True Haunting Files
Lucien V. Crow
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About This Podcast
True Haunting Files uncovers the chilling realities behind history’s most infamous hauntings. Each episode opens a new case file, blending historical detail, eyewitness accounts, and investigative analysis to separate legend from truth. From forgotten graveyards to world-famous haunted houses, these are the stories where the past refuses to rest.
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Recent Episodes
S2E3 The Birth of the American Exorcism Myth: Anna Ecklund
In 1928, a woman known to history as Anna Ecklund was brought under an assumed name to a secluded convent in rural Iowa. What followed was one of the most prolonged, violent, and influential…
S2E2 67 Exorcisms: Anneliese Michel
In 1976, a young woman in rural Germany died weighing just sixty-eight pounds. Her name was Anneliese Michel. For ten months before her death, she endured sixty-seven Catholic exorcisms, formally…
S2E1 The Ten-Hour Exorcism: Sara Williams and the Violence of Faith (1586)
On New Year’s Day in 1586, while Elizabethan London stood frozen between one year and the next, a teenage servant girl was bound to a chair and subjected to a ten-hour exorcism. Her name was Sara…
S1E10 Episode 10: Amityville: Murder, Haunting, Hoax?
SEASON 1 FINALE Long before the movies, before the sequels, before the endless retellings, there was a real house on Long Island — a home soaked in tragedy, myth, and the human need to explain the…
S1E9 Episode 9: The Devil in Tennessee: The True Story of the Bell Witch
Long before An American Haunting tried to tell her story, there was the real one — whispered through the fields of Adams, Tennessee, in 1817. A voice with no body. A curse with no mercy. And a family…
S1E8 Episode 8: Elm Street Was Real: The Deaths That Inspired a Nightmare
They thought Freddy Krueger was fiction. But in the early 1980s, dozens of healthy young men from Southeast Asia began dying mysteriously in their sleep — their hearts stopping after nights filled…
S1E7 Episode 7: When Strangers Knock
They say truth is stranger than fiction — but sometimes, it’s far more terrifying. In this episode of Whispers from the Dead, host Lucien V. Crow peels back the mask on The Strangers and the chilling…
S1E6 Ep. 6 The Conjuring House Files
Step inside the infamous Harrisville farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring. In this episode, we peel back Hollywood’s version to uncover the chilling true story of the Perron family’s nine-year…
S1E5 Ep. 5 Never Checked Out: Hauntings of New England
New England wears its ghosts openly — in taverns where Revolutionary soldiers still drink, in mansions where sea captains pace all night, and in hotels where the founder still checks on his guests…
S1E4 Episode 4: The Villisca Axe Murder House Part 2
Eight people were slaughtered in their sleep on a quiet Iowa night in 1912. The crime scene was chaos. The killer vanished. But what never left… was the house. In Part 2 of our Villisca case file, we…
S1E3 Episode 3: The Villisca Axe Murder House (Part 1)
Step inside one of America’s most chilling unsolved crimes: the Villisca Axe Murders of 1912. Eight people, including six children, were slaughtered in their sleep. The nation was horrified. The town…
S1E2 Episode 2 - Annabelle
In 1970, a simple Raggedy Ann doll was given as a birthday gift to a nursing student. What followed became one of the most infamous cases in paranormal history. From mysterious movements and…
S1E1 Episode 1 - The Hinsdale House
Deep in the hills of western New York stands a farmhouse where terror has never left. Families fled in fear, priests attempted an exorcism that ended in failure, and investigators still report…
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True Haunting Files has published 13 episodes since August 2025, covering topics in Documentary, History.
True Haunting Files is currently declining with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 38m.
