Creeps, Crimes & Cryptids

A convent attic sealed with blessed nails to keep vampires inside is the kind of New Orleans story that sounds impossible to forget, and we can’t resist pulling on the thread. We start in the French Quarter with the Ursuline Convent legend, then peel back the spooky paint to find the real history underneath: the Casket Girls, the long Atlantic crossing, the pale faces stepping off the boat, and th...

A bayou at dusk can make anything sound like a monster, but some of the creepiest parts of the Gulf Coast don’t need imagination. We’re recording from an undisclosed spot in Hancock County, Mississippi , where the water runs toward the Gulf and the quiet has a way of daring you to fill it with stories. For our "creep" , we start with a classic local-style scare: a stubborn old-timer, Hur...

A stadium that may still be sitting on human remains. A Civil War stunt that ends on a gallows. A Cajun “werewolf” story that doubles as a cultural rulebook. New Orleans doesn’t just have spooky tales, it has history with teeth, and we go looking for it on the ground instead of only behind a microphone. We kick things off with our CREEP at the Caesars Superdome, digging into the creepy claim that...

Key West looks like paradise until you listen closely. We begin with the Creeps that give the island its edge, from the folklore-soaked walls of Captain Tony’s Saloon to the legend of Robert the Doll, one of the most infamous haunted objects in America. Stories of permission, bad luck, and eerie encounters have followed the doll for decades, but we also examine when those claims actually began and...

Boston has a way of turning every street corner into a story. We begin with the Creeps and the legend of the Lady in Black, a Civil War era ghost tale tied to heartbreak, imprisonment, and one of the city’s most enduring haunted fort stories. The details sound perfect for a classic haunting, but when we look closer at the historical record the story begins to unravel. We explore how ghost legends...

Charleston’s pastel facades and cobblestone streets hide a darker story just beneath the polish. We begin with the Creeps at the Old City Jail, a fortress that once held pirates, prisoners of war, and people caught in a justice system that often blurred the line between order and cruelty. Bread and water rations, solitary cells in swamp heat, and the weight of centuries have turned the jail into o...

Savannah does not just set the scene. It shifts your balance. We begin with the Creeps inside the Sorrell-Weed House, where grief, scandal, and centuries of rumor fuel one of America’s most famous hauntings. Reports of floating candlesticks, uneasy mirrors, and a heavy presence in the basement sit alongside a harder truth about how thin the historical record can be, especially when power shaped wh...

Nashville hums with more than guitars. We begin with the Creeps inside the Ryman Auditorium, a building born as a tabernacle and later crowned home of the Grand Ole Opry. Staff tell stories of balcony watchers, shifting objects, cold pockets of air, and a presence that lingers in the wood grain of a room steeped in hymnals and radio waves. We explore how the Ryman helped turn Music City into the c...

A hospital wall grows a face that won’t wash away. A millionaire heir hides as a mute old woman by the bay. In Galveston, Texas, legends cling like salt on skin. We begin with the Creeps : UTMB’s Ewing Hall and the infamous “Face of Galveston,” a stubborn stain locals have photographed for decades. Acid washes haven’t erased it, air conditioners didn’t conceal it, and whispers tie it to a defiant...

Las Vegas is built on spectacle, but the desert has a way of making secrets surface. This episode opens with the Creeps : unmarked planes spotted at Harry Reid International and the long-whispered commute to Area 51, followed by Lake Mead’s receding shoreline revealing rusted cars, human remains, and mob-era timelines once thought buried for good. From there, we step beneath the Strip into the cit...

Chicago’s legends are loud, but the truth beneath them is even more revealing. This episode begins with the Creeps : stripping away the yellow-journalism spectacle surrounding H. H. Holmes to examine what actually stands up—insurance fraud, manipulation, botched medical procedures, and a sensational story that outgrew the evidence. From there, we move into the Crime that shocked the nation: the ca...

New Orleans has always lived where myth and reality bleed together, and this episode walks that line. We begin with the Creeps : the infamous Carter Brothers “vampire” legend of 1932—a story of chains, blood, and whispered truths—examined through missing records, unreliable archives, and a city that knows how to turn theater into history. From there, the episode turns grimly real with the Crime at...