American Hauntings Podcast

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• A Valentine for Bugs Moran

  October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

  On February 14, 1929, the most infamous gangland massacre in American history occurred in a dingy garage on the North Side of Chicago when five mobsters, plus a mechanic and a wanna-be gangster optometrist, were ripped apart in a hail of…

• Chicago Rackets

  September 29, 2026 · 53 min

  In the summer of 1928, Al Capone was back in Chicago and was still building his empire. Things like gambling, prostitution, and, of course, liquor, were still making up the bulk of his profits – but he knew that wasn’t going to last…

• No Grave for William Rose: The Murder of Axl Rose’s Father

  September 23, 2026 · 23 min

  In 1984, William Bruce Rose, the biological father of Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose, vanished in Southern Illinois. Nearly three years later, a teenager came forward with a disturbing story of murder, a body hidden in an abandoned mining…

• American Nightmares 28: "The Grand Ole Opry Curse"

  September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

  The Devil’s Music comes in a lot of forms – from rock-n-roll to the blues, to the music that spawned them both – country music, the kind that was played at the Grand Ole Opry. You see, not all musical curses are linked to performers or…

• Blood, Sunshine & The "Pineapple Primary"

  September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 45 min

  Chicago mayor “Big Bill” Thompson’s first year back in office had been a disaster as far as political observers – and anyone with any integrity at all -- were concerned. Unhappiness about his incompetence and the corruption in City Hall…

• American Dread: The Murdered Girl the Coroner Kept: The Louise Betts Story

  September 9, 2026 · 28 min

  In 1977, seventeen-year-old Louise Betts disappeared from Loves Park, Illinois. Months later, her remains were found in a rural Boone County field, and Curtis Brownell was eventually convicted of her brutal murder. But more than forty…

• American Nightmares 26: "The Devil & the Movie that (Maybe) Killed Sharon Tate

  September 3, 2026 · 1 hr 43 min

  This is an episode of the podcast that could have gone in a lot of directions – it’s an episode about the Devil, cults, true crime, satanic films, witchcraft, music, mind control, murder, and more – and really, maybe all these things and…

• Bring Me the Head of Al Capone

  September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

  In the fall of 1926, the best friend of Chicago gangsters returned to politics and got his name added to the Republican mayoral primary ballot. William “Big Bill” Thompson was back from political exile – he just couldn’t stay away.  In…