Carter investigates the origins of Auld Lang Syne, but the story of Guy Lombardo takes an unexpected turn toward a Hollywood disaster and the estate of Tupac Shakur. Then, Marissa recounts how New York really dropped the ball when the city moves their raucous party uptown! Strap on your diaper, we’re headed to Times Square!

One Tree, Two Tree, Red Tree, Blue Tree! The Rockefeller Center tree grows from humble construction site decor to an American icon. Then, the creepy tale of a child bride’s Christmas hallucinations becomes a beloved ballet sensation the world over, thanks to the horrors of the Russian Revolution!

There’ll be scary ghost stories when Marissa retells “The Mistletoe Bride,” where a game of hide-and-go-seek goes terribly wrong. Carter regales us with tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago, when the most wonderful time of the year included murder, looting, and sex.

Hold your horses, Carter explores the meaning and history of “Jingle Bells,” and how a drinking song about drag racing became a Christmas classic. Then, hold onto your drinks as Marissa questions if it’s really that “cold outside,” baby.

In their quest to dazzle children, Macy’s makes a series of terrifying missteps while parading down Broadway. And the surprising modern history of the presidential tradition of pardoning the Turkey. 

Marissa takes her kids to Murder Park and spies on the haunted neighbors. Then Carter spends his birthday with the daughter of a sea merchant who’s unrequited love and staunch obedience lead to a lonely life and afterlife. 

A young Washington Irving mingles fact with fiction to create a worldwide literary sensation in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Using wacky pseudonyms and wild publicity stunts, he borrows the actual story of the van Tassel family of Tarrytown and the unfortunate death of a Hessian soldier beheaded during the Battle of White Plains to produce America’s first published ghost story. Then, a unique architectural style inspires a cult and more, as we reconstruct the history of the hauntingly beautiful and beautifully haunted octagonal Armour-Stiner house of Irvington, NY.

Burr… it’s cold in here! There must be some ghosts in the atmosphere! A mansion in upper Manhattan is haunted by an upwardly mobile widow (who may or may not have murdered her husband with a pitchfork). Then, not-so-dear Theodosia Burr’s Christmas Vacation is commandeered by Pirates.

Things in Scranton go off the rails, with a haunted morgue and some superstitious baseball players, but the scariest part of the train-station-turned-hotel might be the partial destruction of the Tiffany Skylight! Meanwhile, the Baleroy mansion is haunted by a little boy and a helpful old lady, but watch out for the red mist named Amanda!

A series of puzzling disappearances near Bennington, Vermont in the late 1940s remains unexplained! A haunted estate becomes a college campus and the horrors of homework aren’t the only thing keeping students up all night.