Allen is back talking ghost stories in October. Well, ghost stories plus the Pope Lick Goatman in Louisville and a lesser-known story about the Kansas City Vampires. That’s right a religious sect in Kansas City that drank the blood of children! Can you believe that? We also dig into the haunted history of the Read…
Allen Sircy is bringing his radio show/podcast, “Southern Ghost Stories: Live” to the Palace Theater in Gallatin, Tennessee on October 29, 2025 at 7 pm. Tickets are $5 at the door. All funds will go back to the historic theater. Allen will be joined by paranormal investigator Chinelle Gwartney. The pair will talk about the…
Author Allen Sircy, known as the American Hauntstorian, is breathing new life into one of Louisville’s most chilling urban legends with his new novel, “Below the Trestle.” The new book delves into the terrifying backstory and origins of the Pope Lick Goatman, the half-man, half-beast creature said to haunt the woods and train trestle at…
Originally known as Public School Number Four, the institution now infamous as “The Devil’s School” was built in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1917. For over half a century, it served as a vital educational center for the city’s children, adapting and growing with the community it served. Its life as a school came to an abrupt…
Long before the suburbs of New York City reached its shores, Long Island was the home of Native American tribes, including the Setaukets who lived near a large freshwater lake. According to a legend dating back to this era, the chief’s daughter, Princess Ronkonkoma, fell deeply in love with a European settler named Hugh Birdsall….
The Milwaukee Public Museum was officially chartered in 1882, growing from a private natural history collection into a major public institution. From its early days, the museum distinguished itself with a revolutionary approach to exhibits, moving away from static displays in glass cases to create immersive, life-sized dioramas that placed artifacts in a realistic context….
In the fall of 1899, the schooner C.C. Funk was lost to the harsh, unforgiving waters off the coast of Alaska, leaving its surviving crew adrift in a small boat with perilously few supplies. The three men, Charles West, John Daly, and Frank Anderson, were left to the mercy of the sea with only a…
In the spring of 1896, the home of Arthur Ramsay, an eccentric artist in Oil City, Pennsylvania, became the setting for a horrifying tragedy. Ramsay had recently become consumed by an intense and bizarre religious fervor that warped his perception of reality. He developed a disturbing obsession centered on his wife, 26-year-old Effie, whom he…
In the autumn of 1907, a dark superstition took hold in the small Polish village of Wieliszew. It began with a peasant named Jan Zbroh, who harbored a grudge against his neighbor, Josephine Ziolhow. When Jan’s daughter, Marya, suddenly became too weak to get out of bed, she made a startling accusation: Josephine had bewitched…
In the early 1980s, a strange and unsettling presence began to haunt the town of Mineral Point, Wisconsin. The first whispers of the phenomenon emerged from Graceland Cemetery, where locals reported seeing a tall, unnaturally slender man clad in a long, black cape. He was said to move with a silent, gliding grace between the…
