Welcome to Little House on the Podcast, our brand new LHOTP reaction show. We’re going deep on all the nuance of America’s favorite field-based family, and make sure to stick around at the end for a quick visit to Nels’ Corner! This is the story of the Gibbs’ haunted farmhouse. Come for the ghost, stay […]
Author Archives: Clayton Smith
The sexual tension of this episode is off the charts. But don’t blame us. Blame Willem Dafoe. This is the story of the St. Augustine Lighthouse. Come for the ghost, stay for you’re so manly, I make-a da map, we have never discussed coquina, a cartographer who is not rushed, the Snipe Hunt of surveying, […]
The “cabin in the woods” trope that used to seem so terrifying when we were young just seems so calm and peaceful now. I’d like to go to a murder cabin by a lake. Can I? It sounds nice. Anyway, this is the story of the Lady of Crescent Lake. Come for the ghost, stay […]
There was a time in this country when trees were big, lakes were haunted, and tuberculosis could only be cured by staying underground or being out in fresh air or some sort of northwestern wall situation. Those times are now, and they were also in the time of Galen Clark. This is the story of […]
This week, we kick off our national parks suite, and Patrick asks a very important question: Why is it that on this show, 20% of the time someone ends up in a bucket? This is the story of Gram Parsons in Joshua Tree. Come for the ghost, stay for the fevers and the visions, semi-Fat […]
Yeah, you read that right. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Who’s Francis Bacon? What’s a chicken? Why am I suddenly so hungry? I’m sure you have lots of questions. Good news–we have lots of answers. This is the story of Sir Francis Bacon’s Chicken. Come for the ghost, stay for the highest number is 100, […]
Get ready for a good, solid dose of American industrialism! In Canada. That’s right, on the advice of J.P. Morgan, Charles Melville Hays is going to bring American grit to the Canadian railway, and how do you think that’ll work out for the 51st state? This is the story of Charles Melville Hays, Railroad King. […]
The Great Salt Lake does not have any whales. We want to be clear about that. We DO take a departure here and talk about whales for a surprisingly long time, but please understand that we realize that there are no whales in the Great Salt Lake. Allegedly. This is the story of the Great […]
It’s time to talk about Mercy Brown, not to be confused with Murphy Brown. One is a fesity single mother who endeared herself to us by shaking up the workplace in the ’80s, and the other is a vampire. So try to keep them straight. This is the story of Mercy Brown. Come for the […]
We’re wrapping up our Ozarks suite with the crown jewel of holler haunts, the most haunted hotel in America! And as the most haunted hotel in America, you won’t be surprised to learn that its roots are in shystery and chicanery. It’s a story that feels WAY too familiar in these, our modern times. This […]