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Haunted American History

Bloody FM

History

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/3d. Total Eps: 417

A daily campfire-style podcast blending American history, folklore, and true crime. What scares you? Let’s find out.

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31 Days of Halloween | Day 3: Stingy Jack and the Jack-O'-Lantern

Episode 242

Saturday, October 3, 2026 • Duration 22:06

Before the jack-o'-lantern was a grinning pumpkin on an American porch, it was something else entirely.

A light over a bog.

For centuries, people in Ireland and Britain told stories about strange flames that appeared in the darkness, drifting just far enough ahead to tempt travelers off the road. In Ireland, one explanation had a name: Jack.

He tricked the Devil. He was rejected by Heaven. Hell wanted nothing to do with him. And according to the legend, Jack was condemned to wander the earth carrying a light until Judgment Day.

But the familiar story of Stingy Jack, his carved turnip, and the Devil's burning coal isn't nearly as ancient—or as straightforward—as it's usually made out to be.

From Irish bogs and grotesque turnip lanterns to American pumpkins and mysterious lights over the mountains of North Carolina, this is the strange history behind the face glowing on your front porch.

Welcome to Day Three of 31 Days of Halloween.

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31 Days of Halloween | Day 2: How America Invented Halloween

Episode 241

Friday, October 2, 2026 • Duration 24:09

Before Halloween meant costumes, candy, and smiling jack-o'-lanterns, it meant something considerably more dangerous.

When Irish and Scottish Halloween traditions crossed the Atlantic, they collided with American harvest parties, fortune-telling games, pumpkins, Victorian entertainment—and a growing tradition of October vandalism.

Kids blocked railroad tracks. Wagons ended up on barn roofs. Windows were smashed. False fire alarms were pulled. People were shot. And by the 1930s, some American cities were seriously considering getting rid of Halloween altogether.

Instead, they made a deal with the kids.

Give us something good, and nothing bad happens to your house.

This is the strange, occasionally violent story of how America created the Halloween we know today—and how three little words turned a night of chaos into a national tradition.

Welcome to Day Two of 31 Days of Halloween.

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31 Days of Halloween | Day 1: When the Gates Open — Samhain

Episode 240

Thursday, October 1, 2026 • Duration 27:49

Before Halloween had pumpkins, candy, costumes, or trick-or-treating, there was Samhain.

At the edge of winter, the cattle came home, the fires burned, and old stories warned that the boundaries between worlds had opened. The dead could return. Fairies came out of the earth. Headless riders crossed the countryside. And sometimes, something followed you home.

From a warrior who carried a talking corpse into the night to spectral black sows, fairy armies, divination rituals, sacred fires, and the old legends that eventually crossed the Atlantic and became part of Halloween as we know it, we're going back to where so much of it began.

Welcome to Day One of 31 Days of Halloween.

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The Disappearance of the Sodder Children (West Virginia)

Episode 239

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 • Duration 24:15

On Christmas Eve 1945, the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, burned to the ground. George and Jennie Sodder escaped with four of their children, but five others were supposedly trapped upstairs. When the ashes cooled, however, investigators found something the family couldn't understand: no identifiable remains of the missing children. Then came the questions. A missing ladder. Trucks that mysteriously wouldn't start. A telephone line that had apparently been cut. Strange threats before the fire. And, decades later, a photograph that George and Jennie believed showed one of their missing sons as an adult.

Tonight, we explore the disappearance of the Sodder children and the mystery that left one West Virginia family asking the same question for the rest of their lives: did five children really die in that fire?

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John Brown and the Ghosts of Harpers Ferry (West Virginia)

Episode 238

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 • Duration 26:51

In October 1859, John Brown and eighteen men descended on Harpers Ferry with a plan to seize the federal arsenal, arm enslaved people, and ignite a war against slavery. Thirty-six hours later, sixteen people were dead, Brown was captured, and Harpers Ferry had begun its transformation into one of America's most mythologized towns. Today, its streets are filled with ghosts: John Brown wandering the lower town, a burning woman beside the railroad tracks, soldiers haunting a church, and Dangerfield Newby walking an alley with the wound that killed him. But the oldest accounts tell different stories.

Tonight, we explore the ghosts of Harpers Ferry—and how generations of storytellers reshaped real deaths, real violence, and real people into the legends visitors hear today. Pasted text

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The Mothman of Point Pleasant (West Virginia)

Episode 237

Monday, September 28, 2026 • Duration 19:53

In November 1966, two young couples driving through an abandoned World War II explosives facility outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, encountered something they couldn't explain: a towering humanoid figure with enormous wings and glowing red eyes. Within days, others claimed to see it. Then came strange electrical disturbances, UFO reports, mysterious visitors, and a traveling salesman who said he'd spoken telepathically with a man from another world. The phenomenon became known as Mothman. Thirteen months later, the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River, killing forty-six people—and permanently transforming a strange series of sightings into an American legend.

Tonight, we explore the original Mothman encounters, the high strangeness that surrounded Point Pleasant, and how a catastrophic bridge failure turned a mysterious creature into a supposed harbinger of disaster.

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The Haunted Amusement Park: Lake Shawnee (West Virginia)

Episode 236

Sunday, September 27, 2026 • Duration 22:17

Deep in Mercer County, West Virginia, the rusting remains of Lake Shawnee Amusement Park are slowly being reclaimed by the forest. Long before the rides arrived, the land was the site of frontier violence and an Indigenous settlement stretching back centuries. Then came the amusement park, where a series of accidents—including the deaths of two children—became part of its dark reputation. Decades later, a new owner attempting to resurrect Lake Shawnee discovered something extraordinary beneath the property: human remains and evidence of a much older community.

Today, visitors report children's voices, moving swings, strange figures, and other unexplained activity among the abandoned rides.

Tonight, we explore the history and hauntings of Lake Shawnee—and how generations of tragedy transformed an abandoned amusement park into one of West Virginia's most enduring paranormal legends.

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The Ghosts of Moundsville: West Virginia Penitentiary (West Virginia)

Episode 235

Saturday, September 26, 2026 • Duration 19:48

For more than a century, the West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville held thousands of prisoners behind the walls of a Gothic stone fortress. Ninety-four men were executed there. Riots left inmates dead. Conditions became so brutal that West Virginia's highest court eventually ordered the prison closed.

Today, Moundsville is better known for something else: ghosts. Visitors report shadowy figures following them through cellblocks and basements, while one famous apparition has been linked to the murder of an inmate named R.D. Wall. But when you compare the legends with the historical record, some details begin to change—including a murder that ghost stories have placed in the wrong year for decades.

Tonight, we explore the history, violence, legends, and ghosts of the West Virginia Penitentiary.

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The Mount Rainier Murders: The Tube Sock Killer (Washington)

Episode 234

Friday, September 25, 2026 • Duration 23:51

In 1985, two couples were murdered months apart in the forests surrounding Mount Rainier. In both cases, a woman was found with a white athletic tube sock tied around her neck using the same distinctive knot. For twenty-five years, investigators believed one of the victims, trapper Mike Riemer, may actually have been the killer. Then, in 2011, a hiker found his remains less than a mile from where his girlfriend had been discovered. Suddenly, investigators weren't looking for three victims and a murderer. They were looking at four victims—and a killer who had disappeared without a trace.

Tonight, we explore Washington's unsolved Tube Sock Murders, the toddler the killer inexplicably spared, and the DNA evidence that could finally put a name to whoever walked out of those woods.

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The Winged Cryptid On The Wrong Mountain: Batsquatch (Washington)

Episode 233

Thursday, September 24, 2026 • Duration 23:48

In 1994, eighteen-year-old Brian Canfield was driving along a dark road in the foothills of Washington when his pickup suddenly died. Then something dropped out of the sky. He described a nine-foot creature covered in blue fur, with yellow eyes, a wolf-like face, clawed feet, and enormous leathery wings.

For several minutes, the two simply stared at each other before the creature took flight—and Brian's truck inexplicably started again. The encounter would give the Pacific Northwest a new cryptid: Batsquatch. But somewhere along the way, the story changed, moving the creature to a completely different mountain and surrounding it with a mythology that wasn't there in 1994.

Tonight, we go looking for the real story behind Batsquatch.

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