Pleasing Terrors

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 o

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, wr

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

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 mos

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 Su

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.

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 dir

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 ei

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 t

The Mermaid Returns: Part 3

The conclusion of the three part series which combines history, ghosts, true crime and fairytales.

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. 

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.

Here Are Dragons

This episode features the untold story of the origin of King Kong.

Last Breath

This episode tells a story about pirates and a haunted dungeon.

The Mermaid

This episode tells the story of the Charleston mermaid.

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 Pet

Through A Glass Darkly

This a story about the Titanic, Victorian sex trafficking and a mummy's curse.        

Shadows of Savannah Part 2: The Dead Time

Haunted houses, midnight witchcraft and famous murder in historic Savannah, Georgia.

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 Sava

True Ghosts

Harry Houdini and the Halloween Séance.