Podcast Episodes

Our Favorite Guilty Pleasure Horror Movies (Halloween 2025)

Season 9

This Halloween, we discuss our favorite guilty pleasure Horror movies! And we try our best to not judge ourselves and others about the scary movies we all hate to love. Check it out!

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Published on 13 hours ago

American Dread: Twenty-Five Minutes: The Vanishing of TJ Davison

In October 1985, four-year-old Timothy “TJ” Davison vanished from a grocery store parking lot in Decatur, Illinois — in broad daylight, while his aunt was just steps away. What followed was one of th…

Published on 2 days, 13 hours ago

The Possession

Season 9 Episode 21

Post Malone only went into the room because he was with an expert. That’s what he said later, with a lot of regret. The room was part of the other man’s haunted museum in Las Vegas and inside it was …

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

American Dread: The Dardeen Family Homicides

In 1987, the Dardeen family’s quiet life in rural Illinois ended in unimaginable horror.

A crime so savage, it left investigators speechless — and decades later, still haunted by questions that no one…

Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago

The Believers and Borderland (and a big announcement!)

Season 9 Episode 20

Mark spent the night drinking beer with his friends and trying to pick up girls, passing most of his time in a cantina called Sgt. Peppers, and a honky-tonk called the London Pub. But when his friend…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

The Lighthouse

Season 9 Episode 19

The initial inspiration for the film was NOT based on a true story – it was based on an unfinished Edgar Allan Poe story that was also called “The Lighthouse.” Max Eggers began adapting the story but…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Veronica

Season 9 Episode 18

It’s been called the “SCARIEST FILM ON NETFLIX” by critics and viewers alike. It’s a Spanish film that’s written and directed by Paco Plaza, who found fame a few years before it came out with the REC…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Bonus- American Dread: Horror in Decatur — The Penny Timmons Story

Check out the brand new podcast, American Dread, from Adam White.

On Halloween 1992, 20-year-old Penny Timmons vanished in Decatur, Illinois, leaving behind a chilling note in a gas station restroom: …

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Sneak Preview of New Season Coming to Patreon!

NEW PREVIEW OF OUR NEW SHOW ON PATREON!

CANYON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE STARVED ROCK MURDERS

Available ONLY by becoming a Patreon supporter of American Hauntings. 

Go to https://patreon.com/americanhaunti…

Published on 2 months ago

Bonus- American Dread: Cold Barrels, Cold Blood

Check out the brand new podcast, American Dread, from Adam White.

Two winters. Two murders. Eighteen years apart.

In Decatur, Illinois, the winters of 1942 and 1960 were marked not by snow and holiday …

Published on 2 months ago