The Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago has spent over a century accumulating grandeur, secrets, and a staggering collection of ghosts. But among the shadowy figures, none cuts deeper than the spirit on the twelfth floor—a four-year-old boy whose phantom footsteps and quiet laughter echo down the halls after midnight. In August 1939, Adel Langer, a mother who had just fled Nazi-occupied Prague, gave in to the overwhelming isolation of a strange new world. In a horrific moment of despair, she threw her two young sons from the window of Room 1234 before jumping herself—unaware that her husband was sitting across town holding approved Canadian immigration papers for their fresh start. Host Allen Sircy peels back the folklore of the Congress Plaza to reveal the heartbreaking human story behind the specter, where profound grief and tragic timing birthed one of Chicago’s saddest ghost stories.

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In 1938, Earl Carl Harris believed a $15 bottle of High John the Conqueror elixir could perform two miracles: force a woman to love him and make him invisible to the police. But when the love potion failed on his landlady, Christina Eastmond, Harris brutally murdered her—only to casually remark "I guess it didn't work" when detectives tracked him down in Ontario weeks later. Host Allen Sircy untangles the horrifying true crime story of Michigan's "Voodoo Slayer," exploring how a serial murderer responsible for five deaths across two states attempted to hide his violent rage behind magical promises, bad folk medicine, and absolute denial. This is one the wildest true crime stories we have ever covered.

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For Tennessee Tales Tuesday, Allen Sircy takes you back to an August afternoon in 1950 inside the Larkin & Larkin General Store in Carter's Valley, Tennessee, to unravel the tragic, true story of Carl Walters—the quiet, forty-year-old local farmer who drew a pistol and executed two women in broad daylight. Driven to a deadly breaking point by an unexplained chronic illness, his teenage son's suicide, and his wife's shattered hip, Walters became utterly convinced that his family was being targeted not by bad luck, but by Appalachian witchcraft. From the heartbreaking scene inside the country store and the frantic, gun-firing mob that attempted to lynch him at the Hawkins County jail, to his ultimate diagnosis and commitment to Central State Hospital, we peel back the layers of deep-seated mountain folklore, severe persecution delusions, and the lingering shadow of the 1950 Carter's Valley "witch" murder

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Tucked behind the archery range at Louisville's E.P. Tom Sawyer Park lies a dark history that most visitors never notice: the forbidden entrance to Sauerkraut Cave and the grim footprint of the former Lakeland Asylum for the Insane. Long before thousands of forgotten patients were buried on these grounds—and long before the asylum's history was marred by fatal abuse, crude lobotomies, and rumored clandestine births hidden deep underground—the land was stained by the 18th-century killing of settler Isaac Height. Today, despite strict trespassing laws and heavy surveillance, the cave remains a magnet for urban legends, ghostly encounters, and eerie personal coincidences, serving as a sobering reminder of the suffering, tragic escapes, and lingering spirits buried just beneath the surface of a popular park.

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Today Allen is traveling to the riverbanks of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to unravel one of the most thoroughly documented and terrifying mysteries in American folklore: the legend of the Mothman. Beginning in November 1966—when gravediggers and young couples encountered a seven-foot-tall, winged figure with glowing red eyes that could keep pace with a car at a hundred miles per hour—we trace the thirteen-month panic centered around the eerie, abandoned World War II TNT plant. From high-speed chases and terrifying shrieks to the mysterious Men in Black, we examine the strange events that haunted the town right up until the catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge on December 15, 1967, which took forty-six lives. Did a terrifying monster stalk the Appalachian hills, or was this mysterious entity a tragic omen appearing to warn a community before disaster struck.

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Today we are going back to Devon, England, in 1885 for one of the most astonishing moments in criminal history: the execution of John "Babbacombe" Lee. Convicted on thin circumstantial evidence for the gruesome murder of an elderly heiress, Lee was led to the scaffold where executioners tried—and failed—to hang him three separate times, only for the trapdoor to mysteriously jam every single time he stood upon it. Did a fatal mechanical glitch save a guilty killer, or did divine intervention step in to spare an innocent man from the gallows? We peel back the sensational newspaper headlines and Victorian lore to examine the bizarre trial, the impossible scaffold failure, and the lingering mystery of the man history declared unbeatable by death itself.

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Today on Tennessee Tales Tuesday, we are going down the winding backroads of Sumner County, to explore one of the region’s most chilling cryptid legends: the Westmoreland White Thing. Traced back to a catastrophic 1940s circus train derailment along the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, this ghostly, razor-clawed creature supposedly escaped its cage and vanished into the dense forests and limestone cave systems bordering Kentucky. From mutilated livestock and unsettling mimicry of a crying infant to an ear-splitting, unnatural scream that still freezes locals in their tracks, we peel back decades of mountain folklore, family warnings, and eyewitness encounters to uncover what might still be lurking just beyond the tree line.

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In this "From the Vault" episode, we unearth the chilling history and lingering spirits of Cragfont, a massive 1802 estate built by Revolutionary War hero Brigadier General James Winchester that many claim to be the most haunted location in Tennessee. Behind its historic walls—once home to the Winchester family, over 100 enslaved workers, and a legacy marked by heartbreak—lies a hotbed of restless paranormal activity. From self-lighting candles, faces in the windows, and an upstairs cradle that rocks on its own, to aggressive encounters like staff being shoved, belongings broken, a noose inexplicably materializing around a curator's neck, and even a hat mysteriously catching fire on the grounds, step back into our archives to discover why the specters of Cragfont refuse to rest.

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We’ve all heard the childhood playground rhyme about Lizzie Borden giving her parents forty whacks with an axe, but almost every single word of it is historically wrong. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, we tear down the myth and look at the brutal reality of the 1892 Fall River massacre that left Abby and Andrew Borden dead, the high-profile trial that ended in a shocking "not guilty" verdict, and the secret legal notes locked away in a Massachusetts vault that could solve the case today. From the courtroom drama to the intense paranormal activity reported by guests sleeping in the infamous murder room, we dive deep into America's most famous unsolved mystery to figure out if Lizzie really got away with murder.

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CreepyCon is this weekend! We had some tickets to give away and we have some big news about the show! Allen will be there in the Southern Ghost Stories booth all weekend signing books. Come out this weekend and experience CreepyCon in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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