is the disturbing, tangled truth behind Alfred Packer, the Colorado Cannibal. Was he a murderer, a survivor, or something far more unsettling? Join me as we dig into the legend, the trials, the myths, and the forensic evidence that still haunts Dead Man’s Gulch.

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Beneath the lawns of Cheesman Park and the winding paths of the Denver Botanic Gardens lies one of the darkest stories in Colorado history. In 1893, an undertaker’s greed turned a cemetery relocation into a scene of horror, a scandal known as “The Work of Ghouls.” Thousands of bodies were left behind, and for more than a century, ghostly encounters have echoed through the neighborhood. This is the true tale of the City of the Dead,...

High in Colorado’s Wet Mountain Valley, a lonely cemetery glows with mysterious blue lights... dancing orbs that have baffled miners, teenagers, scientists, and even National Geographic for more than a century. In this episode, we uncover the boom-town history behind Silver Cliff, the legends, the tragedies, and the science, and why these lights may be the last living heartbeat of a town that refused to die.

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A newly hired air traffic controller experiences something that he has never forgotten. And neither will you.

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In this episode of Haunted Review - 'IT: Welcome to Derry', the focus is on generational trauma, particularly the struggles of fathers in the series. Flashbacks to Juniper Hill Asylum reveal dark secrets that impact the characters' lives. Leroy grapples with family issues and the chaos in the town, while the return of the kids introduces new challenges. Character development is emphasized through pacing and interactions, particular...

A grainy security video. Two walking shapes. A mystery that refuses to die.
This episode explores the origins, hoaxes, culture, and legacy of the Fresno Nightcrawler, one of the strangest cryptids of the digital age. Plus, an original Nightcrawler-inspired story that leaves you questioning everything.

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