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Pleasing Terrors
by Mike Brown
Join acclaimed ghost storyteller Mike Brown for a bi-weekly tour through the shadows of history. The Pleasing Terrors Podcast features stories about haunted places, creepy history, and forgotten folklore.
Episodes
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Charleston Gothic: Part 6- Ghostly Alchemy
A wax figurine forgotten in museum storage. A book of poems that prophesied a ghost. A woman on a beach who found something she wasn't looking for. In the final episode of the Charleston Gothic series, the investigation returns to where it began — the Dock Street Theatre — and follows the last of...
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Charleston Gothic: Part 5- The Unfortunate Pirate
Episode 51: The Unfortunate Pirate For over a century, "Annabel Lee" has been read as Edgar Allan Poe's final love poem—a haunting elegy to his child bride Virginia, written months before his death. But what if we've been wrong about the poem's true subject all along? In this episode, Mike…
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Charleston Gothic: Part 4- Tekeli
CHARLESTON GOTHIC Episode 4: Tekeli The Charleston Library Society has survived fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and war—emerging each time with its treasures intact. Among those treasures: the world's most complete archive of Charleston newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In...
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Charleston Gothic: Part 3- Juliet's Tomb
Find the grave of Annabel Lee and you find the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe! In this episode, a hand-drawn map pulls us through a locked iron gate into Charleston's most overgrown churchyard, where legends gather like mist and names disappear into leaves. A lady in white wanders the paths. Sixty-four...
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Charleston Gothic: Part 2- Buried Treasures
In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern ghost tours to nineteenth-century poetry, from pirate treasure maps to academic footnotes, from Sullivan's Island beaches to a forgotten corner of a graveyard. What emerges is not a simple ghost story, but an obsession—shared...
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Charleston Gothic: Part 1- Night Sea Journey
The Descent has led us to Charleston, and to a haunted historic theatre where we uncover a clue that may bring us closer to finding the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. Sources: The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian Buxton Charleston Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City by James Caskey Complex, archetype and...
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The Descent: Part 3- Lost
In this episode we visit the most haunted house of Edgar Allan Poe and then retrace his path to the threshold of a secret world. Sources that were either referenced directly or consulted during the writing of this episode: Ghosts of Philadelphia by Charles J. Adams III A Mystery of Mysteries: The...
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The Descent: Part 2- Spiral
In this episode we continue our search for the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe and retrace his path through the final, ill-fated months of his life. Sources that were either referenced directly or consulted during the writing of this episode: Ghosts of Philadelphia by Charles J. Adams III A Mystery of...
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The Descent: Part 1- Hollow
In this episode we embark on a search for the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, guided by Henry David Thoreau and the mystery of the Hollow Earth. Our quest begins with a visit to a haunted saloon and an apartment building that is hiding a dark past.
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Charleston Gothic (Part 1)
In this episode, we take a look at Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug," a story about an encrypted map that leads to a buried pirate treasure. We will visit a haunted theater and discuss a play a play about the death of Poe that was first performed there in 1994. The story, the ghosts, and the play...
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The Mermaid Returns: Part 3
The conclusion of the three part series which combines history, ghosts, true crime and fairytales.
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The Mermaid Returns: Part 2
The second episode in a three part series about one of Charleston's lost stories. It is a true story that combines history, true crime, ghosts and fairy tales.
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The Mermaid Returns: Part 1
This is the first in a three part series about one of Charleston, South Carolina's lost stories. It combines history, ghosts, true crime, amd fairytales.
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Here Are Dragons
This episode features the untold story of the origin of King Kong.
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Last Breath
This episode tells a story about pirates and a haunted dungeon.
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The Mermaid
This episode tells the story of the Charleston mermaid.
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Corpsewood
This is a story about a German fairytale and a brutal murder in northwestern Georgia. Suggested reading: The Corpsewood Manor Murders In North Georgia by Amy Petulla
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Through A Glass Darkly
This a story about the Titanic, Victorian sex trafficking and a mummy's curse.
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Shadows of Savannah Part 2: The Dead Time
Haunted houses, midnight witchcraft and famous murder in historic Savannah, Georgia.
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Shadows of Savannah (Part 1): Most Haunted
In this episode I visit some of Savanah's most haunted locations. Suggested Reading: Haunted Savanah: America's Most Spectral City by James Caskey Haunted Savannah by Georgia R. Byrd
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True Ghosts
Harry Houdini and the Halloween Séance.
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Creepy Door Room
An unexpected return to a very creepy place to do a very foolish thing.
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In the Shadow of Oz
This episode features The Wizard of Oz, Greek mythology and a famous unsolved murder.
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Resurrection
Episode 30: Resurrection delves into the history of Chicago's most famous ghost: Resurrection Mary!
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029: Invisible World Part 2 - Satan's Kingdom
I am with Alyson Horrocks of The Strange and Unusual Podcast. It's the evening of August 20th, 2017. We are in Danvers, MA which was previously known as Salem Village. We are visiting the Samuel Parris archeological site. Surrounded by a rail fence there are two stone lined cellars marking the...
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028: Strange Terrors
Alyson Horrocks from the Strange and Unusual Podcast took me on a tour of a historical site with a dark past. The site sits in a town called Danvers, but it was once Salem Village. This site was the culmination of a strange mix of religion, superstition, folklore, slavery, patriarchy, truth, and...
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027: The Dark Path
The history of the Navajo goes back in time to the Four Corners region in Arizona. Where the spider grandmother spun a giant web and threw it into the night sky to create the stars. This area known as Canyon de Chelly is also known as the Canyon of the Dead after a misguided weaver's warning...
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026: Monster of the Deep
On November 20th, 1850 night watchman George Pollard Jr. makes his nightly rounds on the foggy Island of Nantucket, MA. An island once inhabited by proud tribes of Native Americans before the addition of the colonists. An island that was the whaling capital of the world for over a century. The...
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025: A Vampire's Heart
Count Dracula's story is one of many pieces; a story of a man and the secrets that are hidden inside his castle. Bram Stoker, the story's author, is also a man of many secrets who constructed his own castle and built a fortress around his heart. The puzzle of Count Dracula is not complete until…
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024: The Devil Inside
Chicago's West 63rd Street Post Office was built in 1938 over the site of what its creator referred to as "The Castle", and in 1902 an Ohio Daily News article called it Chicago's Ghost Castle. Whatever you want to call it, this site was once or possibly still is the home to a notorious killer. A...
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023: Sins of the Father
The Heriot House in Georgetown, South Carolina was built in 1765. It is now the Harbor House Inn and there are many stories by visitors and Georgetown residents alike of seeing an image of a woman that looks like she doesn't belong there. Is this woman the ghost of a forlorn lover or does she...
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022: Hell Broke Loose
In Austin, Texas in 1884 a female servant was killed in a gruesome ax murder. Feeble attempts were made to find the murderer, but to no avail. Soon a series of gruesome ax murders and attacks followed. Each one more horrific than the other, and the murders spread beyond the black servant…
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021: Hungry Spirits
In Native American folklore, there was a dark creature that possessed the mind and body of men, instilling within them a great hunger for human flesh. The Wendigo was feared by tribes throughout what is now North America and Canada as stories of bloodshed and terror spread across the continent....
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020: True Horror
The Salisbury Plain is the name for the 300 miles of grasslands located in Wiltshire, England. Home to Stonehenge, a rich history, and a wide variety of plants and animals, the Salisbury Plain is one of the most famous locations in England. For the residents of Wiltshire, however, the area is...
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019: The Dark Séance Polka
The White House: In all it's glory, from the immaculately-kept gardens to the walls hung with priceless art, is an icon of American history and power. Home to every President since 1800, the White House is seen as a safe haven for the President and their family. Not even the heavy iron fence that...
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018: The Place of the Dragon
Deep within the heart of New Jersey lies an untamed swath of trees and brush, long believed to be the home of the Jersey Devil itself. A horrifying creature with the head of a goat and the wings of a bat, the legend of the Jersey Devil has haunted the Pine Barrens for generations. Yet the Jersey...
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017: A Monster of Many Parts
Who can forget the classic tale of the mad scientist who creates a gorgeously gruesome Creature, only to become frightened and disgusted by his own creation? Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is one of the most widely taught examples of Gothic literature, yet most readers don't know the true…
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016: True Crime
Fairy tales often teach an important moral lesson, hidden within the entertaining twists and turns of the story. The tale of Bluebeard, the rich man who keeps the bodies of his murdered wives locked behind the forbidden doors of the dungeon in his castle, doomed to have his wrongdoing exposed by...
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015: Condemned, Part Two - The Devil's Hour
The time between three and four in the morning is said to be the hour when evil is at the height of it's power -- the time when the Devil ascends from Hell and ghosts haunt the land of the living. In part two of my experience of the Devil's hour inside Charleston's Old City Jail, I receive a...
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014: Condemned, Part One - Welcome to Hell
Nestled inside Charleston, South Carolina lives a menacing stone monstrosity, often called the most haunted building in America -- The Old City Jail. The square upon which the Jail sits has been home to untold amounts of suffering and torture, making it the perfect breeding ground for the...
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013: Place of Slaughter
The railroad tracks over the Tsavo river are flanked on either side with lush grasses. A picturesque river runs below, providing a calming base for the trains that rush from Uganda to Kenya and back again. During it's construction, men from all over India and far parts of Africa gathered at the...
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012: The Serpent's Curse
Throughout history, disasters of astronomical proportions have taken place on one auspicious day -- Friday the Thirteenth. Shipwrecks, tsunamis, raging forest fires, brutal murderers, and horrifying accidents have all claimed victims on a day that many believe has been cursed since the fall of…
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011: The Labyrinth Part 2 - The Hell Below
Underneath our world lies a twisting and complicated maze, a dark mass of underground caves, passageways, and secrets. In part two of our Labyrinth series, we delve into the explorations of Greg Newkirk into the heart of the Kentucky goblin mystery. Episode Highlights: The m-cave mystery in the...
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010: The Labyrinth Part 1 - Goblins
The brave Greek hero Theseus made a name for himself when he defeated the monstrous Minotaur and escaped the depths of the Labyrinth by mapping his path back to safety with a ball of red string. The story of the Kentucky Goblins is much like the twisting, mysterious Labyrinth. Many researchers…
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008: Shadows of Gotham
The city of dreams, the city that never sleeps, the city with streets paved with opportunities… for many of us, New York represents a glittering place where absolutely anything is possible. Yet for all its glamour and sparkle, there are dark secrets lurking within its shadows, and history has…
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007 The Married One
The idyllic Fox Hollow Farm boasts of a basement-level swimming pool and sprawling acres of land. But all is not as it seems. A man creeps through the woods nearby, his legs transparent in the flashlight's beam. There is an incessant knocking at the front door by hands unseen. Night swims in the...
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006: The Mountain of Madness
Mysteries are a rarity in our world. What used to be unexplainable is now quickly answered by the modern marvels of technology and science. So when a new mystery appears, we drive ourselves crazy searching for an explanation, haunted by what we can't explain. One modern mystery is reasoning…
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005: Shadow of the Wolf
Werewolves have been portrayed in folklore, books, movies and television for centuries. Rageful howls under the full moon. Fangs, claws, fur, muscle and legend. Is it a monster? A ghost or a demon? Is it real? Historic folk tales about werewolves often evoke images of crisp nights in dark ages of...
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004: The Devil's Business
A haunted house should loom out of the darkness, its windows boarded up, ghosts and dust as the only occupants. But horror dwells inside two beautifully decorated homes in the Benedict Canyon of Beverly Hills. While its name means "heaven" in Spanish, 10050 Cielo Drive was nothing but Hell for…
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003: The Invitation
Wear garlic around your neck. Carry a wooden stake. Hang a crucifix on the wall, and never, ever, open the door for Dracula. The superstitions that were meant to protect our ancestors from vampires taught them the most important lesson of all: never invite a monster inside. Yet with the birth of...
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Join acclaimed ghost storyteller Mike Brown for a bi-weekly tour through the shadows of history. The Pleasing Terrors Podcast features stories about haunted places, creepy history, and forgotten folklore.
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