Southern Ghost Stories

Southern Ghost Stories
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 American Hauntstorian Allen Sircy explores America’s haunted past — unearthing true ghost stories, graveyard legends, and forgotten folklore. Join him as he gives voice to haunted history and chilling tales that blur the line between fact and myth from every corner of the country. 

  1. 17h ago

    The Denver Spider Man: Horror in the Attic

    In the fall of 1941, seventy-three-year-old retired railroader Philip Peters began hearing strange noises in his house and noticing food vanishing from his Denver home, leading him to wonder if the quiet old house had a ghost—never suspecting that a gaunt, desperate drifter was secretly living inside a cramped cubbyhole right above his ceiling. When an unexpected kitchen encounter ended in Peters’ brutal murder, detectives were completely baffled by a crime committed behind bolted doors and shuttered windows, entirely unaware that the killer was still lying silently in the attic rafters directly over their heads. Even as neighbors whispered about Denver’s infamous "Ghost House," reporting phantom footsteps, flickering lights, and foul odors from the supposedly vacant building, the truth proved infinitely more terrifying than any supernatural tale. In this chilling episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy uncovers the horrifying case of Theodore Edward Coneys—the real-life "Denver Spider Man"—and reveals why the most nightmarish hauntings aren't carried out by the dead, but by the living waiting in the dark. Be sure to like, subscribe and leave a review! Check out Allen's books on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3HEf2u9 Got a question or comment? Hit us up on our socials! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/southernghoststories/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/southernghoststoriesonline Follow Allen on X https://x.com/ATOAllen Use code SAVE10 for 10% off your order over at  https://monstercitymadhouse.com

    The Denver Spider Man: Horror in the Attic

  2. 1d ago

    Am I Alive? The Resurrection of William Kriel

    In January 1870, ten thousand spectators packed the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, to watch the public hanging of William Kriel—a violent butcher who had murdered his ailing wife in front of her mother and somehow survived pumping multiple bullets into his own skull during a botched suicide attempt. Yet, the drop of the gallows trap proved to be only the opening chapter of Kentucky’s most shocking resurrection legend. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy untangles the macabre aftermath of Kriel's execution: dark rumors of midnight body-snatchers raiding Cave Hill Cemetery, a controversial Cincinnati physician obsessed with human heads, and a clandestine medical room where a galvanic battery was allegedly hooked to the killer's freshly hanged corpse. Did electrical currents and rogue scientists genuinely shock a condemned murderer back to life on an operating table, allowing a revived dead man to board a midnight train out of town, or was it a terrifying nineteenth-century nightmare born from the era's darkest Frankenstein-esque fears? Use promocode GHOSTS10 to at OldFashionedExpress.com to get ten percent off your tickets! Be sure to like, subscribe and leave a review! Check out Allen's books on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3HEf2u9 Got a question or comment? Hit us up on our socials! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/southernghoststories/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/southernghoststoriesonline Follow Allen on X https://x.com/ATOAllen Use code SAVE10 for 10% off your order over at  https://monstercitymadhouse.com

    Am I Alive? The Resurrection of William Kriel

  3. 2d ago

    Follow Me: The Lost Gold of the Hunt-Phelan House

    At 533 Beale Street in Memphis stands the Hunt-Phelan House, an antebellum red-brick mansion that has weathered nearly two centuries of turbulent history—serving as a Confederate headquarters, Ulysses S. Grant’s Union command post, a Civil War hospital where thousands suffered, and one of the city's earliest schools for newly freed African Americans. Yet beneath its storied walls and legendary escape tunnels lies a lingering mystery born from the devastating yellow fever epidemics of the 1870s: the lost family gold. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy explores the  legend of Nathan Wilson on Tennessee Tales Tuesday. Wilson was the devoted servant entrusted to bury the family fortune before pestilence emptied the city, only to be struck down by the fever before he could reveal its location. Generations later, witnesses and staff still report catching sight of a spectral nineteenth-century servant quietly beckoning and pointing toward the ground—bound not by anger or malice, but by an unfinished promise to show someone where the treasure is buried. Be sure to like, subscribe and leave a review! Check out Allen's books on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3HEf2u9 Got a question or comment? Hit us up on our socials! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/southernghoststories/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/southernghoststoriesonline Follow Allen on X https://x.com/ATOAllen Use code SAVE10 for 10% off your order over at  https://monstercitymadhouse.com

    Follow Me: The Lost Gold of the Hunt-Phelan House

  4. 3d ago

    From the Vault: The Ghosts of Le Pavillon

    In this special From the Vault episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy takes you inside New Orleans’ opulent Le Pavillon Hotel, a historic landmark famous for its crystal chandeliers, late-night peanut butter and jelly tradition—and a staggering population of restless spirits. While management prefers to keep the hauntings quiet, guests and staff alike tell a far more active story: phantom elevators that open onto empty corridors, items hurled off shelves by unseen hands, and an eerie shadow presence stalking the hallways. From a girl in a white dress skipping rope on the seventh floor and spectral figures hovering over beds, to the tragic ghost of Ada in the infamous Room 930—a young girl struck down by a carriage who never made it to the river to join her family—step inside one of the Crescent City’s grandest hotels, where the dead have permanently checked in and refuse to check out. Be sure to like, subscribe and leave a review! Check out Allen's books on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3HEf2u9 Got a question or comment? Hit us up on our socials! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/southernghoststories/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/southernghoststoriesonline Follow Allen on X https://x.com/ATOAllen Use code SAVE10 for 10% off your order over at  https://monstercitymadhouse.com

    From the Vault: The Ghosts of Le Pavillon

  5. 6d ago

    Shot in the Dark: The Body in Girty’s Cave

    In August 1879, a bloody love triangle in Perry County, Pennsylvania, ended when outlaw Samuel Albright gunned down his romantic rival, William Miller, before vanishing into the rugged wilderness along the Juniata River. Eleven days into the massive manhunt, two locals exploring the dark, damp recesses of the legendary Girty’s Cave stumbled upon a horrifying sight: a badly decomposed corpse wedged among the rocks, bearing a bullet wound to the back of the head and pockets filled with Albright’s personal letters. While the coroner’s jury declared justice served on the fugitive killer, doubts immediately took root—the face was unidentifiable, the clothing was suspiciously pristine, and sightings of Albright began surfacing from California to Kansas, and even back on the dusty roads of Perry County. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy untangles one of the nineteenth century's most chilling criminal enigmas: did Samuel Albright die alone in that limestone tomb, or did an audacious murderer fake his own demise by dressing another man in his clothes, slipping into the shadows to become a living ghost? Be sure to like, subscribe and leave a review! Check out Allen's books on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3HEf2u9 Got a question or comment? Hit us up on our socials! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/southernghoststories/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/southernghoststoriesonline Follow Allen on X https://x.com/ATOAllen Use code SAVE10 for 10% off your order over at  https://monstercitymadhouse.com

    Shot in the Dark: The Body in Girty’s Cave

  6. Sep 10

    Looking After Things: The Ghost of Paul Schultz

    In December 1897, Pike County, Pennsylvania, carried out its very first hanging behind the Milford courthouse, sending German immigrant Herman Paul Schultz to the gallows for the gunshot murder of his estranged wife, Lizzie. Yet the hanging itself was only the prelude to a far stranger nightmare: Schultz’s dying request to be buried alongside his wife’s severed skull was ignored, his body was sold to medical students for fifteen dollars, and severed scraps of the noose were hawked across town as macabre souvenirs. Exactly one year later, a stonecutter locked overnight inside Schultz’s old cell awoke to an icy draft, a shadowy presence, and a chilling voice whispering from the darkness that it was Herman Schultz himself—not seeking vengeance or proclaiming innocence, but simply “looking after things.” In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy untangles the tragic tale of domestic abuse, arson, and murder that birthed a haunting, exploring how a convicted killer became the eternal, spectral turnkey of the Pike County jail. Be sure to like, subscribe and leave a review! Check out Allen's books on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3HEf2u9 Got a question or comment? Hit us up on our socials! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/southernghoststories/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/southernghoststoriesonline Follow Allen on X https://x.com/ATOAllen Use code SAVE10 for 10% off your order over at  https://monstercitymadhouse.com

    Looking After Things: The Ghost of Paul Schultz

  7. Sep 9

    Arsenic Anna: The First Woman Executed in Ohio

    In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, host Allen Sircy delves into the chilling true story behind his new book, Arsenic Anna, uncovering the rise and fall of Depression-era Cincinnati’s most notorious serial poisoner, Anna Marie Hahn. Driven by crushing gambling debts and sheer desperation, Anna charmed, swindled, and poisoned a succession of vulnerable, elderly men with lethal doses of arsenic, ultimately becoming the first woman in Ohio history executed in the electric chair. From poisoned oysters and forged wills to courtroom curses, exhumations, and a dramatic posthumous confession admitting to four murders, discover how a charming German immigrant turned into a cold-blooded killer—and the tragic trail of victims left in her wake. Be sure to like, subscribe and leave a review! Check out Allen's books on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3HEf2u9 Got a question or comment? Hit us up on our socials! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/southernghoststories/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/southernghoststoriesonline Follow Allen on X https://x.com/ATOAllen Use code SAVE10 for 10% off your order over at  https://monstercitymadhouse.com

    Arsenic Anna: The First Woman Executed in Ohio

  8. Sep 8

    The Legend of Whistling Jack

    Deep in the shadow of Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, where thick woods and steep ridges swallow sound, an unsettling cry shattered the winter silence of 1903. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories for Tennessee Tales Tuesday, Allen Sircy tracks the chilling legend of "Whistling Jack"—a sleek, shadowy predator larger than any hound, with burning red eyes and an unnatural, whistling exhalation that sounded like escaping steam turning into a human hiss. What began as an eerie mountain echo soon erupted into widespread panic across the coal mining towns of Victoria and Whitwell, leaving livestock mauled, armed posses empty-handed despite a five-dollar bounty, and hardened miners running for their lives along moonlit mountain roads. From terrified eyewitness accounts to phantom sightings along the rocky bluffs of Monteagle, discover the enduring Appalachian mystery of a beast that defied every known predator in the woods—and learn why those who travel the dark hollows of the Sequatchie Valley after sunset are still warned never to answer a whistle in the trees. Be sure to like, subscribe and leave a review! Check out Allen's books on Amazon! https://amzn.to/3HEf2u9 Got a question or comment? Hit us up on our socials! Instagram https://www.instagram.com/southernghoststories/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/southernghoststoriesonline Follow Allen on X https://x.com/ATOAllen Use code SAVE10 for 10% off your order over at  https://monstercitymadhouse.com

    The Legend of Whistling Jack
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 American Hauntstorian Allen Sircy explores America’s haunted past — unearthing true ghost stories, graveyard legends, and forgotten folklore. Join him as he gives voice to haunted history and chilling tales that blur the line between fact and myth from every corner of the country. 

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  • Creator
    Southern Ghost Stories
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    183
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Allen Sircy
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    Southern Ghost Stories

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