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.
Episodes
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...
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...
CHARLESTON GO...
Find the grav...
In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern gh...
The Descent has led us to Charleston, and to a haunted historic theatre ...
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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In this episode we continue our search fo...
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.
The conclusion of the three part series which combines history, ghosts, true crime and fairytales.
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.
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.
This episode features the untold story of the origin of King Kong.
This episode tells a story about pirates and a haunted dungeon.
This episode tells the story of the Charleston mermaid.
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
This a story about the Titanic, Victorian sex trafficking and a mummy's curse.
Haunted houses, midnight witchcraft and famous murder in historic Savannah, Georgia.
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
Harry Houdini and the Halloween Séance.
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