American Hauntings Podcast

On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1895, parishioners at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco were shocked when a closet was opened that contained the mutilated body of a young woman. Police detectives who were summoned to the church expected the corpse to belong to a 20-year-old woman named Blanche Lamont, a member of the church’s congregation who had gone missing 10 days earlier.
But it wasn’t her. Instead, the dead woman was 21-year-old Minnie Williams, who was also a member of the church.
And that wasn’t all the two young women had in common. Both had last been seen with the church’s handsome and well-liked Sunday School Superintendent, a man named Theo Durrant – who soon earned a nickname from the press. They called him “The Demon in the Belfry,” because it was almost impossible for anyone to believe that the brutal murders could be the work of an ordinary man.
He had to be one of the Devil’s minions, escaped from the fiery pits of Hell. 

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How well do you really know your neighbor?
In Decatur, Illinois, 1964, evil didn’t break in—it lived inside the house. On a cold February night, a family argument ended with a hatchet, a triple killing, and a manhunt that stretched from Illinois to Florida.
This is The Hatchet House—a story of blood, silence, and a terrifying truth: sometimes the monster isn’t out there…
…it’s already home.
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James “Big Jim” Colosimo ruled the Chicago underworld longer than any man in the city's history. The money he raked in from the many enterprises that he controlled was conservatively estimated at $50,000 a month for about eight years. Colosimo was a strange character and a man who helped usher in Chicago's organized crime era – although he’d never actually live to see it. 
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This episode was written by Troy Taylor
Produced and edited by Cody Beck

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In 1908, a Pentecostal minister announced to his followers that the Devil was alive and well and interfered with every aspect of human life. And he wasn’t alone in this belief. Others described demons as swarming around the human soul and living off them “like ticks on cattle.”
The Pentecostal belief about the Devil interfering with our everyday lives was just one example of how the twentieth century became the “Satanic Century” for both American religion and popular culture. More than at any other time since the seventeenth century, American religion became obsessed with the Devil and all his works. The was largely due to the rise of two powerful religious movements at the time – Pentecostalism and Fundamentalism. Each gave the Devil a special role in both their view of the world and their personal spiritual experience.
But they were not the only ones – Roman Catholicism remained convinced of how the Devil’s influence continued to represent a threat to the lives and souls of its followers. In fact, it was during this same time that the Catholic Church revealed the horrors of a demonic possession that would shock the nation. 
The exorcism that followed would become known as one of the first to make national news in modern American history.

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In the early 1980s, Springfield, Illinois learned there was no safe hour.
On this episode of American Dread, we examine two unconnected crimes that unfolded just one year apart — one in broad daylight, the other in the dead of night — and how both shattered a city’s sense of safety.
In 1981, an axe attack inside Lauterbach Cottage Hardware left one man dead and a killer who vanished without a trace.
In 1982, a brutal double murder inside a family home was solved — but its consequences would resurface decades later in a devastating way.
These cases aren’t linked by suspects or motive.
They’re linked by place, time, and a chilling truth: violence doesn’t wait for darkness.
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