American Horror Nights

The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, is America's largest private home — two hundred and fifty rooms built by George Vanderbilt in 1895. This episode tells the story of the house's famous ghosts, from George himself in the library to the child laughing in the nursery wing.

Seven Sisters Road winds through the hills south of Lincoln, Nebraska, and locals do not drive it after dark. This episode traces the legend of the seven sisters who died in those hills, the pale figures on the ridge, the gravity hill, and the deputies who answer calls on the road at midnight.

Bear Lake, on the Utah-Idaho border, is famous for its impossible turquoise water — and for the serpent said to live beneath it. This episode tells the story of the Bear Lake Monster, from Joseph Rich's famous 1868 account and his later confession to the sightings that never stopped.

High above the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois, a terrifying painting of a winged beast stares out from the limestone cliffs. This episode traces the legend of the Piasa, the bird that devours men, from Illini tradition to the French explorers' journals — and the modern sightings that keep the legend alive.

For twenty-four years, men dug a five-mile railroad tunnel through solid granite in western Massachusetts, and nearly two hundred of them died doing it. This episode tells the story of the Hoosac Tunnel, the 'Bloody Pit,' its worst disasters, and the voices, lights, and phantom trains that workers still report in the dark.

On Holland Road in Angola, New York, drivers are warned not to stop after dark, because the woods there are said to belong to the Pigman, a shambling creature half man and half pig. This episode tells the legend of western New York's most enduring roadside monster and the real history haunting the road he walks.

Lake Ronkonkoma, the largest freshwater lake on Long Island, has claimed more than a hundred and fifty lives, almost always young men, almost always strong swimmers. This episode tells the legend of the Lady of the Lake, the heartbroken woman said to call one companion a year down into its deceptive waters.

In Oak Hammock Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida, stands a great Southern live oak that locals call the Devil's Tree, a tree said to be cursed, haunted, and impossible to kill. This episode tells the story of the tree, the crimes that stained its ground, and the curse that anyone who harms it will pay a terrible price.

Somewhere in the farmland of York County, Pennsylvania, local legend says there is a road lined with seven gates, and that anyone who passes through the seventh arrives at the entrance to Hell itself. This episode traces the legend, its abandoned gates and haunted hollows, and why no debunking has ever killed it.

In St. Louis Cemetery Number One stands a tomb that is never quiet, where visitors leave flowers, scratch three crosses into the plaster, and whisper a wish. This episode tells the story of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, the healer, priestess, and confidante whose power outlived her death in 1881.