History of a Haunting
What happens when a believer and a skeptic come together? They host a paranormal podcast that combines their love of history and hauntings!! Join us each week as we tell tales of famous, infamous, and almost famous locations around the world, and why they became terrifying places to visit.
Episodes
This is our favorite time of year, and we wanted to bring a little Halloween to our story, and a whole lotta showmanship! Not from us, but from Houdini!
Join us as we tell you all about the life and death of one of the most famous escape artists in history - Harry Houdini!
Sources used in today's episode are:
thegreatharryhoudini.com
medium.com
wikipedia.com
Laura jumps in and tells us all about the woman that started the wax figure craze - Marie Tussaud!
Have the week you'll have!
Sources used in today's episode are:
Today we join the cool kids and check out the Indiana State Sanatorium!
One of the newer locations to be found to be quite rife with paranormal weirdness, this location spans quite a bit of acreage with several buildings and creepy steam tunnels for you to check out!
A poltergeisty laundry room, a spirit that loves to run up and down stairs, and a very crabby man in the biggest building on the property is what you'll likely find h...
The title says it all. Just remember kids are a blessing. A creepy, unsettling blessing.
Have the week you'll have!
Sources used in today's episode are:
Buzzfeed.com
Reddit.com
Widely considered one of the finest 14th century castles in Scotland, Balgonie Castle is also considered to be one of the most haunted locations in the U.K. as well!
What with a skeleton found under the floor in 1912, and about 600 years of fighting prior to that, it's really no wonder! Join us in meeting Green Jeannie, a boisterous pup, and floating heads. Hahahaha!
But really.
In sad news, Carrie dashes Laura's hopes of them b...
Keeping it in the desert Southwest again this week folks and bringing you the crazy story of the Phoenix Lights. A bizarre phenomenon that everyone saw, except apparently, Carrie. Figures. Sources used in today's episode are: Newtimes.com Wikipedia.com 12newsPhx.com KTAR.com
This week Laura takes the reins and tells us all about a little social climber and the death of a man in one of the most barf inducing ways.
Have the week you'll have!
Source used in today's episode is:
Headstuff.org
The lesson here is don't drive through the Arizona desert at night. Ever.
We are back!! And we have missed you all so much!
We kick off our new format of SEASONS with one of the most famous locations in America - Bobby Mackey's Music World.
Starting as a slaughterhouse and spanning many incarnations since then this location has a portal to hell - maybe with a head in it, maybe not, we sure don't know - a warning sign that they are not responsible for any ghost beat downs you may receive, and some of th...
This week Carrie tells us about some creepy, and some hysterical, things that happened to folks on NYE.
Welcome back, folks! Have the week you'll have!
Welcome back guys!! We have missed you!
This week we cover THE most famous cryptid ever - Bigfoot. Who he is, where he hails from, is he real, is he just a hallucination from the marijuana field in Humboldt - we break it all down! We also have decided he should heretofore be called "Blobsquatch." Pass it on.
We also make an announcement about the future of the show! One that we are very happy, grateful and excited about!
Please c...
We are back and celebrating Laura's 3 year anniversary with the show!! This week we are revisiting Austin, TX and the famed Driskill Hotel. It doesn't have JUST at least one ghost, it's got them all! From giggling children, to cigar smoke basically everywhere, to all the heartbroken brides, this hotel is sold out with spooks. Sources used in today's episode are: Austinghosts.com Texasobserver.org Atxfoodnews.com – article b...
We're back! This week Laura tells us facts about Christmas and we make a game of it to see how many Carrie knows. Have the week you'll have!
We are back and keeping the Halloween vibes going with your Halloween episode, 6 days after the fact!
CONTENT WARNING on this one folks. Watch and listen at your own discretion. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Seriously, we totally warned you.
**Due to Carrie's work schedule, she wasn't able to make it to recording for this week, so we are re-releasing one of our most popular episodes - "Ufology with Andrea Perron!" This week we sit down and discuss all the things with the lovely Andrea Perron! Known for growing up in what came to be known as The Conjuring House, there is so much more to her than what is easily Googled. Come join us as we discuss The Conjuring, Ufolo...
Carrie's got the bad and the weird this week guys and it is way more bad than weird.
Grab a double espresso and white knuckle it with us through this story of the man whom Russia called "The Lord of the Mummies."
Have the week you'll have!
Let's go to Romania and it's infamously haunted Hoia Baciu Forest! With sightings of UFOs, ghosts, and having over 1,000 mysteriously disappear here - this place is no joke.
What is the real truth going on here, and would you partake in some of the pretty cool, but kinda risky events they have to offer?
We say no.
Sources used for this week's episode are:
Thetravel.com
Jaywaytravel.com
Atlasobscura.com
Theguardian.com
Tourinromani...
This week Laura tells us of one of the most infamous murderers in the world - Elizabeth Bathory.
Believed to have killed her virginal servants to bathe in their blood to retain her youth, she is believed to have a body count of over 600.
Have the week you'll have. Excuse us while we go barf.
Carrie has the weird reins this week and she tells us about one of the more shocking cases of a folie a deux - or shared delusion / shared psychosis - in the case of the Swedish Eriksson Twins.
Have the week you'll have!
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