Haunted American History

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

Haunted American History is a history podcast hosted by Bloody FM, with 455 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Bloody FM hosts Haunted American History, a history show with 455 episodes published.

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  Episode #206

  The Ghost Who Runs Her Mansion: Belmont Mansion (Tennessee)

  Aug 18, 202623 min

  In 1846, the body of one of America's wealthiest slave traders traveled 800 miles up the Mississippi inside a barrel of whiskey. Waiting for him in Tennessee was his 29-year-old widow, Adelicia Acklen. She inherited an enormous fortune, buried seven of her ten children, negotiated with both sides of the Civil War to save millions in cotton, and built one of the grandest homes in the American South. Today, visitors claim Adelicia still supervises Belmont Mansion—setting off alarms, rustling across staircases, and apparently objecting when the furniture isn't arranged correctly. But the deeper you look into Belmont's ghosts, the stranger the story becomes. Because perhaps Adelicia isn't haunting the South at all. Perhaps the South is haunting her. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory TikTok - @hah_podcast hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #205

  Two-Hundred Yards From Home: The Carter House (Tennessee)

  Aug 17, 202619 min

  In Franklin, Tennessee, a small piece of lead sits behind glass. A surgeon removed it from the skull of Tod Carter, a Confederate soldier who survived imprisonment, escaped from a moving train, traveled hundreds of miles to rejoin his regiment—and then fell just 200 yards from his childhood home during one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. His family found him alive the next morning and carried him into the bedroom where he'd grown up. He died there two days later. For more than a century, visitors have claimed Tod never really left. Tonight, we explore the Battle of Franklin, the haunted Carter House, and a question that still divides the town: when a place has witnessed unimaginable suffering, where does history end and the ghost story begin? YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory TikTok - @hah_podcast hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #204

  The Footsteps Behind You: Pitty Pat Hollow (Tennessee)

  Aug 16, 202623 min

  For more than a century, people in a dark Tennessee hollow have told stories about something that follows travelers after sunset. You hear soft footsteps padding along behind you. When you stop, they stop. When you start walking again, they're right there on your heels. Locals call it Pitty Pat . But the footsteps are only the beginning. Doctors, riverboat captains, motorists, farmers, and hunters have reported impossible collisions, headless passengers, women in white, towering shadow figures, and black masses that seem capable of climbing trees. Tonight, we travel into Sale Creek and Pitty Pat Hollow... a place where 150 years of folklore may have begun with something very real stalking people through the darkness. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory TikTok - @hah_podcast hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  The Monster Beneath the Pacific: The Bloop (Pacific Ocean)

  Aug 15, 202619 min

  In 1997, underwater microphones operated by the U.S. government detected something extraordinary in the South Pacific: a sound powerful enough to register on sensors more than 3,000 miles apart. Scientists knew the signatures of earthquakes, volcanoes, ships, and whales. This looked different. It looked biological. The internet quickly supplied an explanation—a colossal sea creature lurking near the most isolated place on Earth, suspiciously close to where H.P. Lovecraft had placed the sunken city of R'lyeh decades earlier. For fifteen years, the sound remained one of the ocean's greatest mysteries. Tonight, we uncover what really created The Bloop ... and why the truth may be more unsettling than the monster. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory TikTok - @hah_podcast hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  The Sound That Nobody Can Find: The Bristol Hum (England)

  Aug 14, 202620 min

  For fifty years, people across Bristol, England have reported the same impossible sound: a low, relentless drone like a diesel engine idling somewhere in the distance. It gets louder inside their homes, quieter when they step outside, and sometimes only one person in the house can hear it. Factories were blamed. Highways were blamed. Pipelines, the ocean, tinnitus, military transmissions—even 5G. Yet after half a century of investigation, something strange remains: residents have reportedly recorded a real low-frequency signal inside some of the very houses where the Hum is heard. Tonight, we investigate the Bristol Hum... and why shutting off every electrical circuit in the house doesn't necessarily make the sound disappear. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedAmericanHistory TikTok - @hah_podcast hauntedamericanhistory.com Patreon- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hauntedamericanhistory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HAH DISCORD - https://discord.com/invite/bJdbpH3hQm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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