September 8, 2025 • 17 mins
Long before he built his ‘Murder Castle,’ he was just a boy named Herman Mudgett. But even in childhood, the shadows were already there—strange fascinations, disturbing behaviors, and the twisted beginnings of the man who would become America’s first serial killer. In this Macabre Feature, we peel back the layers of H.H. Holmes’ early years, tracing the origins of a monster in the making.
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(00:01):
Welcome, dear listeners, to a special presentation of Macabre,
a dark history podcast. We delve into the shadows of the
past where history's most sinister tales reside.
These are the stories that cannot be confined to a single
episode, narratives that demand a deeper exploration and
(00:22):
immersion into the human condition.
Prepare to immerse yourself in accounts of chilling crimes,
unsolved mysteries, and the darker side of human nature in
this macabre feature. Episode 1 A monster is born, The
(00:44):
making of HH Holmes Gilmanton, New Hampshire.
A quiet place, a place where secrets settle into the soil
like frost, Where winters bite through old wood in silence
clings to the corners of every narrow lane.
On May 16th, 1861, in a simple farmhouse nestled among rocky
(01:09):
hills, a baby boy entered the world.
He was given the name Herman Webster Mudget, but the world
would later come to know him by a different name.
A name that would echo throughout the years as
America's first serial killer, HH Holmes.
(01:29):
But before he became America's first documented serial killer,
before the dark quarters of the three story Murder Castle and
the labyrinth of horrors in Chicago, Herman Webster Mudget
was just a boy. A boy shaped by hands, both
cruel and devout, Herman was thethird of five children born to
(01:54):
Levi Horton Mudgett and TheodatePaige Price.
The Mudges for a family of Old English stock, well respected in
their community, descended from early settlers who arrived with
Puritan values that would shape New England for centuries.
His father, Levi, was a strict Methodist, a temperance
(02:16):
advocate, and a farmer by trade.He was also sometimes house
painter and a postmaster, alwaysseeking work to support his
growing family. But the most enduring image of
Levi was his stern presence. Levi was known for his heavy
hand and his unyielding discipline.
He believed that sparing the rodspoiled the child, and he
(02:39):
wielded his authority like a sight.
It was said that Levi would punish his children for the
smallest of infractions. A misplaced tool, a spilled
glass of milk, a glance that lingered too long on the horizon
instead of the work at hand. His mother, Theodate, was a
figure carved from the same coldstone.
(03:02):
Deeply religious, she often retreated into her faith with an
intensity that bordered on fanaticism.
She prayed over her children constantly, filling the
farmhouse air with whispered supplications and warnings of
Hellfire. When Herman was afraid of the
dark, of illness, of his father's rage, his mother didn't
(03:25):
soothe him with children's lullabies or warm embraces.
Instead, she prayed. She turned fear into a weapon, a
tool to bend him towards righteousness, or what she
believed righteousness to be. The walls of their home were
rumored to be plastered with handwritten Bible verses, a
(03:47):
reminder that sin was ever present and that God's watchful
eyes never closed. From a young age, Herman was
different. Neighbors noted how still he
was, how his large, pale blue eyes seem to absorb everything
around him. One of his eyes was afflicted
with strabismus, a condition which prevented his eyes from
(04:10):
aligning, known at the time as aturn of the eye.
It is believed that this affliction might have isolated
Hermann in early childhood from his peers because he couldn't
look them directly in the eye. Hermann was a loner.
While other children roughhousedand haunted frogs, Hermann
(04:31):
observed their actions, and sometimes he watched a little
too closely. Stories began to circulate about
the young boy who lured small animals into the woods and
returned alone, his clothes oddly tidy, his expression
unreadable. Soon after, bones would be
(04:52):
found, small, delicate bones cleaned of their flesh, hidden
in crates or beneath the floorboards of his home.
But no one seemed to care about what we would now view as a
precursor to more sinister behavior, the common
characteristics that define the early makings of a serial
killer. There's no record of anyone
(05:13):
confronting Herman about this behavior.
In those days, children's oddities were often dismissed as
passing phases or left to the iron will of the father to
correct. But for Herman, it was more than
just a phase. It was the beginning of an
obsession. There's one story about Herman's
(05:33):
childhood that stands out among the local lore.
When Herman was around 10, he went exploring with a friend in
an old abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of Gilmanton, The
kind of place children dared each other to enter.
A forbidden location with floorboards, half rotted,
staircases missing entire steps,air thick with dust, The ghosts
(05:57):
of harvest long past. It is whispered that Herman's
friend never made it out of the abandoned building alive.
The official story called it a tragic accident.
The boy had fallen from a high beam and broken his neck, a
heartbreaking but not unheard offate in rural New England.
(06:20):
But whispers in Gilmanton told another version.
Some said Herman had led the boyup to the rafters, urging him to
look out a window at the fields below.
Others claimed Herman was the last one seen near the boy, his
pale face expressionless as the body was discovered.
(06:42):
Whether or not he was pushed, whether or not it was a true
murder or an accident, we may never know.
But for those who knew young Herman, this event planted an
irreversible seed of suspicion. Then came the incident that
changed everything, the skeletonincident.
(07:06):
Herman had always harbored a deep fear of doctors and
anything associated with death, as most children do.
Perhaps it was the tales his mother told of eternal damnation
or the terror that followed Levi's harsh punishments.
One day, a group of older boys decided to play a cruel prank on
(07:27):
Herman. They knew he was afraid.
They dragged him, protesting andterrified, into the office of a
local doctor. In the center of that sterile
room stood a human skeleton, it's bones yellowed and it's
skull tilted as if forever laughing at the living.
(07:47):
The boys expected to see Herman collapse in tears and scream in
terror, but instead he fell silent.
What he did next shocked the very boys who meant to torment
him. Herman stepped forward, raised
his hand and touched the skeletons Bony fingers.
(08:07):
A quiet curiosity marked his countenance.
With his fingertips steady, he began to trace the lines, the
joints, the hollows of the rib cage with a fascination so
intense that it unsettled the other boys.
They fled in horror, leaving Herman alone with his new muse.
(08:28):
In that moment, Herman's fear was diminished and a new
obsession was born. He would later describe this
encounter as a revelation and the very point at which death
ceased to be an abstract punishment or a ghostly threat
and instead became an object of study, something to be
(08:48):
controlled, dissected, and understood.
After that incident, Herman began to change.
He spent more time alone in the woods, meticulously dissecting
frogs and small mammals. He preserved the bones,
experimented with boiling methods, learn to scan and de
(09:09):
flesh specimens with the precision of a surgeon.
He wasn't merely killing for sport, he was learning.
Teachers noted his sharp intelligence.
He excelled at school, especially in subjects like
mathematics and science. But he had few friends.
He was too precise, too watchful. 1 schoolmate would
(09:31):
later describe him as oddly polite yet cold behind the eyes.
At home, things were no better. Levi's punishments became
harsher As Herman grew older andmore defiant, he learned to mask
his emotions, to protect himselfby manipulating the adults
around him. At home, things were no better.
(09:56):
Levi's punishments became harsher As Herman grew older and
more defiant. He learned to mask his emotions,
to protect himself by manipulating the adults around
him. In this, he realized something
critical Control equals survival.
Manipulation equals power, and those lessons stayed with him
(10:19):
long after he left the small town of Gilmanton.
In 1877, at the age of 16, Herman enrolled in Phillips
Exeter Academy, one of the most prestigious preparatory schools
in New England. His family saw this as a chance
for him to escape his rural roots and build a respectable
(10:40):
future. But Exeter was no less isolating
for young Herman. Wealthy classmates mocked him
for his rural background and odddemeanor.
It was here he first began to experiment with his charm, his
ability to convince and to perform because he had to in
order to survive. Despite the teasing, he excelled
(11:04):
academically and set his sights on the future.
He would study medicine, but before he went off to medical
school, at the age of just 17, he married Clara Lovering, the
daughter of a local New Hampshire farmer.
Clara was described as sweet, trusting and perhaps a little
naive. Within a year, she gave birth to
(11:26):
their son, Robert Lovering Mudgett.
But fatherhood did not round Herman.
Instead, it seemed to spur him further towards escape, like a
rat caught in a trap. In 1879, he was ready to leave
everything, Clara, his infant son, and his past behind.
(11:47):
It was then that he set his sights on medical school.
He left New Hampshire and entered the University of
Vermont in Burlington to study medicine.
But he found the environment lacking for his desires for an
extensive education and soon transferred to the University of
Michigan's Department of Medicine and Surgery in 1882.
(12:10):
The University of Michigan was at the time one of the country's
top medical schools. Here Herman found his true
calling, the study of anatomy. The section labs filled with the
smell of formaldehyde and the quiet horror of cadaver eyes
staring blankly at the ceiling. But for Herman, these rooms were
(12:31):
not frightening. They were liberating.
Here, death was not to be feared, but wielded.
He began to understand the fragility of the human body and
the many ways it could be dismantled, altered, repurposed.
He also discovered an even more profitable application of his
new skills, insurance fraud. And so his list of criminal
(12:55):
offenses began to grow. During this time, he started
stealing cadavers from the university lab.
After all, cadavers were in highdemand at competing medical
schools. Surely no one would miss a
cadaver or two. He saw this as an opportunity
for profit, but he was no fool. He would mutilate the corpses to
(13:17):
make identification impossible and then stage them as accident
victims in an elaborate insurance scam.
He'd take out policies on fictional identities, then
collect the insurance money upontheir deaths.
The payouts were substantial enough to fund his growing
appetite for luxury fine suits, lavish dinners, and expensive
(13:41):
travel. Outwardly, he was a dedicated
student, a young man with a bright future which charmed his
fellow classmates and professors.
But beneath that shiny veneer lurked a manipulator who is
simply honing his craft. But he did not excel at his home
life. His relationship with Clara
deteriorated. She and their son moved back to
(14:04):
New Hampshire, and Holmes severed all contact, leaving his
wife emotionally and financiallystranded.
He was now free to pursue new romantic entanglements.
Holmes discovered he could weaponize charm as easily as he
wielded A scalpel. It was during his time in
Michigan that he perfected the art of forging documents.
(14:25):
Death certificates, letters of introduction, insurance
paperwork. He could create them all, and
often did. Holmes also learned to read
people, to sense when a lie would land and when it would
collapse. These skills would become his
deadliest tools. He wasn't content to simply
defraud companies or skip out ondebts.
(14:47):
He was practicing something deeper, seeing how far he could
push the boundaries of deceptionbefore the world pushback.
By the time he graduated in 1884, Herman Webster Mudget had
already become someone else entirely.
His birth name was too plain, too rural, too vulnerable.
(15:10):
It was then that he adopted a new identity, Doctor Henry
Howard Holmes. Under this name, he would enter
Chicago, a city pushing with ambition and vice, and transform
it into his personal hunting ground.
Behind him, he left a trail of unpaid bills, broken hearts and
vanished acquaintances, but no one pursued him too far.
(15:34):
He was always charming, always moving, always changing.
Wherever he went, there was a pattern.
A missing person. A fraudulent insurance claim.
A new alias. The man who left New Hampshire
as a haunted boy had become a man wholly devoted to his own
advancement, whatever the cost. Before he was a monster, he was
(15:58):
just a boy molded by cruelty andobsession.
Before he built his castle of horrors, he built himself a
child born in frost and Bible verses, a young man who learned
to love the smell of formaldehyde more than the
warmth of a family hearth. And when he boarded that train
bound for Chicago, he wasn't just searching for fortune.
(16:20):
He was searching for a Kingdom. A Kingdom where he could reign
as judge, jailer, and executioner.
And so he set his sights on the bustling streets of Chicago, a
city unprepared for the horror he would bring.
The devil had found his playground.
Next time on Macabre, we follow homes to the Windy City.
(16:44):
We watch as the blueprints form and walls rise.
We witnessed the creation of a place so monstrous it will
become known as the Murder Castle.
I do hope you join me for the next episode.
This has been a special presentation, a macabre feature.
Until next time, stay safe, staycurious, and keep it macabre.
Welcome, dear listeners, to a special presentation of Macabre,
a dark history podcast. We delve into the shadows of the
past where history's most sinister tales reside.
These are the stories that cannot be confined to a single
episode, narratives that demand a deeper exploration and
(00:22):
immersion into the human condition.
Prepare to immerse yourself in accounts of chilling crimes,
unsolved mysteries, and the darker side of human nature in
this macabre feature. Episode 1 A monster is born, The
(00:44):
making of HH Holmes Gilmanton, New Hampshire.
A quiet place, a place where secrets settle into the soil
like frost, Where winters bite through old wood in silence
clings to the corners of every narrow lane.
On May 16th, 1861, in a simple farmhouse nestled among rocky
(01:09):
hills, a baby boy entered the world.
He was given the name Herman Webster Mudget, but the world
would later come to know him by a different name.
A name that would echo throughout the years as
America's first serial killer, HH Holmes.
(01:29):
But before he became America's first documented serial killer,
before the dark quarters of the three story Murder Castle and
the labyrinth of horrors in Chicago, Herman Webster Mudget
was just a boy. A boy shaped by hands, both
cruel and devout, Herman was thethird of five children born to
(01:54):
Levi Horton Mudgett and TheodatePaige Price.
The Mudges for a family of Old English stock, well respected in
their community, descended from early settlers who arrived with
Puritan values that would shape New England for centuries.
His father, Levi, was a strict Methodist, a temperance
(02:16):
advocate, and a farmer by trade.He was also sometimes house
painter and a postmaster, alwaysseeking work to support his
growing family. But the most enduring image of
Levi was his stern presence. Levi was known for his heavy
hand and his unyielding discipline.
He believed that sparing the rodspoiled the child, and he
(02:39):
wielded his authority like a sight.
It was said that Levi would punish his children for the
smallest of infractions. A misplaced tool, a spilled
glass of milk, a glance that lingered too long on the horizon
instead of the work at hand. His mother, Theodate, was a
figure carved from the same coldstone.
(03:02):
Deeply religious, she often retreated into her faith with an
intensity that bordered on fanaticism.
She prayed over her children constantly, filling the
farmhouse air with whispered supplications and warnings of
Hellfire. When Herman was afraid of the
dark, of illness, of his father's rage, his mother didn't
(03:25):
soothe him with children's lullabies or warm embraces.
Instead, she prayed. She turned fear into a weapon, a
tool to bend him towards righteousness, or what she
believed righteousness to be. The walls of their home were
rumored to be plastered with handwritten Bible verses, a
(03:47):
reminder that sin was ever present and that God's watchful
eyes never closed. From a young age, Herman was
different. Neighbors noted how still he
was, how his large, pale blue eyes seem to absorb everything
around him. One of his eyes was afflicted
with strabismus, a condition which prevented his eyes from
(04:10):
aligning, known at the time as aturn of the eye.
It is believed that this affliction might have isolated
Hermann in early childhood from his peers because he couldn't
look them directly in the eye. Hermann was a loner.
While other children roughhousedand haunted frogs, Hermann
(04:31):
observed their actions, and sometimes he watched a little
too closely. Stories began to circulate about
the young boy who lured small animals into the woods and
returned alone, his clothes oddly tidy, his expression
unreadable. Soon after, bones would be
(04:52):
found, small, delicate bones cleaned of their flesh, hidden
in crates or beneath the floorboards of his home.
But no one seemed to care about what we would now view as a
precursor to more sinister behavior, the common
characteristics that define the early makings of a serial
killer. There's no record of anyone
(05:13):
confronting Herman about this behavior.
In those days, children's oddities were often dismissed as
passing phases or left to the iron will of the father to
correct. But for Herman, it was more than
just a phase. It was the beginning of an
obsession. There's one story about Herman's
(05:33):
childhood that stands out among the local lore.
When Herman was around 10, he went exploring with a friend in
an old abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of Gilmanton, The
kind of place children dared each other to enter.
A forbidden location with floorboards, half rotted,
staircases missing entire steps,air thick with dust, The ghosts
(05:57):
of harvest long past. It is whispered that Herman's
friend never made it out of the abandoned building alive.
The official story called it a tragic accident.
The boy had fallen from a high beam and broken his neck, a
heartbreaking but not unheard offate in rural New England.
(06:20):
But whispers in Gilmanton told another version.
Some said Herman had led the boyup to the rafters, urging him to
look out a window at the fields below.
Others claimed Herman was the last one seen near the boy, his
pale face expressionless as the body was discovered.
(06:42):
Whether or not he was pushed, whether or not it was a true
murder or an accident, we may never know.
But for those who knew young Herman, this event planted an
irreversible seed of suspicion. Then came the incident that
changed everything, the skeletonincident.
(07:06):
Herman had always harbored a deep fear of doctors and
anything associated with death, as most children do.
Perhaps it was the tales his mother told of eternal damnation
or the terror that followed Levi's harsh punishments.
One day, a group of older boys decided to play a cruel prank on
(07:27):
Herman. They knew he was afraid.
They dragged him, protesting andterrified, into the office of a
local doctor. In the center of that sterile
room stood a human skeleton, it's bones yellowed and it's
skull tilted as if forever laughing at the living.
(07:47):
The boys expected to see Herman collapse in tears and scream in
terror, but instead he fell silent.
What he did next shocked the very boys who meant to torment
him. Herman stepped forward, raised
his hand and touched the skeletons Bony fingers.
(08:07):
A quiet curiosity marked his countenance.
With his fingertips steady, he began to trace the lines, the
joints, the hollows of the rib cage with a fascination so
intense that it unsettled the other boys.
They fled in horror, leaving Herman alone with his new muse.
(08:28):
In that moment, Herman's fear was diminished and a new
obsession was born. He would later describe this
encounter as a revelation and the very point at which death
ceased to be an abstract punishment or a ghostly threat
and instead became an object of study, something to be
(08:48):
controlled, dissected, and understood.
After that incident, Herman began to change.
He spent more time alone in the woods, meticulously dissecting
frogs and small mammals. He preserved the bones,
experimented with boiling methods, learn to scan and de
(09:09):
flesh specimens with the precision of a surgeon.
He wasn't merely killing for sport, he was learning.
Teachers noted his sharp intelligence.
He excelled at school, especially in subjects like
mathematics and science. But he had few friends.
He was too precise, too watchful. 1 schoolmate would
(09:31):
later describe him as oddly polite yet cold behind the eyes.
At home, things were no better. Levi's punishments became
harsher As Herman grew older andmore defiant, he learned to mask
his emotions, to protect himselfby manipulating the adults
around him. At home, things were no better.
(09:56):
Levi's punishments became harsher As Herman grew older and
more defiant. He learned to mask his emotions,
to protect himself by manipulating the adults around
him. In this, he realized something
critical Control equals survival.
Manipulation equals power, and those lessons stayed with him
(10:19):
long after he left the small town of Gilmanton.
In 1877, at the age of 16, Herman enrolled in Phillips
Exeter Academy, one of the most prestigious preparatory schools
in New England. His family saw this as a chance
for him to escape his rural roots and build a respectable
(10:40):
future. But Exeter was no less isolating
for young Herman. Wealthy classmates mocked him
for his rural background and odddemeanor.
It was here he first began to experiment with his charm, his
ability to convince and to perform because he had to in
order to survive. Despite the teasing, he excelled
(11:04):
academically and set his sights on the future.
He would study medicine, but before he went off to medical
school, at the age of just 17, he married Clara Lovering, the
daughter of a local New Hampshire farmer.
Clara was described as sweet, trusting and perhaps a little
naive. Within a year, she gave birth to
(11:26):
their son, Robert Lovering Mudgett.
But fatherhood did not round Herman.
Instead, it seemed to spur him further towards escape, like a
rat caught in a trap. In 1879, he was ready to leave
everything, Clara, his infant son, and his past behind.
(11:47):
It was then that he set his sights on medical school.
He left New Hampshire and entered the University of
Vermont in Burlington to study medicine.
But he found the environment lacking for his desires for an
extensive education and soon transferred to the University of
Michigan's Department of Medicine and Surgery in 1882.
(12:10):
The University of Michigan was at the time one of the country's
top medical schools. Here Herman found his true
calling, the study of anatomy. The section labs filled with the
smell of formaldehyde and the quiet horror of cadaver eyes
staring blankly at the ceiling. But for Herman, these rooms were
(12:31):
not frightening. They were liberating.
Here, death was not to be feared, but wielded.
He began to understand the fragility of the human body and
the many ways it could be dismantled, altered, repurposed.
He also discovered an even more profitable application of his
new skills, insurance fraud. And so his list of criminal
(12:55):
offenses began to grow. During this time, he started
stealing cadavers from the university lab.
After all, cadavers were in highdemand at competing medical
schools. Surely no one would miss a
cadaver or two. He saw this as an opportunity
for profit, but he was no fool. He would mutilate the corpses to
(13:17):
make identification impossible and then stage them as accident
victims in an elaborate insurance scam.
He'd take out policies on fictional identities, then
collect the insurance money upontheir deaths.
The payouts were substantial enough to fund his growing
appetite for luxury fine suits, lavish dinners, and expensive
(13:41):
travel. Outwardly, he was a dedicated
student, a young man with a bright future which charmed his
fellow classmates and professors.
But beneath that shiny veneer lurked a manipulator who is
simply honing his craft. But he did not excel at his home
life. His relationship with Clara
deteriorated. She and their son moved back to
(14:04):
New Hampshire, and Holmes severed all contact, leaving his
wife emotionally and financiallystranded.
He was now free to pursue new romantic entanglements.
Holmes discovered he could weaponize charm as easily as he
wielded A scalpel. It was during his time in
Michigan that he perfected the art of forging documents.
(14:25):
Death certificates, letters of introduction, insurance
paperwork. He could create them all, and
often did. Holmes also learned to read
people, to sense when a lie would land and when it would
collapse. These skills would become his
deadliest tools. He wasn't content to simply
defraud companies or skip out ondebts.
(14:47):
He was practicing something deeper, seeing how far he could
push the boundaries of deceptionbefore the world pushback.
By the time he graduated in 1884, Herman Webster Mudget had
already become someone else entirely.
His birth name was too plain, too rural, too vulnerable.
(15:10):
It was then that he adopted a new identity, Doctor Henry
Howard Holmes. Under this name, he would enter
Chicago, a city pushing with ambition and vice, and transform
it into his personal hunting ground.
Behind him, he left a trail of unpaid bills, broken hearts and
vanished acquaintances, but no one pursued him too far.
(15:34):
He was always charming, always moving, always changing.
Wherever he went, there was a pattern.
A missing person. A fraudulent insurance claim.
A new alias. The man who left New Hampshire
as a haunted boy had become a man wholly devoted to his own
advancement, whatever the cost. Before he was a monster, he was
(15:58):
just a boy molded by cruelty andobsession.
Before he built his castle of horrors, he built himself a
child born in frost and Bible verses, a young man who learned
to love the smell of formaldehyde more than the
warmth of a family hearth. And when he boarded that train
bound for Chicago, he wasn't just searching for fortune.
(16:20):
He was searching for a Kingdom. A Kingdom where he could reign
as judge, jailer, and executioner.
And so he set his sights on the bustling streets of Chicago, a
city unprepared for the horror he would bring.
The devil had found his playground.
Next time on Macabre, we follow homes to the Windy City.
(16:44):
We watch as the blueprints form and walls rise.
We witnessed the creation of a place so monstrous it will
become known as the Murder Castle.
I do hope you join me for the next episode.
This has been a special presentation, a macabre feature.
Until next time, stay safe, staycurious, and keep it macabre.
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