Small Town Secrets
81 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 53 ratingsSmall Town Secrets is a podcast that explores the secrets and strangenss of small towns across the globe. Be it Paranormal, True Crime or just plain weird.
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Amityville,NY Part Two
May 22, 2020 10:09 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBThe story of the Amityville house did not stop with the DeFeo’s. In December of 1975 the Lutz family moved into their dream house. Not only was it their dream home the got it and much of the DeFoe’s Belongings at a steal. Twenty-eight days later the family would flee in terror form the house never to return to it. This is where the the story goes from true crime to paranormal. tonyspera.com/amityville/ YouTube video (tgaWzCfckHM) YouTube video (7W8eS5FXC8E) YouTube video (WkyeeSniKlQ) w...
Amityville, NY Part One
May 08, 2020 09:40 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBAmityville is a actually a small village that is part of Babylon New York. According to legend when the settlers wanted to establish a post office they needed a name. A meeting of the town name became heated with someone yelling out, “What this meeting needs is some amity!”. It would seem that Amityville started with a hint of bedlam, something that would carry on. Years later Ronald Defoe would murder his entire family under mysterious circumstances. However, that’s just the beginning of th...
Alamosa, CO/ Dalby, Isle of Man
April 18, 2020 08:49 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBThe town of Alamosa Colorado actually started out as a rail center established by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Over the years the rail center evolved into the town of 8,780 that is today. There is a very curious story about Alamosa. That is the story of Snippy the horse, which may have been the first “cattle” mutilation. WikiPedia article about Alamosa, Colorado weekinweird.com/2013/01/08/death-dunes-ufos-start-cattle-mutilation-san-luis-valley/ alamosanews.com/article/after-50-yea...
Hazelhurst, MS/ Clear Lake, IA
April 03, 2020 08:36 - 1 hour - 76.2 MBHazelhurst is a town in central Mississippi, 4,000 strong. In the 1870s the town began to boom. It had become a rail stop for the newly developed New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad. Its growth was so large in fact that it became the county seat of Copiah County in 1872 which up until that point had been the town, Gallatin. It was here that one of the most influential and mysterious Blues artists were born, Robert Johnson. WikiPedia article about Hazlehurst, Mississippi ...
Duncan, BC/ Snowflake, AZ
March 21, 2020 08:40 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBOn Vancouver Island in British Columbia there lies the small town of Duncan. Its current population sits at around 4,944. It’s a quiet town known for having the largest collection of Totem Poles, so many in fact that in 1985 the city was officially nicknamed “City of Totems”. However, there is another story about a man named Granger Taylor. Taylor disappeared in 1980, but even more mysterious is where he may have gone. WikiPedia article about Duncan, British Columbia www.vice.com/en_us/art...
Circleville, OH/ Westfield, NJ
March 07, 2020 08:43 - 1 hour - 101 MBThe name Circleville comes from the town’s original layout. The Center of the town was once built around a 1,100-foot Hopewell earth mound. In the 1850s the town’s layout was changed to a more familiar grid-like layout. The town is known for its annual Pumpkin Show every October. It’s is also known for a mysterious set of happenings in the late 1970s that started with strange and threatening letters and may have ended with murder. the-line-up.com/circleville-letter-writer scarestreet.com/...
Bridgeport, CT/ Desert Center, CA
February 22, 2020 08:52 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBThe town of Bridgeport Connecticut is an eastern seaport town that boasts a population of 144,900. P. T. Barnum founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus took up residence there and was even mayor for a year. The Frisbee Pie Company was in Bridgeport making the town the default origin of the Frisbee. Also, the first Subway opened its doors in 1965. Five dollar footlongs and gravity-defying toys were not the only firsts to come from Bridgeport Connecticut. The small town is also the birthplace ...
Old Orchard Beach, ME/ Foss OK
February 08, 2020 08:29 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBOld Orchard Beach is a small coastal Maine Town. It was incorporated in 1883 but records of it go as far back as 1653 when it was settled by Thomas Rogers. the name Old Orchard Beach comes from Rogers abandoned apple orchard (The family fled from the property after an attack by Native Americans. Like most towns in the country it’s a place filled with cars. There is one automobile in town that has a bad reputation, a cursed reputation. WikiPedia article about Old Orchard Beach, Maine laugh...
Flatwoods, WV/ Pascagoula MS
January 25, 2020 08:21 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBEven though Flatwoods was incorporated in 1901 it shows up on maps dating as far back as 1873. It’s a small place with population of just over 270. Like Point Pleasant to the north it’s a small quiet place in West Virginia that harbors a strange tale. WikiPedia article about Flatwoods, West Virginia WikiPedia article about Flatwoods monster www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2192 www.history.com/news/flatwoods-monster-west-virginia The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of Fear, 2018 Small Town...
Willow Creek, CA/ Fouke, AR
January 11, 2020 09:33 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBWillow Creek is technically a Census-designated place with a population of 1,710. It’s nestled on the north-east end of Humbolt County in Northern California. Willow Creek is known as the Bigfoot Capital of the World and for good reason. Not only was the widely controversial Patterson-Gimlin film shot there but also tracks found in the early 1950’s lead to the term Bigfoot being coined. WikiPedia article about Willow Creek, California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson–Gimlin_film ww...
Point Pleasant, WV Part 3
December 21, 2019 10:45 - 1 hour - 105 MBWhen you start to look at the Mothman case you very quickly start to understand that it’s not about a strange cryptid prowling around a West Virgina town at night. It’s more like a phenomenon that engrossed a whole year of high strangeness. No one probably understood this better then John Keel and Mary Hyre. The Mothman Prophecies, Joh A. Keel. Illuminet Press. www.amazon.com/Mothman-Prophecies-True-Story/dp/0765334984/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D9RQCURFIEKH&keywords=the+mothman+prophecies+book&qid=1...
Point Pleasant, WV Part 2
December 07, 2019 12:22 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBJust slighty before the events that would become the Mothman saga began. Another encoutner would happen along a West Virgina road near Parkersburg. Even though it has little to do with mothman is often rolled into the story. The simple reason is becasue Keel started researching this case along side Mothman and decided to include it in the book. This is the story of Woodrow Derenberger and his friend Indrid Cold. Vistors from Lanulos, Woodrow Derenberger. Self Published. www.amazon.com/Visi...
Point Pleasant, WV Part 1
November 23, 2019 10:55 - 1 hour - 111 MBPoint Pleasant is a small close-knit community just across the Ohio River from Gallipolis. Like many little towns in West Virgina, it’s quiet and keeps to itself. It’s surrouned by woodlands and winding roads once these roads get you to next small town the cycle repeats. Also like many town in WV it has a history of strange happens, it would start with sightings of the Mothman in 1966 and end with the collapse of the Silver Bridge in ’67. allthatsinteresting.com/mothman www.mothmanlives.co...
Stanberry, MO/ Drem, Scottland
November 08, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBStandberry is a little place, with a population of around 1185 according to the 2010 Census. It lies in Gentry County Missouri. It’s a quiet place, like so places like it not much happens that was until Mike “Madman” Marcum moved in. This story starts off with a fun electrical experiment and ends up in the realm of time travel. d3adcc0j1hezoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/NEXUS-Marcum.pdf www.facebook.com/madmanmarcum?__tn__=,dC-R-R&eid=ARCHX…-v4u&hc_ref=ARQK_…SwZk&fref=nf fro...
Sheppton, PA/ Centralia PA
October 26, 2019 09:58 - 1 hour - 130 MBSheppton Pennsylvania like many small towns in Pennsylvania used to live, breath and eat coal. It was a coal-mining town, just like so many others. However, on August 13, 1963, three men would enter a defunct mine at Oneida Slope number 2. Hank Thorne, Dave Fellin, and Lois Bova went down into the darkness at 7:30 AM; two of them wouldn't see daylight for 14 days. One would never see daylight again. WikiPedia article about Sheppton, Pennsylvania WikiPedia article about Blackdamp www.e...
Chowchilla, CA/ Skidmore, MO
October 11, 2019 08:05 - 49 minutes - 90.5 MBChowcilla California lays in Madera County with a population of 18,270. It’s name is derived from Native American tribe known as the Chaushila, a Yokut tribe. It is said that the name translates to “murderers” which is a reference to the warlike nature of the tribe. Other then it’s intereting name there is not much to be said about the little town, but in 1976 something did happen that would put Chowcilla on the map. WikiPedia article about Chowchilla, California WikiPedia article about 19...
Thunder Bay Ontario, CA
September 28, 2019 08:10 - 39 minutes - 73.2 MBThunder Bay sits on the coast of Lake Superior just north the Michigan border. It boasts a population of around 108,000. It is actually an amalgamation of former cities Port Arthur and Fort William. On January 1st, 1970 the city of Thunder Bay was officially born. Just off the coast on the US side of the border lies Isle Royale. It’s now a state park full of hiking trails and campgrounds. Surrounding this island are a number of shipwrecks. One of them was called the SS Algoma. Wik...
Independence Township NJ/ West Milford NJ
September 14, 2019 09:44 - 57 minutes - 104 MBJust from the name you know it’s gotta be chock full of creepy stuff. Shades of Death Road (or just Shades for short) is indeed full of stories. WikiPedia article about Shades of Death Road weirdnj.com/stories/shades-of-death-road/ https://maps.roadtrippers.com/stories/whatever-you-do-dont-exit-your-car-on-new-jerseys-shades-of-death-road http://weekinweird.com/2015/05/18/the-haunted-shades-of-death-road-is-the-most-terrifying-stretch-of-new-jersey-and-thats-saying-something/ books.goo...
Point Township, PA/ Niterói BR
August 31, 2019 08:15 - 48 minutes - 89.6 MBOn the morning August 4th, 2002 at around 5:00 AM. Todd Sees got up grabbed his bow, hopped on his ATV and went off to do a little deer hunting. Todd would never been seen alive again. It would be mystery after mystery, layer after layer and to this day we still don’t have a lot of answears. www.phantomsandmonsters.com/p/todd-sees-investigation.html www.blogtalkradio.com/binnallofamerica/2014/05/07/boaa822-lon-strickler-butch-witkowski www.nuforc.org/CB020824.html www.wondercabinet.net/2...
Stelle, IL/ Aldelphi, TX
August 18, 2019 09:49 - 53 minutes - 97.1 MBLocated close to Chicago in Rogers Township Illinois is small town known a Stelle. The town’s poputlation is around 100 or so. Today it’s a very different type of place then what you would normally see. The residetns maintain their own telephone and internet servieces as well as water treatment, and use mostly soloar and wind power. Today it’s a tight knit comunity focusing on a sustainable living. However that was not always the community’s purpose. ufoarchives.blogspot.com/2015/06/richar...
Freetown, MA Part 2 of 2
July 27, 2019 08:01 - 49 minutes - 90.1 MBIn the 1980’s and into the early 90’s the Satanic Panic Wave crashed onto our shores. Most of it turned out to be nothing but bored teenageers, misinterpretation of heavy metal music and just out made up stories and lies. Howevrer in and around Freetown Massachusetts area it may have just been real. Dark Woods; Cults, Crime and Paranormal in the Freetown State Forest by Christopher Balzano. Schiffer Press www.amazon.com/DarkWoods-Christopher-Balzano-November-2007/dp/B01B98OBP6/ref=sr_1...
Freetown, MA Part 1 of 2
July 13, 2019 08:11 - 44 minutes - 80.7 MBThe area around Freetown is known to some as “the dumping ground of Southeastern Massachusetts”. It’s been called that due to people just dumping unwatned cars in the Freetown State Forest during the gas crisis of the 1970’s. Also what ever other junk anyone felt like pitching in the woods at the time. Now all that is changing, little by little people are coming back to the area, cleaning it up and making it something better, something stronger. However there are things experiences and stor...
Hayward, CA/ San Leandro, CA
June 27, 2019 14:00 - 46 minutes - 85.6 MBHayward is in the heart of the East Bay. It’s home to many things such as the famous Buffalo Bill’s Brewpub a large fiberglass Paul Bunyon- like statue called big mike and it’s where Tom Hanks graduted collage. Big Mike isn’t the only landmark in Hayward, on Mission BLVD stands a long cement building that resembles an aircraft carrier. This is the Hayward Plunge, a large indoor (possibly huanted) public pool. alt1053.radio.com/blogs/dallas/legend-haunted-hayward-plunge YouTube video (t...
Cumbria, EN/ Mineral Point, WI
June 13, 2019 15:15 - 1 hour - 122 MBThe legend of the Groglin Grange Vampire is really the classic vampire story, but unlike Dracula this one may have actually happend. Crouglin is nestled in Cumberland County, England. The story first originated in a book by Augustus Hare titled My Solitary Life. Augustus claimed he was told the story by a descendent of hte Cranswell family, named Captain Fisher. It all started at a farmhouse known as now as Croglin Grange but was then called Groclin Low Hall. The grange is also located...
Hopkinsville, KY/ Loveland OH
May 30, 2019 16:34 - 1 hour - 114 MBThe Hoppkinsville Gobblin Encounter, the Kelly-Hopkinsvilled Encounter or the Kelly Green Man Case. Whatever you name you give it, they all refer to the same thing. The night when when a family was terrorized by small humanoid beings with large yelllow eyes and gigantic ears. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly–Hopkinsville_encounter www.astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/7/20/ep-79-the-kelly-hopkinsville-encounter-part-1 www.courierpress.com/story/life/columnists/2017/08/21/histor...
Blanchester, OH/ Saanich BC, Canada
May 16, 2019 17:39 - 40 minutes - 73.9 MBOn Wednesday, August 28, 1996 22yo Clarissa Ann Culberson (known as Carrie) returned home from a volleyball game at around 11:30 pm. Shortly after that Carrie and her read Honda CRX woud vanish, never to be seen again. unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Carrie_Culberson www.findcarrieculberson.com www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/03/05/murderer-vince-doan-wins-taxpayer-money-dog-nites-nose/24445467/ charleyproject.org/case/clarissa-ann-culberson To this day neither Carrie or her Honda ...
Borley Essex/ West Pittson PA
May 02, 2019 16:05 - 1 hour - 112 MBIt’s known in the as “The most huanted house in England”. The house is located in the tiny parish of Borley in Essex. It was located on Hall road next to the Borley Church. It was built for Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull in 1862. The nearby church may date as far back as the 12th century. WikiPedia article about Borley Rectory www.prairieghosts.com/brectory.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Price http://www.borleyrectory.com/biblio/owennotes.htm https://ghostsnghouls.com/borley...
Kecksburg, PA/ Sokolec, Poland
April 18, 2019 19:12 - 54 minutes - 99.3 MBOn December 9th 1965 an anomalous object was tracked on radar and seen by thousands of people as it streaked across the night sky. The object flew over six states as well Winsor Ontario. It was reported that it left traces of hot metal over parts of Michigan and Northern Ohio. After Causing Sonic booms in Western Pennsylvania it came crashing to the earth just outside of Kecksburg Pennsylvania. The original explanation was a meteor. In 2005 NASA released a statement saying they had studied d...
Ashtabula OH/ Hammond IN
April 09, 2019 15:36 - 48 minutes - 89.2 MBThe Ashtabula train disaster has many names, the Ashtabula bridge disaster, the Ashtubla Horror or the Ashtabula river railroad disaster. Which ever name you choose they all refer to a terrible derailment that occured in Ashtubla Ohio on December 29, 1876. www.deadohio.com/AshTrain.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtabula_River_railroad_disaster#cite_note-25 WikiPedia article about Amasa Stone During the last months of the first world war, on June 22, 1918 a horrific accident occured ...
Van Meter IA/ Middletown MD/Casstown OH
March 21, 2019 17:55 - 53 minutes - 85.1 MBIn 1909 and again in 1932 a large dragon-like creature was spotted from Maryland to Ohio. Was the Snallygaster real or just something made up to sell papers? www.legendsofamerica.com/snallygaster/ www.phantomsandmonsters.com/search/label/snallygaster WikiPedia article about Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh In 1903 the small mining town of Van Meter Iowa was terrorized for a full week by an eight foot winged monster that came from the depths of their own mine. They called it the Van Meter Visitor...
Coming March 2019
February 08, 2019 16:16 - 1 minute - 2.3 MBSmall Town Secrets is a podcast that explores the secrets and strangenss of small towns across the globe. Be it Paranormal, True Crime or just plain weird. Do you have a story to share of a town you’ve lived in? Then head over to stscast.com and use the submission form at the bottom of the page, it may end up on the show. Facebook Twitter STScast.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/small-town-secrets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.