The Most Haunted City On Earth Podcast

#halloween #frankenstein Join our Parajunkie Family! www.patreon.com/hauntedcitypodcastWhat if Frankenstein wasn't entirely fiction? What if a real scientist actually made a dead body move more than 200 years ago?Welcome to the second installment of our Halloween series, The Real-Life Universal Monsters! This week on The Most Haunted City on Earth, Madison and Chris are joined by special guest Soucy Soucy to uncover the horrifying true history behind one of the most iconic monsters of all time: Frankenstein's Monster.In 1803, Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini conducted a series of disturbing experiments on the recently executed body of George Foster. Using electricity, Aldini caused the corpse's jaw to tremble, its muscles to convulse, its hand to clench, and even one of its eyes to open. Witnesses were horrified, with some believing they were watching a dead man return to life.But this was only the beginning.We explore the gruesome world of 19th-century medical experimentation, when human bodies became scientific spectacles, electricity was a mysterious new frontier, and researchers were beginning to question whether death could actually be reversed.Then we travel to the infamous summer of 1816, when a young Mary Shelley, trapped inside a Swiss villa during a season of darkness and storms, experienced the nightmare that would inspire Frankenstein. Could the terrifying experiments of scientists like Aldini have helped give birth to literature's most famous monster?From electrified corpses and anatomical theaters to the disturbing relationship between science and mortality, we're uncovering the REAL horrors behind Frankenstein.

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For nearly a century, we’ve known them as monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman, and the Mummy. But every monster comes from somewhere.This Halloween, we’re diving into the REAL cases, folklore, and historical events behind the Universal Monsters, starting with DRACULA. 🧛

Long before Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897, villages across Serbia were gripped by a terrifying vampire panic. People claimed the dead were returning to attack the living. Graves were opened. Bodies were found seemingly untouched by decay, with fresh blood still present. Stakes were driven through hearts, corpses were decapitated and burned, and eventually the reports became so serious that officials from the Habsburg Empire were sent to investigate.

And they documented what they found.In this episode, Madison and Chris explore the bizarre cases of Arnold Powell and Peter Blasjevic, the Serbian vampire panics of the 1720s and 1730s, the government investigations that followed, and how these stories helped introduce the vampire to Western Europe long before Count Dracula ever stepped onto the page.

We also get into vampire folklore, sleep paralysis, the strange idea of vampirism spreading like a disease, the official diagnosis of a “Vampiric Condition,” and the very real historical fears that may have helped create the vampire as we know it today.

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Haunted Yoga is also coming to the channel, featuring spooky flows filmed inside the Savannah Paranormal Museum.

And if you’re in Savannah October 16–18, Chris will be performing his one-man adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart at Ghost Light Theater!

Cut the lights, turn the volume up, and journey with us into The Most Haunted City on Earth.

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In 1799, a voice started rising from the cellar of a farmhouse on Taunton Bay in Sullivan, Maine. It said it was Nellie Butler, a young woman who had died in childbirth three years earlier. Over the next year, more than 100 people said they heard her, and dozens said they saw her fully formed. She preached, she called out the skeptics by name, and she tried to arrange her widower's next marriage.Madison and Chris dig into what's been called America's first ghost. They cover the eyewitness accounts Reverend Abraham Cummings collected, the 48 townspeople who followed a specter across town, and a prophecy that came true. Was it really Nellie? A demon wearing her face? Mass hysteria? Or something that badly wanted to be born?Also in this episode: an accidental ghost hunt in a historic Brunswick courthouse, a Phantom Fact about the man buried in a Pringles can (and Cincinnati's flying pigs), and Chris's night at the Lizzie Borden House, where the Estes Method caught a thief red-handed.This one was recorded live with our Para Junkies. You can join the family on Patreon (Haunted City Podcast) to catch live recordings and see the Brunswick courthouse photos.Next episode kicks off our Halloween series: the real-life stories behind the Universal Monsters.Stay spooky, y'all.

#poltergeist #truehaunting Join The Parajunkie Family on Patreon! www.patreon.com/hauntedcitypodcastOne of the most violent and strangely overlooked poltergeist cases in American history happened right here in Georgia.In 1872, the Surrency family’s quiet farmhouse suddenly erupted into chaos. Objects appeared from nowhere. Glass shattered. Furniture moved on its own. Scalding food was hurled across the dinner table. Knives, bricks, shoes, and household objects flew through the air, and eventually the activity became terrifyingly physical.The haunting attracted reporters, investigators, and hundreds of curious visitors, with witnesses claiming to see the unexplained activity firsthand. Despite the extraordinary attention it received at the time, the Surrency Poltergeist somehow faded from paranormal history.This week, we’re digging into the bizarre documented accounts, the increasingly violent attacks on the family, the theories surrounding what caused it, and why a case this extreme is not mentioned alongside America’s most famous hauntings.PLUS: a new paranormal video from the Savannah Paranormal Museum and the debut of our newest segment, Phantom Fact, featuring the surprisingly paranormal origin story of chiropractic medicine.Cut the lights, turn the volume up, and stay spooky, y’all. 👻Submit your personal ghost stories for a chance to be read on the show! [email protected]

#vampire #folklore Join us on Patreon for zero ads ALWAYS! www.patreon.com/hauntedcitypodcast.comHistorian, folklorist, and author Adam Marrow joins us to explore the strange supernatural beliefs of early America. We dive into his new book, *By Stake and Prayer*, uncovering colonial witchcraft, the New England vampire panic, werewolf lore, witch bottles, pirate ghosts, buried treasure, and the very real history behind some of America’s darkest legends.Plus, Adam shares the story behind his historically accurate vampire-hunting kit and a centuries-old pirate treasure mystery that may still be waiting along the South Carolina coast.Catch Adam Marrow at the Savannah Paranormal Museum on September 25th for a book signing and meet-and-greet! www.savannahparanormalmuseum.com

Join us on Patreon for ZERO ADS ALWAYS! www.patreon.com/hauntedcitypodcast.comToday we're bringing you a paranormal TRIFECTA: a terrifying Ghost Mail, a ghost caught on camera, and one of the strangest Haunted Zillow listings we've ever found.First, a listener tells us about the Oklahoma home where her family experienced years of disturbing activity... including the Hat Man standing in her doorway, a massive shadowy serpent, terrifying dreams, unexplained medical episodes, and a night when she felt something literally trying to pull her soul out of her body.Then, we break down a bizarre video that appears to show the apparition of a little girl approaching a horse in the middle of the night. Is it actually a child spirit caught on camera?And finally… would YOU live in an old 1800s county jail? Because someone turned one into a family home... and yes, the original jail cells, iron doors, chains, and solitary confinement room are STILL INSIDE.We also share a chilling new piece of audio captured inside the Savannah Paranormal Museum: a mysterious woman's voice that appears to say “Hosanna”… followed by another voice repeating it.Have a paranormal story, ghost photo, strange video, or Haunted Zillow listing you want us to investigate?Send your Ghost Mail to:[email protected] Madison Timmons, Chris Soucy, JT and the Parajunkies as we explore the unexplained from Savannah, Georgia: The Most Haunted City on Earth.

If you love this show, the best way to support us is by becoming a Parajunkie! www.patreon.com/hauntedcitypodcast.comIn August of 1971, a woman in a small Spanish village looked down at her kitchen floor and saw a face looking back at her. Her husband and son took pickaxes to the concrete and poured a new floor over it. Two weeks later, the face came back.Chris is home from Edinburgh, the trio is back together, and Madison takes us to Belmez de la Moraleda, a farming town of about 1,500 people in southern Spain, for one of the most investigated paranormal cases in history. Las Caras de Belmez. The Faces of Belmez.It started with Maria Gomez Camara, 52 years old, no interest in attention, who assumed she was seeing things because she had a slight fever. When the stain would not scrub out, the family destroyed the floor. When the face came back on September 8, 1971, the town found out, and secrets do not last long in a place that size. Neighbors started calling it La Casa de las Caras, the House of Faces, and people started showing up.Send us your personal ghost stories by emailing [email protected]#BelmezFaces #LasCarasDeBelmez #Spain #Paranormal #GhostStories #Thoughtography #HansBender #Parapsychology #UnexplainedMysteries #HauntedCityPodcast #SavannahGhosts #GhostsCaughtOnCamera #HauntedHouse

Join the Parajunkie Fam! Welcome to the Haunted City Cinema Club! The bonus series where the Most Haunted City on Earth crew turns off the ghost hunting and turns on the horror movies.This time we're breaking down PASSENGER (yes, just Passenger ... no "The," we checked). A couple ditches their old life for the van life, picks up a set of three scratches on their vehicle, and finds out the hard way that something is riding along with them.Madison and JT had a blast with it. Chris found his new favorite Hitcher-style road horror. Michael saw it opening weekend in May, hated it, then had to watch it a second time for this episode.We get into:Why the opening scene feels like a completely different (and much better) movieThe trailer problem: getting sold one film and handed anotherVan life horror, the Gabby Petito of it all, and whether hobo code even belongs hereDiane, the greatest exposition dump in modern horror... and the best death in the movieThe St. Christopher lore the movie completely fumbled (including the part where he has a dog head)Plot holes: the medals, the necklace, the Planet Fitness escape she never tookChimney Rock is not on a beach, and JT got married there so he would know lolBasic cable horror as a palate cleanser after months of body horror and psychological dreadFinal ratings... and why "my head says 4, my heart says 8" is a completely valid reviewOur scores land everywhere from a 2/10 to an 8/10, so tell us in the comments: what would you give Passenger?

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Milwaukee tried to erase Jeffrey Dahmer completely. The apartment building was demolished. His belongings were bought up and incinerated at a landfill in Illinois. His body was cremated, and a judge ordered his brain cremated too. There is no grave, no relic, no address. And yet people claim he haunts at least eight different places.

Chris is still across the pond, so our much loved editor DeBria is back on the show, which means today's episode leans a little more true crime than usual. Madison walks through every location tied to Dahmer hauntings and lays out what actually happened at each one, what people report experiencing there, and which ones hold up.

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On February 21, 1977, a woman was murdered in her Chicago apartment. Six months later, she solved her own case from beyond the grave.

Madison and Chris get into the case of Teresita Basa, a 48 year old respiratory therapist from the Philippines who was found in her 15th floor Lincoln Park apartment with a butcher knife in her chest and a burning mattress over her body. Her clothes were scattered to stage a crime that the autopsy later ruled never happened. Her belongings burned. Her one clue was a handwritten note that read "get theater tickets for A.S."

Nobody at Edgewater Hospital knew who A.S. was. She had no enemies. The case went cold almost immediately.

Then in August of 1977, a doctor named Jose Chua called the Chicago police to report something he was terrified to say out loud. His wife Remy had been slipping into trances and speaking in Tagalog in a voice that was not her own. "Doctor, I would like to ask for your help. The man who murdered me is still at large." When they asked who was speaking, the answer was Teresita Basa.

This is a judgment free circle. Your experiences matter, your questions are welcome, and the weird is normal.

Stay spooky, y'all.

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