Short · 02:51
Haunted St. Petersburg Museum of History: The Spirit of Odet
The St. Petersburg Museum of History preserves the stories of a waterfront city, but one of its strangest tales may belong to the...
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Short · 02:07
Haunted Comfort Station No. 1 in St. Petersburg
Comfort Station No. 1 near the St. Petersburg Pier sounds like an unlikely setting for a ghost story. Built in 1927, the small...
Short · 02:46
The Vinoy Hotel: Ghost Stories from St. Petersburg’s Pink Palace
The Vinoy Resort & Golf Club has watched over downtown St. Petersburg’s waterfront since opening as the Vinoy Park Hotel on New Year’s...
Short · 02:19
Haunted Le Meridien Tampa, Part 2: Charlie Wall’s Legend
Le Meridien Tampa occupies a former federal courthouse where trials, public power and organized crime once intersected. Part two of this story turns...
Short · 02:28
Haunted Le Meridien Tampa, Part 1: The Old Courthouse
Before it became Le Meridien Tampa, this downtown landmark served as a federal courthouse. Courtrooms, holding areas and government offices once shaped daily...
Short · 02:44
El Coco: Spain’s Boogeyman and a Dark History
Long before many modern boogeyman stories, families across the Spanish-speaking world warned children about El Coco. The figure has no single fixed appearance;...
Short · 02:55
Mari: The Mountain Goddess of Basque Mythology
In Basque mythology, Mari is a powerful female figure associated with mountains, weather and the moral order of the natural world. One of...
Short · 01:33
Haunted Tappahannock on the Rappahannock River
Tappahannock sits along the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Northern Neck, a small town shaped by the water, regional travel and generations of local...
Short · 02:59
Ameriga Vespucci: The Ghost of the Remington Museum
The Remington Museum of Art in Ogdensburg, New York, is associated with a ghost story centered on a woman remembered as Ameriga Vespucci....
Short · 01:38
The Haunted Mansion’s Unexplained Seance Room
Disney’s Haunted Mansion is built from carefully engineered illusions, theatrical timing and decades of storytelling. Yet guests and cast members have also shared...
Short · 02:41
The Ghost Cat of Savannah’s Davenport House
The Davenport House Museum stands on Columbia Square in Savannah’s Historic District. Built in 1820 by master builder Isaiah Davenport with the work...
Short · 02:25
Savannah’s Lost Burial Grounds and Colonial Park Cemetery
Savannah’s reputation as a city built over its dead reflects a real pattern of growth around older burial grounds. As streets and buildings...
Short · 02:49
Savannah’s Hidden Tunnels: History, Legend and the Pirate’s House
Stories of hidden tunnels run beneath Savannah’s better-known streets, linking locations such as the Pirate’s House, Factors Walk and areas near Forsyth Park....
Short · 02:59
Augusta University Ghost Stories from the Summerville Campus
Augusta University’s Summerville Campus occupies a landscape with layers of educational, military and community history. Those layers have also inspired supernatural stories repeated...
Short · 02:59
Ghost Stories of the University of South Carolina Horseshoe
The University of South Carolina’s historic Horseshoe carries more than two centuries of campus memory. Its supernatural traditions include the spirit of university...
Short · 02:57
Congaree National Park: Eerie Stories from the Swamp
Congaree National Park protects a vast floodplain forest of towering trees, waterways and dark stretches of backcountry in central South Carolina. It is...
Short · 01:17
The Dead of Winter in Richmond
Winter can make Richmond’s familiar streets feel spare, quiet and unexpectedly eerie. This brief seasonal Short leans into that atmosphere with a playful...
Short · 02:50
Ghost Stories of the Alex Vega Key West Firehouse Museum
The Alex Vega Key West Firehouse Museum occupies the former Old Firehouse No. 3 at 1024 Grinnell Street. Beginning in 1907, the station...
Short · 02:58
Robert the Doll: Key West’s Famous Haunted Figure
Robert the Doll is one of Key West’s most recognizable supernatural figures. Displayed at the Fort East Martello Museum, the doll has inspired...
Short · 02:42
Monumental Church and the 1811 Richmond Theatre Fire
Monumental Church stands on the site of the Richmond Theatre fire of December 26, 1811, one of the deadliest urban disasters in early...
Short · 01:48
The Yule Cat: Iceland’s Terrifying Christmas Legend
Iceland’s Yule Cat, or Jolakotturinn, is an enormous feline figure associated with the Christmas season. In the best-known version of the tradition, anyone...
Short · 01:32
Edgar Allan Poe: Remembering Richmond’s Literary Legend
Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, but Richmond remained one of the defining places in his life. He grew...
Short · 02:03
Gunnuhver: Iceland’s Haunted Geothermal Legend
Gunnuhver is a dramatic geothermal area on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, filled with steam vents, boiling mud and a landscape that seems made for...
Short · 02:10
Holavallagardur Cemetery: A Reykjavik Ghost Story
Holavallagardur Cemetery is a historic burial ground in central Reykjavik, known for its dense trees, winding paths and quiet atmosphere. It feels removed...