Hist-eerie Podcast

Award-winning "America's Ghost Storyteller", Diane Ladley, presents a thrilling work of audio fan fiction in honor of HBO®'s GAME OF THRONES television show and George R.R. Martin's novels. Remember Old Nan, the elderly woman who told the boy Bran such bone-chilling scary stories of the Night King, Corpse Queen, Mad Axe, and others? Diane re-tells Old Nan's stories (northern Scottish accent and all!), spinning those terrifying lege...

Ghost children. No other paranormal entity is more desperately tragic and heart-rending to our emotions—or more capable of freezing the blood in our veins—than that of a child haunting the site of their death. Saddest of all are the ghosts of children who had been abandoned by their parents and society, left into the cold, indifferent care of orphanages and foundling hospitals from ages past. At their best, such places throughout h...

THIS EPISODE IS RATED R. NOT FOR YOUNGER OR MORE SENSITIVE LISTENERS. Of all the various specters that fill history's supernatural lore, none terrify us more than the ghosts of dead children. From the twin girls standing in the hotel's hallway in Stephen King's The Shining, to the alien children with all-black eyes begging to be let inside your car, to the Douens of folklore in the jungles of Trinidad with their backward feet and...

Would you live in the most paranormally active house in the U.S.? Where more people have died and more ghosts haunt it than any other single family home in the nation? You'd have to be nuts. Yet some people would do anything to live there. Because it means they'd be the world's most powerful person. The address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. The White House. On this episode of Hist-eerie, Diane Ladley, "America's Gh...

Something evil lurked within the steel and iron body of the World War I German U-boat, the UB-65. Frightened sailors named it both haunted AND cursed—but how? In this one-year anniversary episode of Hist-eerie, Diane Ladley, "America's Ghost Storyteller", separates fact from fiction behind one of maritime history's most terrifying legends with, "The Cursed WWI German U-boat, UB-65". The ill-fated submarine was forged in the hellish...

WARNING: EXPLICIT!  GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF VIOLENCE, GORE.  This episode is NOT for the young, the sensitive, or the faint of heart. The general public's appetite worldwide for Sawney Bean, the Caledonian Cannibal, seems unending.  But is his gruesome tale only folklore?  Or did Sawney Bean really exist in medieval Scotland?  Without documentation, we should take such stories of cannibalism with a pinch of salt (heh, heh).  Y...

A great wave of paranormal activity rose in the aftermath of Japan's cataclysmic 2011 earthquake and tsunami.  Did these ghosts float up from the watery depths of the survivors' traumatized subconscious?  Or were they real?  Vanishing hitchhikers, crisis apparitions, imprinted residual haunts, and even demonic possessions, are in this month's powerful Hist-eerie episode, "Ghosts of Japan's Tsunami". Music and sound effects cred...

NOT EXPLICIT.  Abraham Lincoln had at least EIGHT premonitions throughout his presidency that historians know of...preparing him for his ultimate sacrifice to the cause of peace.  You may have heard of one or two of Abe's uncanny dreams...but I'll bet you haven't heard all eight!  Music of this episode includes the Funeral March of Abraham Lincoln by John G. Barnard, and features The Presidents Own United States Marine Band and The...

Is love eternal? Can two spirits forever be entwined as one, long after their bodies have turned to dust...or to rotting, squishy zombies? This Valentine's Day, cuddle up with your sweetheart and enjoy the true ghost story of the tragic love between a Rodeo Cowboy...and Tinkerbell.  Yes, I said "true story" and "Tinkerbell" in the same sentence.  Trust me, just listen, it'll all make sense.  P.S.  I LOVE the music in this episode!

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2018 is a year for monsters, as it's the 200th anniversary of when the novel, "Frankenstein" was published.  Of all the modern monsters, few were as terrifying as Saddam Hussein.  The ghosts of his countless victims lament in the war-torn desert of Iraq; and American soldiers must brave the dead as well as the living.  In this episode of Hist-eerie, Diane relates chilling, ghostly encounters collected from soldiers stationed in hau...

Part two of "Midnight in the Asylum Cemetery" explores the spooky, ghostly encounters people have reported for over 100 years at the former Elgin, IL asylum buildings and paupers' cemetery. In a unique twist, this episode features actual, UNTOUCHED recordings of mysterious paranormal activity experienced during several of Diane's Haunted Hometowns, Inc. ghost tours.  Those haunted history tours took place late at night within the i...

For 200 years in mental asylums across the country, the depressed, deformed and disabled, closely shared living space with the most diabolic, deranged, and demonic psychopaths to ever walk among us. And all were subjected to inhumane "cures" of monstrous cruelty under the mask of compassion. In this first episode in a powerful two-part series of the Hist-eerie podcast, Diane Ladley, "America's Ghost Storyteller", delves into the ho...