HeyJaredSouthern Ghost Stories
American Hauntstorian Allen Sircy explores America’s haunted past — unearthing true ghost stories, graveyard legends, and forgotten folklore.
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The Beast of Bay Raven (opens the original)
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Here's a fun one for Tennessee Tales Tuesday! Tucked away on Old Douglas Lane in Gallatin, Tennessee, the 1820s Douglass Cemetery—better known as Bay Raven—is legendary not just for restless spirits, but for a bizarre, evolving monster. In the 1950s, tales of an insatiable, bull-sized, gorilla-like creature devouring livestock, dried apples, and allegedly thirty-six dogs in one night drew a reporter from The Tennessean out to investigate. Over the decades, the folklore transformed the beast into
Indiana Hauntings and Vampires, Plus Ghosts of Gallatin Kicks off 2026 Season! (opens the original)
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In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories , host Allen Sircy announces the return of the 2026 Ghosts of Gallatin Haunted Tour and introduces his two new books: Fear and Folklore: Vampires , which details the nineteenth-century New England Vampire Panic—where desperate, grief-stricken families, ravaged by the unseen devastation of tuberculosis, exhumed suspected relatives like Mercy Brown in 1892 to burn their organs under the belief that the dead were consuming the living—and Ghost Stories and G
From the Vault: Spirits of the Springs—The Thomas House (opens the original)
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In this "From the Vault" episode of Southern Ghost Stories , host Allen Sircy charts the wild history and intense paranormal lore of the Thomas House in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee—tracing its roots from a premier early 20th-century mineral springs resort built by the Cloyd family, through a bizarre 1970s stint under WWF wrestler Lester Morgan and his wrestling bear, to a near-disastrous takeover by a cult in the late 1980s. Rebranded by the Cole family in 1993, the historic landmark is now c
Murderer's Rock: The Kentucky Legend (opens the original)
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For nearly two centuries in Nelson County, Kentucky, locals have whispered the chilling tale of Nancy Hays—a frontier beauty found brutally murdered and decapitated along Rowan Creek in the 1820s. When suspicion fell upon her heartbroken suitor, Amos Molloy, an angry mob hanged him from a tree, ignoring his desperate cries that an axe-wielding madman had ambushed them both. But the tragedy didn't end at the gallows: years later, a dying stranger delivered a shocking deathbed confession. In this
Seances & Construction: The Winchester Mystery House (opens the original)
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In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories , Allen Sircy steps inside the labyrinthine corridors of San Jose’s legendary Winchester Mystery House, where documented history collides with chilling folklore. Following the tragic loss of her infant daughter and husband William—heir to the vast Winchester rifle fortune—Sarah Winchester inherited unimaginable wealth stained by blood and tragedy. Legend says a medium warned her that the spirits killed by Winchester firearms had cursed her family, drivin
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