Pleasing Terrors
Join acclaimed ghost storyteller Mike Brown for a bi-weekly tour through the shadows of history. The Pleasing Terrors Podcast features stories about haunted places, creepy history, and forgotten folklore.
Episodes
In this episode, we take a look at Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug," a story about an encrypted map that leads to a buried pirate treasure. We will visit a haunted theater and discuss a play a play about the death of Poe that was first performed there in 1994. The story, the ghosts, and the play are all clues that lead to a hidden treasure that Poe was attempting to find in Charleston in 1828. This is the first installment of a tw...
The conclusion of the three part series which combines history, ghosts, true crime and fairytales.
The second episode in a three part series about one of Charleston's lost stories. It is a true story that combines history, true crime, ghosts and fairy tales.
This is the first in a three part series about one of Charleston, South Carolina's lost stories. It combines history, ghosts, true crime, amd fairytales.
This episode features the untold story of the origin of King Kong.
This episode tells a story about pirates and a haunted dungeon.
This episode tells the story of the Charleston mermaid.
This is a story about a German fairytale and a brutal murder in northwestern Georgia.
Suggested reading:
The Corpsewood Manor Murders In North Georgia by Amy Petulla
This a story about the Titanic, Victorian sex trafficking and a mummy's curse.
Haunted houses, midnight witchcraft and famous murder in historic Savannah, Georgia.
In this episode I visit some of Savanah's most haunted locations.
Suggested Reading:
Haunted Savanah: America's Most Spectral City by James Caskey
Haunted Savannah by Georgia R. Byrd
An unexpected return to a very creepy place to do a very foolish thing.
This episode features The Wizard of Oz, Greek mythology and a famous unsolved murder.
Episode 30: Resurrection delves into the history of Chicago's most famous ghost: Resurrection Mary!
I am with Alyson Horrocks of The Strange and Unusual Podcast. It’s the evening of August 20th, 2017. We are in Danvers, MA which was previously known as Salem Village. We are visiting the Samuel Parris archeological site. Surrounded by a rail fence there are two stone lined cellars marking the location of the house that once stood here. Next to this location is a grassy path that leads to the back of...
Alyson Horrocks from the Strange and Unusual Podcast took me on a tour of a historical site with a dark past. The site sits in a town called Danvers, but it was once Salem Village. This site was the culmination of a strange mix of religion, superstition, folklore, slavery, patriarchy, truth, and lies.
A place where people’s imagination or secret motives ran wild...
The history of the Navajo goes back in time to the Four Corners region in Arizona. Where the spider grandmother spun a giant web and threw it into the night sky to create the stars. This area known as Canyon de Chelly is also known as the Canyon of the Dead after a misguided weaver’s warning resulted in a cruel cave massacre.
Like the art and designs of the Nava...
On November 20th, 1850 night watchman George Pollard Jr. makes his nightly rounds on the foggy Island of Nantucket, MA. An island once inhabited by proud tribes of Native Americans before the addition of the colonists. An island that was the whaling capital of the world for over a century.
The inhabitants and the whalers themselves were haunted with superstition...
Count Dracula’s story is one of many pieces; a story of a man and the secrets that are hidden inside his castle. Bram Stoker, the story’s author, is also a man of many secrets who constructed his own castle and built a fortress around his heart. The puzzle of Count Dracula is not complete until the intertwining pieces are put together.
When put together what do ...
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