Allie In the Archives

Allie Seibert

Allie in the Archives is a narrative history and true crime podcast digging up the forgotten, overlooked, and unthinkable stories from America’s past. Hosted by historian and author Allie Seibert, each episode is meticulously crafted, rich in archival research, and delivered with the same intensity as a ghost story told around the fire—slow-burning, unsettling, and grounded in truth. From unsolved murders to vanished women, witch trials to whispered rumors, these are the stories time tried to bury. If you’re drawn to the eerie, the obscure, and the historically true, you’re in the right place. New episodes every week. Follow wherever you listen.

  1. Jan 29

    The Greatest Race on Earth: New York to Paris, 1908

    In 1908, six teams stood in Times Square, pointed their automobiles west, and decided to drive to Paris, France.  There were no highways.No GPS.No reliable maps. But there were blizzards dumping feet of snow onto nonexistent roads, cars hauled out of drifts by horses, engines rebuilt nightly in the cold, and entire continents where the idea of an automobile was still closer to rumor than reality. This wasn’t a race in the modern sense. It was an endurance experiment dreamed up by newspapers and fueled by national pride, overconfidence, and a truly alarming lack of planning. Teams followed railroad tracks across America, argued over what “counted” as driving, attempted to cross Siberia by following telegraph lines, and—at one point—fully expected to drive across the not-so-frozen Bering Strait. Through mud that swallowed cars whole, duels that nearly happened, champagne shared in the middle of the Siberian tundra, and rules that bent just enough to keep the whole thing moving, one battered American car refused to quit. Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives

    40 min

  2. Jan 23

    The Bath School Disaster

    On May 18, 1927, a series of explosions tore through Bath Township, Michigan, killing forty-four people and injuring dozens more in what remains the deadliest act of school violence in American history. This episode traces the full arc of the Bath School Disaster-- from the conditions that allowed it to happen, to the devastation that followed, to the stories that were shaped in its aftermath. Along the way, we look closely at Andrew Kehoe’s carefully constructed narrative of grievance, the failures of oversight that gave him access and proximity, and the lives that were forever altered-- including the life of his wife, Nellie Kehoe, whose death came before the bombing and was largely absorbed into the disaster that followed. The Bath School Disaster is often reduced to a single morning of violence. But understanding how it happened requires looking earlier-- at silence, at power, and at the stories that are allowed to stand unchallenged. Content note: This episode contains discussion of mass violence, domestic murder, and the deaths of children. Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives

    44 min

  3. 12/23/2025

    Charles Dickens and the Ghost of Christmas Past

    Charles Dickens is synonymous with Christmas. With generosity. Redemption. Kindness. But behind the stories that shaped Victorian morality was another story-- one carefully rewritten, tightly controlled, and believed for more than a century. In this episode, we examine the marriage of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth Dickens, a union that collapsed under the weight of celebrity and power. Drawing on letters, contemporary accounts, and modern archival scholarship, this episode explores how a cultural icon became one of the earliest examples of a global media figure shaping "truth," and how Catherine Dickens quietly ensured that her own story would survive long enough to be heard.  Welcome to the Archives.  Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives

    23 min

  4. 12/12/2025

    Talking to the Dead: The History of Spiritualism in Michigan

    Long before ghost tour tickets were sold and Ouija boards became party games, Michigan was at the center of a national movement-- one that believed the dead were still speaking, and the living could learn to listen. This is the strange and powerful world of Spiritualism: seances in pine groves, table rappings by candlelight, and the people who built communities around messages from the other side. Welcome to the Archives.  Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives

    33 min

  5. 11/14/2025

    Burt Lake Burn-Out

    It began as an eviction.It ended in fire. In 1900, the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa watched their homes burn on the shores of northern Michigan-- a community destroyed not by war, but by paperwork. This episode traces the story of Cheboiganing, the village the law tried to erase, and the generations who kept its memory alive. Welcome to the Archives. Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives

    24 min

  6. 11/07/2025

    Haunted Michigan: The Stories Behind the Ghosts

    Across Michigan, old buildings whisper their stories. The Linden Hotel in Genesee County. A grand home in Fenton. A quiet farmhouse in Maybee. Each has its own ghosts-- and its own history to explain them. Through archival records, family documents, and forgotten local accounts, the legends begin to align with fact. Ghost stories meet documented history, revealing the real lives behind Michigan's most mysterious hauntings. And how memory lingers long after the living are gone. Welcome to The Archives.Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives

    27 min

  7. 10/16/2025

    Magdelaine La Framboise: Mackinac Island's Merchant Queen

    Just off the northern tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, where Lake Huron turns cold and clear, there’s an island that remembers. Beneath the postcard charm of Mackinac-- the fudge shops, the bicycles, the horse-drawn carriages-- lies a history far older and far deeper. Before it was a tourist destination, it was a center of trade. A crossroads between worlds. And at the heart of it all was Magdelaine La Framboise, a Métis fur trader, Odawa woman, and entrepreneur who built one of the most successful trading empires in the Great Lakes. Her story is one of power, loss, and legacy, a woman navigating between languages, faiths, and nations at a time when few women held any authority at all. She retired to Mackinac Island decades before it became the place we know today, leaving behind a church, a school, and a memory that the island still carries. This is the story of the woman who kept the island alive long before it became a souvenir. Welcome to The Archives.Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives

    31 min

  8. 09/26/2025

    Michigan's Unknown First Serial Killer: Henry Scott Mausell

    Michigan’s first “official” serial killer is usually dated to the 1960s. But the records say otherwise.In 1916, a new husband, a picnic, and a bag left at a Grand Rapids grocery store unraveled a man of many names-- James Allen, James Curtis, John Allerton-- until only one remained: Henry Scott Mausell. We trace the pattern that shadowed Mausell for years: a dead son, two sisters in a staged scene, and countless women who answered his letters and disappeared.  Welcome to The Archives.Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan's Darkest Murders Forgotten By TimeHouseholdhistory.comInstagram: @allieinthearchives

    29 min
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About

Allie in the Archives is a narrative history and true crime podcast digging up the forgotten, overlooked, and unthinkable stories from America’s past. Hosted by historian and author Allie Seibert, each episode is meticulously crafted, rich in archival research, and delivered with the same intensity as a ghost story told around the fire—slow-burning, unsettling, and grounded in truth. From unsolved murders to vanished women, witch trials to whispered rumors, these are the stories time tried to bury. If you’re drawn to the eerie, the obscure, and the historically true, you’re in the right place. New episodes every week. Follow wherever you listen.

Information

  • Creator
    Allie Seibert
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Allie Seibert
  • Show Website
    Allie In the Archives

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