Haunted Places

The Rouse Simmons, or “The Christmas Tree Ship,” was a 205-ton, three-masted schooner. In 1912, the beloved ship met an untimely demise when it sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan. Today, locals have reported seeing the ghost of the ship and its crew sailing the waters it used to call home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While one of the most beautiful Renaissance-era buildings in Denmark, a legacy of violence still echoes through Voergaard Manor’s halls. Blood stains appear on floors even after relentless scrubbing, and the ghost of its former lady has been seen wandering the bowels of the building. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Constructed in the 19th Century, Captain Tony's Saloon is a popular haunt for many residents of the Florida Keys. Built on top of old grave sites and around an old hanging tree, this bar is known to contain several ghosts—the most famous residing in the women's bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Opened in 1893, the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago is still home to guests who never checked out. If you visit, be on the lookout for Peg Leg Johnny, a good-natured transient believed to have been murdered there. Or a woman lurking on the edge of the bed in Room 441. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Opened in 1420, the Forbidden City served as the imperial Chinese palace for nearly 500 years. Its halls had seen all manner of horrific things, and many ghosts of the ancients still haunt it to this day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Originally built in 1350, Loftus Hall has since become the most haunted house in all of Ireland. Stories involve the ghost of an insane woman and the presence of the devil himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This gorgeous former headquarters of the Dutch East Indies Railway Company features dramatic arches and extravagant windows. However, behind its facade lies a dark legacy of colonialism, torture, war, and spirits who refuse to leave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mysterious manor on Ireland’s eastern coast, Ardgillan Castle is said to have more than a few active spirits. But the most prominent is the ghost known as the “White Lady.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Trying to sleep in an empty house is scary—even with your playful dog beside you. Especially when he's not the only other animal in the house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. What can turn a sweet-tooth sour? How about a crazed lunatic who packages candy full of poison and needles? Children and parents beware... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. They seem friendly. They just need a ride back home. But this cheerful hitchhiker has malevolent intentions... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. There are few things as innocent looking as a rabbit—cute button nose, furry-stub tail, floppy ears. Unless that bunny is really a man...dressed in a costume...holding a bloody hatchet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A couple leaves their infant with a hippie-type girl while they go out for the evening. When the mother phones home a few hours later to check-in, the babysitter informs her she’s put the turkey in the oven. The problem is there is no turkey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Stay close. Because a mall full of strangers is no place for an unattended child. Danger lurks in every corner, store, or bathroom. Sadistic adults—bullying teenagers—suburban hunters looking for young people to prey on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Who knew you had to worry about more than just the sun when lying on the beach? For one unlucky woman, a spider bite on vacation turns into an emergency visit to the doctor where it’s found that the infected swelling isn’t just a boil—but a breeding ground for hundreds of spiders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A tale of two lustful teenagers on their way to lovers’ lane for the ultimate make-out session. Hooked? Well, if you’re these two you will be—once it’s learned that a murderer has escaped from a state insane asylum just a half-mile away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What could be creepy about a 138-year-old abandoned residence in Cleveland? A tragic history—unexplained experiences—and a fine line between fact and fiction. Take a supernatural journey to Franklin Castle, and discover why to this day, it’s haunted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Parents out-of-town on Halloween? Sounds like every teenager’s dream! That is until a prank on the neighbors goes horribly wrong, and the teen accidentally hangs himself—left for his family to find when they return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Remember those internet chat rooms in the early 90s? Well, those who came across the screen name “Slavemaster” may have been lured to another room—in his basement—and to their death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A hitchhiker with a very specific destination, seemingly vanishes into thin air. The stunned driver continues on, questioning the residents if they know the missing person. They do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Watch your ankles! Because you never know who could be lurking under the car... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. It may sound far-fetched, but this 7-foot-tall creature from Michigan folklore is no barking-matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. The kids are asleep. The babysitter is watching TV. And the phone calls from a mysterious man may be coming from somewhere closer than she thinks. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tales of murder, mystery and a lover’s quarrel—could these stories explain Brisbane City Hall’s ghost problem? Four ghosts to be exact...haunting an Australian landmark, and those daring enough to enter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A case of what not to do with your hairdo—a stylish teenager learns that washing your hair with sugar water and falling asleep can have deadly consequences. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Mysterious cats. A bloody discovery. And a witch’s secret. Just another day working at the windmill. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A vet’s diagnosis: human fingers found inside a choking dog’s throat. A call to the dog’s owner triggers a sneaking suspicion that a fingerless thief is still in the house. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. What can turn a dreamy prom night into a deadly nightmare? How about a poisoned dress that’s been stolen off a corpse... Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A mythical man-eating monster native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Half man. Half goat. All kinds of creepy. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Say her name three times in front of a mirror if you dare. But where did Bloody Mary come from? Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A medical student’s class dissection hits closer to home than expected. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Oregon’s shore lies a beautiful beach neighboring a small coastal town. By day it’s a quiet stretch of sand along the pacific coast. But by night, a legend of Spanish sailors and hidden gold make the mysterious sounds echoing off the waves even more haunting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A vicious killer. A bloody hook. And what not to do in front of the mirror. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. When a mother’s wishes are ignored, a daughter finds herself dancing with the Dark Lord himself. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A late-night drive home and a car following too close. Sounds like a recipe for evil—but what if it’s not? Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Some babysitters just aren't trustworthy. If you pick the wrong one when you go out of town, beware of the deadly consequences. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A bulbous red nose. Tufts of neon hair. A bright red mouth stretched into an unnatural smile. There are few things more unsettling than the visage of a creepy clown... And few things more terrifying than a killer clown loose in your own home. Sponsored by Jimmy John’s – Order a $3 Little John at JimmyJohns.com or with the Jimmy John’s app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. You might think of it as harmless flirting with a stranger. But what she sees is an opportunity to fill a need on the organ market. And you are the perfect mark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. A road trip with your significant other can be a perfect romantic getaway. But when you run out of gas by an empty highway, who's going to save you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Few countries have been wracked with horror as Cambodia. In 1993, two years after the Cambodian Civil War ended, a woman built a modest house along National Route 5. She was evicted by a ghost, and no one has lived there since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. You see his image when you close your eyes at night. A tall featureless man looming over blank-eyed children. They say that he's fiction... a character created to send chills down the spine of internet users. But if the Slenderman doesn't exist, why have people committed horrific crimes in his name? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a part of our special Haunted Places: Urban Legends series. Enjoy daily episodes throughout the month of October. Some people can sleep through anything. Even murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prague is a beautiful city, every building dripping with history. One of the oldest buildings in the city is the Convent of St. Agnes - a former cloister turned art gallery. Tourists and art enthusiasts explore it every day, drinking in the Gothic architecture. But some have seen a pale figure hovering in the corners... A bloody nun, nursing a centuries old broken heart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In New South Wales, Australia, at the entrance of Sydney Harbor, lies the North Head Quarantine Station. Established in the 1830s, this building was a flimsy line of defense protecting the Australian mainland from shipbound diseases. During its 30 years of activity, many hundreds of infected individuals died in agony within its walls. Men, women, and children died horribly... and continue to appear before visitors to this very day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Hundreds of years of slavery and suffering has left a permanent impression on the island of Barbados. In the parish of Christ Church, something stirs beneath the earth, disturbing locals and visitors alike. It is an ancient tomb, intended to be the final resting place of the Chase Family. But trauma runs so deeply in this family’s history, that the dead entombed here have not been able to rest.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Downey, California, a little over ten miles southeast of Los Angeles, lies the Rancho Los Amigos. Since its founding as a poor farm in 1888, the Rancho Los Amigos has seen plenty of traumatic stories pass through its walls… and some of them echo to this very day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Number 14 West 10th Street may look like an unassuming brownstone, but beneath the surface it is far from normal. The one time residence of author Mark Twain, this building is the epicenter of what may be Manhattan’s most haunted block. So if you find yourself in this Greenwich Village building, be wary… the dark past of this house might send you a visitor… Parcasters - Ervil LeBaron was convinced that he was destined to rule over Earth as god’s chosen disciple, but so did his brother. Learn more about the LeBaron Clan this week on Cults! Subscribe to Cults on Spotify to listen now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Since before recorded history, these churning waters in Queensland Australia have claimed the lives of people foolish enough to try swimming there. And when your body is sucked into the crushing depths, it may take days to recover. And your soul might stay there forever, trapped by the indigenous spirits that call the place home... Parcasters - This week on Crimes of Passion we take on the infamous case of Lorena and John Bobbitt! You won’t want to miss this one! Listen today on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just outside of New Orleans lies swampland, and looks like any other in the state of Louisiana. Don’t be fooled. The Manchac Swamp features a dark history, including a voodoo priestess who haunts the area to this day and mysterious cajun werewolves lurking around every corner. Sponsors! Native - For 20% off your first purchase, visit NativeDeodorant.com and use promo code HAUNTED during checkout! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices